The general 3 views of christians position.
The Seventh Day
Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and
some evangelical Christians hold to the soul sleep view.
Lutherans, Catholics, and most Protestants hold to the soul leaving
the body view.
The proponents of
the soul sleep position have two premises. First, they hold that at
death the soul does not
leave the body; both soul and body sleep until the Day of Christ’s
return. Second, they teach that the soul has no consciousness as it
sleeps; it is aware of nothing. What is the basis for these two
premises? They base their argument primarily on passages that speak
of death as sleep (or unconsciousness) and passages that speak of
bodies awakening on the Last Day
The proponents of
soul leaving the body…both Christian and non-Christian leave the
body and go to another place. The souls of the unrighteous
(unbelievers) go to a place of punishment until the Last Day. The
souls of the righteous (believers) go to be with the Lord in
Paradise.
Roman Catholics
position….In their view purgatory is the place where the souls of
those who did not fully satisfy all temporal punishment due them on
earth, must be purged and refined by fire (by their definition all
Christians, except the great saints, will spend time in purgatory).
This agonizing fire may last for thousands of years until they are
finally purified and worthy of heaven.
So when we used
the world REST IN PEACE, I presumed it came from soul sleep
premises. And If you are Protestant/Lutherans you are happy as u
will be judge. While Catholics will be in purgatory to be “refined”
by fire.
