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The Importance of Soul Sleep in Apologetical Conversations
Some Christians in quasi-Christian sects claim that we're not conscious between the time of our death and our resurrection, but that our souls, quote unquote, sleep. They often cite versions versus in the Bible where it speaks of death as sleep, like Jesus does here in John 11. But here, Jesus explicitly uses the sleep language as a metaphor to refer to death. The church emphasizes this Jewish belief in the body of resurrection by giving us Ezekiel 37, 12 through 14 for the first reading.