Christian Believers...Asleep or in Heaven after Death?

Do We Go to Heaven When We Die? - Life, Hope & Truth

No, the Bible likens death to sleep (an unconscious state) for all people. That means that even Christians do not go anywhere upon death.

Does "asleep" in 1 Corinthians 15 mean that the dead are ...

20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. Other examples of this usage of "sleep" or "asleep" ( ...

Soul sleep or heaven? - AV1611 Bible Forum Archive

Again can scripture be any clearer as to what happens when we die (IN CHRIST!) we are absent from the Body (Amen) and present with the Lord ( ...

Soul sleep or heaven which is the truth? - Christian Forums

My wife and I were watching some videos on Youtube last night about where Christians go when they die. And we came across a video that ...

Will We Go to Heaven After We Die? What Does the Bible Say?

Instead, heaven will be a wonderful reality for them when Jesus returns to take us all with Him! Woman sleeping on bed. Jesus likened death to sleep in more ...

What is Paul telling us about those dead in Christ?

The scripture has not told anything while the death 'asleep'. The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) should not be taken as the ...

Christian mortalism - Wikipedia

Christian mortalism is the Christian belief that the human soul is not naturally immortal and may include the belief that the soul is "sleeping" after death ...

Are the Dead "Asleep"? - Christian Courier

When the term “sleep” is used to depict the death of a person, the allusion is always to the disposition of the body, not the soul. No passage in the Scriptures ...

Do you think we go to heaven the instant we die, or do we sleep (or ...

But in the meantime, our souls are with the Lord, and we are fully conscious of being in His presence. This certainly seemed to be the Apostle ...

Bible Q&A: What Happens After Death for Christians

The simple answer to your question is “No.” After we die, our souls do not cease to exist, nor do we enter into “soul sleep.”

What is "Soul Sleep"? - Redeeming God

Preachers teach when we die, we go to heaven. I was told my mother was in heaven. Yet the bible says she is asleep and waiting for Christ to return (1 ...

Does the soul sleep after death according to the Bible? - NeverThirsty

To be absent from the body means that a Christian's “soul,” actually our spirit, leaves our physical body and goes to heaven. The spirits of non-Christians also ...

Do Christians go immediately to heaven when they die?

The instant we die, we go into heaven in our soul-state, and then we await the final consummation of the resurrection of our bodies.

For the Christian, Death is Merely Sleep - RealFaith - Mark Driscoll

Upon death, your body goes into the grave and your soul goes to be with the Lord. ... For the believer, this life is as close to hell as they will ever be. For ...

100 Bible Verses about Upon Death Does The Soul Sleep Until The ...

For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by ...

Where does our soul go when we die if we are believers?

The Apostle Paul wrote that those of us who are Christians “would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8). Although the ...

Did Jesus Teach That We Go to Sleep After We Die?

Groups like the Jehovah's Witnesses have taken the Bible's use of the word, “sleep,” to mean that people are unconscious when they die. They ...

Sleep of death | Soul Sleep - Afterlife | Conditional Immortality

Thessalonian Christians are grieving over people in the church who have died. Paul writes: “But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about ...

The Intermediate State: Soul Sleep… Does it exist?

Soul Sleep: Some believe that at death, the soul of the Christian goes into an unconscious state and does not leave the body. The Believer's body and soul sleep ...

Are you certain that when Christians die they go to Heaven?

Jesus said He would never leave or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5). If our souls were to sleep in an unconscious state, then we would cease to have communion with ...