Apostasy - Apostasy is abandoning or deserting the worship and service of God, actually a rebellion agaisnt Jehovah God. Some apostates profess to know and serve God but reject teaching or requirements set out in his Word. Others claim to believe the Bible but reject Jehovah's organization. Baptism - Christian water baptism is an outward symbol that the one being baptized has made a complete, unreserved, and unconditonal dedication through Jesus Christ to do the will of Jehovah God. After breathing, heartbeat, and brain activity stop, the life-force gradually ceases to function in body cells.
Death is the opposite of life.
True faith is not credulity, that is, a readiness to believe something without sound evidence or just because a person wants it to be so. Genuine faith requires basic or fundamental knowledge, acquaintance with evidence, as well as heartfelt appreciaton of what that evidence indicates. False Prophets - Individuals and organizations proclaiming messages that they attribute to superhuman source but that do not originate with the true God and are not in harmony with his revealed will. God - The Supreme Being, whose distinctive name is Jehovah. In contrast to the true God, there are false gods.