Everyone who uses this verse to support the heresy of "thou shalt not SURELY die" forgets a very important component of 2 Corinthians 5 - the part Paul mentions about being "naked" and "unclothed" - a state of which the dead are without a body...and at what time is that? Dead and in the grave and awaiting our heavenly body which is given when Jesus descends with "the trumpet of God". This same Paul knew full well this when he wrote to the Corinthians "at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptable, and we shall be changed...for this corruptable (fleshly body) must put on incorruption (spiritual body)..."We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8) no one ever died in Christ's presence
People take Paul's desire to skip the part about waiting "unclothed" and "naked' in the grave and instead go straight to be in the presence of Jesus as a discounting of what he already knew full well...by his OWN testimony, he plainly teaches that he did not expect to put on eternal life until the trumpet sounds.