Justin Martyr, also known as Saint Justin (100 – 165 AD), was an early Christian writer. In his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, he wrote,
For I choose to follow not men or men’s doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians... But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.1
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Author: Philip P. Kapusta
Keywords: Immortal soul, Immortal spirit, Eternal soul, Eternal spirit, Soul, Soul goes to heaven, Afterlife, After life, Intermediate state, Resurrection, Resurrection of the dead, Soul sleep, heaven going, Dieing and going to heaven, Life after death, Justin Martyr
Bible reference(s): Luke 16:23-31, Luke 23:43, 2 Timothy 4:8
Source: Philip P. Kapusta.
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