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From: cng@burdvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Paradise vs. Resurrection
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Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 15:44:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 13 15:44:12 1983
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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.