“For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven...” (2 Corinthians 5:2)
This is not the first text in which the apostle Paul has revealed his hope of life after death. He addressed the issue extensively in his previous letter to the Corinthians. He told them that the future resurrection was a reality, and that if it were not so, then “those … who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.”1 Now, the popular interpretation of 2 Corinthians 5 has Paul saying that every believer goes immediately and consciously to heaven when he dies. So, he first teaches that the resurrection is necessary, and then he teaches that it is not. First he teaches that without a resurrection we perish, then he teaches that without a resurrection we will continue to live. Here is one of those inconsistencies that make us take a closer look at that wall of evidence.
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Author: Jefferson Vann
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Bible reference(s): 2 Corinthians 5:1-8
Source: “The Unconscious Intermediate State: Scaling the Wall (part 1).”
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