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"If we really want a good understanding of the Biblical concept of life, death, and the afterlife, then we need to start in the beginning, because that is where we find out how life began, and why we must die.
I am convinced that our understanding of the events in Genesis will shape our understanding of everything else.
The first few chapters of Genesis explain the origin of life, the cause of death, and the need for salvation. We can see from these chapters how everything was created, how sin entered the world, and what the consequences of sin are. Without a proper understanding of Genesis, we will have difficulty understanding anything else in the Bible.
It is important for us to know how life began, so we can better understand how life ends. Listen to the way the Bible describes the creation of man:
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 being. (Genesis 2:7)
The word translated “living being” can also be translated as “living soul”. (We don’t have a soul, we are a soul)
I am sure that you are very familiar with this story, so I will not spend too much time on the details. (If you are not familiar with the story, please take some time to read the first 3 chapters of Genesis, because it will help you to understand the things I am talking about here)
After God created Adam and Eve, he gave them some very clear instructions about what they were allowed to eat. These instructions came with a warning about what would happen if they disobeyed:
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17)
God clearly said that if you eat of the tree you will die. The Hebrew word translated here is the word מוּת (moot), and means “die, perish, cease to live, corpse, dead, destroy”. This word speaks of our mortality, that we will not live forever, but our life will eventually come to an end.
Now, listen to the lie that the enemy spoke:
Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:4-5)
So, who should we believe? God said that we will die, but the serpent said we will not. You will soon find out in this study that your belief on this one thing will completely transform your understanding of the afterlife. The lie is that “you will not surely die… you will become like God”, but the Bible tells us that after they ate from the tree, God placed a curse upon Adam.
Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3:17-19)
We see this same concept in various other scriptures such as:
You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. (Psalm 104:29)
For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity. All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust. (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20)
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
The enemy says that we will not die, but God said that we will die because of sin. However, that is not the end of the story, because we have hope in Yeshua, our Messiah. The Bible tells us:
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
This verse is very important because it explains both the problem and the solution. The problem is that we are all under the curse of sin, we will all die, but there is a way for us to have everlasting life."
Learn not the way of the idolatrous pagans with their super hero immortality...their leader who claims you will not surely die...
"If we really want a good understanding of the Biblical concept of life, death, and the afterlife, then we need to start in the beginning, because that is where we find out how life began, and why we must die.
I am convinced that our understanding of the events in Genesis will shape our understanding of everything else.
The first few chapters of Genesis explain the origin of life, the cause of death, and the need for salvation. We can see from these chapters how everything was created, how sin entered the world, and what the consequences of sin are. Without a proper understanding of Genesis, we will have difficulty understanding anything else in the Bible.
It is important for us to know how life began, so we can better understand how life ends. Listen to the way the Bible describes the creation of man:
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 being. (Genesis 2:7)
The word translated “living being” can also be translated as “living soul”. (We don’t have a soul, we are a soul)
I am sure that you are very familiar with this story, so I will not spend too much time on the details. (If you are not familiar with the story, please take some time to read the first 3 chapters of Genesis, because it will help you to understand the things I am talking about here)
After God created Adam and Eve, he gave them some very clear instructions about what they were allowed to eat. These instructions came with a warning about what would happen if they disobeyed:
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17)
God clearly said that if you eat of the tree you will die. The Hebrew word translated here is the word מוּת (moot), and means “die, perish, cease to live, corpse, dead, destroy”. This word speaks of our mortality, that we will not live forever, but our life will eventually come to an end.
Now, listen to the lie that the enemy spoke:
Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:4-5)
So, who should we believe? God said that we will die, but the serpent said we will not. You will soon find out in this study that your belief on this one thing will completely transform your understanding of the afterlife. The lie is that “you will not surely die… you will become like God”, but the Bible tells us that after they ate from the tree, God placed a curse upon Adam.
Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3:17-19)
We see this same concept in various other scriptures such as:
You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. (Psalm 104:29)
For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity. All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust. (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20)
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
The enemy says that we will not die, but God said that we will die because of sin. However, that is not the end of the story, because we have hope in Yeshua, our Messiah. The Bible tells us:
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
This verse is very important because it explains both the problem and the solution. The problem is that we are all under the curse of sin, we will all die, but there is a way for us to have everlasting life."
Learn not the way of the idolatrous pagans with their super hero immortality...their leader who claims you will not surely die...
