Bible Question (short): What happens to our soul or spirit |
Question (full): I am studying Paul in a Beth Moore Bible study and she talks about how when we die our spirit is taken up into heaven. Then when Christ comes again, the spirit bodies come with Christ and Christ ressurects our earthly bodies and reunites them with our spirits, and at the same time the Christians on Earth are "caught up", then we are gone to get our heavenly bodies. And she said the ones who went through the valley of death will get their heavenly bodies first, and secondly the ones Christ lifted up from earth get their bodies second. My problem. I have read some commentaries that say that we are : (well let me copy and paste here) Let's return to the question of how sleeping ones could be in heaven. The Bible consistently uses sleep as a metaphor for death because the resurrection is like awakening from an unconscious sleep. Let's look at the story of the resurrection of Lazarus: ". . . [Jesus] saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead."John 11:11 This means that souls are not in heaven but in the grave awaiting the resurrection. Peter described David this way. "Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. . . . For David is not ascended into the heavens." (Acts 2:29, 34). So souls who have died are sleeping and have not gone anywhere. They could not therefore come down from heaven to join their bodies. They sleep awaiting the call of Jesus to awaken at the resurrection 1th0415,16. So this contridicts what Beth Moore is saying. I would love you take on this.... |
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