Theological Comparison
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Whole-Person Death
“Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.”
“Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.”
“For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.”
“For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.”
“Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;”
“What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?”
“So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.”
“As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.”
“The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.”
“All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.”
“The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.”
“Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.”
“The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.”
“But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?”
“Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.”
“Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.”
“He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.”
“They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.”
“He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.”
“He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.”
“And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.”
“For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?”
“The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.”
“His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.”
“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.”
Soul-Body Dualism
“For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:”
“And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”
“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”
“If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.”
“It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.”
“For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.”
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”
“Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:”
“For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:”
“Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.”
“Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.”
“Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”
“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.”
“And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.”
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”
“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”
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