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In the public perception, if you say "No" to this question, you are supposed to believe that man is immortal, and exists in death as much as in life. If you say "Yes", you are supposed to be an atheist.

But there is a middle ground resulting from an acceptance of Bible teaching. In this middle ground the believer holds that man is mortal, and that, in the death state, he has ceased to exist for the time being, but that a future life will be brought about at the return of Christ to the earth.

1 Death ends all in some cases.

Psalm 88:4-5	"I am as a man that hath no strength, free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more"
Isaiah 43:17	"The army and the power, they shall lie down together; they shall not rise; they are extinct"
Obadiah 16	"They shall be as though they had not been"
Psalm 49:14	"Like sheep they are laid in the grave: death shall feed on them"

2 Death does not end all in other cases.

Psalm 49:15	"God shall redeem my Soul from the power of the grave; he shall receive me"
Job 19:26).	"Though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God"
Daniel 12:2).	"Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shalt awake "
Isaiah 25:8).	"He shall swallow up death in victory"
Proverbs 14:32).	"The righteous bath hope in his death"

3 But death is death in all cases while it lasts, because

(a) Man is a creature of the dust, and not an immaterial entity within in a body.

1 Corinthians 15:47	"The first man is of the earth, earthy"
Genesis 2:7	"God made man of the dust of the ground"
Psalm 103:14	"He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust"
Genesis 18:27	"I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes"

(b) Death is man's natural portion because of sin.

Romans 5:12	"By one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, and death hath passed upon all men"
Romans 6:23	"The wages of sin is death"
1 Corinthians 15:21,22	"By man came death … in Adam all die"
2 Corinthians 1:9	"The sentence of death in ourselves"
1 Corinthians 15:53,54	"This mortal … this corruptible"

Psalm 6:5	"In death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave, who shall give thee thanks"
Isaiah 38:18	"The grave cannot praise thee: death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth"
Psalm 144:4	"His breath goeth forth; he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish"
Ecclesiastes 9:5,6	"The dead know not anything … their love, their hatred, and their envy is now perished"
Ecclesiastes 9:10	"is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest"

(d) The righteous dead have not entered upon their reward, and if there is no resurrection of the dead, they are perished for ever.

Hebrews 11:13	"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off"
Acts 7:5	"God gave Abraham none inheritance in it, yet he promised, &c."
Hebrews 11:40	"These all having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promises, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect"
Romans 8:17	"Glorified together"
Revelation 11:18	"The time of the dead [came] that thou shouldst give reward to thy servants the prophets, and to them that fear thy name, small and great"
1 Corinthians 15:15	"If Christ be not raised, then they that are fallen asleep in Christ, are perished"
1 Corinthians 15:32	"What advantageth it me if the dead rise not"

This article is based on one of a series of Bible Fingerposts
originally published by the Christadelphian Office.
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