As Jesus taught, "the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are very much mistaken."
"When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching." ((Matthew 22:32-33)
When the Catholics heard THIS; they decided to ignore it:
Call no man father.
You been given many chances in the past; on multiple threads; to give the Catholic definition of what "Dead in Christ" means.
So far; I've seen NOTHING from ANY Catholic on the subject.
Is this yet another verse that gets shunted to the side??
1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 New King James Version (NKJV)14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who [a]sleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are [b]asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
HMMMmmm...
An interesting order of events; if one believes the Catholic claim that when Christians die they immediately go either to be with the Lord in Heaven or to purgatory.
28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.
Whoa whoa WHOA!!!
I thought the 'Official' teaching on this is that the GOOD folks go to be with Christ when they die.
I am SO confused...