Personal Experience of Communion in Eternity as the Key to Understanding the Concept of Die in the Lord

Abstract

Death is an inherent part of the human fate as a difficult and unpredictable experience. As a phenomenon it appears in others constantly. When it affects a specific man, death becomes something exceptional and unique. The man dies in fact only once and this one time is final. However, in a common confidence various forms of dying are said to be connected with God. The formula “die in the Lord” is universal although ambiguous in its meaning. The above article aims to give possible interpretations of “dying in the Lord” and to point at their consequences for eschatology.