Soul Sleeping or Absent from the Body? - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

Soul Sleeping or Absent from the Body?

Many Messianics, along with the Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA), Jehovah's Witnesses (JW), Worldwide Church of God (WCG) and offshoots, and Christadelphians teach that our spirit is no more than the "breath of Elohim". Using a number of poetic apssages from the Tanakh or Old Testament, they subscribe to the doctrine that once the physical body dies and the 'breath' returns to the Elohim who gave it, we cease to exist as conscious entities and are known only in the memory banks of Yahweh. They believe that we will be 'reconstructed' by Yahweh from these memories as resurrected beings.

This is absolutely not the teaching or belief of this ministry.

We believe, in common with the bulk of Christendom, that we have an 'immortal' spirit in the sense that so long as that our spirit walks with and in Messiah that it will remain forever alive and conscious. We certainly accept that spirits can 'sleep' in the literal sense (not the Hebraic metaphor for death) because of distance from Yah'shua and enchantments by demons but we do not believe they are extinct or are only 'breath'. This is a big subject that is discussed at length on our website. However, the clincher is Paul who makes it perfectly clear that at death we go to be with Yah'shua as conscious entities:

"We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the (physical) body and to be present (as a comnscious spirit being) with the Master (Yah'shua)" (2 Cor.5:8, NKJV).

We will not be absent as thoughts in Elohim's brain but absent as personal , conscious entities present with Yah'shua.

For a more detailed study, see http://www.bible.ca/su-conscious-life-after-death.htm

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