This is a follow-up and comment to The Big Dirt Nap

What happens the split second after death? The way I see it, there are three options - four if you're Catholic

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Death is the end of life of a biological organism, or so says Wikipedia. But is death more than that? I think so.

For thousands of years, people have wondered what happens to a person the split second after he or she dies and I often wonder the same thing for personal reasons.

For some, this message may create more questions than answers, so if you are looking for a clear answers, they might not be here. Then again, after reading this, you might rule out certain things you’ve been taught, so in that respect, this message may bring you closer to the truth.

I mean no disrespect for anyone’s beliefs. I’m just putting my mind on paper, so to speak.

I know the scripture that says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. I know the one that says it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this is the judgment, but things get begin to get fuzzy when I read in the twentieth chapter of Revelation where it says all those in hell will be cast into the lake of fire. There is some place worse than hell? The next two chapters describe a new heaven and a new earth.

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Update: Weeks after posting this, no one has stepped forward to scripturally substantiate their belief that we must Must MUST call our creator by a particular name or be forever damned. Those who are/were curious or fearful should relax. That doctrine has no basis in scripture. If you call Him God and someone else calls Him Yahweh, He loves you both the same. According to the Scriptures, His name is YHVH (some say YHWH), no vowels or hint of pronunciation. Anyone who builds a doctrine on a particular pronunciation is taking scriptural liberties and thus, should be avoided. Stick to the truth. Stick to what you know and can PROVE with the Scriptures without massaging them.

Here is my original message and the offer still stands.

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The animals feel pain. They have emotions. They think, they trust, they reason. They love unconditionally, yet we torture them, kill them and butcher them without remorse.

My puppies love me more than any church member or pastor ever has or ever will. They are an example of His love. There is no doubt in my heart that if man has a soul, then so do the animals that He breathed life into. The same Hebrew word, Ruach, that he breathed into man, is used when he breathed life into the animals. It means, wind, breath, mind, spirit.

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Who was Jude? The half-brother of Jesus. He refers to himself as the “brother of James” whom we know to be Christ’s half-brother and as a “slave of Jesus Christ”. This implies that he didn’t want any reader of his letter to listen to him simply because of his blood-ties to Jesus. As Jude (or Judas) was a common name, he needed to identify himself, but he seems to want the reader to listen to the message and forget who the messenger is.

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