Let me try understand your question: there are only two reasons why you would ask me this (as far as I am able to perceive)...

What remains is for you to produce biblical evidence which teaches that dead bodies "sleep".

- either 1. my previous posts have been interprited to conclude that when we die, we dont really die but we just fall asleep.
- or 2. you want me to provide biblical evidence which shows that there is such a thing as a state of death when it comes to our bodies. (as opposed to death being a doorway into glorification (for our body), instead, death is a repository where our body "waits" untill the time of glorification arives).

If it is 1. then I have no reason to continue this conversation, seeing that the only way to continue this discussion is for somebody to cling to such details as words put in quotes ("sleep"). In the Bible "sleep" is a poetic allusion used to refere to death. For anybody to think that I went beyond the figurative use of sleep insults not only me, but it completely dwarfs their capability to accept something to be right.

If it is 2.
Well... ok... how about these...

Job 14: 11-12 As water disappears from the sea, and a river becomes parched and dries up, so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor be roused from their sleep.




Ecclesiastes 12: 7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

...there is an actual state of sepearation between the body and spirit


Revelation 20: 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.



1 corinthians: 15 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.



1 Corinthians 15: 51-52 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed -- in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.