Dear Civil: You have never been born and have never died. "Your "birth" is not a beginning - it is but a continuing."
You were never born, you were CREATED. Your Creator/Father is a spirit. Spirit-Mind. You are created in His likeness, as part of Himself. He fills all space and dimension. We are, in Reality, encompassed or enfolded within His spirit essence.
Physical life is NOT your inheritance. WHEN YOU DIE, you have Free Will - a gift from the Creator. You may choose to remain without your body (image) and stay on the "other side" (the heavens), or you may choose to return for another life inside of Time. We tend to come back as a part of the continuum.
Eventually, you will return to your awareness of your natural state of Spirit and remain in Eternity with your Creator. Where you have always belonged. We do not say "that is the end" as you said in your question. We say, "We are Eternal beings" always fully conscious. Jesus demonstrated the Resurrection to prove what WE ARE - an Eternal Force - a Truth that cannot be killed or denied. Amen.
2006-08-01 07:25:22
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answered by Lana S (1) 4
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If you have trusted and believed that the Lord Jesus Christ died for your sins it is not the end but the beginning of eternity. We have a promise of a new body a heavenly Body. Philippians 3: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. However if you have rejected what the Lord Jesus Christ did on the cross, you will spend eternity in hell and the lake of fire. Mark 9: 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. You will get a body that never dies and it will be like your father the devil. Revelation 20: 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Revelation 20: 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
2006-08-01 07:15:51
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answered by Ray W 6
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Because many people have a general fear of death. Some have argued that this is the primary basis for the development of religious beliefs - so that we can deal with the psychological trauma of death possibly being "The End." Some of us hope that there is something "more," that life is not a one-shot deal, futile, or in vain. Unfortunately, many get so caught up in that idea that they sometimes neglect this life, since some religions teach that this life is "temporal" but the afterlife is "eternal".
Ernest Becker has written a very enlightening book on the subject of death and our abilities/inabilities to address it, entitled "The Denial of Death." You might want to check it out.
2006-08-01 06:46:04
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answered by Anonymous
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They are dead. Not floating around somewhere; not in hell burning up forever and ever; not in heaven, happy while they can see us here on earth, & all the crying from their loved ones, mourning at the dead person's death. Ecc. 9:5,6, "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. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun." or 1 Thess. 4:13-18. "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." Then the righteous will be in heaven for 1000 years, & the unrighteous will be dead here on earth. Satan & his demons will be on earth too, but alive, with no one to torment. (They will not be burning for that time.) After that 1000 years, the Holy City (heaven) will come to earth, & the evil will be resurrected, & will try to overthrow the city. They won't be able to. They'll be burned. But not forever. Burned "according to their workds" (Rev. 20:13). Satan's will be the worst. Think about it: when you burn something, can you burn its ashes?
2006-08-01 06:49:38
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answered by beckaroo_messer 2
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There's life after death. Believers and non-believers both sleep once they die 'till the Rapture. then, the believers go with God 4 eternity and non-believers burn in Hell 4 how long their punishment should b along with Satan. Check John 3:16 & Psalms 37:10, 20
2006-08-01 06:56:41
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answered by ♠I Did My Time♠ 4
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Our spirits will start a new life in hell or in heaven. If you make yourself right with God before dying, God will reward you and give you eternal life. Christ died to free us from our sins and Adams' sins also. We are born sinners, because Adams sinned before God and the curse fall on us or his children. If you accept to be a born again believer by making yourself right with God through faith, you will be saved. For it is written throughout the old testament before the Messiah that the just shall live by faith. we can't be saved without Christ.
2006-08-01 06:52:09
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answered by lucky 4
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When person dies they are immediately ushered into the presence of God. "It is appointed unto man to die, once tnen the judgement." Hebrews 10:27. Upon death a person goes to their eternal destiny,depending on what they did with Jesus. (John 3:16; 36,37)
The Bible doesn't teach anything about second chances, accept in life.
2006-08-01 06:49:05
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answered by tigranvp2001 4
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The theory I have that if there is a hell call purgatory that we must live life until we have reached all the perfections of life.
To make it simpler I think that we are reincaranted until whe have throughout our many lives learned all of lifes lessons and then we can pass through the material into the beyond of "nirvana."
P.S. play the digital devil saga....it makes you think.
2006-08-01 06:45:39
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answered by AngelicXtaC 1
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When the spirit leaves its dead body behind, it goes to one or two places--paradise or spirit prison. The righteous will go to paradise and the unrighteous will bide their time in the spirit prison until Christ comes, the resurrections begin, and then the final judgment at His bar.
Then the ultimate destination waits; you'll be assigned to either one of the three degrees of glory or heaven, or hell or outer darkness.
2006-08-01 06:47:03
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answered by Guitarpicker 7
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The end.
2006-08-01 06:42:17
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answered by Anonymous
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