Livelystone
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Is a person conscious when they are dead?
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A person's dead body is just that.
However, the spirit/soul that is still alive is in a different and "higher" dimension than the level physical matter exists at even though they share the same world. (How Jesus said He was in heaven while still standing on earth when he said it)
Paul understood this and said the same thing of his experience when caught up in the spirit
2Cor.12 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell God knoweth ) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth )
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Paul was "as if he was dead" after being stoned but when his body was taken out of the city where his friends gathered around his body and did what they were supposed to do......... Prayed for him, therefore through grace and mercy from above, Paul lived again
God raised Paul back alive through having the spirit return to the body the same as for Jesus who gave up His Spirit to God. Paul did not have the necessary two witnesses to legally speak of what transpired while he was "in heaven" and without be commanded to do otherwise we do not know what was said. On the other hand we know he did not feel any different than what he did within his physical body that remained dead "on earth" until God sent the "spirit" back to Paul's "lifeless" body that was then made alive by the return of the spirit
When the spirit goes back to God, God alone holds the power over it (has the keys of hell and death) and as well as its future disposition and appointment
Been a hard week and I need to turn in
Blessings