Cult! If you are going to use that term then My Sicilian temper is going to shoot back. You reflect the typical redneck American fundamentalist protestant snake handler theology. Nobody among the Church Fathers interprets scripture the way “You do”. There are not 2 Churches are 2 parallel universes. There is One God and he is the God of the Living not the dead, to quote Christ when he was debating the Sadducees [Luke 20:37-38; Matt 22:32].
When a person dies, the Soul [which does not die] faces God in judgment. The Soul is the essence of who we are, although we are not Souls trapped in a body. Yes, the body is dead, but the soul is not. Those individuals who died with Christ, their souls are in Heaven. Those who reject Christ are in Hell. In the end, those are the 2 realities for every individual. To say that there are no souls in heaven or that they are dead is heresy. The Soul does not die, only the flesh. Now, at the final judgment, there will be a resurrection of the body, yes, and are bodies [those who die with Christ] will have a glorified bodies and look like him to reference both Saint Paul and Saint John
Oh, wow, I am impressed (NOT). Your screed at me does not provide any truth. The "church fathers" are not the interpreters that matter, it is the Holy Spirit of God that reveals what His Word provides.
I will pray for your eyes to be opened to Scripture, at the peril of defying your upbringing.Tradition does not trump truth.
You tell me what the cult teaches, but provide NO SCRIPTURE to define it. That is a sure picture of the blind leading the blind.
By the way, I don't handle snakes, and I was last a member of a Southern Baptist Church in North Carolina. I was taught Greek in Bible College, and also learned Hebrew from a Rabbi, and can follow well enough to see error in what the Roman cult teaches its drones. Rat poison is 90% food and 10% of the stuff that kills you.
Sleeping is not death. Show me SCRIPTURE that makes your point, not some traditions of men.
Mark 7: 13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”