What do protestants believe about what happens to our souls at death?

The_Reginator

The_Reginator

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A while ago I joined "Christian Forums" but have, until tonight, largely ignored it. (I may even leave it soon.)
One post brought to mind the question posed as the title of this thread.
As Catholics we know that at the end of life we all face The Four Last Things: death, judgment, heaven or hell.
We also believe in The Resurrection of the Body AND the immortality of the soul.

I had to respond to one comment where they quoted Ecclesiastes 9:5:
For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
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As an Anglican I recited both the Apostles and the Nicean Creeds. We profess that we believe in THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, not the resurrection of the soul.
Do many protestants believe that our souls simply "go to sleep" until the return of Our Lord?????????????

Dominus vobiscum, Reg
 
I have heard of this, but have not seen any church actually believe the soul simply goes to sleep at death.

I think this is more along the lines of "It's possible to believe this...therefore some do."
 
Mormons. Seventh Day Adventists.
I note that both had mentally ill or megalomaniacal founders. From the Wiki: "Soul sleep re-emerged in Christianity when it was promoted by some Reformation leaders, and it survives today mostly among Restorationist sects, such as Jehovah's Witnesses and the Seventh-day Adventist Church.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mortalism#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrandon200765_-2-98"><span>[</span>95<span>]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mortalism#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarshall200247-99"><span>[</span>96<span>]</span></a> Conti has argued that during the Reformation both psychosomnolence (the belief that the soul sleeps until the resurrection) and thnetopsychism (the belief that the body and soul both die and then both rise again) were quite common.
 
po18guy said:
Mormons. Seventh Day Adventists.
I note that both had mentally ill or megalomaniacal founders. From the Wiki: "Soul sleep re-emerged in Christianity when it was promoted by some Reformation leaders, and it survives today mostly among Restorationist sects, such as Jehovah's Witnesses and the Seventh-day Adventist Church.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mortalism#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrandon200765_-2-98"><span>[</span>95<span>]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mortalism#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarshall200247-99"><span>[</span>96<span>]</span></a> Conti has argued that during the Reformation both psychosomnolence (the belief that the soul sleeps until the resurrection) and thnetopsychism (the belief that the body and soul both die and then both rise again) were quite common.
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The scriptures are actually contradictory on the subject. But it does seem that the soul dies along with the body and the 'spirit' lives on.
 
The scriptures are often hard to understand taken all by themselves. That is why we have a Church to teach us and to discern the meaning of the scriptures.
 
HomeschoolDad said:
The scriptures are often hard to understand taken all by themselves. That is why we have a Church to teach us and to discern the meaning of the scriptures.
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Christians are doing their own homework these days and that's why they don't believe in Trinity and why there's no consensus on the intermediate state. The scriptures are NOT hard to understand. All you have to do is use Strong's, Vines, Gesenius, and Thayer's as well as the interlinears.
 
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