This is what you are not understanding. While the body is asleep (dead), his spirit/soul is conscious and aware. This is one of the teachings within the rich man and Lazarus i.e. their spirit/souls are conscious and aware.
I would think we would have to listen to what the Bible conveys to our minds as in; Let this mind (Christ’s) be in us. The moment a person leaves this realm under the sun its Alzheimer’s for everyone, the believer as well as one of does not have the Spirit of Christ, the anointing Holy Spirit of God.
If we look at Luke 16 as
not a parable then when a person does pass they still have a reward, seeing they are still conversing as if they still had a portion here. Their memory is simply gone.
How can you make your claim above when the spirit of the rich man is having a conversation with Abraham and Lazarus and he makes the claim that he is in torment in flame? Those spirits of believers who are currently in Christ's presence will remember everything and will then be reunited with their resurrected bodies at the time of the resurrection.
I see that a little differently
It’s not our memory of them that perishes forever .I could not imagine the problems that would make. If every person we knew when they departed that we would have no recollection of them at all.
It would appear we are informed that could never happen, by looking at a few references.
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not
any thing, neither
have they any more a reward; for
the memory of them is forgotten.Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is
now perished; “neither have they”
any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. Ecc 9:5
Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and
the former shall not be remembered,
nor come into mind.
Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be
no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain
: for the former things are passed away.
In another portion we are informed to remember (act in accordance ) to those days when Alzheimer’s along with other deceases that show we live in a corrupted body that is leading towards total destruction or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Then shall
the dust return to the earth
as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it
Remember
now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because
man goeth to his long home,
and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ecc 12:1
The believer will awaken at the sound of the last trump because he has been given a new spirit. Not one that has been reconditioned.
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh
They will receive their new incorruptible bodies .Corruption does not inherit incorruption.
Those who do not have the Spirit of Christ .They will not rise to new life, ever again.
Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.