In the Nicene Creed the life of the Christian is characterized as “ eternal life.” In the Gospels and in the apostolic letters, “eternal” is first of all a temporal designation: in contrast to life of this world, eternal life has a deathless duration. An expectation that one enters into bliss or perdition immediately after death is also found in the words of Jesus on the cross: “Today you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43). In the early imminent expectation, the period between death and the coming of the kingdom still constituted no object of concern. Others were convinced they would go through the air to meet Christ returning upon the clouds of the sky: “Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we shall always be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:17). Many baptized early Christians were convinced they would not die at all but would still experience the advent of Christ in their lifetimes and would go directly into the kingdom of God without death.
It includes definite conceptions of the personal continuance of life after death. The Christian end-time expectation is directed not only at the future of the church but also at the future of the individual believer.
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