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Where does one's spirit goes after death??
Deborah-Leigh:
Excerpts from Ray on this topic.
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the spirit is not the soul. The spirit does not have consciousness. The spirit cannot think thoughts, and that is why our "thoughts perish" at death according to David. Our spirit as well as Christ Spirit had to be reunited with a BODY before we or He would have consciousness again. Jesus was DEAD for three days, not "absent from the body" for three days.
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there is a spirit in man (AND ALL ANIMALS). Nothing can live without "spirit." Spirit IS life (Ecc. 8:8; Ecc. 12:7; Luke 23:46; I Cor. 2:11; etc.). There is no consciousness in our spirit alone. There is only consciousness (soul) when man's spirit is combined with a body. God retains our spirit until resurrection when He puts our spirit into a new body and we once again become conscious or receive back the quality of "soul." We are said to have new "spiritual" bodies, not that we are made "spirits."
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You have to get out of out if your head the idea that the spirit soul and body are "separate entities" as if they could function independently of each other. Remember my TV analogy of six years ago? The console is the body, the picture is the soul, and the electricity is the spirit. Yes, they are "entities," if you will that have distinct names, and functions, but none of them produces anything independent of each other. Smash the console and you have not soul (picture). Pull the plug and you have not soul (picture).
Likewise remove the spirit, and the body dies. Remove the spirit and the soul disappears. Smash the body and the soul disappears. The soul IS THE SENTIENT man. The emotional, thinking, conscious man. This consciousness is called "soul." It is not a thing that can literally travel or go somewhere independent of the body and brain. That is why it is said in the Greek Scriptures that at death the soul goes to hades. Hades means the unseen, the imperceptible, unconsciousness.
It takes spirit from God in a body to give it life, which life is then called "a LIVING SOUL."
It takes a little meditation to understand these concepts.
God be with you
Ray
gmik:
Hi Arc!!
Great scriptures.
I still can't "get" if the spirit is "doing" anything while "in God". What does that mean--the spirit goes back to God who gave it??
God is Spirit, so a deceased person's spirit goes to what/where??? Into Spirit??
Maybe this is not important, but I was kinda wondering.......
Deborah-Leigh:
Hi G
Hope your grand children and family are doing just fine!
To respond to your question....Ref Ray...quote ...analogy.... The console is the body, the picture is the soul, and the electricity is the spirit.
What is electricity DOING after you unplug it or switch it off. Where has light GONE when you switch it off? HAS IT GONE? If not then WHERE is it? No it is not GONE. It is MANIFEST when you put it TOGETHER with wires and light bulbs.
When the fuse blows in a light bulb it has no more light. When a heart stops in a body it has no more life.
The light bulb is still there just like the body is but it can no longer manifest light just like a dead body can no more manifest the soul or sentient being. The electricity is no longer manifest in a blown light bulb just like the soul is no longer manifest via a dead body.
gmik:
OOOOHHHHHHHH!
lilitalienboi16:
Our spirit returns to God, where it come from. He gave us the breath of life [spirit] and He takes it back to Him upon our death.
Psalm 31:5 "Into your hands I commit my spirit; redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth."
Jesus knew this.
Luke 23:46 "Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last."
God bless,
Alex
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