where does your soul go when you die?

Answer 1

I hope to Heaven.

Answer 2

Is there a limit on how long an answer can be?

After we die, our souls go to a partial judgement- Those who had an opportunity to accept (and chose to) accept Jesus go to a place I'm going to call Paradise. Those who for one reason or another didn't accept Jesus go to a place I'm going to call Prison... I think of it as a school where eventually everyone gets a chance to accept, whether they ultimately do or not is still a choice.

After Paradise/Prison, we all go to a final judgement, where Jesus judges our lives and how we lived according to what we believed- Did we live with integrity according to what we were taught?... For example, pre-Christian Chinese will NOT be expected to have lived by Christian ideals- they never knew about those standards, so it wouldn't be reasonable to expect them to...

At that final judgment, Jesus will decide where we will spend eterntity. He will send us to a place we'll be comfortable... A little explanation is required here- If I'd been a horrible person, a murderer, for example, I'll know I don't deserve to be in God's presence, so I won't feel comfortable there... On the other hand, a person who'd been pro-active in caring for others, he/she would be very emotionally comfortable in God's presence....

I believe that somewhere in this process, we will be reuinted with our families, and be given the opportunity to be with them.

Answer 3

Let the Bible answer your question. Ezekiel 18:4 states: "The soul that is sinning-it itself will die." Also Psalms 146:4 "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; In that day his thoughts do perish." Ecclesiastes 9:5 says: (in part) "...But as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all." The latter part of Genesis 3:19: "For dust you are and to dust you will return." Hope I've helped. Peace.

Rachel

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Answer 4

Jesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.


The Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death. John 11:11.
The account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle.

Think about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it? And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place? Of course not!

Yet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Gen. 2:7, Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.

The Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.

Clearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection. You enjoy the best sleep ever, until Jesus resurrects you, sometime in the future.

Answer 5

I believe I have been and will be reincarnated. According to the readings I've gotten on my past lives, my soul is pretty old. So someday my soul will go up to heaven to rest for eternity.

Answer 6

Wherever you believe it will go. It all comes down to what you actually believe. If you believe you're gonna go and sit on some clouds, strum a harp, and look down on earth, that's what you will do. But if you believe you're gonna get reincarnated, then you will. That's why everybody can fervently believe everything they do. Because they're all correct, as far as they are concerned. Now, if you think I should go to hell, and I think you should go to hell, but we both believe that we're going to heaven, then we'll both go to heaven. It doesn't matter what others believe, it's what you believe that counts.

Answer 7

it chills out an you are able to spook your little bro or sis heck if i know i am not dead nor have i met any real dead people sorry no one really knows what happens to you after you die

Answer 8

You go back to being as you were before you were born. Yet your memories are erased with each new cycle

Answer 9

Heaven...if you accept Jesus Christ as Savior. He is the only way to God. There are MANY ways to hell

Answer 10

there is no proof of a soul much less where it goes