(This issue came up in another thread, so I thought it might deserve a thread of its own.)
Crypto mentioned that many Christians believe that we die and immediately reach our eternal destination as a disembodied spirit (heaven or hell). However, Christianity teaches that there will be a physical resurrection of the dead when Jesus physically returns to Earth. Therefore whatever happens to us after death is only temporary until Jesus returns and there is a physical resurrection.
Here is a link to the other thread. See posts 24, 28, and 30:
http://www.christianforums.com/t7875193-3/
The problem with that idea IMO is how does a physical life become heavenly? Will we start over as infants and grow old but never die? Will we eat our favorite fried chicken dinners? Will we have life-threatening conflicts?
So what do you guys think?
Here is a gospel quote that touches on the issues (Matthew 22:23-32 NIV):
Crypto mentioned that many Christians believe that we die and immediately reach our eternal destination as a disembodied spirit (heaven or hell). However, Christianity teaches that there will be a physical resurrection of the dead when Jesus physically returns to Earth. Therefore whatever happens to us after death is only temporary until Jesus returns and there is a physical resurrection.
Here is a link to the other thread. See posts 24, 28, and 30:
http://www.christianforums.com/t7875193-3/
The problem with that idea IMO is how does a physical life become heavenly? Will we start over as infants and grow old but never die? Will we eat our favorite fried chicken dinners? Will we have life-threatening conflicts?
So what do you guys think?
Here is a gospel quote that touches on the issues (Matthew 22:23-32 NIV):
https://www.biblegateway.com/passag...Luke+20:27-40,Acts+23:7,Acts+23:8&version=NIV23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24 Teacher, they said, Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?
29 Jesus replied, You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 31 But about the resurrection of the deadhave you not read what God said to you, 32 I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob[a]? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.