And the advocates of the conscious state cannot dispose of these expressions by saying that they apply to the body merely; for they do not hold that the consciousness which we have in life (which is the same we lose in death) pertains to the body merely.
"Man dieth and wasteth away;
yea, man giveth up the ghost,
Q: and where is he?
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up, so man lieth down and riseth not:
till the heavens be no more,
they shall not awake,
nor be raised out oftheir sleep."
If, therefore, there is no resurrection, these dead are destined to sleep in unconsciousness forever."
Uriah Smith