Thoughts on the souls of the dead

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-24 17:05:51 | Updated at 2024-10-24 19:33:22 2 hours ago

Thoughts on the souls of the dead
self | 10/24/2024 | fwdude

Posted on 10/24/2024 9:59:29 AM PDT by fwdude

I have some questions for Christians of the "instant glorification" theological belief after death. Do the departed Christians retain some conscious awareness of the goings-on in creation, on Earth, and popular entertainment often depicts?

Do they "look down on us," particularly their loved ones? Are they even able to? Are they able to see, and grieve over, how truly bad the ones still remaining really are?

I know this opens a lot of theological questions regarding the nature and fate of the dead, but it has intrigued me for a long time.

Personally, I think they are unaware of the happenings on Earth. They would be grieved to an unbearable degree to see the relative wickedness of those whom they loved still living, and that is not possible in their state of "rest" in the presence of their Savior.

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1 posted on 10/24/2024 9:59:29 AM PDT by fwdude

To: daniel1212

2 posted on 10/24/2024 10:01:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)

To: fwdude

Paul talked about unexplainable beauty, third heaven. Don’t think anyone really knows.

3 posted on 10/24/2024 10:02:42 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)

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