Do we as Christians soul sleep as immediately after death? Or are we brought into the presence of our lord upon death. If the answer is that we are immediately brought into into the presence of our lord, then does that mean that the resurrected people ( assuming god has chosen a place for them in paradise,) such as Tabitha in ACTS 9:40 are brought out of heaven to be back on earth after being resurrected?
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After death question??
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When you die you go to the grave and your next existence is the resurrection. When you die you don't become just this disembodied soul watching the world till the resurrection. You go to sleep in the grave. So from your perspective after you die your next experience is waking up to the resurrection.
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Thank you for your response, can i also ask as I am new , how do i post a blog or question in a different area of the site other than introducing myself?
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If we are brought back out of heaven isn't this almost a punishment as heaven is superior to our earthly realm?
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One good forum for questions about life after death would be the General Theology forum. The Christian Scriptures forum might also be appropriate, if you have a specific set of Bible passages about the afterlife that you want to discuss.
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Revelations 5:8. The four and twenty elders would say differently.
So would all the saints who have appeared at various times, such as Moses and Elijah appearing on the Mount of Transfiguration.
Even those who died before Christ were not "sleeping". If that were true, then to whom did Jesus descend to and preach the good news?
1Pe 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Sorry, that Jehovah's Witness stuff doesn't fly with Scripture.
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I guess I stand corrected we indeed float around the world till the resurrection.
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The resurrection is a core christian belief. Paul says like christ was resurrected and glorified in a new perfect body so will we be.
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What about those who have visions of their loved ones in heaven, or praying to the saints?
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Visions may come from a good place and make us feel good but there are too many contradicting visions people have that aren't true. Think about it this way, do you want your loved ones to sit around watching you while you are on earth, isn't that a little creepy to believe the billions who have died already are in some place where they can watch your every movement? That isn't very comforting at all and makes no sense biblically. The biggest problem with believing that believers meet jesus as soon as they die is how do you fit the resurrection in and eternal judgment in when they already are supposedly in heaven with jesus watching down on us. When Jesus finally decides to come back how do we fit that in with believers who spent years maybe thousands of years for some in heaven to all of sudden resurrect in new bodies. I have no problem if it were true that we immediately go to heaven but I don't think theres a reason to believe it biblically speaking that after we die we go to heaven meet jesus and watch the world from up above.
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Ok so in saying that you do go straight to heaven after death, then this means that someone who was resurrected in the bible came from heaven to be back on earth >
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I'm behinning to wonder if a resurrection will even happen because all the indicators of "the last days" were mentioned to be in reference to the days of the Apostles, such as saying "here in these last days", plus Revelation was addressed specifically to the church leaders at the time. If there was going to be a resurrection it was meant to happen centuries ago. It didn't.
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