Christians & Muslims: What happens to Christians & Muslims in the first week after their death?

Question

Do Christians go to Heaven?
Purgatory?
Await in the ether for while?
Lay in the grave until the return of Jesus? (If so, what happens if you've been cremated or tragically mutilated?)

If you can, document your answers, please.

(OOPS: I meant Christians and Muslims.

Answer 1

The body of a Muslim goes to the grave (if lucky, or whereever it eventually goes to dust) and the soul goes to its own relm and waits for the judgement by the Most Merciful and Compassionate of all the judges who knows the weakness and strengths of His creation (human) and all the temptrations that the person had to deal with in this world. Only Allah knows when the judgement will be and how it will be but it will be based on one's own deeds with no intercession. He is the most forgiving and provide plenty of opportunities to human to sincerely repent so that the misdeeds are forgiven and the forgiven person is reverted to the pure sinless state with which he was born in the first place. Allah has better than USB connections to the thinking/planning parts of our brains so he know which prayer for forgiveness is true and which one is a cunning Machiavillian repentence. Allah knows we have plenty of temptations (& Satan) so we may slip again by our mistake and do misdeeds and if we go again and sincerely repent, Allah will hear as He says that " I am closer to you than your Jogular vein. Call me and I will hear". Alah says ask me sincerely for forgiveness and I will forgive you except if you hold partners with me (& unless you repent this as well and acknowledge me as one soverighn true God as acknowledged and taught by Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad and the exaulted prophets before them.
As far as the body is concerned, in Muslim belief it is just an earthly carriage of the soul and goes to dust and can be retrieved and revived and re-joined with the soul the same way as Adam was initially created from the dust without a father and mother. If all the particles of the body dust were created by God, why will these particle refuse to reassemble by His command to make the original body again.
As far as the question about the "first week" is concerned, the body cells start deteriorating as expected but the soul is free from the time scales of this world so the concept of worldly weeks and days does not apply because it is not bound to earth and the earth cycles of days and weeks.
Who goes to heaven? That judgement belongs to Allah, the name used in the Quran for the one true God that sent Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad as His prophets. By original definition of the term, all those who who submitted to and obeyed the message of His prophets in its original form without adulteration in the original message are called Muslims and candidate for the heaven (or reward) from Allah whether they were called Jews, Christian or with any other associative name.
According to Muslim belief, Jesus will return by the will of Allah and proclaim the soverenity of the one & only true God Allah that he preached during his prophethood and first mission before his ascention from the earth by the plans of Allah. The judgement will come later after Jesus completes his mission after the second coming on earth and live and pass from this world like other human, and only God knows the exact times of the judgement. But the judgement will be there for all the deeds we have done here with rewards and punishment as promised but He is the sovereign and the Most Merciful and Compassionate of all judges and forgives when we truely repent because He will know the Machiavillian type repentence.
Forgive me if you do not see the kind of depth you wanted in this write up because I am not a scholar of religion but an engineer by profession and a layman Muslim.

Answer 2

Hello friend,

I believe that most souls cross over immediately after the body dies. Religion has nothing to do with the eternal life of our souls.

There are dark souls who may never cross over and that is their choice. They can still go to the light.

I believe that our souls live many lives. Yea, I probably lost a lot of them with that one.

Cold front just now coming thru in south Texas. Thank God, it was hot today.

Answer 3

Read John 11 about Lazurus. Martha was worried that if Jesus rolled back the stone that it would stink.

People decompose after death, you know, "dust to dust" and "ashes to ashes."

go to bibleuniverse.com you'll learn a lot.

God bless and keep seeking after truth.

Answer 4

Whether you call yourself my disciple or not will not merit you Salvation, but that if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised me from the dead, you will be saved.

Answer 5

HI THIS IS GOD SPEAKING. WHEN HUMANS DIE, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT SORT OF MOOD I'M IN. I DON'T CARE ABOUT DENOMINATIONS OR IF SOMEONE BELIEVES I EXIST. I BASICALLY JUST CAST THEM INTO HEAVEN IF I FEEL LIKE IT, OR SEND THEM BACK TO EARTH TO TRY AGAIN NEXT TIME. OCCASIONALLY I HAVE THEM GO OUT FOR PIZZA FOR ME. I LIKE EXTRA ANCHOVES AND KALAMATA OLIVES.

~ GOD

Answer 6

it's up to god that who will go to heaven and who to hell