When We Die, Are We Conscious or Asleep?

Randy Alcorn, founder of EPM
By Randy Alcorn
April 3, 2017

When We Die, Are We Conscious or Asleep? from Randy Alcorn - EPM on Vimeo.

In April 2017, Randy Alcorn taught a course at Veritas Evangelical Seminary on the subject of eternal rewards. In this clip, he answers a question about our state after we die.

Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of over sixty books and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. 

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Question from a reader:

Do you think perhaps there is no sense of passage of time after death and that after we die, the intermediate state you speak of would pass in a millisecond, and then we are resurrected? It would be sort of like a seamless quick passage to the New Earth. Otherwise, would we be conscious of say, 200, years passing in the present Heaven before the bodily resurrection?