Biblical death means separation, not cessation. It distinguishes physical, spiritual, eternal death.
Please, Please, tell me the scripture passage, chapter and verse, that says "Biblical death means separation". Death does NOT means separation. Death means "no longer alive". If you want to change the definition of death, you need to provide the biblical proof that "death means separation". You haven't done this.
It is an exegetical mistake to assume a wrong understanding of soul, death leading to a wrong doctrine of the final state of the wicked (begging the question).
That is why I do not change the definition of death, unless the bible tells me otherwise. If dead doesn't mean dead, then "raising the dead to life" doesn't have any meaning either. Your mistake about the meaning of "death" leads you to a wrong doctrine of the final state of the wicked. According to the Bible, the wicked perish and are no more.
This is physical death with the body not breathing. It does not prove there is no life after death (there is).
"There is"? Where is YOUR proof? Why would Jesus raise the dead to life when He returns if the dead are already alive? Your opinion doesn't make any sense.
I Tim. 5:6 It is possible to be dead and alive.
You are taking that verse out of context. Paul is not talking about whether dead people are actually alive, he is talking about about the certainty of death for a person who refuses to repent of her sins.
Sleep is a metaphor for physical death. The body appears to be lifeless (it is) like deep sleep. This does not mean the spirit-soul is not very much alive. The body without spirit is dead, but the spirit without body is alive (to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord immediately...He is alive).
2 Corinthians 5:8 does not say "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord immediately". You changed that verse and you also added to it. You are correct that sleep is a metaphor for death. This doesn't mean that the person is not dead and is alive. You need to provide better biblical evidence for your view that the spirit lives on while the person is dead.
Rationalization. Eternal life is forever, but eternal punishment (same adjective/grammar) is finite?
I believe that the wages of sin is death. The eternal punishment is death and it is eternal.
You still blur the distinctions between physical, spiritual, eternal death.
You still haven't given any evidence that there are different kinds of death.
There will be a future resurrection (bodily to reunite spirit-soul with glorified body), but this does not mean the false teaching of soul-sleep is true (God and angels/demons exist without physical bodies...the real person is immaterial and the body is a temporary tent on earth, not needed in the intermediate state in heaven).
I don't believe in "soul-sleep". I believe that death is really death and life is really life. You have not proven otherwise. You have not proven that death is really life.
The real person, the spirit, lives on without the body. The person is not aware of physical life on earth (Eccl. under the sun), but is fully alive in the presence of God or hell.
Please give me the scripture evidence for this. I'm not kidding. If you have the chapter and verse for "the dead person is fully alive and in the presence of God (or in hell), I really want to see it.
Future physical resurrection/glorification, we agree on, but we disagree as to whether we are alive in the intermediate state. Context determines the issue and you are proof texting a context about future resurrection, not one about our state after death before then.
I am not "prooftexting". I am insisting that you provide biblical reasons for your your beliefs, just as I have done.
