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• W2214710542 abstract "When I was assigned the topic, “What happens to the Soul after Death?” and then told that this was a topic that was going to be discussed Synod-wide, I must say that I was shocked that this should be necessary. As any good pastor would, I asked my wife what she thought was going to happen to her soul when she died. She simply replied, “My soul is going to go to heaven.” I then asked her to give me a Bible passage on which she based that belief. Her quick reply was, “Jesus said to the thief on the cross, ‘Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise.’” I would have expected that answer from any WELS Christian and most certainly from every WELS pastor. In order to discover whether or not there was a problem in this area and to discover to what extent there might be a problem, I asked my twelfth grade religion class at the Academy to write a paragraph on what they believed happened to their souls at the times of their deaths. I asked them to write anonymously and to honestly express what they personally believed. Of the twenty students, nineteen gave me answers similar to the one I received from my good wife. The one other paper told me, “I believe it will remain dead or dormint (sic) like until Christ comes to judge us. On the day of judgment we will all arise, both Christian and non-Christian to be judged.” In my research I discovered that this is just one of the many heresies that surround this vital topic. I do not know who that person is, but it would be interesting to know whether he; received that from his pastor’s instruction class or whether it is a private misconception. In my research I also discovered that one of our Seminary professors, Dr. Siegbert W. Becker wrote an all-encompassing paper on this subject and delivered it on May 3, 1957. It was reprinted in the Christian News on March 8, 1965 and reprinted again in A Christian Handbook of Vital Issues. I did not feel that I could improve upon his excellent work, and, therefore, I have reproduced his paper and included it as an addendum to my paper. Since you will have this now for further private study if you so desire, I am going to confine myself to examining only that narrow subject of what happens to the soul immediately after death until the time of Judgment Day. We will examine what the Scripture has to say, what the church fathers and orthodox theologians have to say, and then examine some of the modern heresies that may be of current interest. In taking this direction, I have made some very basic assumptions that one cannot always make when talking to theological men. I am assuming that you all believe that man is made up of two parts, body and soul. I am also assuming that when we speak of the soul that we are using that word in the sense of the person, the ego, the “I” that goes to live with Christ after death. There is also another basic assumption and that is that we all believe that the soul is immortal i.e. the soul has unending existence and is not subject to death. To me it seems so very basic that an individual should know and believe these things, but I am sure that one could debate for hours and waste reams of paper discussing this with unbelieving “theologians.” There are really very few Bible passages that speak about the condition of the soul after death. The reason for that is that the Scripture primarily directs the attention of the Christian to the Day of Judgment and to the eternal bliss of salvation that follows it rather than to the bliss and joy that they enjoy immediately after death. 2 Cor 5:1-8 is not only the sedes doctrinae of the immortality of the soul, but it also implies that life after death will be better than life on this side of death." @default.
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