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Pragma-Man
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| Posted 1/2/2002 7:34 PM (GMT -6) |   | I was asked this question by my Skeptic friend and it stopped me cold in my witnessing tracks.
"Does the bible really say that when you die you immediately go to heaven?"
I stopped cold cause I realized I could not remember any scripture or doctrinal teaching on what exactly does happen after I die.
Culturally I've picked up the idea that I go to heaven cause I've placed my faith in Christ.
But biblically, I can't think of a thing that supports this!
Let me explain what I mean in more detail...
Yes I know the word teaches that I will receive eternal life, or be in heaven. But doesn't the word also teach us that Heaven is still being prepared / created?
So I think the word says that I won't be in heaven until after Judgement day.
But as a Christian, what if I die before the "end times" and judgement day? Where does my soul, or spirit (which is it?) go then?
To some kind of holding tank? That sounds like purgatory and I haven't seen any scripture for that.
SO yes, I know that eventually I will go to heaven, I'm just confused about the timeline for post mortem heaven entry.
Maybe I'm thinking about this in far too much of a finite human way?
Maybe, after I die, I am released from the whole concept of time? So for me it will "seem" instantaneous that I'll go from physical life to judgement day, then spiritual life in heaven. Cause time won't mean anything, it won't exist in the afterlife if eternity?
So for all intensive purposes, it really could be true that when I die I'll go to heaven immediately.
My next question is related. What happens to non-Christians like Osama Bin-Laden when they die? I mean when they die before the end times and judgement day?
Will Osama have to wait somewhere for judgement day? Or does he go before God and then is sent to Hell? What a shock Osama's going to get when he dies! He'll expect his 70 virgin reward and instead....
I'm sure this is Doctrine 101, but I've never studied this issue before. Anyone got a biblical response?
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