There is a teaching that is soon a divide of many denominations. The teaching of the after life or life after death more especially the intermediary state is one sure teaching holding many denominations apart. Here starting from the Rapture Of The Saints forth do the teaching Eschatology cause a chasm that has kept many loyal friends and enemies apart; just because they cannot agree and do not have a solid preconceived notion of how humanity shall go on from immediately after death until judgement day.
This principle is that needed solution.
The preamble before walking in to the study of the afterlife sure is The Principle Of Life Yonder Death. It does not just break many myths but also destroy the mystery the study has proven to be. If by principle one understands where the dead in Christ are now; by default he understands where the dead lost are. The ideal being, if the dead lost are in a state of deep sleep, so are the dead in Christ. Yet even the more, if the dead in Christ are in a paradise right now. Then the dead lost are in torments and it is unarguable as a standard.
Ephesians 4:8-10 KJV Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
The question would be; why did He have to ascend in to the belly of the earth?
The following being: Is there life in there, in the belly of the earth?
A thing that would mean the dead lost are really in torment. A thing that makes one question the words of apostle Peter. In the ideal that he does not just say the above words of apostle Paul that leaves us in the dark; but elaborates that Christ went in to the belly of the earth for three days and nights to go and preach to those in the prison in the belly of the earth. A somber say that makes ones ears desire to listen the more attentively. Here is apostle Peter's narration in short.
1 Peter 3:18-20 KJV For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
The above words exceed any form of argument, if they can be supported by any words from Christ. It would without a doubt mean there is no deep sleep in Intermediary but the spirits of the dead are existing somewhere. A thing that would be well narrated by the teaching of this principle from the book of Luke. If it can be unwaveringly proved that indeed Christ said it is so. Then one has to even go beyond the book of Luke to chase this astounding feat of the Christian faith. A holy grail of some sort in the eyes and the minds of the discerning.
One sure thing that one would without doubt seek is proof that whatever is being said is not in a metaphor; for allegories have a tendency of harboring meaning to elude not just the simple mind but also to stack founded truths in metaphoric meaning that can give many uncertified outcomes. There is a need for a thing; and that thing is clarity to tell that what is being said is both true and unhindered by allegory. So, it just proves to be beyond doubt clearly set in the teaching of The Yonder Ethic. That not one group but both the dead in Christ and the dead lost are both alive and discerning. They still remember the names of the people they knew and can even discern the men who stories were told about.
