ABSENT FROM THE BODY

Many Christian faiths hold that when the Apostle Paul states in 2 Corinthians 5:8, "..to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord," it implies that your spirit can be separated from your body and that you are present with the Lord in heaven. This is not the case. True Bible Christianity does not support the idea that humans have a spirit or soul that exists outside of their mortal bodies and that continues to remain in consciousness after death. This teaching, which sums up the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, is a representation of the deception of Satan's statement in the Garden of Eden that states, "..in dying, you shall not surely die."