>>40742978 (OP)"What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable." -- 1 Corinthians 15:50
Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” -- John 18:36
"For we know that, if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." -- 2 Corinthians 5
I would say that it seems like the the two groups you describe are the ideas that come most naturally to people, and the main reason Christianity *isn't* like that is because it's the end result of a sycretism between two groups that were like that, with the first set of ideas coming mostly from Greek influence (immortal souls, hades, metempsychosis) and the second set of ideas coming mostly from Jewish influence (death as sleep, bodily resurrection at the end of the world).
Also I don't think the premise necessarily applies to Buddhism, since Buddhist metaphysics doesn't involve explicitly assuming the existence of spirits, and when beings are reborn their rebirth usually involves a body of some sort, including in the heavens and the hells, at least everywhere except arupa-loka, where beings are supposed to be pure mind until they eventually die and are reborn elsewhere.
