Life after Death
Question from Vilma Greene on 5/8/2008:
I have always believed that I will see my loved ones after I die. I recently lost my daughter to leukemia and I am so devasted that I question my believe. For example I ask myself what if the atheist are right and there is nothing after death. Then someone gave me a booklet called 'Spirits of the Dead' by Joe Crews and published by a company called Amazing facts, Inc (web site: amazingfacts.org). In summary it says that no one will be in heaven until the day of ressurection. In other words, when we die we remain dead and there will be no life after death until the resurrection of our souls. Please help.
Answer by Fr. Robert J. Levis on 5/9/2008:
Dear Vilma, Nonsense. Who is JOe Crews? Did God reveal something to him and not to Christ!!!! Your daughter God has caught up to Himself and both God and she are waiting one day to meet up with you. God made you for Himself, to love you, to give you eternal joys and happiness.You have much love to share with Him even down here in this valley of suffering. God bless you. Fr. Bob Levis
I hear the interpretation that we're dead until Judgement Day, but did not Jesus Christ Himself say to the man being hung on the cross beside Him, "Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise." Luke23:43
ReplyDeleteSeems pretty self-explanatory there; that the man was assured he would not only be alive and with Jesus, but THAT day - the day they both died.