What Happens After Death Part 2

Two scientists, Cosgrove and Schmidt carried out experiments that showed that behind the mechanism of the brain, there was also a personality using and reading it. They quote Penfield. He writes that the brain is a computer, which must be programmed and operated by a personality, which is capable of independent understanding. Because of that he is forced to accept that man's being consists of two basic elements.

What he's saying is that, scientifically, man consists of body and soul, which is what Jesus said. That's what settles the matter.

Jesus gave up his spirit on the cross into his Father's hands, but his body was laid in the tomb until the Spirit returned for it.

Peter, when preaching about it on the day of Pentecost, quotes the Old Testament prophecy: God 'will not leave Christ's soul in Hades -that is the place of the departed - neither will he allow his Holy One to see corruption..'

Peter then interprets it in Acts 2:31: 'He spoke of the resurrection of Christ that his soul was not left in Hades neither did his flesh - that's his body - see corruption'

Yes, the Lord Jesus experienced the separation of soul and body.

He came to save your soul. He valued your soul and gave his life to purchase it from being lost forever. What a tragedy if you value your soul less than Jesus did.

Think of the man who retired on his wealth in Luke chapter 12. He'd made provision for his body only, but that night God said. 'You fool, this night I will require your soul.'

Saved Today

We have seen the scriptures which clearly say that every person has a soul, a soul which does not die when the body dies, such as the statement by Jesus in Matthew 10:28 where he said that persecutors can kill the body but cannot kill the soul. This is why Paul could say that when his body died, his soul would go to be with Christ which is far far better.

This was why Jesus told the dying repentant thief that he would see Jesus that same day in paradise; 'Truly I say to you, this day you will be with me in paradise.'

Now some have said that Jesus was not saying that the soul of the repentant thief would 'be with him this day', but that Jesus was saying to him this day (comma), that he would see him in paradise. In other words that the comma should come after the words 'this day' instead of before it. The people who contend this have deliberately altered the place of the comma. Why? Because they contend that the repentant thief had no separate soul to exist after the body died, to see Jesus.

Those who wrote to me did not realise that there were punctuation marks in the original Greek and the punctuation is before the words 'this day' and not after it.

Some have even contended that original Greek had no punctuation marks, but I have sent to them copies of the original Greek showing them punctuation marks in the text. W.E. Vine in his New Testament Greek Grammar says, 'There are four punctuation marks: the comma (,), a dot above the line, the full stop as in English and the question mark which is like an English semicolon.'