Question 9
Who started the idea that the dead don’t really die?
Bible
Genesis 3:3-4
"God said, you shall not eat of it lest you die. The serpent said, you shall not surely die."
Answer
The first lie the devil ever told was, “you shall not surely die.” He has been telling the same lie ever since. Many people today are still believing his lie that when you die, you go somewhere, but you don’t really die. The Bible teaches, “the soul that sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4). It also teaches that God alone has immortality now (1 Timothy 6:16).