As a general rule, that is true. However, there have been exceptions. Enoch and Elijah come to mind right off the bat. God is Sovereign. He can make exceptions (and still be consistent with Himself), and the very fact that He took Enoch and Elijah without them dying is proof.
(C)an we count the rapture as a death too?
I don't see how you would count that as "death". How would it be? It's the instant transformation of the physical, mortal body into a glorified, immortal body. No death involved.
Sorry to be picky, but it seems there is always something that does not fit.
When something doesn't seem to fit, it's a sure sign that you need revelation or teaching from the Holy Spirit. God's Word, rightly divided, is not inconsistent, and everything "fits".
Mom said: .."the idea of animal sacrifices in the temple did it for me"
Ok, Mom, when does the New Temple, complete with animal sacrifices, take place?
Perhaps you are the one that needs revelation ..to rightly divide the words of scripture in this Nbdy
Eze 43:15 So the altar [shall be] four cubits; and from the altar and upward [shall be] four horns.
Eze 43:16 And the altar [shall be] twelve [cubits] long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
Eze 43:17 And the settle [shall be] fourteen [cubits] long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it [shall be] half a cubit; and the bottom thereof [shall be] a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
Eze 43:18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These [are] the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
Eze 43:19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
Eze 43:20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put [it] on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
Eze 43:21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
Eze 43:22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; :and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse [it] with the bullock.
Eze 43:23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing [it], thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
Eze 43:24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Eze 43:25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat [for] a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
Eze 43:26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
Eze 43:27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, [that] upon the eighth day, and [so] forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.
Hbr 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Hbr 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].
Hbr 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Hbr 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
So which is true?