The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

question : " How are the dead raised up? Andwith what body do they come" did qot say : " Thatis a peculiar question ! Why do you ask : ' How arethe dead to be raised, and with what body do thevcome '? Do you not know that the soul neverdies, and that it is only the body which dies andrequires to be resurrected ?"No! What Paul didsay was : -" Thou fool, . . . thou sowest not thatbody that shall be . . . but God givetli it a bodyas it hath pleased him, and to every seed his ownbody "-1 Corinthians XV, 35-38. What could beplainer than that? It is not the body but the soulwhich dies, ss we read in Isaiah bII1, 12, of Christ :" he hath poured out his soul unto death;" It isnot the body, therefore, but the s?ul which is tobe resurrected; and God shall giye to each sod abody $s it pleases ~ im, according to the charactersown in this life-time.Where are the Dead?From what I have said it will be plain to you thatthe Scriptural- answer to our question is simplythis : The dead are all, good and bad alike, in oneplace, the grave-not the literal grave, but thedeath-state. " All go into one place. All are of thedust, and all turn to dust again "-Bcclesiastes 111.20. " There .the wicked cease from troubling ; andthere the weary (including the weary in well-doing)be at rest. There the prisoners (of death) rest .together. They hear not the voice of the oppressor.The small and great are there "-Job 111, 17-19.The teaching.of the Scriptures is, therefore, thatthe dead are dead. It seems strange that it shouldbe necessary to come before an intelligent audiencein order to prove what is so clearly set forth in-the23-; ' .