Gino Jennings On Soul Sleep

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Originally Posted by Esaias

You are still thinking of the soul as a "thing" that you "have", rather than as descriptive of what you are. "He lost his life."? OK, where did it go? Fell out of the pocket?

The ship sank, all souls were lost. Where'd they go?

The person goes to the grave, to Hades or Sheol, which is a descriptive term for describing the condition of being dead. Spirit goes back to God, body goes back to the earth, where does the person go? Well, we can say they too go into the heart of the earth (hades, the grave, Sheol) because at the funeral we buried their body. We might could even say they went to God, because their spirit did just that. We could also say they didn't go anywhere because technically "they" don't really exist except as a memory, because the PERSON is spirit and body joined together, which is no longer the case.

So you would agree that a person has a spirit/soul that is not the flesh.

One thing we CANNOT say is they are currently experiencing anything approaching consciousness or sensory experience.

How do you explain the rich man and Laz?

My posts on the previous page or two explain all this. Or, see the link in my signature to a thorough study on conditional immortality (not written by me).

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