10 October 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I agree with your recent response to the question regarding 1844 and the plan of salvation. Which brings me to ask this question: if you don’t believe in this central point, then why remain a Seventh-day Adventist? Might as well attend another church that preaches the finished work […] Source: https://atoday.org/if-you-dont-believe-in-1844-why-remain-adventist-aunty/
Tuesday: “The Spirit Returns to God”
Read Genesis 2:7 and Ecclesiastes 12:1-7. What contrast can you see between these two biblical passages? How can they help us to understand better the human condition in death? See also Genesis 7:22.
As already seen, the Bible teaches that the human being is a soul (Genesis 2:7), and the soul ceases to exist when the body dies (Ezekiel 18:4, Ezekiel 18:20).
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But what about the “spirit”? Does it not remain conscious even after the death of the body? Many Christians believe so, and they even try to justify their view by quoting Ecclesiastes 12:7, which says, “Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it” (NKJV). But this statement does not suggest that the spirit of the dead remains conscious in God’s presence.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 in quite dramatic terms describes the aging process, culminating with death. Verse 7 refers to death as the reversal of the creation process mentioned in Genesis 2:7. As already stated, on the sixth day of the Creation week “the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being” (Genesis 2:7, NKJV). But now, Ecclesiastes 12:7 tells us that “the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it” (NKJV). So, the breath of life that God breathed into the nostrils of Adam, and that He has also provided to all other human beings, returns to God or, in other words, simply stops flowing into and through them.
We should keep in mind that Ecclesiastes 12:7 describes the dying process of all human beings and does so without distinguishing between the righteous and the wicked. If the alleged spirits of all who die survive as conscious entities in the presence of God, then are the spirits of the wicked with God? This idea is not in harmony with the overall teaching of the Scriptures. Because the same dying process happens both to human beings and to animals (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20), death is nothing else than ceasing to exist as living beings. As stated by the psalmist, “You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust” (Psalm 104:29, NKJV).
| We often say that death is just part of life. Why is that so wrong? Death is the opposite of life, the enemy of life. What great hope, then, is found in this verse: “The last enemy that will be destroyed is death” (1 Corinthians 15:26, NKJV)? |
Amen!
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3.3 The Spirit Returns to God – UNDERSTANDING HUMAN NATURE | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series ON DEATH, DYING, AND THE FUTURE HOPE with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
3.UNDERSTANDING HUMAN NATURE |
What about human beings? |
Memory Text: Genesis 2:7 – And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
3.3 The Spirit Returns to God
What happens to the spirit in the moment we are dying?
My God bless you today and always.
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Sobering Stats and Difficult Decisions As Annual Council Continues
9 October 2022 | Today’s GC Executive Committee Annual Council meetings were packed. Delegates voted on a lengthy nomination list as well as an education policy change, and were briefed on the 900-page policy document. (Which we bet no one has actually read cover to cover voluntarily!) Names: While many, many names were nominated for […] Source: https://atoday.org/sobering-stats-and-tense-decisions-as-annual-council-continues/
Lunedì 10 ottobre 2022
Isaia 58:8 – Allora la tua luce irromperà come l'aurora e la tua guarigione germoglierà prontamente, la tua giustizia ti precederà e la gloria del Signore sarà la tua retroguardia. Meditazione giornaliera Apri la porta del tuo cuore, autori vari, presentazione di Abigail Grace Miguel Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXiVYaAdGOs
