Jesus answered him, 'I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.'" (Luke 23:39-43)
"We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5)
The best that I can come up with is that everyone ( believers and unbelievers ) after they take their last breath go to Paradise
Thank you for you comment. consider the above, and comment
i very much disagree with that...go to john 5:28&29 and ponder over dose
thanks for the exchange of ideas
28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves ( οἱ ἐν τοῖς μνημείοις ) will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned
It is decisive that οἱ ἐν τοῖς μνημείοις would have to mean merely the spiritually dead
John is speaking of the final judgment
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Here Jesus speaks clearly to the thief on the cross
Jesus answered him, 'I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.'" (Luke 23:39-43)
Are you saying that when we die we go in limbo,ground, until the final judgment ?
The 2 verses I put above, last comment, do not apply ?
I appreciate your disagreement please explain why