What are your thoughts on places you go after death?

Question

I know to many this type of question is always avoided but I am curious as to where we (humans) go after death? I was raised Catholic so I was brought up believing in God and Jesus and Heaven and Hell. But now that I have grown older and more knowledgeable I begin to question these things. Every preist always states you must go on faith but really I dont know how much you can go on a thing called "faith". I think of death sometimes and just cannot ome up with a rockj hard evidence for any places of where you go after death. The one thought I did have is that we all come back to live another life, dunno though. If you have any views on where you might end up after death what ever your religion please state them below. Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

my friend, i am basically in the same situation. i was also brought up to believe in God, Jesus, Heaven and Hell. after reading everything on sites about God or anything related to him, i have gathered some evidence that there is such a thing as God and all that but it wasnt rock hard evidence. its like merely clues but not a guaranteed thing. plus with all these non-believers talking..it makes you wonder. i am more sure of my beliefs then b4 but sometimes they can be a bit hazy. sometimes i do question them.
its true im not sure how you can have faith with all these doubts. you cant make yourself have faith when youre questioning what you believe in.
i cant seem to grasp the evolution thing..it doesnt seem practical. if evolution is not what happened there must be a God. but how do we know God exists either?
noone really knows what happens when we die. we as humans cant tell you. we wont know for sure til we die.
ive read all this stuff about not having faith so i did the official prayer for asking Him to save me. i wasnt sure i really meant it though because i might have been questioning at the time. im scared because if there is a Hell, i will surely go to it for not meaning my prayer.
but like i said there is evidence..just not hard evidence. the evidence that does not really satisfy us.
i have went through some spiritual experiences which gave me support on my beliefs but telling you them probly wont help..because they are accounts of what i saw/felt/heard and to believe them when you werent there..well pretty hard to do i would guess.
one thing i can come up with that might comfort you some is the miracle of life. think about how complex any living thing (including us people) is..its amazing how they work. with all those organs and diff. functions, it makes you think how improbable it is that evolution could do that and that only an ultimate creator like God could make all that come to life..make all that happen.
in order to be safe in your beliefs, you would have to have spiritual experiences like i did or experience/hear about 1st hand about miracles. although sometimes hearing about people being close to dying and other such miracles may not help you to believe at times. it depends on how your..uh logic or mind is whether you can believe miracles.

i know my last sentence didnt make sense..i was trying to explain it the best i could.

Answer 2

As a Christian I believe that you either go to heaven or hell. In Jn 14:1-6, Jesus states that there are many rooms in heaven and that no one can get there except through Jesus. As for hell, Rev 20:11-15 states that everyone whose name is not written in the book of life will be thrown into the lake of fire.
We all live for eternity, the question is where do you want to go? What do we got to lose if we don't believe? Everything, we will be eternally sorry. So I choose to believe.

Answer 3

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)
There are many problems with the salvation-by works doctrine of reincarnation. First, there are many practical problems. For example:
1. We must ask, why does one get punished for something he or she cannot remember having done in a previous life?
2. If the purpose of karma is to rid humanity of its selfish desires, then why hasn't there been a noticeable improvement in human nature after all the millennia of reincarnations?
3. If reincarnation and the law of karma are so beneficial on a practical level, then how do advocates of this doctrine explain the immense and ever-worsening social and economic problems - including widespread poverty, starvation, disease, and horrible suffering - in India, where reincarnation has been systematically taught through out its history?
There are also many biblical problems with believing in reincarnation. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5:8 the apostle Paul states, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." At death, the, the Christian immediately goes into the presence of the Lord, not into another body. In keeping with this. Luke 16:19-31 tells us that unbelievers at death go to a place of suffering, not into another body.
Further, Hebrews 9:27 assures us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Each human being LIVES ONCE as a mortal on earth, DIES ONCE, and then FACES JUDGMENT. He does not have a second chance by reincarnating into another body.

Answer 4

Have you ever seen the movie "What Dreams May Come"?

Many people have had near-death experiences, seen "medical miracles," out-of-body-experiences, had dreams that predict events, connected with dead relatives, feeling close to angels/God, have had experiences that defy explanation. In talking with people throughout my life, these experiences are more common than you might think. If you didn't expect anything and are otherwise fine (medically-speaking), they might open a door to belief that there really is something more. I don't think this open door necessarily makes you unafraid, though. You don't know until there's no turning back.

Answer 5

It would most likely be that we do not go anywhere. The reason I state this is because once our brain ceases to function we are no longer able to function.

There is evidence that shows that the brain is responsible for our sentience, and our thought processes are directly influenced by material substances. Medical evidence of damage to people's brains is extensive, people have completely changed after trauma.

The likelihood that our brain is not required to experience the world around us is very low. It would appear that a spiritual afterlife, or reincarnation are not at all plausible.

Answer 6

I like to think you get to spend the rest of eternity doing whatever you want. A bit like heaven, without the religious stuff.
My friend and I were talking about it a few weeks ago, he said he'd like to be able to fly.
I would rather go back to being a toddler with nothing to worry about. Lol. But each to their own.

Answer 7

Shoot, I'm still trying to figure out where to go on vacation this year. I don't think that far ahead.

Answer 8

u go to hell or heaven

Answer 9

The grave... a coffin... cremation... I could go anywhere on earth.

Answer 10

I try not to think of it