Man is composed of dust and breath (spirit)

Gn 2:7, Gen 3:19, Gen. 6:17, Gen. 7:21-22, Gen. 18:27, Job 27:3-4, Job 33:4, Job 34:14-15, Ps. 103:14, Ecc. 12:5-7, Is. 2:22, Eze. 7:5-10, 1 Cor. 15:47-48


A Person is a Soul

Gen. 12:13, Josh. 2:13, Eze. 18-20, Exe. 12:15, Eze. 12:19, Num. 9:6-7, Num. 5:2, Num. 6:6, Num. 6:11, Num. 19:11, Num. 19:13, Num. 19:20, Lev. 21:1, Lev. 23:29, 1 Cor. 15:45, Job 7:21, Job 17:15-16, Ps. 7:4-5, Ps. 22:15, Ps. 90:3, Ps. 104:29, Ecc. 3:20


Lie Down (sleep) with your Ancestors

Dut. 31:16, 2 Sam. 7:12, 1 Kings 1:21, 1 Kings 2:10, 1 Kings 11:21, 1 Kings 11:43, 1 Kings 14:20, 1 Kings 14:31, 1 Kings 15:8, 1 Kings 15:24, 1 Kings 16:6, 1 Kings 16:28, 1 Kings 22:40, 22:50, 2 Kings 8:24, 10:35, 13:9, 13:13, 14:16, 14:22, 14:29, 15:7, 15:22, 15:38, 16:20, 16:21, 21:18, 24:6, 2 Chr. 9:31, 12:16, 14:1, 16:13, 16:21, 26:2, 26:23, 27:9, 28:27, 32:33, 33:20


Death involves no activity, no praise God, no thinking

2 Kings 22:20, 2 Chr. 34:28, Ps. 6:4-5, Ps. 30:9, Ps. 31:17, Ps. 88:10-13, Ps. 115:17, Ps. 146:4, Ecc. 9:5-6, 9:10, Isa. 38:17-19


Death is Sleep

Job 3:11-13, Job 14:12-15, Ps. 13:3, Matt. 27:52, John 11:11-14, Acts 7:60, Acts 13:36, 1 Cor. 11:29-30, 1 Cor. 15:6, 1 Cor. 15:17-20, 1 Thess. 5:9-10, 2 Pet. 3:3-4


Death is Nonexistence (like not ever having been born)

Job 3:11, 3:16, Job 7:21, Job 10:18-19

All go to the same place (rich, poor, righteous, wicked, etc.)

Job 3:13-15, Job 3:17-19, Job 21: 23-26


Soul can die (be destroyed)

Gen. 37:21, Lev. 24:7, Lev. 20:6, Ecc. 22:27, Job 7:15, Ps. 22:29, Ps. 40:14, Ps. 56:6, 56:13, Ps. 63:9, Ps. 78:49-50, Ps. 119, 175, Isa. 10:18, Isa. 53:10, Isa. 53:12, Eze. 18:4, 18:20, Mat. 10:28, Acts 3:23, Jam. 5:20, Rev. 16:3


The person dies “he” not just the body

Matt. 12:40, John 11:33, John 20:2, John 20:14-15, 1 Cor. 15:4, Rev. 1:17-18


Man and animals (beasts) perish

Ps. 49:12, Ecc. 3:19-20


Dead People (not just their bodies) go to and stay in the grave (sheol) until the resurrection

Job 7:9-10, Job 17:16, Ps. 89:48, Ps. 49:14, Prov. 5:5, Prov. 23:13-14, Hos. 13:14, Jer. 18:20, John 3:13, Acts 2:26-27, 29, 31, 34


The reward of the righteous is to be brought out of the grave – resurrected

Ps. 17:14-15, Ps. 49:15, Ps. 71:20, Isa. 26:19, Dan. 12:2, Luke 10:13-14, Luke 20:34-36, John 5:28-29, Eph. 5:14, Rev. 20:4-6


Waking from sleep of death (resurrection) occurs when Christ returns on the last day

I Cor. 15:20-23, 1 Thess. 4:13-17, 1 Cor. 15:51-55



scriptures say death is sleep

OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES


1Ki 2:10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

1Ki 11:21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.

1Ki 11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

1Ki 14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

1Ki 14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

1Ki 15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

1Ki 15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

1Ki 16:6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.

1Ki 16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

1Ki 19:5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

1Ki 22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

1Ki 22:50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

2Ki 14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

2Ki 14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

2Ki 24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

2Ch 9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

2Ch 12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

2Ch 14:1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.

2Ch 16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

2Ch 21:1 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.

2Ch 26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

2Ch 26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

2Ch 27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2Ch 28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, [even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

2Ch 32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

2Ch 33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

Psa 13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Dan 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.


NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES


Mat 9:24 He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

Mat 27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

Mat 28:13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

Mar 5:39 And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.

Luk 8:52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.

Jhn 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

Jhn 11:12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.

Jhn 11:13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.

1Cr 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

1Cr 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.


ABSENT FROM THE BODY, AND TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD

READ ALL OF 2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 5 AND YOU WILL DISCOVER IT IS SPEAKING ABOUT THE BODY BEING DEAD TO SIN (OLD MAN) AND ALIVE IN CHRIST BY THE SPIRIT (NEW MAN) NOT ABOUT WHEN WE PHYSICALLY DIE.