070927 - SARI "On Dying"

The scripture emphatically states, “Ume'ets hada'at tov vara lo tochal mimenu ki beyom acholcha mimenu mot tamut.” Bereshit 2:17

Mot [or muwth] is a state (no longer breathing) while tamut [ata-mut] is how you (ata') will get there (i.e., a process), as is contextually indicated in Genesis 3:17 “ … all the days of your life”, and in 19 - "by the sweat of your brow you will eat bread. Finally [or until] you will return to the ground, for it was from [the ground] that you were taken. You are dust, and to dust you shall return " – a process of death which humans inherited from the first pair. Everyone born begins this process of dying from the day he or she is “born.

Mankind was made of the dust of the ground, there was no existence before that time. They were nephesh chayah - a living soul. They were made exactly as the animals who are also called nephesh chayah - living souls. Genesis 1:20,21.

It is just as Solomon states: “For there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast, for everything is vanity.”

If, as pagan Christendom teaches - that all personality, disposition, thinking ability, emotion, and reasoning come from something esoteric that dwells within [immortal soul] and that said immortal soul lives on after death - then it is you who believes that what Satan told Eve is the truth and God is the liar.