Why do others think that when a person dies they will be in heaven?

Do you know when and how a person goes to heaven?​


Sagot :

Answer:

No.

Explanation:

The word soul is comes from the Hebrew word "nephesh".

When God created man, He formed him out of the dust of the ground and breathe the breath of life unto his nostrils and became a living soul (nephesh). (Gen. 2:7) And that soul is not immortal, (Ezek. 18:20).

If all the people will go to heaven the moment they die, it means, all the people who died will be in heaven.

But according to Apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17:

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

If all the people who died are already in heaven, then what's the point of rising them from the dead to bring them in heaven?

According to Apostle Paul in Acts 2:29,34:

"Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

For David is not ascended into the heavens..."

When Christ rise Lazarus from death, he said that he is just "sleeping" (John 11:11-14).

In the Bible, death is like sleeping, because when we die, we know nothing about our surrounding.

Ecclesiastes 9:5  "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing..."