Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
a third century sect of Christianity in Arabia, and is based on I Timothy 6: 16, an epistolary
doxology addressed to the God who alone has immortality.
1 Tim 6:15-16 which He will bring about at the proper time-- He who is the blessed and only
Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in
unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal
dominion! Amen.
This doctrine is held by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Jehovah's Witnesses).
"When somebody dies, the spirit (life force) ceases to animate the body cells, much as a light
goes out when the electricity is turned off. When the life force stops sustaining the human
being, man-the soul-dies." Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life (Brooklyn: Watch Tower
Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, 1995)
"Therefore, God's Word refers to the dead as being asleep. For example, upon learning that
his friend Lazarus had died, Jesus Christ told His disciples 'Lazarus our friend has gone to
rest, but I am journeying there to awake him from sleep.'"
Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) also holds the same view
"The grave is not a place of consciousness. Since death is a sleep, the dead remain in a state
of unconsciousness in the grave until the resurrection, when the grave (Hades) gives up its
dead (Rev. 20:13)." A Biblical Exposition of 27 Fundamental Doctrines (Hagerstown, MD:
Review and Herald Publishing Assoc., 1988)
Some of the proof texts include the following where death is referred to as sleep:
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21; 9:5, 6; 12:7; Job 14:10-12; Psalm 115:17; Matthew 9:24; Mark 5:39;
John 11:11-14; Acts 7:20; 1 Corinthians 15:51, 52; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17; and 2 Peter 3:4.
.
John 5: 28-30 is probably the final proof text of all:
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