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Immediate Ascension
Claim
After death, you immediatly ascend into heaven. There is no intermediate state (Sheol) where you wait for the last trumpet, when Yeshua will raise you from the dead.
Arguments against
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Justin Martyr
Justin Martyr stated it was the Gnostic belief that teaches there is no intermediate state, and that mankind upon death are immediately taken to heaven:
You may have fallen in with some who are called Christians. However, they do not admit this, and they venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham… They say there is no resurrection of the dead. Rather, they say that when they die, their souls are taken to heaven. Do not imagine they are Christians.
- Justin Martyr, (c.160, E, 1.239)
Tertullian
How indeed, will the soul mount up to heaven, where Christ is already sitting ath the Father's right hand? For the archangels's trumpet has not yet been heard by the command of God… To no one is heaven openend… When the world indeed, will pass away, then the kingdom of heaven will be opened.
- Tertullian (c. 210, W)