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Death is often believed as an unconscious state when the soul disappears in some extraterrestrial vacuum or remains still and motionless. However, the Hebrew scriptures argue that we do possess a conscious awareness once the soul leaves the body.
The Book of Job gives a strong evidence of the conscious awareness. In the Book of Job, Job asks the longstanding question that if a man dies shall he live again? His question is answered in Job 19:25-26: “But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives… after my skin, even this body, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God.”
Thus Job’s view was that even though his physical body undergoes death, he will finally go to God where his soul will remain immortal.
The scriptures have never favored the concept complete destruction of the soul.. They preach that the soul has a deep desire and a longing to reach the home of the Lord.
For other concepts of immortality in religion please read my other posts:
http://immortalus.com/2012/08/14/buddhism-and-the-immortality-of-the-soul/
http://immortalus.com/2012/08/04/can-we-believe-that-the-soul-is-immortal/
http://immortalus.com/2012/08/16/islam-and-the-concept-of-immortality/