friend, I cannot help you. Maybe the Holy Spirit can reach through the muck and mire of Roman Catholicism. You come back at me asking where it says what you wanted to say, but you don’t give me anything by way of direction.
They are dead. They are waiting for the resurrection! What do you not understand about that? I don’t care what the Roman Catholic Church teaches, but I knows what Scripture tells us.
“They are dead, Jim!” They are asleep until the last trump blows… and they are not going to be doing anything to help you here on earth. Claims of miracles and astounding feats are easily spread like all rumors. But just like the rumor mills, what begins with the first telling is completely twisted by the time it gets to the last ear. That confusion does not come from God. God shines his light and dispels the darkness. The light is Jesus Christ. The hope is for us. He’s shining on you now!
Well, anybody knows that the body goes into the grave.
What is the state of the soul between now and the General Resurrection?
What is a “dead” soul? Does it cease to exist, and then come back into existence later?
It seems to me that the deadness of the dead is central to your understanding of Christianity. You certainly pound on the point enough, and call people names who question this doctrine. It is obviously very, very important.
So: Where, or in what state, are the souls of people who have physically died? If they are dead, what does that mean? Non-existent. Or, existent and “frozen” somehow?
Well, anybody knows that the body goes into the grave.
What is the state of the soul between now and the General Resurrection?
What is a “dead” soul? Does it cease to exist, and then come back into existence later?
It seems to me that the deadness of the dead is central to your understanding of Christianity. You certainly pound on the point enough, and call people names who question this doctrine. It is obviously very, very important.
So: Where, or in what state, are the souls of people who have physically died? If they are dead, what does that mean? Non-existent. Or, existent and “frozen” somehow?
Bodies are dead, yes. But don’t you read that after the Ressurecftion of Christ, that bodies arose out of graves and walked around Jerusalem, visible to the believers.
Please read your Bible.