[Arthur McGowan]

So many people think that people in heaven are doorsteps. They know and care nothing about us, do not pray for us, do nothing.

Of course, they have a number proof-texts, ripped out of context, misused in the way typical of propagandists. Applying them to an issue that the author did not even have in mind.

When all else fails, they repeat over and over that dead people are “dead.” That’s right, they say that the blessed in heaven are not alive at all.

[Elsie]

When all else fails, they repeat over and over that dead people are “dead.”

 

Psalm 13:3
Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,

 

Psalm 90:5
Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:

 

Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
 
 
John 11:12-13
His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”
Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

 

1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Listen, I tell you a mystery:

We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

 

Ephesians 5:14
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

 

1 Thessalonians 4:13
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.

 

 

 

 

That’s right, they say that the blessed in heaven are not alive at all.

 

1 Corinthians 2:9 kjv

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

[Elsie]

When all else fails, they repeat over and over that dead people are “dead.”

Didja ever wonder just WHO the dead in Christ are?

Rome sends everyone to either Heaven or Puragatory.

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1 Thessalonians 4:16 niv

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

[metmom]

People in hell are alive, too. Your *argument* means nothing.

Yes, the Biblical use of the word *dead* is the common use meaning their physical bodies have died.

[BipolarBob]

When all else fails, they repeat over and over that dead people are “dead.”

Eccl. 9:5 but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten.
When Lazarus died, Jesus referred to it as a sleep. When he came back to life there was no mention of "Why did you do that?" "I was in Heaven, dude!". Nothing.

[metmom]

When all else fails, they repeat over and over that dead people are “dead.”

You just can't make this stuff up...