everyone will have the opportunity to live with their families forever, it's not just heaven or hell. there will be degrees of glory.
2007-02-10 18:17:45
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answered by Sweet n Sour 7
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You will always be proceeding to the next stage of life that will facilitate spiritual growth. Do not be dismal or glib in your trepidations here...
You simply proceed to the merits as they apply. Few are there indeed who proceed to what you call a "hell."
Most of all, yours is a turn (and fear) derived from false or orthodox beliefs and misconceptions.
You can let these go now. Light is more powerful than darkness...
The overwhelming most of all go to comparative heavens. Know this...
Bear in mind: in the lower worlds and universes and heavens, a heaven depends on a hell to be a heaven. Likewise, a hell depends on a heaven to be a hell. Why? Because in the lower realms, all abides the laws of duality.
You use the word "if" in your question. The proper word here would be "when."
We all proceed ever upward, only that some ascend faster than others; do you see?
Souls -- all of them -- are fundamentally good...and only precious few have little redeeming qualities. But even these few can be salvaged and everything possible is done to assure this happening...
Do you see?
2007-02-19 01:52:36
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answered by ? 6
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You probably don't realize it, but you need to define your terms.
Are you asking about the Biblical 'heaven', 'hell', 'soul' and 'we'? Or are you asking about the popular definition of these terms?
Popular myths, which have no authoritative basis, say that the soul of "we" goes to either heaven or hell after death. But this is not what the Word of God says.
According to the Bible, the soul is made up of a physical body, (made of dirt) and a spirit. And upon death, the spirit, which has no conscience of its own, returns to God who gave it. God keeps it safe until the time of the resurrection. At which time it is either put in physical body again, or given an eternal spirit body.
At death, the physical body returns to the earth -- usually after being put in a hole in the ground, called 'hell'. 'Hell' is usually translated from the Hebrew 'Sheol' or the Greek 'Hades', meaning grave or place of the dead. It is NOT presented as a place of torment in the Bible.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that anyone is going to heaven after death -- whether good of bad.
As for the the 'we' portion of your question: Christians who have kept God's commandments and the faith of Jesus Christ are the ones who will receive eternal life at the time of Christ's return to this earth (called the first resurrection). All others, those who have not received God's spirit in this life, must wait in the unconscious state of death until the time of God's judgment, at the end of Christ's 1000 year reign on the earth.
Now, if you don't like the biblical answer to your question, you can go on believing in the popular myths, largely developed from Dante's fictional "Inferno" and other fictional sources, but I can't answer from that, because I've never read it.
2007-02-11 03:10:55
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answered by BC 6
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Hell is understood to be suffering, while Heaven is happiness.
Both hell and heaven being material and temporary are here even in the earth . Soul is spiritual and eternal and belongs to the eternal spiritual word.
If one commits wrong actions one suffers and that is hell.
If one does good works one enjoys happiness which is heaven.
But at the time of death, one gets another body according to the cumulative good and bad actions one performed. The next body is awarded according to that calculation. Some body being born rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, intelligent or dull is not just accidental. They have done actions in their previous life which resulted in getting the present body. Nothing is accident.
Both heaven and hell or material which is only temporary. Matter is temporary and is destructible while the spirit soul is eternal and indestructible. By cultivating spiritual knowledge one goes back to the spiritual world to associate with the Lord.
2007-02-11 02:34:55
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answered by Gaura 7
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Hell and Heaven are hot the subject of geography but of human thought and experience. The Hell and Heaven that are real are what you create in your life, your one and only chance to exist.
2007-02-18 14:54:41
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answered by fra59e 4
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I am definitely going to heaven. I am a non-believer but I think even though I have been an non-believer I have acted in accordance with the laws.
My basic prinicipal falls in treating people with respect, I try never to kill insects or creatures if I do not have to and I have probably been more christian like than most christians.
So what is the point. Other than believing in God I am pretty much a nice person, does that mean I go to hell, I dont beleive that (if thier is a GOD, surely he would figure this out) and if I were a beleiver I think I would be pretty peeved if I went to hell anyway after all this,,,,,,,,,I should have just killed people and been rich seeing as I ended up in the same place afterall.
2007-02-11 02:30:22
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answered by CelticFairy 3
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Fortunately I don't have to worry about that, which is a load off my mind. Heaven sounds really boring (eternity with no sex? Are they crazy?) And hell sounds a little too exciting (never got into the whole s&m thing). So I guess I'll just take dead is dead and not worry about it.
2007-02-11 02:27:05
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answered by Jensenfan 5
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Sorry, there's no if to it. It's one or the other. Where you spend eternity depends on whether or not you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Our soul is not a separate thing from our body---we are created spirit, soul & body. At death our spirit & soul are separated from our body...but only until the return of Jesus. Then we will receive our regenerated bodies (made perfect) for eternity.
2007-02-11 02:18:26
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answered by beano™ 6
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YOU ARE YOU'RE SOUL. THE SOUL OF A MAN OR WOMAN IS ALL THAT HE IS. SO....YOU WOULD BE IN HEAVEN OR HELL.
2007-02-19 01:07:30
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answered by HeLovesYou! 2
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When you die, your body will be laid to rest - your spirit will have a choice to make. You can wallow in self pity, self torment in guilt or "what might have been" as a spirit in a physical existence (your own personal hell on earth) or you can go home. It's really that simple in my mind.
Peace!
2007-02-11 02:31:26
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answered by carole 7
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