Questions for Saved Christians

When a saved Christian dies,
one Bible verse states that they are asleep. Their bodies will be risen again at the Rapture.
Now, according to what Christ said to the thief at His crucifixion, "Today you will be with me in paradise, (heaven.)
Question 1: If our souls/spirits are in heaven after we die, why do we need our bodies to be resurrected?
Question 2: Are we judged by God, (stand in judgement,) after we die or after our bodies are resurrected?

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BritishFailedAesthetic · M

Asleep is just a figurative term for death and it's earthly appearance, the Bible makes abundantly clear after death the soul goes to heaven or hell depending on whether someone has accepted Christ, so we stand before Christ at death- question 2.

Question 1- Heaven is the place where we go now as saved Christians, on Christ's return it's the new earth.

Oh and the rapture is a doctrine made up in the 1800s- as the creed rightly says before Christ comes "He will come to judge the living and the dead".