what's next when we die?

Answer 1

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 2

"...We shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good; for one of two things, either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but the greatest king will not find many such days or nights, when compared to the others. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night. But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead abide, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater than this? If indeed when the pilgrim arrives in the world below, he is delivered from the professors of justice in this world, and finds the true judges who are said to give judgement there . . . that pilgrimage will be worth taking. What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again!"

Answer 3

The grave, or Hades, Hell. Hades is really translated as the grave so we will go to the grave and then the next thing we will know is Jesus calling us to go to Heaven. See 1 Thess. 4:16-17. We do not go to Heaven one by one as most will tell you like a dripping faucet but all at once when Jesus comes for us. While in the grave you know nothing but are in a peaceful sleep. Eccl. 9:5-6. for more info check out the site below and do the studies. YOu will learn a lot.

Answer 4

We have died so many times and so we have the FEAR for DEATH.We have enjoyed this same living human being experiances previously by number of BIRTHS.Every time we take a birth,our old experiances come to the fore to react to the situation.PURITY of thoughts is the ultimate realization of all the human being.The life energy of accidentally dead people still there in the earth near moist places(especially in river bed and trees)make bad vibration on certain bye-passers.The life energy of good people,after dead. go to the realised soul and get further realisation.LIFE after DEATH, even it is revealed openly,it is still a secret that nobody understands the GOD's LANGUAGE!It can only be realised individually and cannot be INTERPRETED!

Answer 5

People who had near death experiences recount stories of their life flashing before them, floating above their body and seeing it from a distance. Entering a tunnel with a white light at the end. Then feeling a sense of happines and joy meeting a wise old man or lady, perhaps a relative, surrouded in bright light.

Answer 6

I'm Agnostic so I believe that there is no possible way for anyone to know for sure until we die, and then (of course) we're dead so we can't tell anyone...

But along with that, I'd like to think that there's something good waiting for the ones that lead good lives.

Answer 7

Reincarnation. What you think this is a cruel God that only lets you live one life. If so then why some are less fortunate than others. What sins an armless child committed to deserve to be born that way, then dies in 12 days?

Answer 8

When you're dead, you're dead.
Where does a fetus think it came from, and where does it expect to go?
Get on with life and make this world a better place for the living!

"...they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." Micah 4:3
Let's make it happen!

Answer 9

That would depend on of you died a christian or died lost and with out Christ. Christians go to heaven, and the rest go to hell.

Answer 10

nobody knows till we die