The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum cremation

..... Why make things so difficult? You said that the "body sleeps". And I simply asked for biblical evidence that would support this statement, "the body sleeps at death". There is nothing in any of the texts you supplied that is even remotely relevant to this. So, I'll ask once again..... Where in the Bible can you show that it teaches that at death, the body sleeps and thus supporting your contention that there is a difference between a corpse and a dead body?

It is our position that "corpse" and "dead body" are synonymous terms and there is no "sleep" involved with the corporeal element of man. The soul/person "sleeps", i.e., it is separated from the body which has the appearance of one sleeping, but in actuality the soul is immediately taken to be with the Lord in heaven; the intermediate state wherein it awaits the consummation and its glorification. It is at this time that the incomplete person, having been separated from its earthly body, is given a body spiritual/incorruptible, which apparently will be similar in outward appearance to the earthly/corruptible body, if we may use the example of happened to the Lord Christ.

In His grace,