What do SDA believe on about death, and what is soul sleep?
SDA believe that when you die that your soul will go into a “state” of sleeping. This is not a sleeping as you experience every night, as in a “rest” sleep. This is sort of more a “death” type of sleep. This state begins (saved and unsaved) at the moment your mind and bodily functions cease to function. It is at that time that your “soul” will enter into a non-existences, and/or sleep until that time when Jesus returns and that last trump sounds (1Cor 15:51) and the dead will rise and be judged (Rev 20:11-15). Some SDA believe that your soul stays or resides at the location that it (your body) is resting, other SDA believe that the soul just “disappears” into a nothingness until Jesus returns to “pop” it back into existence (where the latter doctrine comes from no one knows). SDA get this doctrine from a combination of Old Testament (OT) and New Testament (NT) scriptures (mixing and melding the two–see this link for more on this). To answer this question you have to look at the totali
