I am telling you to seriously consider the words of God. What I am giving you is an example of those who are no longer on earth appearing before God.
BTW when do believers die? Just because their sprits are no longer trapped in a mortal body they still live unless you don't belive the words of Jesus.
'he that liveth and believeth in me shall never die (Jn 11:26)'
Secondly The 'Dead' in Scripture are not those saints who have went to 'Sleep' in Jesus, they are those who are walking around in shoe leather upon the earth, dead in sin and tresspasses.
You use the word heresy very freely around here and yet you have just been corrected twice in a very short time. There is another scripture that deals with that.
(Titus 3:10-11) "A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject; {11} Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself."
No I am not a catholic, are you?
Doug