Would you like to know the truth?

[Nick Hambley]

I stumbled across a leaflet that gives an answer for "What happens when we die?"

"Why the question arises: Most of the world's religions teach that something inside a person continues living after death. Some hold that the dead can harm the living or that God punishes the wicked by condemning them to eternal torment in a fiery hell.

What the bible teaches: At death, humans cease to exist. 'The dead...are conscious of nothing at all.' states Ecclesiastes 9:5. Since the dead cannot know, feel or experience anything, the cannot harm-or help- the living.

Is there any hope for the dead?: Most people who have died will be resurrected. Jesus promised that ' those in the memorial tombs will...come out.' In harmony with God's original purpose, those resurrected as humans will have the opportunity to live on a paradise earth. (Luke 23:43) This promised future includes perfect health and everlasting life for obedient humans. The Bible says, 'The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.'(Psalms37:29)"

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