![]() ![]() So if we were meant to isolate these verses in Ecclesiastes and read them as the full and final word on the nature of death, they would not only contradict the rest of the Bible and historic Christian teaching, they would actually also contradict Jehovah’s Witness teaching as well! This directly contradicts the Jehovah’s Witness teaching that God does remember the righteous and will reward them by creating them a second time on the future day of resurrection. The passage would have to be saying that everyone, even Jehovah, forgets the dead and will never again reward them with life under the sun. No, the only person who could remember them and reward them is God. What power does a mere man have to reward a person who no longer exists? Remembering that they once existed doesn’t do anything for them now. Now, a human remembering them would still be unable to reward them. But again, taken at face value and read the way they claim it must be read, it says that the dead no longer have any reward because all memory of them is forgotten. It is not, they claim, denying that God will give them such a share. If this passage denies conscious existence after death, it also denies future resurrection as well, claiming that “they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.” The Jehovah’s Witnesses try to get out of this by claiming that the verse merely means that a dead person left to his own power and ability will have no such share. Of course, taken at face value, if we read this passage the way the Jehovah’s Witness insists that we read it, the text says far more than the Jehovah’s Witness wants it to say. “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going,” (Ecclesiastes 9:10). ![]() Indeed their love, their hate, and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun,” (Ecclesiastes 9:5-6). “For the living know they will die but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten. One of the primary texts they use to defend this belief is Ecclesiastes 9, particularly where it says: ![]() They assert that when someone dies, they cease to exist as a person, and their lifeless body is all that remains. Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that humans have no soul or spiritual component to their being that in any way endures after physical death. ![]()
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