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Monday, January 26, 2015

Gen. 3:19 - "...For dust you are and to dust you will return.” What was God condemning, the body, the personality or the person?

According to the Bible, there is no activity, feeling, emotion, or thought in death. (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10)

The simple truth is that no person has had a prehuman existence to remember. Before you were conceived, you did not exist.

So it is logical to conclude that when we die, our consciousness returns to exactly the same state it was before we were alive.

That is why God told Adam after he disobeyed: “For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19)

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A Closer Look at Some Myths About Death
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Is Death Really the End? - Hope From the God of Life 
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