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. Genesis 2:7
What does the Word of God say happens when we die?
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Genesis 3:19
Thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Psalms 104:29
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7
“But that’s referring to the body”, some will say, “the soul is immortal”, they say. Is the soul immortal? What does the Word of God say?
I give thee charge in the sight of God…and before Christ Jesus, …Who only hath immortality. 1 Timothy 6:13, 16
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Ezekiel 18:4
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. Ezekiel 18:20 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23
When the Word of God says the soul that sins shall die, He means the soul.
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:28
The Word of God describes death as a condition of sleep.
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. 1 Kings 2:10
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. …For David is not ascended into the heavens: Acts 2:29, 34
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? …For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, …Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never say light. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. Job 3:11, 13, 16-17
Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. John 11:11-14
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
There is no consciousness in this sleep of death.
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. Psalms 146:4
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. Psalms 115:17
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? Psalms 6:5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. …Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10
So a man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. …His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. Job 14:12, 21