The common belief of the Christian appears to be that when you die you go straight to heaven. Actually you're dead in the ground until Judgement Day. [Spirituality & Religion]
There are a couple folks like Moses and Elijah who are up there already but by and large you stay dead until the second coming.
So where did the idea come from that you go straight to heaven after you die?
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Good question. I've pretty much always interpreted it as waiting until the Second Coming since I was old enough to read Scripture for myself, so I don't know either, because the text mostly doesn't seem to support it.
