Talk:Intermediate state (Christianity)

Article creation
Good work Tonic, another important missing general or "parent"-type article to fill in the gaps. I'm in the process of adding links to it from some other pages. Colin MacLaurin 13:55, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I've added a few, but much more could be done. Colin MacLaurin 14:47, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I sectioned the article and provided links to related WP articles. This page would be a good "crossroads" article from which the reader can link to more specific articles. Leadwind 16:40, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Jewish Background NPOV
Please note that conservative Christian scholarship holds that the Jewish people did have a conception of the resurrection of the dead as early as the time of Abraham. (c.f. ) This section needs to be rewritten to acknowledge the existence of competing theories on the Jewish view of resurrection. -- Uncle Dick (talk) 20:18, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Use of Harold A. Schauwe's pdf as a reference on Luther
Someone has used a pdf off the web ''What Happens to the Soul After Death? By Harold A. Schewe [Western Conference Pastoral Conference, McIntosh, South Dakota, October 3, 1978'' to make some statements about Luther believing that the sleep of the dead was more active than normal sleep. I'm afraid Harold A. Schewe has misread the English translations of Luther's Latin works which he used as his source. Luther is saying the opposite. Note the insertion by Mr Schewe in brackets below: ''﻿But the soul does not sleep in the same manner (like a person on earth.) It is awake. It experiences visions and the discourses of the angels and of God. Therefore the sleep in the future '' What Luther said was this: Differunt tamen somnus sive quies hujus vitae et futurae. Homon enim in hac vita defatigatus diurno labore, sub noctem intrat in cubiculum suum tanquam in pace, ut ibi dormiat, et ea nocte fruitur quiete, neque quicquam scit de ullo malo sive incendii, sive caedis. Anima autem non sic dormit, sed vigilat, et patitur visiones loquelas Angelorum et Dei. Ideo somnus in futura vita profundior est quam in hac vita et tamen anima coram Deo vivit. Hac similitudine, quam habeo a somno viventia. Per Luther it is souls of the living in sleep which can dream and hear visions, the dead in sleep cannot. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:09, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Table of terms regarding the intermediate state
I've drawn up a table of terms at Talk:Christian mortalism following intensive discussions there. Editors may wish to comment on the accuracy of the table. StAnselm (talk) 22:20, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Christian afterlife / article scope
I created to redirect here, and changed the main article hatnote of Afterlife to point here, because as far as I can tell, this article covers Christian theological views on what happens to people immediately after death. From that perspective, the view that people are immediately sent to Heaven or Hell is under-represented in this article. Also, this article focuses on what happens immediately after death, whereas many of these views posit a series of stages after death where the intermediate state is only the first. We could consider a new article to remedy these deficits, or we could adjust this article. Admittedly, I'm probably not motivated enough in this area to do either, but I thought about it enough that I wanted to post my thoughts. 05:41, 29 June 2018 (UTC)