We either gunna get turned to ashes or be rotting in the ground.
Evidence? Go digging around in a graveyard. You'll see.
There's also the option of donating organs... I'll be doing that, by the way. Not like I'll need 'em after I'm gone.
2006-12-17 14:04:47
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Christ Conquers the Evil of Death
by Pope John Paul II
It is the same when we deal with death. It is often awaited even as a liberation from the suffering of this life. At the same time, it is not possible to ignore the fact that it constitutes as it were a definitive summing-up of the destructive work both in the bodily organism and in the psyche. But death primarily involves the dissolution of the entire psychophysical personality of man. The soul survives and subsists separated from the body, while the body is subjected to gradual decomposition according to the words of the Lord God, pronounced after the sin committed by man at the beginning of his earthly history: "You are dust and to dust you shall return." Therefore, even if death is not a form of suffering in the temporal sense of the word, even if in a certain way it is beyond all forms of suffering, at the same time the evil which the human being experiences in death has a definitive and total character. By His salvific work, the only-begotten Son liberates man from sin and death. First of all He blots out from human history the dominion of sin, which took root under the influence of the evil spirit beginning with original sin, and then He gives man the possibility of living in sanctifying grace. In the wake of His victory over sin, He also takes away the dominion of death, by His resurrection beginning the process of the future resurrection of the body. Both are essential conditions of "eternal life," that is, of man's definitive happiness in union with God; this means, for the saved, that in the eschatological perspective suffering is totally blotted out.
2006-12-17 22:09:44
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answer #2
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answered by Gods child 6
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ALL OF US are appointed to die once!
Heb 9:27 Indeed, just as people are appointed to die once and after that to be judged.....
When we die NO ONE goes to heaven or hell! We simply cease to exist and turn back to dust in our graves, where we UNCONSCIOUSLY await the resurrection.
Gen 3:19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Ecc 9:5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.
Ecc 9:6 Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended...
ONLY God is immortal!
1Ti 6:15 --he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
1Ti 6:16 WHO ALONE has immortality...
We, as individual souls, DO DIE! We ARE NOT immortal! Souls DIE!
Ezek. 18:20 The soul who sins SHALL DIE.
Of course after WE ALL die this first death, then comes the resurrection of THE FIRSTFRUITS- or simply put, THE FIRST RESURRECTION! This resurrection invovles ONLY those having died the 1st death- that had their hearts in Christ. These resurrected ones will be Kings & Priests to God and will reign with him for 1000 years HERE ON THE EARTH!
The rest of the dead will continue to lie in their graves unconsciously and won't be resurrected until the GENERAL RESURRECTION, when the thousand years are over. At that time those not found in Christ will be thrown into the lake of fire and die THE PERMANENT (SECOND) DEATH in which their is no resurrection BACK-TO-LIFE! AND NO- NO ETERNAL TORMENTING EITHER!
Rev 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be PRIESTS of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Rev 5:10 and have made them kings and PRIESTS to our God; and they will reign ON THE EARTH (NOT Heaven).
Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is THE SECOND DEATH.
2006-12-17 23:23:15
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answered by Anonymous
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Well, I have chosen to believe what the bible says. For many reasons.
Also my grandmother before she died was in the hospital. She sat up in bed and described Heaven. She then started waving, yelling, "hi, hello, Hi," then she named the persons she saw. All "dead".
She is one reason I'm a christian.
2006-12-17 22:08:49
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answered by Jeanmarie 7
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We are not privy to that information. If we were some say we would be literally dieing to get into Heaven.
2006-12-17 22:07:07
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answered by Nora Explora 6
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