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An Early Witness on "Going to Heaven"

I was taught that we don't "go to heaven" when we die, but remain unconscious in the ground until our resurrection. This first-century Christian document, however, suggests otherwise.

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Ambrose on the Resurrection

87. If the earth and heaven are renewed, why should we doubt that man, on account of whom heaven and earth were made, can be renewed? If the transgressor be reserved for punishment, why should not the just be kept for glory? If the worm of sins does not die, how shall the flesh of the just perish? For the resurrection, as the very form of the word shows, is this, that what has fallen should rise again, that which has died should come to life again.

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