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NASB | Philippians 1:23 But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Philippians 1:23 But I am hard-pressed between the two. I have the desire to leave [this world] and be with Christ, for that is far, far better; |
Bible Question:
Just out of curiosity, when and where did the doctrine or teaching of soul sleep originate? In Him, lionheart |
Bible Answer: Dear Lionheart, Quote from Millard J. Erickson, Introduction to Theology, pg. 378, par. 2; "One veiw which over the years has had considerable popularity is termed, "soul sleep". This is the idea that the soul, during the period between death and resurrection, reposes in a state of unconcsiousness. In the sixteenth century, many Anabaptists and Socinians apprently subscribed to this veiw. A similar position is taken today by the Seventh Day Adventists. In the case of Adventists, however, the phrase "soul sleep" is some what misleading. Hoekema suggests instead "soul extinction," in the Adventist view one does not fall asleep at death, but actually becomes completely nonexistent, nothing surviving." This then is an invention of the Anabaptists and Socinian in the sixteenth century that purported that the soul actually sleeps as a function of a bipartite (division of man as soul and body) entity, where the body disintegrates and the soul goes to sleep on some spiritual plane. This veiw got adopted and changed by the Jehovah's Witnesses, as that man is one entity without two parts, and that man's one essence being his mind and body, cease to exist at death altogether. The soul is not actually sleeping, it is gone with the mind that disentegrated. In this view of soul sleep God is so powerfull that He will raise everything that disintegrated from the dead. This veiw got adopted by the Seventh Day Adventists, who believe that the soul and body are two parts together and that the body disentegrates, but that the soul actually sleeps. God is so powerfull that He will wake the souls from the dead and reunite them to their bodies which God is so powerfull to reunite from disintegration. This view got adopted and changed by the Mormons and they believe that the body disintegrates and that the soul goes to sleep, then only the soul will be raised from the dead and receive a new spiritual body to replace the old flesh and that in this process a person becomes a god, just like Jesus and God were once men and died and received new spiritual eternal god bodies before us. God's day to you, Tamara God's Day to you, Tamara |