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(checks notes on Christian theology) Yup. (Actually, I don't know how promptly they reckon fallen Christians will be revived.)

oceansky 1y ago
Actually, most christian denominations believe you go to heaven or hell(or purgatory for catholics) immediately after you die. But some churches, like Jehovah's witnesses and adventists believe in the "soul sleep", so the soul sleeps until the second coming of Christ, then you are sent to either heaven or hell.
- cvoss 1y ago
  > most christian denominations believe you go to heaven or hell ... immediately > some churches ... believe ... the soul sleeps until the second coming of Christ, then you are sent to either heaven or hell. It's nuanced and a lot of Christians don't catch the nuance, but the Bible speaks both of an immediate transfer of the soul to one place or the other upon death and also of an eventual resurrection (of all souls into bodies) at the second coming, followed by final judgement.
- eszed 1y ago
  There's nuance to that, as well. Official Adventist theology is that even after the Judgment there will not be an "ever-burning Hell", with eternal torture and suffering, but rather that the unrighteous (even including Satan and his evil angels) will be burned - body and soul - into non-being in an instant. Of course, folk belief and desire for retribution being what they are, many SdA folks will tell you that that instant will "feel like eternity". There's also a weird bit about how after Jesus returns and takes the righteous away with him Satan will rule the world for, like, a thousand years. That's expected to be pretty awful for everyone left behind - so, you know, don't you kids go swimming on Saturday - but it's intended to demonstrate, once and for all, that Jesus' way is the best way. (I admire the fair-minded impulse behind that narrative, like: gotta give Satan a shot!) After that, though (because obviously life with Satan in charge will be awful), God'll annihilate all them, and (if I recall correctly) all of the righteous, along with God and Jesus and all the angels, will move back to live on Earth. Source: raised SdA. (No idea what JWs have to say about any of this. I ask them very nicely not to bother me again, and they've always - the odd pamphlet through the letterbox apart - done so.)

oceansky 1y ago

Actually, most christian denominations believe you go to heaven or hell(or purgatory for catholics) immediately after you die. But some churches, like Jehovah's witnesses and adventists believe in the "soul sleep", so the soul sleeps until the second coming of Christ, then you are sent to either heaven or hell.

cvoss 1y ago
> most christian denominations believe you go to heaven or hell ... immediately > some churches ... believe ... the soul sleeps until the second coming of Christ, then you are sent to either heaven or hell. It's nuanced and a lot of Christians don't catch the nuance, but the Bible speaks both of an immediate transfer of the soul to one place or the other upon death and also of an eventual resurrection (of all souls into bodies) at the second coming, followed by final judgement.
eszed 1y ago
There's nuance to that, as well. Official Adventist theology is that even after the Judgment there will not be an "ever-burning Hell", with eternal torture and suffering, but rather that the unrighteous (even including Satan and his evil angels) will be burned - body and soul - into non-being in an instant. Of course, folk belief and desire for retribution being what they are, many SdA folks will tell you that that instant will "feel like eternity". There's also a weird bit about how after Jesus returns and takes the righteous away with him Satan will rule the world for, like, a thousand years. That's expected to be pretty awful for everyone left behind - so, you know, don't you kids go swimming on Saturday - but it's intended to demonstrate, once and for all, that Jesus' way is the best way. (I admire the fair-minded impulse behind that narrative, like: gotta give Satan a shot!) After that, though (because obviously life with Satan in charge will be awful), God'll annihilate all them, and (if I recall correctly) all of the righteous, along with God and Jesus and all the angels, will move back to live on Earth. Source: raised SdA. (No idea what JWs have to say about any of this. I ask them very nicely not to bother me again, and they've always - the odd pamphlet through the letterbox apart - done so.)