Where Do We Go When We Die?
Proper treatment of this subject is a bit like fitting together the pieces of a puzzle – that is, accurate exegesis of related passages of Scripture, and accurately categorizing them into Old and New Covenant paradigms.
To that end, this article specifies the chronological context being investigated: The initial place of the dead which is commonly referred to as “The Intermediate State” – namely, the state between the day of one’s physical death and the Day of the Lord at which come “The Resurrection of the Dead” and “Eternal Judgment”. It is only after the Day of the Lord that we all enter into our eternal destinations – commonly known as “Heaven or Hell.
Between now and then, the dead exist only in the form of their souls – not their bodies. It is at the future Resurrection from the Dead for Eternal Judgment that souls will be united (or reunited) with bodies. And, at least for those who have received His Spirit and belong to Christ, those bodies will not be exactly like their previous fleshly bodies. They will be “glorified” bodies.
The Addendum to the article addresses a number of questions related to one of Humanity’s ultimate questions, “Where do we go when we die?
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