The resurrection of Christ is critical to the Christian hope because:
- it proves that God is all powerful
- it proves that death is not the end
- Jesus is the first, and we can be like him
These points come out of 1 Corinthians 15 where Paul is addressing believers about claims that Jesus hadn’t been raised. [...]
Answers about death
When people die their bodies begin the process of turning to dust (decomposition) and they cease to be concious — i.e. their existence, including their mind, ends.
…the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their [...]
Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat [1] of it you shall surely die.”
Footnotes [1] 2:17 Or when you eat (ESV)
Why does it say “in the day” and yet Adam and Eve didn’t die that day?
As the ESV [...]
No, cremation is not wrong. The Bible does not give instructions about what to do with a body after someone has died.
When someone dies they eventually decompose and turn to dust (just as God said would happen — Gen. 3:19. Also see Ps. 104:29; Eccles. 3:20; 12:7). Cremation simply speeds this process up.
At the resurrection [...]
God has given us life and asks us to use it in serving him (John 10:10; Ecclesiastes 12:13-14). We are to honour God with our body (1 Cor 6:20), so it would be wrong to destroy the gift God has given us.
The Bible records seven suicides:
The ‘keys of death and hades’ (Rev. 1:18 (ESV); ‘keys of hell and death’ (KJV)) are a metaphor for authority over death and the grave.
Sometimes in the Bible ‘keys’ represent authority. For example, in Isaiah 22:22 God says the following about Eliakim:
…I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He [...]
When we die, we go to the grave. People and animals both have a ‘breath of life’ which belongs to God, and returns to him at death, while the person or animal goes to the grave: Genesis 2:7; 7:21-22; Job 34:14-15; Ecclesiastes 3:19-20. No one went to heaven at death: John 3:13; Acts 2:29, [...]
Nothing at all. Some Russians believe that souls of the dead remain at the site of their death for forty days. This is probably based on the fact that Jesus remained on earth for 40 days after his resurrection (Acts 1:3).
Further reading: Bouchard, M. (2004) Graveyards: Russian ritual and belief pertaining to the dead, Religion, [...]
It is impossible to understand the Book of Ecclesiastes unless we realise that the author is pretending, until the last two verses, that we are living without consideration of the influence of God in our present and future lives. Thus, when he says in Ecclesiastes 1:14, “I have seen everything that [...]
As explained in this answer, many Bible passages use the word “soul” to mean “person”. For example, when God breathed into Adam the breath of life he became a living soul (Genesis 2:7 KJV); when Adam breathed out for the last time he became a dead soul, i.e. he was a dead person. Dead [...]
