Grief With a Floor: Paul's Theology of Death That Refuses to Let Hope Collapse into Denial — 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. — The dead in Christ are not lost — and grief that knows this is a fundamentally different species of sorrow.