All people, not only the Jehovah's Witnesses are trying to lighten their views as regards the hereafter. The experience of this world is automatically and necessarily causing the question: "What comes after death". There are a barrel of traditional views and the same number of communities which try to refute the existing views.
At the Watchtower Society the dead disappear completely. Only in the mind of their god with the well known imaginary name Jehovah the informations stay conserved, and this God of these Watchtower writers according to their view will use these informations to draw the deceased by his memory newly. This second creation implies that the condition of the deceased will be restored exactly as it was when they died. However, the Jehovah's Witnesses hope that they succeed better than before in the course of the second genesis, which then does not represent a resurrection anymore in the original sense, or at least to be in the course of the first moments of the earthly paradise subject of perfection (time in eternity?). It is unclear whether they must take care of being improved or whether their Jehovah, which they regard as God, will make this perfection.
The earthly Jehovah paradise is representing for the Watchtower Society one of the most important marketing factors. It conveys the idea that after the takeover of domination by the Watchtower Society in the (alleged) conduct of their God and his king is to be built with an iron-governmental birch out of Jerusalem a perfect world. The most important and most self-betraying aspect of this design is the seamless transition. The existing world is then cleansed by the destruction of evil and provides a basis for the in the blood of those killed then wading Jehovah's Witnesses to build a better and better getting world.
This transition represents a change of system, so it is not a new beginning, but the violent repression of the old system of things by a new system. In the then newly with an iron rod installed system, then the dead will be re-in-created, re-drawn, -Jehovah-remembered. These there flushed into crowds then are given a second chance to opt for the Watchtower Society and their God Jehovah.
The ideas of the Jehovah's Witnesses recall dreams that were always dreamed by radical, subversive parties. At the same time aspects of Freemasonry can be seen, which aim to perfect the world and the in it living people step by step. That in the earthly paradise of the Watchtower Society will exist a government that exerts its rule out of Jerusalem with an iron rod is truely alarming. Governments with an iron rod has been put on earth so many times that the normal person shudders at the thought.
Also, this vision has not really something divine in itself. It smells strictly on a transition scenario that can be carried out if necessary even without that Jehovah and without his king. For in all descriptions of the earthly Watchtower paradise, these supporting players are invisible or keep themselves in the background. Thus the freemasonic aspect of the Jehovah's Witnesses' hope for paradise is emphasized once again, because the paradise of Jehovah's Witnesses is in its course quite well done without the appearance or intervention of God. The Watchtower Society then will be, what is pretending the man path and goal.
The Catholic Church is known for its broad array of ideas about the kingdom of God. These were absorbed in the popular belief, to the point of the lowest superstition. And similarly they were taken over from pagan imagination. To crown the Catholic Church had some additional fine ideas like purgatory to maximize their profits at long sight. This colorful mix of business acumen and imagination, it is not worth to be considered closer. Only the counter-goddess Mary, acting beside Jesus only as an additional condition of faith, should be briefly mentioned, so that every man knows why he should leave as soon as possible the Catholic Church.
In addition to the inventors of the popular and those funky versions, such as those of the Jehovah's Witnesses more sheep graze in the meadow of kingdom come research. The United Church of God, for example, disputes like the Jehovah's Witnesses vehemently that people continue to live in some way after physical death. Similar to the Jehovah's Witnesses, they touch only single biblical passages and cook their hereafter explaining soup over a low flame to give it in their writings to the reader in little portions.
It is striking both in the United Church of God as with the Watchtower Society, the powerful statement: We know about it! Equally striking is the utter ignorance of one word of Christ, who stated to the explanation of the afterlife: "God is the God of the living and not of the dead. In him, they all live." In another place he set a further glaring signal: "Before Abraham was, I am!" (Timelessness of the eternal God) - These words of Jesus, which inform us at best about the kingdom of God are ignored largely, if not totally, by those who pretend to know exactly answer. But also the traditional views of the afterlife avoid these clear announcements and remain in human constructions of the kingdom of God. For no Bible commentator wants to separate from the factor "time". Because this would mean only one thing can be left: the child's trust in the words of Jesus, who presents us a spiritual world, where no longer is existing time.
Modern physics accumulates unanswered question to unanswered question. Some scientists go so far as to say that without a parallel universe, with which our visible world is connected, the problems can not be explained rudimentarily. What a sensation! Does modern science fly back to where David in his psalms was quite at home?
Anyone who takes seriously Jesus can not ignore his words! "In God they all live!" This succinct statement of Jesus (Luke 20:38) forbids categorically any speculation about the status and residence of the Christ-believer after his death. For if a man at which time however comes to God, he is in the eternal, timeless realm of God. Viewed from this perspective, a point in time of arrival in the kingdom of God, at least can not be defined or imagined from our human point of view. This transition is not to categorize in our time-dependent thought. The very word "transition" already represents an unacceptable statement which describes something that is not understood in a human way.
If it is true that God is the God of the living and not of the dead, then there is no question that was to clarify in reference to hereafter. Because we can not grasp the divine with human thoughts. But we can accept in faith the words of Jesus and know that we will live after our physical death, if we are based on the authority of Jesus in the face of the Father. He is the way to the Father and the Father is eternal like Jesus. Every person who has access to God through Jesus doesn't have any needs to face up to time-technical issues. Whether the person has a soul, which is shipped into the heaven, or whether he has not, is completely irrelevant. The fact is and remains that the man who comes to God through Jesus Christ, as God Himself is timeless and eternal, and the question of when he came to God, will only cause a smile.
Any human attempt to explain the question of the afterlife and the Kingdom of God in excess of the words of Jesus, must necessarily end in a through and through human thought building, which already is to be easily teared down by people. The example of the Jehovah's Witnesses is showing very clearly that man cannot piece together and can not fathom the divine. Surprising is that they are not ashamed, to ignore the words of Jesus (Luke 20:38) completely.
The sheer idea ever to stay in a time-integrated existence is horror. Like the never-ending orgasm of Muslims at the 72 virgins the earthly paradise-fiction of the Jehovah's Witnesses is a horror scenario, which in its awfulness just by itself indicates that the terrestrial world is carried into the Kingdom of God. The human experience of this world bows down the glory of the kingdom of God onto a human view. But the kingdom of God can only take place where God himself is present. That is why Jesus said, when he came to earth, that the kingdom of God is at hand. In him God will be all in all.
Even at the problem of the afterlife, we see how man fails to God. These and other difficulties of understanding tell us why God has given himself in Jesus. There is no man, who can come to God without taking the hand of Jesus. Not conviction and knowledge decide, but only the child's faith. Every person who tailors or makes tailor a religion beside Jesus or off scale Jesus, is preventing successfully that Jesus will introduce him into all truth. For he simply does not listen to Jesus any more. He fancies himself as already knowing everything! Even worse is it when people say that book publishers from America could explain what they do not even want to hear from Jesus by considering a human organization as more important than Jesus himself.
Therefore, every doctrine is allowed and correct when it points to Jesus. Any doctrine which does not point to Jesus is a lie. This is concerning all religions. Who rejects the knowledge of God that Jesus Christ is in person, wins indeed security in the form of regulations and rules (Pope / Governing Body), but loses the faith that is not confirmed by our own strength of faith or by the mass of the uniformly convinced, but by Jesus himself.