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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 (short): Where do our souls go when we die? |
Question (full): When we die, do our souls go immediately to heaven, or do they go to sleep, until Christ returns? I was reading 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. This confuses me a bit because here it talks about the dead in Christ rising first. If our souls are in heaven, what purpose is there to raise a dead body? I have heard some say that our souls just go to sleep, rather than going directly to heaven. |