Restorationists such as the Jehovah Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventist and Christadelphians contend that the soul is not conscious after death. They believe in the concept of soul sleep, that the soul is unconscious and "sleeps" in death until the resurrection at Christ's second coming. It's true, the Bible does refer to death as "sleep" on occasion, but it does so as a euphemism, as someone dead has the appearance of someone asleep. I will address their primary arguments and then provide scriptural support to the contrary. 1. Restorationists argue that the Bible does not teach that humans have a soul, nephesh in Hebrew, but that humans are souls. This belief is interpreted from Genesis 2:7, when man became a living soul (nephesh). Nephesh, they say, is the whole living person, and when the body dies, so does the soul. They will point to Ezekiel 18:4 as evidence of this. However, death in the Bible doesn't always mean a physical death. It can also mean th...