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Originally Posted by 1 God
Spirits don’t lay in a bed, unconsciously sleeping . Jesus called death “sleep” along with the book of Daniel. Jesus elaborated on death sleeping in the story. Saints in Rev, pre resurrection are spoken of by John as speaking and being spoken to . The puzzle is only complete if you use all the pieces.
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Ok, so you don't believe the Old Testament where the dead were sleeping with their fathers (ancestors). That Jesus explains to His followers that He was about to awaken someone who was sleeping DEAD. Jesus said they were unconscious as in sleep state.
Ecclesiastes 9:5 is plain in its statement that the dead are unconscious of anything. Again, you bring up
Revelation 6:9, as to say that it is literal, therefore you must believe that under an altar is also a holding place for deceased souls? Yes? No? Why didn't the writer tell us in
Revelation 6:9 that these souls were in Abraham's Bosom? The writer doesn't tell us anything like that because there is no place of the dead called 'Abraham's Bosom." Also we have no holding place of the dead under an altar explained to us anywhere else in the Bible. So, you like others who butcher the Biblical text to prove your religious rantings you simply disregard the need to find primary sources in the scripture to prove a "holding place" for the dead. That the grave isn't what Solomon explained it to be, a place of unconsciousness. But a Roman Catholic purgatory.
Sean, doctrine is the least of your worries.