A question about "Soul Sleep"

[cajunhillbilly]

My attitude is to just say what Scripture says. There is some sense in which we "sleep" until the resurrection. Another sense in which we are "absent from the body and present with the Lord". That is all I need to know.

 

[Radiata]

I would have to disagree with the pastor who told you this. He is putting limits on God. The Trinity is co-equal in all attributes. It's not that Christ couldn't be omnipresent in His humanity, it's that he chose not to use or reveal certain divine attributes during His earthly ministry. To say that Christ is not omnipresent is denying His divinity. He is 100% God and 100% human at the same time.

But aren't we told that the Father is greater than Jesus? (John 14:28)

 

[DaRev]

But aren't we told that the Father is greater than Jesus? (John 14:28)

Greater in terms of rank, not power or ability. Thus, the Father is known as the First Person of the Trinity. Yet the Father and the Son are equal. (John 10:30)

 

[BiblebelievingChristian]

Keep in mind that this Word was given to Daniel before Jesus came. I have my own belief that the Lutheran church doesn't sanction, but part of it says that everyone who died before Christ went to sheol. (My paper details this.) And Jesus also descended to sheol when he died.

Is there something like sheol that still might exist?

 

[PROPHECYKID]

Is there something like sheol that still might exist?

Hades is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew Sheol.