Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!seismo!presby!burdvax!cng From: cng@burdvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Paradise vs. Resurrection Message-ID: <814@burdvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 15:44:12 EDT Article-I.D.: burdvax.814 Posted: Mon Jun 13 15:44:12 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 00:35:35 EDT Lines: 14 The idea of "going to heaven" does not contradict Paul's teaching. In Paul's letters he makes it clear that death (for the Christian) ushers one into the presence of Christ. Christ's words to the thief on the cross contained a similar thought. However, the notion that one can experience "clinical death" and preview the afterlife is foreign to orthodox Christian thinking. The Bible teaches that after death comes judgement. Death and judgement are closely related with the one following the other (though not immediately). This does not allow for the position of some that one can experience the afterlife simply because they are "pronounced dead" by a doctor. Whatever their experience is, it is not that of Christ in His glory.