This is a follow-up and comment to The Big Dirt Nap

What happens the split second after death? The way I see it, there are three options - four if you're Catholic

1) Being with the Lord while waiting for their Resurrection body

Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil)."
2 Corinthians 5:8-9
 
2) Sleeping until the Second Coming, while the earthly body fades

After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”
John 11:11

3) Enjoying a Resurrection body immediately while awaiting the Second Coming

When Christ (who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.
Colossians 3:4
 
4) The Catholic option - serving time in the slammer. In Purgatory, being purged of sin. Being purified so that they can enter Heaven when the time comes. Only martyrs and a few rare and holy Christians, usually saints, get front-row seats before the Second Coming. Comes from the Apocrypha:

"It is a holy and pious thought to pray for the dead so that they may be freed from sin"
2 Maccabees 12:46


Conx

• Topic: Bible Study

• Printer Friendly Page
• Send to a Friend