According to Christianity, what happens after death?

Question

I apologize, I know this question has probably been asked too many times here, but I'm looking for specific Biblical support with any answers...Thanks!

Answer 1

Where are the dead?

Gen. 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.”

Eccl. 9:10: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [“the grave,” KJ, Kx; “the world of the dead,” TEV], the place to which you are going.”

What is the condition of the dead?

Eccl. 9:5: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.”

Ps. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts [“thoughts,” KJ, 145:4 in Dy; “all his thinking,” NE; “plans,” RS, NAB] do perish.”

John 11:11-14: “‘Lazarus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sleep.’ . . . Jesus said to them outspokenly: ‘Lazarus has died.’” (Also Psalm 13:3)

Is there some part of man that lives on when the body dies?

Ezek. 18:4: “The soul [“soul,” RS, NE, KJ, Dy, Kx; “man,” JB; “person,” TEV] that is sinning—it itself will die.”

Isa. 53:12: “He poured out his soul [“soul,” RS, KJ, Dy; “life,” TEV; “himself,” JB, Kx, NAB] to the very death.” (Compare Matthew 26:38.)

See also the main headings “Soul” and “Spirit.”

Are the dead in any way able to help or to harm the living?

Eccl. 9:6: “Their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.”

Isa. 26:14: “They are dead; they will not live. Impotent in death, they will not rise up.

Answer 2

Hebrews 9:27 "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment."

Some also quote 2 Corinthians 5:7-8 "For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord."

Answer 3

Hebrews 9:27--"It is appointed to man once to die, and then the judgment." "Once to die" means no reincarnation. "And then the judgment" means no holding pen or limbo or wandering the earth as a ghost; do not pass go, do not collect $200, go immediately to jail in the abode of the dead if your judgment did not fall on Jesus Christ.

If, however, you made Jesus your Savior and Lord, then, "Absent from the body is at home with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8).

Answer 4

Most of so called ' christianity' does not know.
But the Bible does.

(Ecclesiastes 9:5-6) 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. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.

Answer 5

i trust that the spirit of real followers of Christ on the on the spot is going to be with Christ even as they die. The spirits of all some thing of the persons look forward to judgment day in an subconscious state. Then at judgment day all and diverse is resurrected an stands in there flesh previously God the righteous will receive eternal existence and the depraved will be destroyed.

Answer 6

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)

Answer 7

Well, according to the Catholic belief, after you die, there are three places you can go. One, if you've never sinned (almost impossible), or if your a martyr, you go to heaven directly. Then there is purgatory, where you go if you have sinned but not enough to send you to hell. Here, you spend your days, sorta like a hell, repenting your sins. When they are repented you go to heaven. If your truly bad, and have never asked for God's mercy, you will go to hell.

Answer 8

Heb 9:27
it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
KJV

Answer 9

It really depends on what you have done. Most people go to hell for theire doings, other very few, that did not do anything wrong goes to mecca i think.

Answer 10

ur good: heaven
ur bad: hell
ur alright: you pray in pergatory until u can get ur *** into heaven.