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God the Father does not come into the terrestrial kingdom, but Jesus Christ visits them and the Holy Spirit is given to them. The telestial kingdom is comparable to the glory of the stars. Those placed in the telestial kingdom suffered the pains of Hell after death because they were liars, murderers, adulterers, whoremongers, etc. They are ...
In some forms of Christianity, the intermediate state or interim state is a person's existence between death and the universal resurrection.In addition, there are beliefs in a particular judgment right after death and a general judgment or last judgment after the resurrection.
The orthodox Christian belief about the intermediate state between death and the Last Judgment is immortality of the soul followed immediately after death of the body by particular judgment. [185] In Catholicism some souls temporarily stay in Purgatory to be purified for Heaven (as described in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1030–1032).
Many Christians believe the dead are judged immediately after death and await judgment day in peace or torment because of the way they interpret several key New Testament passages. [2] In Luke 16:19–31 , it appears that Christ represents Lazarus and Dives as receiving their respective rewards immediately after death.
Adventist also believe that when a person dies, death is a state of unconscious sleep until the resurrection. They base this belief on biblical texts such as Ecclesiastes 9:5 which states "the dead know nothing", and 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 which contains a description of the dead being raised from the grave at the second coming.
[1] [web 18] When the Kingdom of God did not arrive, Christians' beliefs gradually changed into the expectation of an immediate reward in heaven after death, rather than to a future divine kingdom on Earth, [141] despite the churches' continuing to use the major creeds' statements of belief in a coming resurrection day and world to come.
Early Christian church fathers defended the resurrection of the dead against the pagan belief that the immortal soul went to the underworld immediately after death, and afterwards it would be reincarnated into another body (metempsychosis). It is a Christian belief that the souls of the righteous go to Heaven. [32] [33]
The resurrection of Jesus (Biblical Greek: ἀνάστασις τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, romanized: anástasis toú Iēsoú) is the Christian event that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day [note 1] after his crucifixion, starting – or restoring [web 1] [note 2] – his exalted life as Christ and Lord.