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Technically, a couple of different terms are being confused in the question.
Conditionalism is the teaching that immortality / eternal life is conditional upon a right standing with God.
Annihilationism is the teaching that anyone who is ultimately unrepentant will cease to exist, usually after a period of torment that accommodates to the amount of evil ...
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I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but the bible calls this necromancy and describes it as an "abominable practice":
Deuteronomy 18:9-12 (ESV): 9 “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or ...
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This is actually the dominant view of Christianity: the doctrine of an intermediate state after death and before the resurrection. "Going to heaven" means being with God in a non-bodied but conscious spiritual way after we die, before we experience resurrected bodily life in the New Heavens and New Earth. The main alternative view is that of Christian ...
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In Heaven: A History (1995: Yale University Press) the authors, Drs. Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang, state that Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) had a pivotal role in bringing about a changed view of heaven, including the idea that angels are humans who have died and gone on to heaven, rather than a separate race of pre-created beings as mainstream ...
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Reincarnation is not an orthodox Christian idea. Resurrection is.1
The most long standing articulation of this belief among Christians can be found in the Nicene Creed:
I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.
Nicene Christians (includes all mainstream traditions, excludes some sects) believe that we live once, die ...
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The problem with this kind of question is that, at least within the context of Mormon Doctrine, there has never exactly been an authoritative treatise on any sort of relation to these concepts in our physical realm. I can, however, present the various theories laid forth by various 'philosophers,' so to speak, within Mormonism.
An interesting book I came ...
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Introduction
I intend to show that the concept of a universal realm for all, outside Heaven, where all await the resurrection (Waiting in the Grave, WitG hereafter) is united against other beliefs such as the belief we go Straight to Heaven (StH), that we cease to exist entirely with no afterlife or others such as purgatory/limbo.
While there are variations ...
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There is actually very little LDS doctrine on the subject of the specific details of how Exaltation will work. (Most of the doctrine is devoted to the weightier matter of how to attain it in the first place.) But it is explicitly said that it will be a life of the same kind that God enjoys, so answers can be inferred by examining LDS cosmology on the ...
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The statement of "choosing to go to hell" is an over-simplification that really is an example of intellectual laziness, and is a great example of the difference between the "true theology" of a group and the type of pop-theology that springs up and causes great confusion.
Looking at it from any side, saying that people choose to go to hell does not make ...
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Yes according to the Catholic Church the bodies of the saints and martyrs in heaven rise again on judgment day.
St Thomas Aquinas states in his Summa Theologica:
The saints in heaven, since they are blessed, have no lack of bliss, save that of the body's glory, and for this they pray. But they pray for us who lack the ultimate perfection of bliss: and ...
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The origin of limbo is actually the place where the Saints that came before Jesus “waited”. This is what the Apostles' Creed speaks of by calling it the dead:
He descended to the dead.
And the CCC clarifies this and uses the term abode of the dead:
Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" - Sheol in Hebrew or ...
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If you look at this question, you will find references to statements by Benedict XVI regarding Limbo. Specifically he says:
Limbo was never a defined truth of the faith. Personally - and here I am speaking more as a theologian and not as Prefect of the Congregation - I would abandon it since it was only a theological hypothesis. It formed part of a ...
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I fully agree with @depperm's answer. But just to have fun with the question, let's assume Joseph made no corrections. What could the verse possibly mean from the LDS perspective?
We believe nobody was resurrected before Jesus Christ. From Acts 26:22-23 (see also Colossians 1:18)
Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day,
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Occam's Razor is often expressed as "the simplest explanation is usually the best one", but that is a misleading oversimplification unless one properly defines what "simplest" means.
It would be better stated as "the best explanations answer more questions than they raise".
In this case, if one ignores all external evidence, ...
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We must distinguish between the two limbos:
Limbo of hell or of the Patriarchs (limbus inferni seu patrum)This is also known as Abraham's bosom. This limbo no longer exists (cf. "Reply to Objection 3" of this) because Christ has already descended into hell and brought those souls detained there to heaven during His Ascension.
Limbo for children (limbus ...
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LDS scriptures can be found here.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (which I am) believe the following:
1) Yes, we believe that "resurrection" means the reuniting of the spirit with flesh. "The spirit and the body shall be reunited again in its perfect form; both limb and joint shall be restored to its proper frame, even as we now ...
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1) We believe that Satan does not have and will never have a physical body. Isa. 14:12:
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how
art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
And then, D&C 76:25-27:
And this we saw also, and bear record, that an angel of God who was in
authority in the presence of ...
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The Biblical basis for using the expression “to be with the Lord” comes from the Apostle Paul who had this to say about his desire to be united with the Lord after death:
Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would ...
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If the dead are conscious, then why is the Bible silent about the afterlife experiences of those who were resurrected and had the chance to tell us about it, but for some mysterious reason didn't?
What made you think they didn't share their "conscious while physically dead" condition to many of their closest family members, priests, and ...
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Benedict XVI said that Genesis is based on a myth
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, in his 1995 book, "In the Beginning ...: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall" (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, $13), has expressed well the view I am espousing here. He writes: "It has become clear that the biblical ...
answered Jan 5 '14 at 20:10
Jayarathina Madharasan
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The Bible never described someone else's soul sleeping only to be awaken at the last judgment.
Rather, what the Bible records show is that in the New Testament all of God's people who are in the state of death are away from the body and present with the Lord. They are not sleeping but are at home with the Lord.
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would ...
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See the Joseph Smith Translation of those verses:
15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, to whom be honor and power everlasting;
16 Whom no man hath seen, nor can see, unto whom no man can approach, only he who hath the light and the hope of immortality dwelling in him.
This is the ...
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Christian denominations that believe that human marriages are, or can be, eternal:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The General Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian)
The General Conference of the New Church (Swedenborgian - Great Britain)
The Lord's New Church Which Is Nova Hierosolyma (Swedenborgian)
The New Church in Australia (...
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First, I would quote from the Hebrew scriptures in the Tanakh:
“You guide me with your counsel, and afterwards you will take me into glory.” (Psalm 73:24)
“But God will redeem my life from the grave; he will surely take me to himself.” (Psalm 49:15)
"The days of our years are threescore and ten...or if fourscore yet their strength is labour and ...
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Arguments from silence are no arguments at all.
With Lazarus, who had been dead 4 days, three highly significant factors are often overlooked. First, that Jesus delaying the resurrection of him until that stage would prove to even the most severe doubter that it was a previously rotting corpse that emerged, uncorrupted and entirely as Lazarus used to be. ...
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Becoming an eternal family requires living the gospel of Jesus Christ, which includes the following:
Developing faith in Jesus Christ.
Repenting.
Being baptized and receiving the Holy Ghost.
Enduring to the end.
"Enduring to the End" includes temple ordinances, such as the sealing (husband and wife or child to parents), and implies that one would be temple ...
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Most saints, before entering heaven, will first go to purgatory according to the Catholic church. While in purgatory they are purified ("purged") until they may enter heaven. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says regarding purgatory:
All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly
purified, are indeed assured of their eternal ...
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It's a complex issue which might not be addressed completely by this answer right now. But given enough time I'll elaborate more detail to address many aspects related to this controversy in great depth on my next update. For those unfamiliar with the debate between Hieromonk Seraphim Rose and Archbishop Lazarus Puhalo, this might be a good preliminary ...
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So if the dead are already with Jesus where are the dead in Christ rising from?
Those who died in faith in the Old Testament are to be raised at the second coming of Christ.
Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth
shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and
everlasting contempt.
Hebrews 11:40 God ...
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This question is almost impossible to answer, as stated. As Baptists (by definition) have no unifying system of doctrine, the denomination as a whole has not made any kind of statement about how they deal with particular items, with the notable exception of baptism. That is to say, you'd have to ask each Baptist individual to find out what they believe.
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