Christians: The death process?

Question

Christians, when we die, what all exactly happens? Is it just like boom- we're in heaven?

Answer 1

when the body dies the soul is kept by God until judgement takes place,..

Answer 2

Most Christians believe that, but I'm a Seventh Day Adventist, we believe that those who die remain dead until the Second Advent, when Jesus comes again and they are ressurected and taken to heaven.

"in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed." 1 Corinthians 15: 52

"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever." 1 Thessalonians 4: 17-17

Answer 3

No! It's like BOOM- and you are in the Judgement seat!

When you die you lie unconscious in your grave! But unaware of time and space, you could sleep the sleep of death for thousands of years, but would appear to be only the wink of an eye, between death and the resurrection!

When you die, you remain unconscious in the grave UNTIL the resurrection!

Psa 6:5 If I die, I cannot praise you or even remember you.

Psa 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

Psa 146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Ecc 9:10 Work hard at whatever you do. You will soon go to the world of the dead, where no one works or thinks or reasons or knows anything.

Dan 12:13 So, Daniel, be faithful until the end! You will rest, and at the end of time, YOU WILL RISE from death to receive your reward.

The dead ARE DEAD and lie unconsciously in their graves UNTIL the resurrection!

Man DOES NOT have an immortal soul! ONLY God is immortal!

1Ti 6:15 the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
1Ti 6:16 He ALONE is immortal...

Jesus Christ HIMSELF claims that no one goes, or can go to heaven UNTIL He returns for them!

John 13:33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you CANNOT COME,' so now I say to you.

Joh 13:36 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are You going?" Jesus answered him, "Where I am going you CANNOT follow Me now, but later you will follow Me."

Joh 14:2 In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I WILL COME AGAIN and I will receive you unto Myself; so that where I am, there you may be also.

Jesus HAS NOT returned yet! Therefore, NO ONE is in heaven right now! They CAN'T go there yet!

Answer 4

Particular Judgment
by Rev. William G. Most

Jesus will come at the end of time to judge all human beings. This is called the parousia, His second coming. It was foretold by the angels as He ascended: "This Jesus who is taken up from you to heaven, will come in the way in which you saw Him going into heaven" (Acts 1:11).

However, those who die before the parousia will be judged immediately at their deaths. This is known as the particular judgment. The Epistle to the Hebrews says (9:27): " It is appointed to men to die once, and after that comes the judgment". Then, "Each one will receive his pay, according to his works" (1 Cor 3:8).

There are three possible outcomes to the particular judgment. Those whose love for God has been perfected in this life are taken straight to heaven, where they enjoy endless happiness in the face to face vision of God. Those who die in God's love but still love Him imperfectly must be purifed in the intermediate state of purgatory. Those, however, who reject God's love by mortal sin and die without repenting are condemned to the everlasting torments of hell. The general judgment at the end of time simply solemnly confirms the particular judgments of each one, with the difference that then the body as well as the soul will receive what is due it. And all God's judgments will be revealed as most just

Answer 5

Actually, no its not like Boom we are in heaven. A second century deacon named Origen handled this question. He was an observer of people and searched for the perfect person. He reasoned that heaven meant perfect communion with the perfect God. Therefor, for a person to be in heaven they had to be perfect. After much observation, including highly respected members of his Christian community, however, he determined that no one was perfect or ever would be. This made him depressed because it meant that no one could ever go to heaven. Then he thought, what if God has a means for perfecting us after death? Origen reasoned that those whose lives are directed toward God here on earth remain directed toward God after death, but that there must be some intervening process of perfecting that happened after death. Catholics refer to this place or process of bringing righteous souls to perfection as purgatory. The sense of it is, however, that there is a 'coming to God' that occurs after death, the white lited tunnel if you will, which precedes actual union with God.

Answer 6

If you're being serious, there is a way we think of it all. Well, I'm Catholic, so this is how I think of it.

No, we do not just boom into Heaven.

I'm not too sure about how purgatory and such goes, but the way I see it is that if we do what we should, we shouldn't have to worry about hell and purgatory.

But to get into heaven doing as we should, we need to accept that Jesus died for us and we are to love and follow his ways for it, we need to accept that we are sinners and we need God to forgive us for all our sins, and we need to do our best to live as Jesus did. That's why we read the Bible and go to church--to learn about JEsus so we can live more and more like him everyday.

Answer 7

Death is inevitable. The thief on the cross knew when his would occur, but we can not predict our own. After his death, the crucified criminal went to live in paradise with Jesus. Some of us will also live eternally in God's presence. But others will experience everlasting torment, forever separated from Him.
If we receive Jesus as our Savior, our penalty for sin is paid. We are adopted into God's family, and Heaven is our eternal home. If we reject Jesus, we remain alienated from the Lord and under condemnation for our sin. We are destined to experience eternal judgment. God won't accept any of man's excuses because there is no acceptable defense for unbelief. (Acts 4:12)
Become part of God's family today. Acknowledge your sinfulness, and express your faith in these words:
"God, I have sinned against You. (Romans 3:23) I've followed my own way and refused to give You the right to rule in my life. (Romans 3:10-12) I recognize I am separated from You and cannot rescue myself. I do believe that Jesus Christ is Your Son. I accept the truth of the Scriptures? that His death on the cross paid my sin-debt in full. (1 Corinthians 15:3-4) And I ask You to forgive me of my sins. (1 John 1:9) By faith, I receive You, Lord Jesus, as my personal Savior from this moment on."
If you just spoke those words to God, then, like the thief on the cross, you have received salvation? a gift of God's grace. The heavenly Father welcomes every person who comes to Him through His Son, regardless of background, age, or current situation. Through Jesus, the right to enter paradise is yours!

Answer 8

No. As you go in, you come out. If you love sin as death comes, then you still do as you go on. That means you are still conscious of a mortal and material state of being, as opposed to ones true spiritual state. Some may refer to this as a form of hell. Once you realize the quagmire has no power, you understand the steps necessary to break free forever.

Answer 9

i does not say i'm phobic. i'm not waiting to die, yet i know i will sooner or later. i'm apprehensive of dying purely because of the fact that's something I actual have on no account experienced, and that i won't be in a position to think of being everywhere else yet right here. notwithstanding if I do have confidence God and that i think the subsequent existence would be as he has promised.

Answer 10

2 Cor 5:6-10
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
KJV

Answer 11

We don't know the details. God didn't tell us. What He did say, though, was that "to be absent from the body [is] to be present with the Lord". We're disembodied spirits, in Jesus' presence, until the day of His return when we receive our new, transformed, perfect bodies.