This is from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_sleep
"Soul sleep is an often pejorative term for what in academic literature is now (since the 1970s) generally called by the more neutral term Christian mortalism for the belief that the human soul is uncomprehending during the time between bodily death and Judgment Dayresurrection. The term "soul-sleepers" was historically pejorative, so the more neutral term materialists was also used in the 19th century.
Historically the term psychopannychism was also used, despite problems with the etymology and application The term soul sleep has also been applied to thnetopsychism, although this latter belief is that the soul is literally "dead" rather than "asleep" or merely uncomprehending. though the difference is difficult to identify in practice."
Anyone out there that can explain what this means? And also show me where in Scripture I can find it?
Here's some scripture about the mortality of the soul and soul sleep. This is what I believe, but if you believe differently I would like to know how these verses fit into your beliefs so I can test mine.
Mortality of the soul
Lev. 23:30
And whatsoever soul [it be] that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
Eze. 18:4
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Acts 3:23
And it shall come to pass, [that] every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
1 Cor. 15:53-54
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1 Tim. 6:16
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom [be] honour and power everlasting. Amen.
James 5:19-20
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Soul Sleep
Job 14:12-13
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Eccl. 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Eccl. 9:5-6
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Ps. 13:3
Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death
Ps. 115:17
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Ps. 146:3-4
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Dan. 12:1-2 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
John 11:11-14
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
1 Thess. 4:16
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1 Cor. 15:18
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
