(February 11, 2017 at 12:43 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(February 11, 2017 at 9:48 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Here's the thing, death in the bible is defined as 'separation', not the "end of a process", which is why Jesus on occasion refereed to the dead, as "asleep", if Jesus referred to someone as "dead" it meant they were separated from God (in Hell).
I don't even know what that is supposed to mean.
What it means is that the word death in the bible is translated from the Greek word Thanatos which means separation.
http://biblehub.com/greek/2288.htm
Quote:2288 thánatos (derived from 2348 /thnḗskō, "to die") – physical or spiritual death; (figuratively) separation from the life (salvation) of God forever by dying without first experiencing death to self to receive His gift of salvation.
Therefore for the believer there is no death because he is not separated for God, it's just simply transitioning from one place to another.
Now if you want to define death in the more traditional sense, fair enough, but that has nothing to do with what happens to consciousness afterward.
