Back to Basics I

I think I want to get back to some basics of my faith. And one from a long time ago, one which stuck with me, always in the back of my mind, throughout those years when I pretended it wasn't true.

What is that one? It is that dead people are dead. No, they're not alive in some other form in some other realm, but dead. Dead. Truly and actually dead.

Here's how this knowledge came to me. It's from another blog entry I posted a few years ago.

Dead People Are Dead

There are numerous scriptures referring to the resurrection of the dead. There's even a complete chapter, I Cor. 15. If people went to heaven when they died, why isn't there a going to heaven chapter?

Once I accepted this as absolute truth, other things, other Bible truths, became coming clear to me. One by one believed misconceptions have disappeared. But I believe this came first, and likely had to come first.