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So, you use Ecclesiastes against Jesus Christ, who said that Abraham is alive, because God is the God of the living, not the dead.

Then why are believers who have died called "the dead in Christ"?

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

541 posted on 07/15/2013 7:56:14 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)

Because the Bible is not a catechism. Words are not used throughout the Bible with a single, univocal, fixed sense.

The “dead in Christ” are DEAD—in the normal, everyday sense of the word. But they partake in eternal life, so they are alive.

576 posted on 07/15/2013 12:52:18 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)