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6) The Resurrection in Summary
The scriptures are quite clear and consistent. In passages written in a span of over 2000 years there is a consistent message that all people have souls that die, or perish. In that state they are unconscious and the physical body turns to dust. Nowhere does it say the soul or consiouness exists after death. Even King David, the beloved of God and prophet, did not go to Heaven. In the future on a specific day, a day when the 'One like God', or 'the Lord' will come, the dust is raised by the work of God's spirit to live again, with the same physical form and character to be judged. Some will be given the ability to live forever.
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