open system theory applied to evolution., page-237

Sorry to destroy your world view but you neither know you were alive, you know not that you are dead, there is simply no further electrical impulses within your brain and you cease to be.
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Y, Why would anyone believe otherwise? This is exactly what the Scriptures teach!
(Ecclesiastes 9:5)" For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all,.. "
There is no 'immortal soul' teaching found anywhere in the Scriptures.
(Ezekiel 18:4) Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so also the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul who sins is the one who will die.

It seems many have not yet come to realize a foretold apostasy occurred(Matthew 13:24-30;36-43) starting in the first century & reaching full bloom after the death of John the last remaining apostle.

(1 John 2:18) Young children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared, from which fact we know that it is the last hour.
It is the pagan ideas embraced & promoted by Christendom that has led many to believe the Bible is not worthy of serious consideration.