There are scriptures that support both ideas, so what's the consensus?
2007-12-22 04:44:49 · 6 answers · asked by Joao 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
lol Consensus? Not much consensus between Catholics and protestants, man, and this is a good example.
The Church teaches that the souls of the dead are in the afterlife, heaven or hell or purgatory, looking down on us, as you said. Then, on the last day, they will get their "glorified bodies," like the body Jesus had after His resurrection. Fellow Catholics, please correct me if I'm wrong about that.
Lots of our protestant brothers here on R&S are pretty adamant about the other: that they're just sort of in an unconscious hold pattern till then.
I'm Catholic, so guess which one I believe. I once felt my grandmother's presence, out of the blue, just before I almost got slammed by a car on a freeway. She died in 1983. So I'm pretty sure her spirit is around. But for me, it's one of those points that are fun to think about, but ultimate aren't worth fighting about.
2007-12-22 04:47:56 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
hello....well first of all when GOD created man out of the dust of the ground he breathed the breath of >>>LIFE OR SOUL<<< into the BODY of the man....then man became a living soul...are human body is not life our soul is...the minute our soul leaves are body it will drop like a rock...now the dead in christ...if a born again christain dies to day his or her body will remain in the ground or the grave but some choose to be cremated to...then there soul goes to be with GOD...that does not mean they are sleeping that is a king james bible phrase at the second coming of christ at the end of the 7 year tribulation or at the end of arrmogedon those who have died in christ will be resuerrected to meat there bodies that they lost in death...now those who died and did not belive in jesus is another story...
2007-12-22 05:23:02 · answer #2 · answered by NIXON_777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess we will not know for sure until it happens to us......
the sleeping thing started in the OT when people had no clue what happened next...
Jesus told a story of a rich man who saw his poor colleague in the bosom of Abraham after death....there were conversations that went on about this.......so it did not sound like any one was sleeping then..
2007-12-22 04:55:02 · answer #3 · answered by Angel wings 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When a man dies, his soul dies with him/her, the spirit of life returns to God who gave it. Soul and spirit are different. When Christ died, he gave up his spirit to God.
So, the dead are sleeping now until judgement day. Otherwise, there would be no judgement day if everyday all deaths face judgment in heaven.
2007-12-22 05:00:23 · answer #4 · answered by bongnate 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
My Dad always told me they sleep in the grave till the second coming of Christ....
if you believe in John Darby's false doctrine!
2007-12-22 04:49:39 · answer #5 · answered by Gyspy Soul 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
(the body sleeps)
2007-12-22 04:52:00 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. "Diamond" 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋