islam gives a vivid account of what happens in the grave and when we resurrect, what is the christians' take?

Question

can any knowledgable christian tell me what christianity teaches about life in the grave and after we resurrect?

Answer 1

Christianity teaches about the consequences of living your life in a pure and meaningful way. In the way that Hindus believe that your Dharma effects how you are reincarnated, Christians believe that your soul passes from your body at death and is welcomed into heaven where all the good and pure souls go after death. Heaven is considered to be paradise and those who make it there are pure and holy. Another belief about Heaven is that God resides there and watches over the world. Those who pass into heaven are given the paradise of Gods domain and remain in pleasure for eternity. Christians also believe that if you lose a friend or a relative on Earth, then you will be reunited with their soul in Heaven. The alternative is to burn in hell. You will fall to hell after death if you have lived an unchristian existence and have basically been evil. Hell is considered to be a place of eternal damnation in which your soul will constantly burn and suffer for eternity. Because their are two branches of Christianity, Catholics and Protestants the account of this varies depending on the specific church. Catholics believe that when the body dies the soul passes to a place known as Purgatory which is a kind of judging place between Heaven and Hell. Individual souls are considered there and released to their final place either heaven and hell. Protestants don't go for this idea so much and believe in direct entry to heaven based on life behaviour.

Answer 2

Most Christians believe that when a person dies, his spirit (soul) leaves his body and immediately goes to either Heaven (if he's accepted Jesus's gift of salvation), or hell (if he hasn't accepted salvation.) They believe hell is a place that will burn forever and the unsaved will burn there in agony forever.
SOME of us believe that instead of going directly to Heaven or hell, our souls remain with our bodies until Jesus comes back, when we will be resurrected for judgment and then we'll either be sent to burn up with the Earth (not forever as the other Christians believe), or we'll be given eternal life in Heaven.
I'm not at home right now and I don't have my Bible, or I would give scriptures that tell the state of the dead. One I remember is:
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. "~Ecclesiastes 9:5

Answer 3

You have to remember that the Quran and other Islamic teachings are based on the pure speculation of man, not divine inspiration. The Bible has references to the afterlife sprinkled throughout the text. The end of Revelation gives a picture of the new Jerusalem. Jesus spoke of the afterlife, both Heaven and Hell throughout the Gospels. Those are just a couple of references, if you dig into the book, you will find many more.

Answer 4

Islam vivid account of grave happening is conjucture. All the grave punishment traditions are wrong because they contradict Qur'an.

Answer 5

Ask 10 people, get 10 different replies.

When you die you are asleep and waiting for the day when the large war between good and evil happens

When you die your soul goes to heave to be judged

When you die your body turns back to dust, your soul goes to a sort waiting area between heave and earth, you are staying there until your sins have been cleansed. Once that happens we all go to heaven. Some will have to wait longer than others, babies wait there forever.

Answer 6

That is an intersting question, but it has no answer. firstly there is no one christian belif, there are many forms of christianity, and each one teaches things slightly different.

E.G to the latterday saints there are 3 kingdoms of heven and one kingdom of eternal darkness.
The chatholics belives in heven and hell, and as long as you are baptised you are pretty much going to heven.
The Jahova Witnesses belive in heven and hell, but only a certian amount of people can get in, and the more you convert to the religion the better chaces of you getting in to heaven.

and then with in the denominations, indviduals have verying belives, God i could go on all night.

Answer 7

Well, it depends on what denomination you ask. Most will tell you that after death your soul goes to heaven. Others will say that upon death the soul dies and is resurrected in the Day of the Lord to either heaven or on Earth. It just depends on who you ask! :)

Answer 8

Christianity? Jesus? Dying?

What is the Imacculate Conception supposed to mean?

(NOT A VIRGIN BIRTH! - betcha never knew that.)

Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .

If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.

Gods do not die? Do they?

If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?

Did Jesus give up Saturday for us? Big deal!

If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.

If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!

If you swallow this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to swallow it too.

Christians want everyone to convert to their non-thinking in order to be 'saved'.

Believing and not thinking is like choosing a mental illness and becoming lost.

Answer 9

From a christian point of view. You die and are immediately reunited with Jesus and judged accordingly. We have no "life in the grave".

Answer 10

It is only vivid for a believer, but unbelievers they start suffering in their graves.