There are literally dozens of views and opinions about life and death - just what exactly is life (?), and what happens to our consciousness or self-awareness when we die (?). These views range from the materialist, who sees life as a random clustering of atoms which, for a brief moment in eternity produce a living creature, to the mystic, who thinks that life is either an illusion, or a passage through a multi-layered experience in which …showed first 75 words of 6964 total…

…showed last 75 words of 6964 total…when oxygen enters their blood stream. God is called the "God of the spirits of all flesh" - Num.16:22, 27:16 and also Luke 23:46, Acts 7:59. And the "Father of spirits" in Heb.12:9. The 'spirits' means 'the breaths'. Ecclesiastes 12:7 The breath of God is taken back from the soul (nephesh) resulting in the death of the soul. "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it".