– For the Semites, life ended in the mansion of the dead, called sheol . The condition of being immortal by resurrection first appears in:
2Mc 7,9 : Cursed, you snatch away our present life, but the King of the universe will raise us up to an eternal life.
Dan 12:2 : Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awaken, some to eternal life.
– The Book of Wisdom says that God created us for immortality:
Wis 2:23 : God created man for immortality, and made him in the image of his own nature.
Wis 3,1-2 : But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will touch them.
Wis 4,7 : As for the righteous, even if he dies before his age, he will enjoy rest.
– Soon after death, the eternal life, which we already carry in us on this earth, will become perfect in the resurrection:
1Cor 15,53-54 : And let this mortal body put on immortality.
2Cor 5,6-7 : We know that all the time we spend in the body is an exile far from the Lord.
Phil 1:23 : I feel pressure from both sides: on the one hand, I would like to detach myself to be with Christ.
Jo 6,54 : Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day.
Mt 25:46 : And these will go away into eternal punishment, and the righteous into eternal life.
Jn 6:40 : May everyone who sees the Son and believes in him have eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day.
Eph 2:6 : He raised us up together with him and made us sit together in heaven with Christ Jesus.
Rev 3:21 : To the victor I will grant to sit down with me on my throne, just as I […] sat down with my Father on his throne.
– See MANSION OF THE DEAD.
