Is there really life after death?

Question

I was wondering if there's really life after death, I mean things just don't cease to exist, they go into other things or something like that. What's the possiblity of having it after we die?
Thanks.

Answer 1

No. That's a contradiction in terms. There is no life after life ends. Life ends... therefore... NO MORE LIFE.

Answer 2

There's no evidence that consciousness is anything but biology-based, i.e., in your biological brain. It is altered by brain injuries, and it can be restored at times by brain surgery.

Therefore, any life after death would not include your conscious self. That would suggest that something about you, part that you are unaware of, is separate and survivable. While this is, I suppose, conceivable, it ranks along with unicorns and fairies.

So the chances or life after death are extremely small. Your body will continue to exist, but the process that keeps you conscious and alive will cease, just as the air in a hurricane continues to exist, but the storm eventually dies.

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Answer 3

The Bible says that Adam returned to the Dust.

"For dust you are and to dust you will return.” - Genesis 3:19

Why would God reward him for disobedience?

Plus, if there was life after death there would be no need for the resurrection that is obviously a basic Bible teaching.

"For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten"
- Eccl 9:5

"All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She′ol, the place to which you are going." Eccl 9:10

Sheol is mearly the common grave of mankind.

Regarding the immortality of the soul.....why would this be in the Bible if that was true?

"Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul that is sinning—it itself will die." -Ezekiel 18:4

Or, “The soul that is sinning is the one that will die.”
Heb., han·ne′phesh ha·cho·te’th′ hi’ tha·muth′

Where the teaching came from:

The fifth-century B.C.E. Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato are credited with being among the first to advance the belief that the soul is immortal. Yet, they were not the originators of the idea. Rather, they polished and transformed it into a philosophical teaching, thus making it more appealing to the cultured classes of their day and beyond. The fact is that the Zoroastrians of ancient Persia and the Egyptians before them also believed in the immortality of the soul. The question, then, is, What is the source of this teaching?

9 “In the ancient world,” says the book The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, “Egypt, Persia, and Greece felt the influence of the Babylonian religion.” Regarding Egyptian religious beliefs, the book goes on to say: “In view of the early contact between Egypt and Babylonia, as revealed by the El-Amarna tablets, there were certainly abundant opportunities for the infusion of Babylonian views and customs into Egyptian cults.” Much the same can be said of the old Persian and Greek cultures.

10 But did the ancient Babylonians believe in the immortality of the soul? On this point, Professor Morris Jastrow, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., wrote: “Neither the people nor the leaders of religious thought [of Babylonia] ever faced the possibility of the total annihilation of what once was called into existence. Death [in their view] was a passage to another kind of life, and the denial of immortality [of the present life] merely emphasized the impossibility of escaping the change in existence brought about by death.” Yes, the Babylonians believed that life of some kind, in some form, continued after death. They expressed this by burying objects with the dead for their use in the Hereafter.

11 Clearly, the teaching of the immortality of the soul goes back to ancient Babylon. Is that significant? Indeed, for according to the Bible, the city of Babel, or Babylon, was founded by Nimrod, a great-grandson of Noah. After the global Flood in Noah’s day, all the people spoke one language and had one religion. Not only was Nimrod one “in opposition to Jehovah” but he and his followers wanted to “make a celebrated name” for themselves. Thus by founding the city and constructing a tower there, Nimrod started a different religion.—Genesis 10:1, 6, 8-10; 11:1-4.

12 Tradition has it that Nimrod died a violent death. After his death the Babylonians would reasonably have been inclined to hold him in high regard as the founder, builder, and first king of their city. Since the god Marduk (Merodach) was regarded as the founder of Babylon and a number of the Babylonian kings were even named after him, some scholars have suggested that Marduk represents the deified Nimrod. (2 Kings 25:27; Isaiah 39:1; Jeremiah 50:2) If this is so, then the idea that a person has a soul that survives death must have been current at least by the time of Nimrod’s death. In any case, the pages of history reveal that following the Flood, the birthplace of the teaching of the immortality of the soul was Babel, or Babylon.

13 The Bible further shows that God thwarted the efforts of the tower builders at Babel by confusing their language. No longer able to communicate with one another, they abandoned their project and were scattered “from there over all the surface of the earth.” (Genesis 11:5-9) We must bear in mind that even though the speech of these would-be tower builders had been altered, their thinking and concepts had not. Consequently, wherever they went, their religious ideas went with them. In this way Babylonish religious teachings—including that of the immortality of the soul—spread across the face of the earth and became the foundation of the major religions of the world. Thus a world empire of false religion was founded, appropriately described in the Bible as “Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the disgusting things of the earth.”—Revelation 17:5.

Answer 4

No ,you have it backward. It's death after life actually.

When you die, you die and it's over. Some people find it difficult to accept and it generates a mental disorder called schizophrenia. Delusions, illusions, irrational thinking are some of the symptoms.
Evading reality instead of facing it...
There is now a treatment called zyprexa. (Use only as directed, talk to a doctor)

Answer 5

Yes there is life after death its either in heaven if you believe Jesus as your savior or its hell. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only son whosoever believeth on him shall not perish but have eternal life. Also in Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of was cast into the lake of fire.

Answer 6

I dont know if there is what we would call "life" after death. if someone was to cut off your hand you wouldent be dead,right? if your entire body were to be disolved in acid would you still be you? when you go to sleep at night you are no longer in controll of your thinking process but are you still you? these are questions that people ask when given the prospect of death. i feel that we are an on going system of conscience that trancends physical death. we can't pin point the observer. we all know that we are somthing . we just can't say what that somthing really is. enjoy life

Answer 7

Yes...when we die we go in another dimension as spirits...i believe in God and often in my dreams i m able to meet the soul of the people around me that needs help and most of the time i can hepl them....when we sleep our soul goes in the place that we re dreaming.Have u even felt like you are awake,but in real you are sleeping but you can't wake up?it s cause ur soul is coming back in ur body after a dream....hope not to scare u..take it easy even if in my opinion it s true..

Answer 8

Spend a little time in S FL. It's a living funeral home.

Answer 9

Yes. Read the Bible, starting with New Testament

Answer 10

The Bible has never been disproven or discredited. Its a good thing to go with.