Posted on 09/03/2008 3:52:19 AM PDT by Gamecock
psychopannychism or “Soul Sleep”
(from Greek psyche “soul” + pannuchizein “to last the night”)
Also, “soul sleep”
The belief that upon death the soul does not depart in a conscious form to heaven, hell, or any other waiting place, but “sleeps” or is in an unconscious state of existence until the resurrection of the body. This position is held by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Christadelphians.
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My understanding was that the Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in the soul’s annihilation until the end (the damned get annihilated permanently, the “saved” get reconstituted later.) It does create identity problems, but they can try to explain that.
interesting word.
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Feel free to toss it around at your next dinner party....
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The cessation of the bodily functions of a human being through the departure of the soul. It is part of revelation that, in the present order of divine providence, death is a punishment for sin. According to the teaching of the Church, death is a consequence of Adam's sin, as declared by St. Paul: "Sin entered the world through one man, and through sin death" (Romans 5:12). In the case of those justified by grace, death loses in penal character and becomes a mere consequence of sin. All human beings, therefore, are subject to death, although in the case of Christ and his Mother, because of their freedom from sin, death was neither a punishment for sin nor a consequence of sin. Yet, as they were truly human, death was natural for them.
Death is also the end of human probation or testing of one's loyalty to God. It ends all possibility of merit or demerit.
Properly speaking, only the body dies when separated from its principle of life, which is the soul. However, the Bible speaks of a second death (Revelation 20:6), referring to the souls in hell, who are separated from their principle of supernatural life, which is God.
Ahhhhh . . .
For a minute there I thought it was related to
psycho-panty-waist-ism
—the tendency to straddle the fence in a way that ‘raises’ doubleminded/inoffensiveness to a new ‘height.’
soul sleep? yawn
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