

Men have millions of living sperm, sperm with soul, that die, and women have hundreds of thousands of living eggs, eggs with soul, which are never fertilized, and die. Similarly, the soul that makes the egg and sperm alive does not live on in the presence of God if the sperm or egg dies. When a human cell dies, the life in that cell does not go to be with God, it is just gone.

If the egg were “dead,” the lifeless egg-body would be there, but it could not be fertilized, and if the sperm were dead, it could not fertilize the egg. As with every cell, the egg from my mother and the sperm from my father that became “me” each had their own cell-body and soul, and that soul was passed down to “me” when the sperm fertilized the egg.

A dead cell is a cell without soul-the soul is gone. Every cell of our body has soul in it, which is what makes it alive. There was no “soul ghost” that God put into us when the sperm of our father and egg of our mother came together.Įvery living part of a human or animal has “soul,” that is, life. God created the soul, the life force, for both animals and man, and it is passed down from one generation to the next. Rather, it is the animating force that makes the body alive. The soul is not a ghost that lives on after the body dies. Just as the body is not alive without the soul, so the soul cannot live on its own without a body. We have all seen lifeless bodies-the body is there but the soul, the life force, is gone. The body cannot live without the animating life force of the soul, so when the soul is gone, the body is dead. A Christian has body, soul, and holy spirit, so we will look at what happens to each of these components if he dies. When a person dies, he is dead, that is, totally without life.
