Quote Originally Posted by wedwards View Post
Sorry, but that is not exactly correct. Life and death are states, i.e. you ARE alive, or you ARE dead. You cant BE birth. Birth is simply a mechanism to move you from non-existence to a STATE of life.

I should also add that human life is not eternal according to the bible. Genesis 2:7 indicates that God put the breath (or spirit) of life into man. Then at Psalms 146:4, regarding death, “His spirit [Hebrew, from ru′ach] goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.”
Thoughts; yes, they perish. Because thought and the various aspects of the personality, are not real; they only exist in the mind. Or maybe I should say thoughts are part of our "life experience", for we do not have a life; we are Life. (There is only one Life.) Death is the transmutation of life into another form. If it were not for Consciousness there would only be vibrations of energy, a bunch of atoms exchanging particles. Human Beings have an awareness of this Consciousness. Which is that same, I Am, that arises beyond thought that says I am this, or I am that....