![]() ![]() It is true that some poetic authors, for example in the Psalms, use the mysterious term “Sheol” to describe a person’s new location. The Hebrew Bible itself assumes that the dead are simply dead-that their body lies in the grave, and there is no consciousness, ever again. So too the “soul” doesn’t continue on outside the body, subject to postmortem pleasure or pain. When we stop breathing, our breath doesn’t go anywhere. Then it was dust to dust, ashes to ashes.Īncient Jews thought that was true of us all. Adam remained alive until he stopped breathing. On the contrary, for them, the soul was more like the “breath.” The first human God created, Adam, began as a lump of clay then God “breathed” life into him (Genesis 2: 7). Unlike most Greeks, ancient Jews traditionally did not believe the soul could exist at all apart from the body. Neither Jesus, nor the Hebrew Bible he interpreted, endorsed the view that departed souls go to paradise or everlasting pain. The vast majority of these people naturally assume this is what Jesus himself taught.
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