Life ending, or life CONTINUING?
Rev 21:4- He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.
You are misled.
Your church dogma vs the Bible…
It’s funny (is a sick sense) how you make things up- pretending to fool someone…
Death is the moment or event of the soul leaving the body. I think the most common difficulty people have with this concept is that it isn’t instantaneous, but that shouldn’t be a hang up because nothing is instantaneous. There is a time a person is alive with the soul present and a time a person is dead, and death is the transition between the two which spans a finite time. If I have a glass of water, and I empty it, there is some time that it took to empty the glass, and I could even empty it very slowly, but once it’s empty, it’s empty, and while it’s being emptied it’s being emptied, and when it’s not being emptied, it’s not being emptied.
In some sense we are all already dying, like a cup that has a tiny leak, but the moment of death is when the leak breaks into a quick flow and the cup goes from having water to not.
It isn’t in the Bible!
Where’s Adam’s ‘soul’?
I may as well say it. @Question you’re not in the bible. Go away. Troll somewhere else.
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OOOOOO! Diversion,and insult without answering the question!
You’re a hypocrite,
You’re not serious. The opposite of funny is not serious but not funny, and you are both not serious and not funny.
Genesis 2:7 “Lord God formed man, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and made of man a living person.”
Now, where’s the mod and what does it take for Mike to get himself banned? He’s trashing this forum.
I appreciate your kind response and trying to answer the question.
However it is Satan that told her she wouldn’t die- NOT God.
Adam was not deceived, but went along her her in her rebellion.
They are responsible for sin and DEATH!
God did not change that with rewarding them with life in Heaven!
Genesis 2:7- “Lord God formed man, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and made of man a living person.”
They have taken the Name of God and replaced it with ‘Lord’.
And “person” should read “soul;”- Man came to be a LIVING SOUL!
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@Question I’m familiar with this spirit that you yourself are presenting. It is Lucifer, the spirit of self worship.
That is FAR beyond what the Bible says,Stephen!
Why do you INSIST on it?
I think death is actually part of a life continuum. It’s a part of our lifespan. So when we die, life does not simply end abruptly, it just continues on in a different way:
I think nobody really truly knows if heaven is real or not. We don’t really know if God will decide our fate after death. But I believe it’s a good idea to follow the Bible’s wisdom closely, for just in case 
I’ve heard of people dying and coming back to life and they say they practically visited Heaven. And I’ve had one similar experience to that, so I’m a believer in Heaven & Hell
Only God spirit can help you, Stephen.
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From the moment of birth, we begin dying. It just takes some time. The truth is that for the soul, there is never birth nor death. And the next truth is that we are not these material bodies. We are pure spirit soul, temporarily embodied in a material container. And one who identifies with the material container, the material vehicle as “me”, that soul is in illusion.
Spirit is conscious. Matter is not. Sprit is alive. Matter is dead. What is this body? Approximately 80% water, and some other material elements. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. When the spirit soul resides in a material body, the consciousness of the spirit soul is experiences itself through the material form. This causes the spirit soul to identify with the body as “me”, and to seek satisfaction in life through the demands of the flesh. This the enslavement of the spirit in the service of Mammon. The more any of the saints in history advanced in spiritual revelation, the immediate symptom is that they became progressively indifferent to the demands of the flesh. Why? Because they began to experience the pleasure of the spirit, and began to hanker only for that pleasure. One who has not had this experience, has hardly begun his spiritual journey, whether he calls himself a Catholic or not.
For the spirit there is not death. The spirit is eternal, without birth and without death. The body was never alive. It only seems to be alive as long as the spirit resides within it. As soon as the spirit departs, we see the true nature of the material body. No one wants to embrace it.
What we call death, is nothing more than the passing away of the eternal spirit soul, from the dead material container. But because we identify with the material body as “me”, we think that the body is the person. And therefore we think that the “person” has died. The soul is eternal. It never dies. We are not this material form. We are eternal spirit souls.
What REALLY is DEATH? There is really no such thing. The body was never alive. And the soul never dies.
There is one verse in scripture. God is saying, “Before you were born, I knew you.” We existed as individual beings before we entered this material form.
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Peace be to all.
In Galatians 2:20, St. Paul says, “it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.”, this is a beautiful quote from the Bible and it also touches base on the subject at hand about death.
Why death? As Catholics we are called to live for Christ and all biblical evidence suggests to live for Christ one must first die to self. This does not mean a physical death but an otherworldly death of spiritual pride to be reborn again to follow the right path of spirituality which always leads to Christ.
Take Revelation 2:10, it is written, “Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.”, this can be interpreted literally where if you are martyred for Christ you will go to heaven, as well as symbolically that if you are born again in Christ you will have received the crown of life which Christ is himself.
These verses point to two realities in life: a reality in which we are alive and a reality in which we are dead. Now a little bit about what’s not written, that everyone who knows Christ who is life itself is saved and are recipients of life, only one of the two thieves at the time of crucifixion was saved but both knew Christ and only one opened heart to Christ.
So, what is death? As Catholics we have already experienced that at some point in our life because before we were saved when we were alive without Christ we were in fact dead, we do not remember it because it scales in comparison to life with Christ who himself is life, love and everything in-between.
When we die, physically we are inanimate, our bodies decay and we return back to soil, that much is obvious. However, spiritually, we are eternal and our souls live forever, which brings into question as you’ve rightfully asked, what exactly happens at death? It’s beautiful beyond comprehension what really happens after death. If you imagine the state of your own soul when you were dead without Christ and then simply inverse it now you are no longer dead but alive with Christ in perfect union in a state of eternal bliss. This complete union only happens at the time of each and every one of our deaths.
We will of course be cleansed in purgatory beforehand therefore our eternal souls will perpetuate forever and we will be perfectly unified with Christ, joyous, blissful, and complete union. That’s what really happens after death.
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I think that everyone who has died truly knows whether there is a heaven. @Jacques said he thinks nobody really knows.
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There is no such thing as death. The material body is made of material elements. Take these elements into a laboratory, and try to demonstrate the symptoms of life. It is not possible. The real understanding of spiritual life is that “I am not this body.” Just like Jesus says: “I am in this world; but I am not of this world.” The same applies to us: we are in this world, but we are not of this world. We are not these temporal material forms. We are eternal spirit souls.
However,when the spirit soul departs from the material body, if we think that the person is the material body…we say, “He has died.”
The truth is that for the material elements there is no such thing as life. And for the spiritual energy, the spirit soul, there is no such thing as death. We are eternal. Whether we are in heaven or in hell…we are eternal. There is no such thing as death. The concept of “death” is held by those who mistakenly think of the the material body, the material container, as the person.