RE: Rapture!!!
March 7, 2012 at 2:24 am
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2012 at 2:26 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(March 6, 2012 at 11:56 pm)Shell B Wrote: Where is the button for "How come those graves have souls in them?"
Adventists [ at least] believe in 'the unconscious dead' (Christian mortalism)
The full Wiki article is fascinating.
Quote: Christian mortalism incorporates the belief that the human soul is not naturally immortal,[1][2][3][4][5] and the belief that the soul is uncomprehending during the time between bodily death and Judgment Day resurrection,[6][7][8][9][10] known as the Intermediate state. "Soul sleep" is an often pejorative term[11][12][13] so the more neutral term "materialism" was also used in the 19th century,[14] and "Christian mortalism" since the 1970s.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
Historically the term psychopannychism was also used, despite problems with the etymology[22][23] and application[24]. Some have identified a distinction between psychopannychism and thnetopsychism, for example Gordon Campbell (2008) identified Milton as believing in the latter[25] though in fact both De doctrina Christiana[26] and Paradise Lost[27] make reference to death as "sleep" and the dead being "raised from sleep". The difference is difficult to identify in practice.[28]
Quote:Modern Christian groups
Present-day defenders of mortalism include many Anglicans, such as N. T. Wright[164][165] and Nicky Gumbel,[166] some Lutherans, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Christadelphians, the Church of God (Seventh Day), Church of God (7th day) - Salem Conference, the Church of God Abrahamic Faith, and various other Church of God organizations including most Related Denominations which adhered to the older teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God and the Bible Student movement.
Jehovah's Witnesses also teach a form of mortalism[167] but represent a special case. They believe that 144,000 believers began to be raised from the dead in October 1914 to receive immortality in heaven,[168] but all other believers will be raised from the dead on Judgment Day to receive eternal life on earth.[169]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mortalism
