Christians: Do those that are going to heaven...?

Question

go immediately when they die or after the second coming of Christ?

If it's after the second coming, where do their souls wait for the big day? And why do Christians say "Grandma's in a better place now"?
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To Jackson D:
I ask questions about religion because I am curious. Like to know Christians' opinions. I am the strong atheist that my name implies. I have had all the spiritual counseling that I need as I was a practicing Catholic into my twenties and a non-religious theist until a few months ago. I am not angry that some choose to be theists, as I was one myself, as I said. Being an atheist now and having "seen the light" it is sometimes hard for me to understand how others can still believe. I mean no disrespect to believers although sometimes my questions and answers might seem otherwise.
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Answer 1

Dee, you post so many questions pertaining to religion and the bible that I am beginning to think you really are not the atheist your name implies Why do you post so many questions about God if you are an atheist? Maybe you should consider some spiritual counseling, because it is almost like you are angry that some people choose to believe in God and follow a spiritual path.

Answer 2

I think the believer's spirit goes immediately to Heaven, to be with the Lord forever. At the rapture, we are given our spiritual bodies, the dead rise first, then those who are alive are immediately translated into their spiritual body. There are passages in Revelation (ch. 19) which indicate people from all tongues, tribes and nations being around the throne. In ch. 19, it speaks of an army coming back with Christ, this would be the Church, all believers.

Answer 3

Soul goes to heaven...as the apostle Paul said, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. The body is re-united with the soul and becomes a resurrected body (like that of Jesus) at the "rapture" (the dead in Christ rise first).

Answer 4

The soul is judged immediately at death in the Particular Judgment. The body is reunited with the soul in the General Judgment, which happens at the Second Coming of Christ.
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Answer 5

I think this is one of those very confusing, unanswerable things. I think there is proof for both soul sleep and immediately going to heaven. I have never understood how you could go to heaven and not have a body of some kind until Jesus returns.

Answer 6

The Bible says about believers that die, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. So, immediately.

So-called "soul sleep" is a false teaching.

Answer 7

I say the body goes into the grave to decay and return to dust, the spirit returns to God who gave it and the soul is non existent at this point.

In the beginning God created man from the dust of the ground, (DIRT). God put a spirit (breath) in man and he became a living soul. At the time of death, the spirit returns to God so man is no longer a living soul and the body is buried or burned so it returns to dust.

Genesis 2:7 And the LORD GOD formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. .......

Answer 8

Read your Bible. It says that we shall wait in our graves, until Jesus' second coming. Then those that go to heaven shall be sent and then most of us will take the wide road to hell. I hope to go to Heaven and I'm doing all I can. But Jesus said even some church leaders will go to hell. For we all have to do ALL the Bible says. Not just our favorite lines.

Answer 9

before the return of Jesus near Armageddon time
hell is the grave...sleeping beats this crummy world

Answer 10

Because their beliefs are muddled, misinterpretted, and often nonsensical in contradiction.