First soulsearcher you have to figure out what a soul is to know if it goes anywhere. Remember they say the soul is just another word for the body. Is it?
"And he stretched himself out on the child three
times, and cried out to the Lord and said, "O Lord my
God, I pray, let this child's soul come back to him."
Then the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul
of the child came back to him, and he revived."
(HMMMMMM if the soul is the body...how is it this soul goes somewhere?)
Revelation 6:9-10
"When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar
the souls of those who had been slain for the word of
God and for the testimony which they held."
(HMMMMM how do BODIES get into heaven??????
Why would Paul say that if our earthly tent (BODY) is destroyed we have a place in heaven?
Jehovah's witnesses say soul NEVER means distinct from
the body or the individual person.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 disagrees.....
"May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept
blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Jehovah's witnesses say when the person dies, the soul
dies. But Genesis 35:18-19 says in the New World
Translation.."and the result was that her soul was
going out" (there goes that soul traveling again!!)
Jehovah's witnesses say that God did not create people
to go to heaven....
2Corinthians 5:1 says..."Now we know that if the
earthly tent we live in is destroyed, (our bodies) we
have a building from God, and eternal house in heaven,
not built by human hands.
I thought of this:
Here is Adams body laying on the ground. Just a body right? But when God brought him to Life he BECAME a living soul. He became who he was, to function the body. IF the soul goes out, the body dies... if the soul returns it lives.
So there is a body and a soul. Again FUNNY.... they spent so much time in the back of the NWT proving their soul theory. (yes theory) but did not denote one page on spirit!!!!!! Why should they. It would blow their whole concept of what we are!!!!!!!!! Tons and tons of scriptures on spirit and they want to say it is our breath!!!
The most important thing God gave us they took away. We need the Holy Spirit to intwine with Our spirit to accept Jesus into our lives. Paul said in 2Tim 4:22 "The Lord be with Your Spirit." Wasn't it the Holy Spirit that Jesus said would come and be IN US.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 says: "May your Spirit, Soul and body be kept blameless." Clear enough for me to see we are made of three parts, each with a purpose.
The spirit is not our breath. Zechariah says God forms the spirit of man within him!!
Isaiah says...at night his spirit longed for God and his spirit within him seeks him.
How can the spirit of men be breath when 1Corinthians says our spirit is capable of thought? It says who knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit that is in him. (HMMMM now they got "breath" thinking)
So man does not become a spirit...HE HAS a spirit.
That is why Jesus and Stephen could commit their spirit to the Lord!
If you come to believe that we have a soul and spirit that goes somewhere then we can read the bible to find out where it goes. So I did...and it goes to heaven...or hell.
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