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What happens when someone dies?

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Psalms 146:4
The breath in him will go out,
he will go back to the soil he came from,
that day his goodwill is a total loss.

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Ecclesiastes 3:19-20
because mankind are an accident and cattle are an accident,
and they have one fate: as this one dies, so does that one,
and everything has one spirit, and man has no superiority
over cattle because everything is nonsense.
20 Everything goes to one place:
everything is out of the clay
and everything goes back to the clay;

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Ezekiel 18:4
Here, all souls belong to me;
the father’s soul and the son’s alike,
to me they belong;
the soul that sins, that one shall die.

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Ecclesiastes 9:5,10
For the living know they are to die,
but the dead do not know a thing,
and no longer get any reward,
because the memory of them is forgotten.
10 Everything that comes within your reach
to do with your powers, do; because
there is no action nor purpose nor knowledge
nor wisdom in the world below, where you are going.

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John 11:11,13-14
This he said, and after that he said to them
“Our friend Lazarus has gone to rest,
but I am on my way to wake him up.”
13 But Jesus had been speaking of his death;
but they thought he was speaking of the rest of sleep.
14 So then Jesus said to them plainly “Lazarus is dead,

What does your Bible say

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Humans do not have a soul that lives after the body dies

  2

When we die, we are not in heaven or hell

  3

Our dead loved ones cannot hurt or help the living

  4

We are like in a deep sleep needing to be awakened

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God has promised to awaken them, how and when? . . .
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