What I'm telling you is the truth. If you do not repent of your sins, you shall perish forever.
People who do not know Jesus Christ as their Saviour will end up in the burning pit of hell
Christians who are disobedient will end up in a barren land before being thrown into the pit of hell again.
Christians who are obedient and have a pure heart will live in heaven for eternity.
Remember that GOOD people cannot go to heaven. Only PERFECT people can go to heaven. How can you be made perfect? God's blood that he shed for us has already made us perfect.
Believe and you shall be saved!
2006-06-20 23:17:37
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answer #1
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answered by -KJ- 3
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Several people ask this.
You know there are many people who believe that when people die, they go into the ground and they sleep there till the coming of the Lord. Is that true or isn’t that true, Soul Sleep…?
No, it’s not true at all and it’s a very erroneous doctrine.
James 2:26 says, “As the body without the spirit dead…” Where does that spirit go? 2 Corinthians 5:8 says, “Absent from the body… present with the Lord”. That’s why Paul said, “To die is gain”. Now, when the Lord returns in I Thessalonians 4:16-18, he brings the dead with him to come after the dead, for the dead in Christ rise first. What part does he bring with him? – The spirit that left the body, that’s been there to join the body. There is no soul-sleep in this book.
A lot of people use Hebrews chapter 12, verses 1 & 2, where there is a great cloud of witnesses, and they think that means that they are sitting in the heavenlies watching us and every move we make. But that is not so. The great cloud of witnesses are the great heroes of the faith of chapter 11. And because of the way they lived, we are to follow their example, but they can not look down from heaven and see what is going on in this earth, if they could it would make heaven hell, because they’d see so much heartache, even among their children and grandchildren, etc.
Now, the Bible teaches that there will come a time when we are like Christ. In Acts 15:18 it says, “known unto God are all His works...” And Christ is the 2nd member of the Trinity, and now in His heavenly body, He knows everything about everything, because He is God. That means He is Omniscient, knowing all things about all things. When we are raptured, then we get bodies and minds like His. That’s why David said in Psalms 17:15, “I shall be satisfied when I awaken with your likeness.” And when we see Jesus we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is, I John 3:2. So there’s an hour coming when we get these new bodies and new minds, and then we will be all knowing. And not until then. So nobody in the heavenlies now can see what’s going on.
In Luke 15, whenever anyone is converted upon the earth, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over 1 sinner that repents, because the message is relayed to the angels, and the angels relay it throughout the heavenlies. So that if a mother’s son finds Christ, and one for whom she’s prayed for years, there is joy because the message has been related. It’s not because she knows everything, she won’t until she gets that body, the new glorified body of the resurrection. So, I hope that answers the question, because it is exactly what the Word of God teaches. And oh, Jesus is coming soon, and we’ll have that great mind in the near future.
2006-06-21 06:10:50
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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after you die, your are burried, then a new life is explored to you, the LIFE AFTER DEATH, here you will have what you have done in the world. you have answer 3 questions and then will be rewarded on the basis of your answers heaven or hell untill the day of Judgement will arrive. Then you will have to answer whatever you would had done in the world. if you have virtues you will be rewarded heaven, and your virtues are less than you sins, you will be thrown into hell forever. Remember there will be no existance of death after the day of judgement. you will live forever. so think and decide now where you want to go/. I will wish for you to chooose the right parth.
wish u good luck.
2006-06-21 06:25:03
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answer #3
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answered by exp.arbhatti 3
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Please read.
We go to the spirit world where we will hear d gospel and wait till the Millenium. Aborted babies, those who never had d opportunity 2 hear d gospel, good people from other religions and those who accepted chirst but never had d opportunity 2 b baptised will live with christ for 1000yrs. Satan will not be allowed to tempt. These people will all b baptised there. "Unless a man is born of d water and d spirit he cannot enter d kingdom of God". Finally, All will be judged and sent 2 heaven or hell.
Note: They would have accepted chirst first b4 given d opportunity 2 live with him during the millenium.
2006-06-21 06:27:08
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answer #4
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answered by kinny 2
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Absent from the body, present with the Lord. II Corinthians 5:8.
2006-06-21 06:20:43
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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Nostradamus said that the world will disapear in 2012. The four riders of Apocalypse or whatever, so enjoy your time here and don't ask stupid questions. Who cares what will happen? This is just another flesh, right? Maybe you'll be turned into an ant...
2006-06-21 06:50:07
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answer #6
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answered by k 2
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We are surrounded by light that draws us inside. We recognize the light as home, somewhere we have known before.
Consciousness continues. We enter a world of our design that we create through our expectations, and may be met by images of persons we love who have passed over. Christians might see Jesus or Mary, Jews might see Moses or other prophets, atheists might see only darkness and hear only silence for a while.
Eventually we recall the life we have just lived. We experience every moment of it, almost simultaneously. We remember it all. As we review our lives, we feel every hurt we caused every person or creature, every time we caused another pain. We also feel every joy and comfort we gave to another person or creature during our lives. We understand that the smallest happiness we gave to another has profound importance to the soul.
We reincarnate.
2006-06-21 11:24:04
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answer #7
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answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7
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Eccl.9:5-"For the living are conscious that they will die,but as for the dead they are conscious of nothing at all."
Gen.3:19-"...Until you return to the ground,for out of it you were taken.For dust you are and to dust you will return."
Think of what that means.Before God created him from the dust,Adam did not exist.After his death,Adam returned to the same state of nonexistence.
The Bible teaches that death is the opposite of life.
This means that the dead are unable to do or feel anything.They no longer have thoughts or remember anything.
But our loving heavenly Father,Jehovah,has promised that he will bring about wonderful changes,restoring mankind to perfection and resurrecting the millions 'asleep' in death.-Acts24:15.So until that time,our dead loved ones remain in Gods memory.
2006-06-21 08:19:23
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answered by lillie 6
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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.
2006-06-21 07:28:12
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answer #9
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answered by BJ 7
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No. Nobody does. Anybody who answers differently is just speculating, or confusing the words 'know' and 'believe'.
2006-06-21 06:12:56
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answered by XYZ 7
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