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Many religions have faith in the hereafter once an individual is deceased.
Cryonics
believes that deceased individuals who were beheaded, frozen,
and preserved at some point would be returned again to life.
However,
from a biblical perspective, this form of restoration could never occur.
This biblical perspective
is only being introduced because a former
CEO and President of the cryonics firm in Arizona is religious and
an Elder
in his Seventh Day Adventist Church. He held his cryonics
position for 20 months, and as reported by that organization
resigned
in August 2005 remaining on the Board until a successor was found.
The firm's website noted, "...he came
to Arizona in December 1997
and soon began volunteering for various projects. In December 2003,
he was selected
as CEO and President of the foundation and elected
to the Board of Directors. He considers the long-term protection
and
preservation of our patients his most important duty, as well as the
continued advancement of the quality of cryopreservation
capability."
The firm's announcement further indicated, "He is also a community
volunteer and active Elder in the
Seventh Day Adventist Church in
downtown Phoenix."
There exists a conflict between the church and cryonics regarding
the
hereafter, which is the disposition of an individual's soul or spirit
of life once the body is deceased.
Seventh
Day Adventists, as well as fundamentalist Christians and
orthodox Hebrews, respect the Bible as the word of God. Two
well-known passages address the hereafter confirming its existence,
and
deceased individuals do not return for there is a "great chasm."
The following passages were in an article from July
11, 2006 which
is also posted on this website.
”Jesus said this to the Sadducees who did not believe in
the afterlife,
and by His words demonstrated that it does exist.”
Matthew 22:31-33
"’And as for
the resurrection of the dead, have you not read
what was said to you by God, ~I Am the God of Abraham, and
the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.~? He is not God of
the dead, but of the living.’"
"’And
when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at His
teaching.’"
. .
.
And...
”Jesus said this to Pharisees on conditions in the afterlife.”
Luke
16:26.
"’And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has
been fixed, in order that those
who would pass from here to
you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’"
.
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In addition, there are specific statements of Fundamental Beliefs,
which are held as biblical
truths by Seventh Day Adventists.
STATEMENTS OF FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS
OF THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
"Seventh-day
Adventists accept the Bible as their only creed and hold
certain fundamental beliefs to be the teaching of the Holy
Scriptures.
These beliefs, as set forth here, constitute the church's understanding
and expression of the
teaching of Scripture."
Belief #26
"The wages
of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal,
will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that
day death
is an unconscious state for all people. When Christ, who is
our life, appears, the resurrected
righteous and the living
righteous will be glorified and caught up to meet their Lord.
The second resurrection,
the resurrection of the unrighteous,
will take place a thousand years later."
Only Jesus can reawaken
souls from the dead and not cryonics.
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