This story got me thinking about life after death

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Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

Life after death is an oxymoron.

Ummm that's what the bible teaches actually

What I found surprising is that the mainstream Christian not knowing the teaching of the bible and what Jesus promised about raising them up from death: on THE last day and not on your each last day. He repeated this several times in his speeches which now gets ignored. The current concept of life after death and immediate punishment and reward is actually more alike to a Greek version of Utopia and Hades.

The Catholic teaching came up with a weird over complicated thing of particular judgment(immediate judgment) and because they can't ignore the bible completely the last judgment too. I've searched the bible looking for clues and found many references to the latter including numerous made by St. Paul and ONLY one which seem to talk about the possibility of immediate judgment(I don't count inconclusive texts to prevent from speculating and guessing) which I admit it made me doubt the authenticity of the origin of that particular text that is the story of the beggar called Lazarus who lived in front of the rich man's house. It's the only and really only one single text that seems to support immediate judgment while many many many others(in fact ALL OTHERS) from both the old and new testament seem to only teach about the last judgment. Anyway if you're interested in my little finding which is nothing new I guess, feel free to PM me with your email and I'll email the doc to you. I found the scriptures to be fascinating ever since I looked it up in search of death to verify what was revealed.