Ecclesiastes 3:20-21.Here it says all of our bodies go to the dust.It also says who can tell were man and animal's spirit end up.In Ecclesiastes 12:7 it says man's spirit goes to God.While in 2 Kings 6:15-17 verse 17.It looks like animals go to God too.
What is the “spirit” that is spoken about here? This is Jewish scripture directed to a Jewish audience. To the ancient Jews, there was no afterlife.....i.e. there was nothing alive when the body died. The “soul” was a living breathing creature and when breathing stopped, that soul died. (Ezekiel 18:4)
When it says that “the spirit returns to God” it is indicating that the future of that person rests with God in the resurrection. It returns to God because only he can determine if a person’s “spirit” (breath) will be returned when that person is restored to life, which is what resurrection means.
Also in Ecclesiastes 3:19 it says both animal and man die.So man is not superior to animals when it comes to death.I think animal and man end up in front of God when they die.What about you?
Unlike humans, animals are designed for a limited lifespan, otherwise there would be overpopulation and all the problems that go with providing food for all of them. Having a natural lifespan, would mean that populations would remain stable. Only humans were promised everlasting life and this was conditional from the get go.....they had to obey God if they wanted to remain living. Death would only come through sin.
God’s command was for them to “fill the earth”, so when that was accomplished, God does not tell us what he was going to do once that was done. Since he created us to procreate, then perhaps we would then cease reproducing and just manage things on this earth as God first intended. It is after all why God made us in his image....to represent him here as caretakers of the earth, and zoo keepers for the welfare of its creatures.
I thought that in 2 Kings 6:15-17 verse 17 that it was just visions they saw at first.But if they were just visions that wouldn't be very comforting.
What you are reading there is just part of a whole account. Please stop cherry picking verses and putting your own spin n them. You will never arrive at the truth by doing that.
What Elisha’s attendant saw was not a literal army of angels on literal horses....what he saw represented an army that reflected the war weapons of the day. Horses and war chariots of fire would probably be represented today by an army with missiles, tanks and nuclear weapons.
Frank, if you want to know what the Bible teaches, then have a proper Bible study. This will stop you jumping from topic to topic searching for confirmation of your own biases. The Bible does not teach what you want to believe.
I will not respond any further because this roller coaster has got to stop. I am getting off, because it’s beginning to affect me very negatively, answering the same questions over and over.....it is enough now.
I have given you all the answers many times, but they always disappear, and you are off on this never ending treadmill again.
