Where are we before we are born?

Question

Do you think we were in the same place we will return when we die? and where is that?

Answer 1

The question whether there is a life after death does not fall under the jurisdiction of science, as science is concerned only with classification and analysis of data. Moreover, man has been busy with scientific inquiries and research, in the modern sense of the term, only for the last few centuries, while he has been familiar with the concept of life after death since times immemorial. All the prophets of God called their people to worship God and to believe in life after death. They laid so much emphasis on the belief in life after death that even a slight doubt in it meant denying God and made all other beliefs meaningless. The very fact that all the prophets of God have dealt with this metaphysical question of life after death so confidently and so uniformly - the gap between their ages being thousands of years - goes to prove that the source of their knowledge of life after death as proclaimed by them all, was the same, i.e., Divine revelation. We also know that these prophets of God were greatly opposed by their people, mainly on the issue of life after death, as their people thought it impossible. But in spite of opposition, the prophets won many sincere followers.
The question arises: what made those followers forsake the established beliefs, traditions and customs of their forefathers, notwithstanding the risk of being totally alienated from their own community? The simple answer is: they made use of their faculties of mind and heart and realized the truth. Did they realize the truth through perceptual consciousness? Not so, as perceptual experience of life after death is impossible.

Actually, God has given man, besides perceptual consciousness, rational, aesthetic and moral consciousness too. It is this consciousness that guides man regarding realities that cannot be verified through sensory data. That is why all the prophets of God while calling people to believe in God and life after death, appeal to the aesthetic, moral and rational consciousness of man.

For example, when the idolaters of Makkah denied even the possibility of life after death, the Quran exposed the weakness of their stand by advancing very logical and rational arguments in support of it: "And he has coined for us a similitude, and has forgotten the fact of his creation, saying: who will revive these bones when they have rotted away? Say: He will revive them Who produced them at first, for He is the Knower of every creation, Who has appointed for you fire from the green tree, and behold! you kindle from it. Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth, able to create the like of them? Yes, and He is indeed the Supreme Creator, the All-Knowing." (36:78-81)

At another occasion, the Quran very clearly says that the disbelievers have no sound basis for their denial of life after death. It is based on pure conjecture: "They say, 'There is nothing but our present life; we die, and we live, and nothing but Time destroys us.' Of that they have no knowledge; they merely conjecture. And when our revelations are recited to them, their only argument is that they say, 'Bring us our fathers, if you speak truly.' (45:24-25)

Surely God will raise all the dead. But God has His own plan of things. A day will come when the whole universe will be destroyed and then again the dead will be resurrected to stand before God. That day will be the beginning of the life that will never end, and that Day every person will be rewarded by God according to his or her good or evil deed.

The explanation that the Quran gives about the necessity of life after death is what the moral consciousness of man demands. Actually, if there is no life after death, the very belief in God becomes irrelevant, or even if one believes in God, that would be an unjust and indifferent God: having once created man and not concerned with his fate. Surely, God is just. He will punish the tyrants whose crimes are beyond count: having killed hundreds of innocent persons, created great corruptions in the society, enslaved numerous persons to serve their whims, etc. Man's having a very short span of life in this world, and this physical world's too being not eternal, punishments or rewards equal to the evil or noble deeds of persons are not possible here.

The Quran very emphatically states that the Day of Judgment must come and God will decide about the fate of each soul according to his or her record of deeds: "Those who disbelieve say: The Hour will never come unto us. Say: Nay, by my Lord, but it is coming unto you surely. (He is) the Knower of the Unseen. Not an atom's weight, or less than that or greater, escapes Him in the heavens or in the earth, but it is in a clear Record. That He may reward those who believe and do good words. For them is pardon and a rich provision. But those who strive against our revelations, challenging (Us), theirs will be a painful doom of wrath." (34:3-5)

The Day of Resurrection will be the Day when God's attributes of Justice and Mercy will be in full manifestation. God will shower His Mercy on those who suffered for His sake in the worldly life, believing that an eternal bliss was awaiting them. But those who abused the bounties of God, caring nothing for the life to come, will be in the most miserable state.

Drawing a comparison between them, the Quran says: "Is he, then, to whom We have promised a goodly promise the fulfillment of which he will meet, like the one whom We have provided with the good things of this life, and then on the Day of Resurrection he will be of those who will be brought arraigned before God?" (28:61)

The Quran also states that this worldly life is a preparation for the eternal life after death. But those who deny it become slaves of their passions and desires, make fun of virtuous and God-conscious persons. Such persons realize their folly only at the time of their death and wish to be given a further chance in the world but in vain. Their miserable state at the time of death, and the horror of the Day of Judgment, and the eternal bliss guaranteed to the sincere believers are very beautifully mentioned in the following verses of the Holy Quran:

"Until, when death comes unto one of them, he says, 'My Lord send me back, that I may do right in that which I have left behind! But nay! It is but a word that he speaks; and behind them is a barrier until the day when they are raised. And when the Trumpet is blown there will be no kinship among them that day, nor will they ask of one another. Then those whose scales are heavy, they are successful. And those whose scales are light are those who lose their souls, in hell abiding, the fire burns their faces and they are glum therein." (23:99-104)

The belief in life after death not only guarantees success in the Hereafter but also makes this world full of peace and happiness by making individuals most responsible and dutiful in their activities.

Think of the people of Arabia. Gambling, wine, tribal feuds, plundering and murdering were their main traits when they had no belief in life after death. But as soon as they accepted the belief in One God and life after death they became the most disciplined nation of the world. They gave up their vices, helped each other in hours of need, and settled all their disputes on the basis of justice and equality.

Similarly the denial of life after death has its consequences not only in the Hereafter but also in this world. When a nation as a whole denies it, all kinds of evils and corruptions become rampant in that society and ultimately it is destroyed. The Quran mentions the terrible end of 'Aad, Thamud and the Pharaoh in some detail: "(The tribes of) Thamud and 'Aad disbelieved in the judgment to come. As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the lightning, and as for 'Aad, they were destroyed by a fierce roaring wind, which He imposed on them for seven long nights and eight long days so that you might see the people laid prostrate in it as if they were the stumps of fallen down palm trees. "Now do you see remnant of them?

Pharaoh likewise and those before him and the subverted cities. They committed errors and those before him, and they rebelled against the Messenger of their Lord, and He seized them with a surpassing grip. Lo, when the waters rose, We bore you in the running ship that We might make it a reminder for you and for heeding ears to hold. So when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast and the earth and the mountains are lifted up and crushed with a single blow, then on that day, the Terror shall come to pass, and the heaven shall be split for upon that day it will be very frail. Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he shall say, 'Here take and read my book! Certainly I thought I should encounter my reckoning.' So he shall be in a pleasing life in a lofty garden, its clusters nigh to gather. "'Eat and drink with wholesome appetite for that you did long ago, in the days gone by.' "But as for him who is given his book in his left hand, he shall say: 'Would that I had not been given my book and not known my reckoning! Would that it had been the end! My wealth has not availed me, my authority is gone from me.'" (69:4-29)

Thus, there are very convincing reasons to believe in life after death.

- First, all the prophets of God have called their people to believe in it.

- Secondly, whenever a human society is built on the basis of this belief, it has been the most ideal and peaceful society, free of social and moral evils.

- Thirdly, history bears witness that whenever this belief is rejected collectively by a group of people in spite of the repeated warning of the Prophet, the group as a whole has been punished by God even in this world.

-Fourthly, moral, aesthetic and rational faculties of man endorse the possibility of life after death.

- Fifthly, God's attributes of Justice and Mercy have no meaning if there is no life after death.

Answer 2

before we are born we are spirits that have been given life from the FAther God.
it is debateable what this means. but the bible clearly teaches that Jesus had a preexistence and it is clearly biblical that jesus taught that God is the father of all spirits. therefore we must all be brothers and sisters to both satan and Jesus!
the plan of mortal existence means that we must be judged and choose what our mortal life will be! whether we need to be punished and choose how to plan to overcome the punishments or if we need to plan on how to live with Faith and righteousness.

Jesus said something peculiar about people coming from an existence in heaven and at the same time mentioning that some come from another place.

Answer 3

Gen.3:19 reads:".....until you return to the ground,for out of it you were taken.For dust you are and to dust you will return."
Jehovah there is showing that prior to Adams creation he was nonexistent and that when he dies he will again be nonexistent.
Eccl.9:5 states:"For the living are conscious that they will die,but as for the dead they are conscious of nothing at all."
The Bible teaches that death is a state of non existence.We feel nothing,we think nothing,we do nothing.Jesus in the account of the death of his close friend Lazarus likened death to a sleep.
When we die our body goes back to the ground.We do however,remain in Gods memory.And in His appointed time,Jehovah will resurrect all the dead,both the righteous and the unrighteous.Acts 24:15;John 5:28

Answer 4

With God.

We are spirit body and soul, dwelling in a flesh body.

1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

We return to God.

Ecc 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

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Answer 5

Nowhere. We don't exist until we're born. And when we die, we go back to that state.

But we aren't gone. OUr energy is part of everything and then becomes a part of everything again. So we're never really gone.

Life and death are simply the cycle of life.

Answer 6

Your where born through the Creator and when you die he will take you under his wing and return to him.

Answer 7

The womb of your mother. Seriously. No, we aren't going back there. We are going to the eternal destination of our choosing. By believing upon Jesus Christ and obedience to the Bible, we choose everlasting life in the presence of God. By denying Him and rebelling against the Lord, many choose to be cast into the Lake of Fire. Makes no sense to me why they would do that, but that's what the Bible says.

Answer 8

When I was a child many years ago, I recalled being free, much fuller of life and my consciousness flowed free as the wind. I know it was not here on earth I had a greater existence than now.

Answer 9

I'm not sure but you may be interested in something that my son said to me when he was three.

He started to talk in complete sentences at a very early age. I used to lay in bed and talk to him till he went to sleep every night.

One night he told me about something that had happened to him. It seemed odd so I ask when it had happened. He said it happened to me when I used to be big like you. I asked him to tell me about when he was big before. I explained that He had been a man before. Not a man like you, a lot older. He seemed very serious so I just let him talk and he told me about the place where the babies wait to be born. He said that he remembered the day he came to look at my wife and I to see if he wanted to have us as parents.

This story went on for several nights. I decided to see if he was making it up. So I asked him to tell me a story about something, and he was completely unable to fabricate even a simple story of two sentences. He could go on at length about things that had actually occurred, but he was not able to make anything up and tell it.

It sure made me think.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 10

Before you are born in your mommys tummy.
After you die your body will be buryed way in the ground.

Answer 11

We don't exist before we are born or after we die. Our brains create our thoughts. Our thoughts make us who we are.