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Does your church, or the church you attend, or any church that you have walked into, have as it's official teachings that soul sleep is true?
(If so what is the name of that christian church?)
Of the many different christian churches that you have went to, attended, or drove by on the way to work, how many of them taught that to be "absent from the body is to be at home with the lord"?
I think most if not all of em,,,but I could be wrong about the numbers...
I really don't know. They did not mention this in their lessons or sermons when I attended. I believe that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord also, but I don't believe that we are conscious and alive until the resurrection. God bless.
to be absent from the body (when you are dead) is to be at home with the Lord
I believe that to answer this question you only need to think about the resurrection of Jesus, as his is our only guide in this matter.
jesus died and his body was dead for 3 days, but was his spirit also dead?....I think not.
The Bible tells us clearly that Jesus was not asleep because it tells us his time in the tomb was like the time Jonah was inside the whale.
Was Jonah asleep inside the whale?
The only answer is that while he was inside the whale he prayed and we have his prayer recorded...so sleeping he was NOT!
I do remember some members of the church of Christ having a discussion on the possibility of not going straight to heaven when we die, but I don't know what the official position of the congregation was. God bless.
Jesus was in the tomb for three days just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale. It has nothing to do with whether or not someone was asleep. Jesus was not asleep either. He was dead. God bless.
I am not trying to change your mind, alan. Just sharing my belief and the scriptural reasons for this. We see it differently. I just believe that there are too many scriptures which speak to the necessity and importance of the resurrection, and that this is when we are made alive, become immortal. God bless.
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