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But here is the difinition.
Soul sleep
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In
Christian theology,
soul sleep is a minority belief that the
soul sleeps unconsciously between the
death of the
body and its
resurrection on
Judgment Day. Soul sleep is also known as
psychopannychism (from
Greek psyche (soul, mind) +
pannuchizein (to last the night)).
A similar belief is
thnetopsychism (from Greek
thnetos (mortal) +
psyche (soul, mind)), the view that the soul dies with the body to be recalled to life at the
resurrection of the dead, or that the soul is not separate from the body and so there is no "spiritual" self to survive bodily death.
In both cases, the deceased does not begin to enjoy a reward or suffer a punishment until Judgment Day.
The more common Christian belief about the
intermediate state between death and Judgment Day is
particular judgment, that the soul is judged at death. In
Roman Catholicism, the soul is judged to go to
heaven or
hell immediately after death, a belief also held by most Protestants. In Catholicism some temporarily stay in
purgatory to be purified for
heaven. In
Eastern Orthodoxy, the soul waits in
the abode of the dead until the
resurrection of the dead, the saved resting in light and the damned suffering in darkness.
[1] This Eastern Orthodox picture of particular judgment is similar to the 1st-century Jewish and early Christian
[2] concept that the dead either "
rest in peace" in the
Bosom of Abraham or suffer in
Gehenna. This view was also promoted by
John Calvin in his treatise attacking soul sleep.
Soul sleep was promoted by some
Reformation as well as some minor Protestant denominations.
Present-day defenders of these doctrines include the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
Jehovah's Witnesses,
Christadelphians, the
Church of God (Seventh Day), the
Church of God Abrahamic Faith, and various other Church of God organizations including most
Related Denominations which adhered to the older teachings of the
Worldwide Church of God.
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