ok so i always hear ppl say when someone dies oh he/she is in a better place. or they are still here with u. stuff like that. i was just wondering everyone elses opinion on this. when u die do u t hink u go straight to heaven? or does ur spirit stick around. also in the bible it says and all of the dead will rise and come with me to heaven. so does noone go to heaven until the world ends? i am reliously confused someone help me.?
2007-02-24 05:45:23 · 17 answers · asked by randi l 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you've been good, you'd go to heaven, but if you've been bad you'd go to hell for sometime & then to Heaven.
Your spirit does not roam around over here, unless you died out of your time, like commit suicide, or things like that, for those spirits, God says he will take them to heaven when the world ends.
2007-02-24 05:51:31 · answer #1 · answered by Batman Simon 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I believe a couple of things here. The Bible says that man dies, then judgment. So a person's soul and spirit go to a place like Heaven or Hell. One day there will be a bodily resurrection. The new body will unite with the soul and spirit. The then new person will enter in to joy with Jesus or be thrown into the lake of fire.
This is when we go to Jesus (the believers). I don't see that there is anything in the Bible to indicate that people "hang around" after death.
2007-02-24 13:53:50 · answer #2 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You quoted wrong,The Bible says He will judge the living and the dead {nonbelievers} Jesus told the thief on the cross,this day you will be in Heaven with Me.The only spirits in the world are Satan's Demons.
2007-02-24 13:55:51 · answer #3 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Luke 23:43 Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, TODAY you will be with me in paradise."
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 judgement. God won't accept any of man's excuses because there is no acceptable defence for unbelief. (Acts 4:12)
Our souls will go to heaven immediately following death, but we will not get our new bodies until the Resurrection, when Jesus returns.
2007-02-24 14:43:30 · answer #4 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 Thessalonians 4:16 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
It says the dead in Christ, Not all, shall rise first.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
2007-02-24 14:05:18 · answer #5 · answered by deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you believe that Jesus Is God can you go to heaven. If you died you would go to heaven Untill he comes back then heaven will be here on earth.
2007-02-24 13:49:31 · answer #6 · answered by egback08 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right. between here and the resurrection, the dead are just dead though dreaming. some have more pleasant dreams, some have unpleasant dreams. We have to wait until the resurrection for the big fulfilment of everything.
2007-02-24 13:48:26 · answer #7 · answered by koresh419 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't worry about it too much dear. Afterall, you have your whole life ahead of you, why worry about death now? And if you think about it, you remain alive because your heart is beating, but you aren't controlling your heart, so that means that some force, whatever it is, is allowing you to be alive without even your opinion or choice on the matter. To put it kindly, it knows you want to live, so it is helping you out. So with this in consideration, don't you think it, whatever it is, also has the mystery of death figured out? So just relax and enjoy your life.
2007-02-24 13:56:27 · answer #8 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
2 Corinthians 5:6
Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
-Meaning when we are absent from this body we are immediately with the Lord. (Those who are saved in Jesus Christ that is)
2007-02-24 14:01:29 · answer #9 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, I believe that when you die, you immediately go to the next phase of your life...the eternal phase. For those who have accepted that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and accepted His gift of forgiveness for their sins, and developed a relationship with Him, they will go to be with Him forever, in a place that is earth as God originally intended it to be, with no pain, no darkness, no evil, only good.
For those who rejected Jesus Christ and His gift of forgiveness, there is only eternity away from God and Jesus Christ.
Those who die go immediately to the place they have chosen; either a place with God or a place away from Him and with Satan.
2007-02-24 13:51:17 · answer #10 · answered by janejane 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋