What is Death, a Christian Concept

AMAZING AS IT MAY SEEM to some, death is a return. Man is soil and returns to the soil (Gen.3:19). The spirit returns to God who gave it (Ecc.12:7). The soul returns to the unseen whence it came (Psa.9:17 and Acts 2:27, 31). In fact Job speaks of death itself as a return when he says:

For I know that Thou wilt return me to death. (Job 30:23 AV).

Neither man as a whole, nor any part of him enters a new, unknown condition at death, but all returns to the state from which it emerged when life was imparted. Even as the body was created of existing entities, so with the spirit which was given by God; and at death these return to the same condition in which they were before.