A Faith to Confess: The Baptist Confession
of Faith of 1689
Rewritten in Modern English
©1975, Carey Publications, Ltd.,
75 Woodhill Road, Leeds, U.K., LS16 7BZ
THE bodies of men after death return to dust and suffer decay, but their souls which neither die nor sink into a state of unconsciousness-they are inherently immortal-immediately return to God who gave them. The souls of the righteous, whose holiness is at death perfected, are received into paradise, where they are with Christ, looking upon the face of God in light and glory, and waiting for the full redemption of their bodies. The souls of the wicked are cast into hell, where they remain in torment and utter darkness, reserved to the judgment of the great day. Souls separated from their bodies are in either paradise or hell, for the Scripture speaks of no other abodes of the departed.
Gen. 3:19; Eccles. 12:7; Luke 16:23,24; 23:43; Acts 13:36; 2 Cor. 5:1,6,8; Phil. 1:23; Heb. 12:23; 1 Pet. 3:19; Jude 6,7.At the last day, saints then alive on the earth Will not die, but
be changed. All the dead will be raised up with their selfsame
bodies, and none other, although with different qualities, and
shall be united again to their souls for ever.
Job 19:26,27; 1 Cor. 15:42,43,51,52; 1 Thess. 4:17.
By the power of Christ, the bodies of the unrighteous will be
raised to dishonor. By His Spirit, Christ will raise the bodies
of the righteous to honor, for they will be refashioned after the
pattern of His own glorious body.
John 5:28,29; Acts 24:15; Phil. 3:21.
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