Is that what I said? All the dead are in their graves...both the "righteous and the unrighteous" will be called out of their tombs (John 5:28-29).......there were no Christians before the first century.....so, not just Christians but all the dead are sleeping and will be resurrected. Only the incorrigibly wicked will remain in death....and only God knows who they are.
"Death" is the wages of sin, (Romans 6:23) so whoever has died has paid the penalty for any sin that they may have committed. (Romans 6:7) Jesus' sacrifice then guarantees them a second chance to get it right in the resurrection. He died so they can live. He died so that those who are still here when the end comes, will never have to die at all.
He paid our penalty. Can you grasp the meaning of that?
What an odd question....
If Jesus said that he was going to raise ALL the dead, then that would include their children. The resurrection is a promise and it will be carried out once the Kingdom has "come" and is ruling mankind. (Matthew 6:9-10)
Strangely if you live under a democracy, that is exactly what you are forced to do. Try breaking the laws of the land and see if that is not so. If you break the law, you damn yourself. What delusion are you entertaining? That democratic freedom is truly "free"? It can never be without restraints or there is anarchy.....if you prefer that, then all the best to you...
Go march on the Capitol...
Was I talking against the USA or merely making a comment that everyone outside the US understands completely? Your people have a mindset that is foreign to the rest of the western world.....especially with regard to the marriage of politics and religion, and your attitude towards guns and armed conflict.
You see.....that is exactly what I was talking about. You have to live outside the US to understand how insular you all seem to be in your attitudes towards the use of weapons and carrying out conflicts in countries that are none of the US government's business. How is that "fighting for
your country"? How does the US tell others how to govern their people, when they are doing such a lousy job of it themselves? Where do they get the idea that they are somehow the saviors of the world by virtue of their military power.....? Its delusional IMO.
How do the clergy hope to represent the "Christian" military men and women under their care, if they are at odds with the teachings of Jesus Christ who taught us to 'love our enemies', not kill them.....and especially not if those you are fighting also identify as "Christians"....can you not see the problem?...the complete hypocrisy? (1 John 4:20-21)
The "Christian" thing to do is to tell them to put down their weapons. Imagine if everyone was invited to a war and no one showed up?
The US is 'the world' to a great many of your population, and most have no idea what goes on in the rest of the world, or even how the US is viewed by them. How many could tell you where the rest of the world is even located on a map?
You see, from the Bible's perspective, all human rulership is corrupt and needs to be replaced by God, not other equally flawed humans who will never make a better job of it.
God's "Kingdom" will "come" and his will, "will be done on earth as it is in heaven".....there is no way to avoid what is coming, and military power on earth will stop it. (Isaiah 54:17)