[BriarBey]

Since when did sleeping become death? Actually even Jesus refused to call those he raised from the dead...dead. He stated that they were merely sleeping. Plus the point...if there is no measure of time in eternity then how would you know you had even died? It could be nothing more than a blink in time whether you had been dead 2000 yrs. or 2 minutes.

[xzins]

1. The 2000 = 2 minutes idea about the realization of time passage for a human is philosophical. I know of know support for it in scripture.

2. Your point is that death does not occur, but that it is only sleep. This, too, violates scripture. The bible says that it is "given unto man once to die." This is true of all but the final generation which shall be "changed."

3. Every human must die. NO believer shall ever die. They both are true. They must be scripturally reconciled.

4. There is a real physical death for believers. There is NO spiritual death for believers. To remedy the problem of physical death the Lord has provided the resurrection. To remedy the problem of spiritual death, the Lord has provided salvation by grace through faith in Christ Jesus, our Lord.