What is your belief on what happens to your soul when you die?

Question

I'm not asking what certain religions believe, I'm asking what YOU believe. I think that we all return to heaven for eternity (If we believe that Jesus died for our sins.) If we didn't, then our souls float around as ghosts on the earth until the day of judgement...then they will burn in the fiery depths forever.

Answer 1

My belief goes deeper, I KNOW in the depths of my soul, that when I die, I will be with the Lord. It says so in scripture, "Absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." And John 14:6 says, "I am the way, the truth & the life, no one comes to the Father except through me." So, yes, I believe Jesus is my Lord and Savior, so, I will be spending eternity in Heaven with God. Oh, also, people who die and are not going to heaven, their soul remains with them in the body and then when Jesus comes and all believers rise up to meet him, the souls of non-believers will be cast into hell. They do not roam around floating in the air. That would be satan's army, the angels (now demons) who were cast out of heaven with satan by God. :)

Answer 2

I have believed that Soul does not die. But whether it takes another birth or not, is a matter beyond one's apprehension. My Soul would probably wait for orders from the Third Power after I die, if that is how it works !

Well, on a serious note, the Soul remains connected to the mind even after the body ceases to function. In fact, I think Soul is the nucleus of an atom called mind and hence they are one entity. I would say the Soul-and-mind will reclaim a body to be stable again. That's why we hear about people remembering their past lives. These are the bodies which have been possessed by an existant Sould-and-mind in course of birth and probably are able to respond to the deepest voice of the acquired mind that makes these bodies remember the past of the Soul-and-mind.

Well, it all sounds too interesting for me. I sit back and think to myself a lot of times..

Answer 3

I don't believe in permanent soul that never changes. But I believe that the mind (which changes continuously) does not end at death but takes next birth as another being--human, deity, animal, ghost or any other being according to the status (quality) of that mind.

If the quality of your mind is higher (that is if your mind full of calmness, compassion, insight) then the mind takes birth as deity or human. If your mind has lower quality (that is full of negative things like hatred, passion etc.) then the mind will take birth in animal world, ghost world or in hell.

The quality of mind depends upon the actions you do in this life (actions by mind, speech and body). The better actions you do the higher the chance of your birth in higher world. Such rebirth process goes on continuously (that is you get entangled to the world) because you have some sort of attachment with the senses and attachment with the self.

But when you develop insight (know yourself and the world as it is), then the attachment becomes weak and finally vanishes leading you to be disentangled from this world--that is you become free from the bondage of continuous rebirths. This is the final stage of liberation after which all the suffering vanishes and there is only happiness for ever.

Answer 4

I don't think we have a soul. The scriptures point to man "being" a soul, not possessing one. Therefore, I believe that I am a soul. So when I die, my soul dies, and nothing of me exists past death except what is in God's memory. Then I believe that I will be ressurrected as a human in the future when God has rid the earth of wickedness and made it like it was originally in the Garden of Eden.

Answer 5

I believe what God's word tells me. Genesis 2:7 and the man came to be a living soul, Ezekiel 18:4 the soul that is sinning, it itself will die, Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return, Ecclesiastes 9:5 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 rememberance of them has been forgotten. Ecclesiastes 9:10 All that your hand find 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. It's clear by God's word when we die we become non-existent. If you don't believe God's word what else do you have? Nothing.

Answer 6

Every soul is a spirit. this spirit was shaped rather given a body here in this world. this stay in this world is temporary for every soul and then each sould has to depart from the body. Now here in this world the combination of soul and body is actually a human. This soul is controlling the body and is responsible of all the deeds that this body is doing and then there is an end to this body known as death. after death sould has to depart the body and there is asked about the deeds that it has done during the time it spends in world. for good deeds there are rewards and for bad deeds there is punishment. and this all will be decided on the day of judgement and that day no body will bear enequity of someone else. everybody will be worried about him only. those who has spend the whole life with truth, justice, honesty and have accpeted the religion of their times will be in peace.
In short law of nature is that you are responsible of only what you have done. no body will care for you that day so it is better to spend a better life full of good deeds and accurate beliefs.

Answer 7

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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.

2Co 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
2Co 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
2Co 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
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Wayne Murray

Answer 8

The physical body is rooted to the earth and the soul is not,it belongs to the spiritual realm,so I believe that when we die our souls will return to the one who created them, regardless of wether or not we were faithful during life,all souls have a judgement to face and for me they do not drift around on some earthly plane.

Answer 9

I think we shall answer to our deeds, good or bad. What a naiive idea that is: Jesus died for our sins. I just can't fathom how someone with any intellect at all could believe in such nonsense.

Answer 10

I believe what you said. I believe that our flesh goes back to the dust that it came from however our soul either goes to heaven or to hell after judgement has been served.