Answer: God made us from dust in the beginning...

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2. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON DIES?

Ecclesiastes 12:7
" Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."

Answer: The body turns to dust again, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it. The spirit of every person who dies- whether righteous or wicked- returns to God at death.

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3. WHAT IS THE 'SPIRIT' THAT RETURNS TO GOD AT DEATH?

James 2:26
"For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."
Job 27:3
"All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils."

Answer: The spirit that returns to God at death is the breath of life. Nowhere in all of God's Bible does the 'spirit' have any life, wisdom, or feeling after a person dies. It is the "breath of life" and nothing more.

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4. WHAT IS A "SOUL"?

Genesis 2:7
" And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Answer: A soul is a living being. A soul is always a combination of two things: body plus breath. A soul cannot exist unless body and breath are combined. God's word teaches that we are souls.

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5.DO SOULS DIE?

Ezekiel 18:20
" The soul that sinneth, it shall die. "
Revelation 16:3
"Every living soul died in the sea."

Answer: According to God's Word, souls do die! We are souls, and souls die. Man is mortal (Job 4:17). Only God is immortal (I Timothy 6:15,16). The concept of an undying, immortal soul goes against the Bible, which teaches that souls are subject to death.

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6.DO GOOD PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN WHEN THEY DIE?

John 5:28,29
"Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth."
Acts 2:29,34
" David... is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day." " For David is not ascended into the heavens"
Job 17:13
"If I wait, the grave is mine house."

Answer: No, people do not go either to heaven or hell at death. They go to their graves to await the resurrection day.

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7.HOW MUCH DOES ONE KNOW OR COMPREHEND AFTER DEATH?

Ecclesiastes 9:5,6
" For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. "
Psalm 115:17
"The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence."

Answer: God says that the dead know absolutely nothing!

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8.BUT CAN'T THE DEAD COMMUNICATE WITH THE LIVING, AND AREN'T THEY AWARE OF WHAT THE LIVING ARE DOING?

Job 14:12,21
"So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." "His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them."
Eccesiastes 9:6
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. "

Answer: No, the dead cannot contact the living, nor do they know what the living are doing. They are dead. Their thoughts have perished. (Psalm 146:4)