Where do you think you go when you die?

Question

Many say to heaven. but the bible says not. we go to our grave we are conscious of nothing. we go back to dust.
“he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.”—Psalm 146:4
“Dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19
, Psalm 146:4 says that when a man dies, “his thoughts do perish.”
If you read your bible you will see the same scriptures stated.

Answer 1

I agree with what you said. And though some think this is a reference to the body, and that the soul lives on, this is not the case because it is written: "The soul that sins will die."

Answer 2

God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him SHOULD NOT PERISH, but have ETERNAL LIFE. John 3:16

Psalms 146:4 speaks of our physical death, but our souls acsends up to heaven.

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from sin and DEATH. Romans 8:2

If you READ your bible then you would see these scriptures as well. So keep reading to get the full understanding and also keep praying and meditating on the Lord.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths. -Proverbs 3: 5,6

Answer 3

WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT DEATH

Jesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.—1 Corinthians 15:6.


The Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death.—John 11:11.
The account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle.

Think about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it?— And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place?— Of course not!

Yet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Gen. 2:7, Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.

The Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.

Clearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection.

Answer 4

When you read the Bible, pray and ask God to open your eyes and your mind and reveal what the text is saying. So many people try to pick God apart, but God is SOO much bigger and powerful than that. Do you understand the power of God? By you reading the Bible without any spiritual guidance is almost like reading words, but the true understanding comes in when you let God open your eyes and your ears to what He is trying to reveal. But to answer your question, I am going to heaven. Read St. John 14

Answer 5

You body becomes dust your spirit goes to heaven, as the bible says John 3:16 For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son that who shall believeth in me shall have life everlasting.

Answer 6

Either heaven or hell. And yes when we die we are conscious of nothing until Jesus calls everyone(and i mean everyone) from the grave. Our soul is etertnal it will live forever either in heaven or hell, but that's up to you

Answer 7

Our spirit goes to the kingdom of heaven, atleast some of us will, but our bodies stay on Earth until Jesus comes back to get us...

Answer 8

Into a hole in the ground. If they won't bury me because they loved me, then they'll bury me to get rid of the stench; either way the result will be the same.

Answer 9

WHEN THE SOUL LEAVES THE BODY, THE BODY SLEEPS

The term "sleep" is never applied to the soul or the spirit, but only to a believer's body. The soul and the spirit continue to exist after death. The body "sleeps" and goes back to dust. The following verses refer to the state of the body at death as sleep:

Matthew 9:24
"He began to say, 'Depart; for the girl has not died, but is asleep.' And they were laughing at Him."

John 11:11
"This He said, and after that He said to them, 'Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awaken him out of sleep.'"

Acts 7:59-60
"And they went on stoning Stephen as he called upon the Lord and said, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!' And falling on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, 'Lord do not hold this sin against them!' And having said this, he fell asleep."

Acts 13:36
"For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers, and underwent decay."

1 Thessalonians 4:14
"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus."


A BELIEVER'S BODY WILL BE RESURRECTED WHEN OUR LORD
JESUS CHRIST RETURNS:

1 Corinthians 15:50-53
"Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality."

Believers who are with the Lord will come back with Him to receive new bodies at the resurrection.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words."

Compare Revelation 6:9-11 with 2 Corinthians 5:1-4,8:

Revelation 6:9-11
"When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained; and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?' And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also."

2 Corinthians 5:1-4,8
"For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life… we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord."

"But what about Ecclesiastes 9:5?"

"For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten."

The context of this verse is "under the sun." It is saying that the dead do not know anything that is going on "under the sun" vss.3,6 -- that is, on earth after they die and are in heaven (Eccl.12:7).



The Scriptures we've read clearly teach that the soul and the spirit are more than breath. A person's soul and spirit are separated from their body when they die. The soul is conscious in heaven after death awaiting the resurrection of the body.

Jesus' promise to Martha in John 11:25-26 is also very clear:

"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?'"

A literal translation of the Greek text clarifies even more: "I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in me even if he should die will live [or 'continue to go on living' --future active indicative tense, which speaks of continuous action], even if dies [the tense here, (2nd aorist subjunctive, 3rd class conditional), denotes the possibility of dying in a point of time, but it concedes something: it concedes that even if he dies, he will continue to go on living]."

Clearly, Jesus is saying, "The one who believes in Me will continue to go on living even if he dies at a particular point of time." In other words, there is never a break in the life of a believer. A believer's life continues without any interruption by death.

The text continues in verse 26: "And everyone living and believing in me shall never, by no means (extremely emphatic in the Greek) dies unto the age…" (The Zondervan Parallel New Testament in Greek and English, Zondervan, 1975, p. 307). Eternal life does not stop and start. It is a life of such a quality that it never dies!

Answer 10

the bible is literature.. you need to read BETWEEN the lines.

what is written is the physical (earthly)consciousness of an individual.