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NASB | 2 Corinthians 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 5:8 we are [as I was saying] of good courage and confident hope, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. |
Bible Question: In the funeral, pastor usually says that the dead went to the heaven. What is the biblical basis of this argument? Isn't the Bible saying that the dead sleeps, waiting for resurrection, which takes place at Christ's coming? |
Bible Answer: Greetings 00123, Here is a repost of 226875: "Are the dead with the Lord, or still asleep, waiting for resurrection? The key to understanding this is that when we die, "then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it." (Ecclesiastes 12:7; 2 Cor. 5:8). So, the body returns to dust, waiting to be resurrected at the Second Coming (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18), while the spirit goes to be with the Lord (Acts 7:59; Philippians 1:21-26). At the resurrection, the body and spirit are reunited, "For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality." (1 Cor. 15:53)" --Makarios |
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