when i die

[BrainWashed]

Though I still struggle with some confusion regarding this topic, I would like to share my input.

I remember being taught as a child that once we die, we’re alive with God for evermore. However, it wasn’t until a few years ago that I began questioning our existence after death.

1 Coritinhains 15
50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”


Here’s my understanding of the matter.

In reference to the scriptures above, we know that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. We are also told that, “We will not sleep, but we will all be changed,” and "the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.” The bible reads that when the trumpet sounds, then we will be changed to “imperishable” or “immortal.” Isn’t that our hope in Christ, eternal life? Well, if our hope is eternal life, and if we’re already an eternal being, why must we wait for the trumpet’s blast to be made immortal? If we’re perishable and mortal pre-trumpet sound, then we know that we’re not imperishable or immortal. And if we’re not immortal, then we cease existence at death.

The gift of God is eternal life, and the bible reads that we’ll be made eternal at the last trumpet when we’re clothed with the imperishable and immortality. That must conclude that when we die, we’re just a rotting corpse without consciousness until we’re made immortal at the last trumpet.