A question

[Angelforlife04]

Hi I have a question. I just read about what you all believe on wikipeadia and I'm not sure about something.

My cousin (Who is my bestfriend in the family and who i love so much it's unbeliveable) is a seventh day adventist and I just wondering does she believe that heaven doesn't exist? and that you just keep living over and over as someone else? or do I have it totally wrong?

Sally

 

[Cliff2]

Hi I have a question. I just read about what you all believe on wikipeadia and I'm not sure about something.

My cousin (Who is my bestfriend in the family and who i love so much it's unbeliveable) is a seventh day adventist and I just wondering does she believe that heaven doesn't exist? and that you just keep living over and over as someone else? or do I have it totally wrong?

Sally

Sally

You have it totally wrong.

Your cousin believes in heaven and so do I.

It is just that we do not believe that when a person dies they go straight to heaven as most Christian do.

Perhaps that is where you are getting it mixed up with what she believes.

Thanks for your question and keep asking, only way to find things out.

Blessings

Cliff

 

[Sophia7]

Hi I have a question. I just read about what you all believe on wikipeadia and I'm not sure about something.

My cousin (Who is my bestfriend in the family and who i love so much it's unbeliveable) is a seventh day adventist and I just wondering does she believe that heaven doesn't exist? and that you just keep living over and over as someone else? or do I have it totally wrong?

Sally

We believe that people do not have immortal souls that live on after death but that the soul is the whole person, not a separate part that can be removed from the body. We believe that immortality is a gift from God that will be granted at the second coming when the dead are resurrected:

1 Corinthians 15:50 I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-- 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."

1 Thessalonians 4:13 Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. 14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage each other with these words.

Yes, we believe in heaven, but we believe that everyone will go there at the same time, when Jesus comes to get us. No, we most certainly do not believe in reincarnation since we do not believe in an immortal soul that can survive without the body.

For more information on what we believe about death, please read the thread called The Bible Doctrine Concerning Death in the Traditional Seventh-day Adventist subforum. It gives a more in-depth explanation of our beliefs about death and presents the supporting biblical evidence.