THEO 202 Final Exam correctly answered graded A+

THEO 202 Final ExamWhat happens to a person at death? - correct answer When believers die, they go to be with Christ in Paradise/Heaven (no intermediate state). When the unsaved die, they receive conscious torment until the resurrection when they go into the lake of fire. 2 Cor. 5:8 - correct answer To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Phil. 1:23 - correct answer To depart and be with Christ is what Paul says takes place at death for the believer. Arguments for Purgatory - correct answer There is no Scriptural support for the purgatory view. The support comes from 2 Maccabees 12:40-46. Arguments for Soul Sleep - correct answer Death is represented as sleep in some verses Arguments for Annihilationism - correct answer Says that the unsaved simply are annihilated at death, that they cease to exist, are poofed to nothing. Arguments for Conditional Immorality - correct answer This view says the soul only receives immorality upon believing in Christ. In other words, it says that everyone will simply cease to exist at death unless they believe in God, in which case they supposedly become immortal. Answers against the purgatory argument - correct answer Hebrews 1:3 says that Christ sat down on God's right hand AFTER he PURGED our sins. Answers against the soul sleep view - correct answer Sleep is used as a euphemism to describe a believer's death based on the similarity in the appearance of a dead person and a sleeping person. The Bible speaks of those who die in Christ as having CONSCIOUS fellowship with Him, not as being asleep.