The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life - Where Are the Dead?

 The Bible clearly teaches that the dead are unconscious and lifeless in the grave. Note what Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10 (AV) says regarding the condition of the dead: "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they have any more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, no knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." This means that the dead cannot do anything and cannot feel anything. Their thoughts have ceased, as the Bible states: "Put not your trusts in princes, nor in the son of earthling man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth: in that very day his thoughts do perish." -PSALM 146:3, 4, AV [145:2-4, Dy].

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