The deep recesses of the mind of Disney. However, the resurrection of the body speaks of some future event coinciding with the end of time (or at least that is what many people believe, since it seems readily apparent believers don't immediately pop back up...)

This is probably an extremely old rendition of the passage of death used for the under-educated working class throughout history. Typically something actually complicated is "dumbed down" for the masses in order to be palatable and the elite intelligentsia get to know the whole truth.

To be frank, I don't pay much attention to man-made creeds. I go to the Word of God when I want to find out something. Peter won't be waiting for anyone at the gates of heaven but God will. Within the Christian faith, there is a significant amount of confusion in regards to what happens after death. Some hold that after death, everyone “sleeps” until the final judgment, after which everyone will be sent to Heaven or Hell. Others believe that immediately after the moment of death, people are instantly judged and send to their eternal destinations. Still others claim that when people die, their souls/spirits are sent to a “temporary” Heaven or Hell, to await the final resurrection, the final judgment, and then the finality of their eternal destination. So, what exactly does the Bible say happens after death? First, for the believer in Jesus Christ, the Bible tells us that after death, believers’ souls/spirits are taken to Heaven, because their sins were forgiven from having received Christ as Savior (John 3:16,18,36). For believers, after death is to be “away from the body and at home with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:6-8; Philippians 1:23). However, passages such as 1 Corinthians 15:50-54 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 describe believers being resurrected and given glorified bodies. If believers go to be with Christ immediately after death, what is the purpose of this resurrection? It seems that while the souls/spirits of believers go to be with Christ immediately after death, the physical body remains in the grave “sleeping.” At the resurrection of believers, the physical body is resurrected, glorified and perfected, and then reunited with the soul-spirit. This reunited and glorified body-soul-spirit will be the inhabitance of believers for eternity, in the New Heavens and New Earth (Revelation chapters 21-22). Second, for those who do not receive Jesus Christ as Savior, after death means everlasting punishment. However, similar to the destiny of believers, unbelievers also seem to be sent immediately to a temporary holding place, to await their final resurrection, judgment, and eternal destiny. Luke 16:22-23 describes a rich man being tormented immediately after death. Revelation 20:11-15 describes all the unbelieving dead being resurrected, judged at the Great White Throne, and then being cast into the lake of fire. Unbelievers, then, are not sent to Hell (the lake of fire) immediately after death, but rather are in a temporary realm of judgment and condemnation. However, even though unbelievers are not instantly sent to the lake of fire, their immediate fate after death is not a pleasant one. The rich man cried out, “I am in agony in this fire” (Luke 16:24). So in a way, the cartoon rendition of what happens after death has some merit in that the spirit leaves the body but doesn't necessarily go straight to heaven or hell.

You can dig up any grave and you'll find their Earthly body is still there. That's a reality. To me the answer is simple when you consider the power of God is unlimited. When the believer dies he gets his glorified body - which is in reality the same Earthly body we had " transfigured " into the similitude of Christ himself - and goes directly into Gods presence. So absent from the body is to be present with the Lord for believers. Yet, anyone can see the Earthly bodies of believers are still in thier graves. Now consider Gods presence is from eternity - knowing the end of things from the beginning. He knows the future because Hes been there, is there, and will be there. He is the creator of time and the master of it. I believe believers are transported to the future judgement upon death so that there is no percieved disembodyment for the believer. This explains the bodies in the graves and is in harmoney with the scripture that says that immediately after this life is the judgement. For non-believers , however, there will be consciousness of the grave, time will seem to pass horribly slowly until they are raised from Hell for thier judgement day. So the image of a soul rising to Heaven is just an inaccurate oversimplification to explain this.

our souls belong to God, the Bible says, when we die, "our souls go back to the ONE who gave it" ...bodies ,earth to earth,dust to dust...we don't need the physical...our souls are spiritual,as God is...the Peter part? this is not in the Bible ,so....:)justme