[tflabo]

"After all, what makes ‘man’, man? Is it our flesh or is it the Spirit God put in us?"

I heard a rabbi once explain that 'man is alive as long as there is breath.' Therefore when man dies and breath is no more what is left? spirit! I believe the answer to your stated question is man survives only with the spirit within but the spirit lives within and also beyond the flesh and ceasing of breath.

[mnehring]

BTW, Tflabo, thanks for a civil conversation on this... I’m catching up on the posts and I’m still surprised the kind of threads that will turn adults into screaming kids..