2006-08-15 16:03:15 · 16 answers · asked by Blueocean 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How do you know what it was like before you were born? Much less after you die?
2006-08-15 16:10:28 · answer #1 · answered by Happy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where were you before you were born, if you have an eternal soul? Eternal means you were in existence before you were born, as well as after you die.
2006-08-15 23:10:36 · answer #2 · answered by NANCY K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blackness is an awareness and consciousness but without any stimulus. The idea of no existence after death is that there isn't even blackness: there's no consciousness at all.
2006-08-15 23:11:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last time this happened to me, there was a great light at the end of the tunnel. The time before that, let's see, now. . .
2006-08-15 23:12:49 · answer #4 · answered by Hermit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When u think as far back as u can, before that u where like dead. There was no Heaven, no God, there was nothing. I,m inclined to think it will be the same after death.
2006-08-15 23:11:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but as if we are sleeping. We do have the resurection to eternal life to look forward to.
I have found great comfort in knowing how the Bible describes our life after death.
It states clearly that we do not know anything. It is as if we are asleep. We do not "go" anywhere. Our Spirit (breathe see Genesis 2:7) returns to God. This is literally the air we breathe that sustains our life.
We do not get our "just reward" at the time of death - see Eccl. below.
I also want you to know that when Jesus comes we will all be raised up to see Him. - 1Cor & 1 Thes. below
I have also included some Bible quotes regarding death being a sleep.
Hope this helps. I no longer worry about someone being in hell and suffering or being in heaven suffering because they are watching their loved ones going through rough times.
Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss this further.
John 11:11. These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. 12. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. 13. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. 14. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
Ecclesiastes 9: 5. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward;
Luke 8: 52. And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth. 53. And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
1 Cor. 15:51. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
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1 Thes. 4:13. 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. 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15. 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 (go before) them which are asleep. 16. 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: 17. 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. 18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
2006-08-15 23:08:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it's all blackness before you were actually born because light actually penetrates through your mothers stomach and uterus walls. I think it's kind of a light glow in the womb.
2006-08-15 23:16:50 · answer #7 · answered by sailormars_53188 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why blackness? Why not purpleness? Atheists generally believe this, or something close. I generally think we cease to have cognitive thought, and thus cease to exist.
2006-08-15 23:09:34 · answer #8 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a feeling that might be the case, but who really knows, hmmm?! I'm hoping there's more, or at the very least to live on in someone's memory for a while......
2006-08-15 23:09:04 · answer #9 · answered by valisme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I believe that after you die, your spirit is released from your body and you are conscious.
2006-08-15 23:10:27 · answer #10 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋