Daywalker, I know he gives us breath and he breaths this in us and we become alivie. When, my father was dying they asked us not to talk about his illness cause the brain could still hear it till he actually die. I know, our spirit goes back to him. I know he will resssurect. I did not think I had a literal body inside me. Without, that breath I am dead.
I sat there and watched my Fathers breathing go so low you could barely tell when he had stopped except we knew he had died. God was so gracious to us.
I have no doubt in my mind we are dead. But the breath is in his care till he blows it back into us.
But, I know the Spirit of God is working in me now. Never thought I had another person in me. Sounds more like what Babylon might think.
In His Love,
Marlene
Meee: Is it that we are either a living soul or dead soul and that's it?We are called living souls [Gen 2:7], and souls die [Ezek 18:4,20], so that seems to be a fair conclusion.
To be Scripturally "specific", God calls us dust: "
For dust you are" [Gen 3:19], and hence this is where we return when we pass.
Marlene,
The reason I mentioned that our spirits are not persons [though I was convinced that you didn't believe that...] was because of the debating of 'do our spirits sleep?'. But since the 'spirit' represents our 'breath--life", and is not a 'person', it doesn't sleep. Sleep represents Death, but Spirit is Life.
I'm so sorry to hear about your Father. I know what it's like to watch someone die. I watched my Nana die a few years ago; she got breast cancer, and it was too late to do anything. I visited her in the Nursing Home, and like you said, her breathing was so low I thought she was dead. Plus, her whole body was stiff cause all the drugs they put in her. Then later that same day, my Mom went to visit her, and she actually was dead. She yelled for the nurse, and at first they said that she was only sleeping, but Mom made them check her pulse, and she was dead. I remember being so angry at them, because this was not how she wanted to die!
But anyways, fun talking with ya,
- Daywalker.