How would you answer these two questions I asked our 6 men.
1. Where will you go when you die?
2. What do you base your answer on? (Why?)
Please leave your answers. I will give some of their answers later on.
P2J is the Church Leaders' Discipleship Dept. of the GIDI Church Org. in Papua, Indonesia. We as NTM/YMMP missionaries are helping get their Discipleship program off the ground. We have 6 families from 5 different tribal groups. As you pray and support these projects you are strengthening the Church in Papua.
1 - into an unconcious state and into God's memory
ReplyDelete2 - on God's word -Death is The cessation of all functions of life, hence, the opposite of life. (De 30:15, 19)
The dead are shown to be “conscious of nothing at all” and the death state to be one of complete inactivity. (Ec 9:5, 10; Ps 146:4) Those dying are described as going into “the dust of death” (Ps 22:15), becoming “impotent in death.” (Pr 2:18; Isa 26:14) In death there is no mention of God or any praising of him. (Ps 6:5; Isa 38:18, 19) In both the Hebrew and the Greek Scriptures, death is likened to sleep, a fitting comparison not only because of the unconscious condition of the dead but also because of the hope of an awakening through the resurrection. (Ps 13:3; Joh 11:11-14) The resurrected Jesus is spoken of as “the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep in death.”—1Co 15:20, 21;
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