How do we know Adam is a saint?

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Tradition holds that Adam and Eve repented of their sin and were taken up to Heaven with the other Saints of the Old Testament when Christ freed them from Abraham’s Bosom. Adam and Eve’s Feast Day is December 24th.
 
Christ saved him, along with Eve, during the Harrowing of Hell.

There is also a metaphorical lesson to be learned from this: The Lord saving Adam and Eve represents the Lord saving all of humanity, since Adam and Eve are the parents of humanity.
 
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Bookenz said:
How do we know Adam is in heaven?
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He isn’t - yet. He is in the dusty grave, awaiting the call of Jesus at his respective resurrection.

Gen_3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Yet, is Adam a “saint”? Yes:

Psa_116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

Gen 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
 
Isn’t the Christian teaching (and Jewish teaching, for that matter) that the body awaits the resurrection (glorified body) and is then joined with the soul, but that the soul is in heaven meanwhile? So at least part of Adam may be in heaven although I’m not sure it is Church teaching regarding Adam and Eve being definitively in heaven.
 
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SetInMotion said:
He isn’t - yet . He is in the dusty grave, awaiting the call of Jesus at his respective resurrection.

Gen_3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground ; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art , and unto dust shalt thou return .
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This is the error known colloquially as “soul sleep”, it is not a Catholic belief.

When we die, we go to heaven/purgatory or hell. Those who died prior to Christ’s death went to the place of the dead, and Christ descended there after death. He led the souls of the righteous to heaven.
 
Do others, such as some Protestant denominations, believe in soul sleep?
 
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When we die, we go to heaven/purgatory or hell.
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That is not a scriptural belief, but a pagan dualistic neo-platonic one, argued from teleology and human philosophy of Alexandria Egypt:

"…is the doctrine of spirituality. … Dualism … Plato … Platonic Dualism … " [Roman Catholic Online Encyclopedia; “S”, “Soul”] - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14153a.htm

“… For positive evidence, however, that the soul will continue after death in the possession of a conscious life, we must appeal to teleology and the consideration of the character of the universe as a whole . …” [Roman Catholic Online Encyclopedia; “I”; “Immortality”] - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07687a.htm
 
You are diverting this thread.

Soul Sleep is not, has never been, a Christian teaching.

It is part of Jehovah’s Witness and SDA teaching, some other fringe groups of Protestants.
 
Those Ancient Greeks managed to influence the theology of both Judaism and Christianity without even trying!
 
CCC 1005 To rise with Christ, we must die with Christ: we must “be away from the body and at home with the Lord.”
 
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1005 To rise with Christ, we must die with Christ: we must “be away from the body and at home with the Lord.”
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Misuse of that text. Care to look at it?

“When” did Paul say that we shall be “with the Lord”?

1Th_4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
 
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And is this why we are taught not to discard the ashes into the sea or to begin with , not cremate bodies?
 
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