what happens when you die?

Question

besides going to heaven and hell and all that I mean what about being a spirit is it cool?Can you look down at how your loved ones are doing

Answer 1

Personally, I do not believe in any sort of afterlife, so heaven, hell, and seeing your loved ones don't even enter into the equation. I think the concept of a soul is a purely-human invention used in the past to describe hard-to-define ideas like consciousness and intelligence. Everything about us is a product of our heredity and our environment, including our personalities and even our consciousness.

Surely you've had the experience of waking up after a full night of dreamless sleep and wondered, "where did the time go?". Was your soul conscious during the night? If so, why weren't you aware of it?

I expect that being dead will be exactly like it was before I was born. Is that really such a depressing or scary idea? I don't think so. Who wants to live, literally, forever? It sounds pretty awful to me.

Answer 2

Being a spirit? Just what I always wanted. The ability to watch my sister on the toilet. Great.

Before I was born I was mearly atomic compounds of the Earth. When I die I will go back to that state.
All the more reason to live the life we have now and not wait around for an afterlife we have no way of knowing exists.

Answer 3

Hi Just wondering :) When we die there is a separation of the soul from the body. For the person who has been saved, at the moment of their salvation they received a new resurrected soul. This soul (upon the death of their body) goes into Heaven to be with Jesus Christ. Then, on the last day, these souls along with Jesus will return and receive their resurrected bodies.

For those who are not saved (upon the death of their body), their soul also leaves but instead of going into Heaven it goes to a place of silence. There it remains in darkness and silence until the last day when Jesus returns and then all of the unsaved will be judged and cast into Hell.

God tells us in the Bible we all will stand for judgment. In Romans 14:9-10 we read:

"For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living. 10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ."

Answer 4

The condition of the dead is made clear at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, where we read: “The dead know nothing . . . There is no pursuit, no plan, no knowledge or intelligence, within the grave.” (Moffatt) Death, therefore, is a state of nonexistence. The psalmist wrote that when a person dies, “he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.” (Psalm 146:4) The dead are unconscious, inactive. When pronouncing sentence upon Adam, God stated: “Dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) Before God formed him from the dust of the ground and gave him life, Adam did not exist. When he died, he returned to that state. His punishment was death—not a transfer to another realm. What, then, happened to his soul? Since in the Bible the word “soul” often simply refers to a person, when we say that Adam died, we are saying that the soul named Adam died. This might sound unusual to a person who believes in the immortality of the soul. However, the Bible states: “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.” (Ezekiel 18:4) Leviticus 21:1 speaks of “a deceased soul” (a “corpse,” The Jerusalem Bible). And Nazirites were told not to come near “any dead soul” (“a dead body,” Lamsa).—Numbers 6:6.

What, though, about the statement at Genesis 35:18 regarding the tragic death of Rachel, which occurred as she gave birth to her second son? There we read: “As her soul was going out (because she died) she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.” Does this passage imply that Rachel had an inner being that departed at her death? Not at all. Remember, the word “soul” can also refer to the life that a person possesses. So in this case Rachel’s “soul” simply meant her “life.” That is why other Bible translations render the phrase “her soul was going out” as “her life was ebbing away” (Knox), “she breathed her last” (JB), and “her life went from her” (Bible in Basic English). There is no indication that a mysterious part of Rachel survived her death. IIt is similar with the resurrection of a widow’s son, recorded in 1 Kings chapter 17. In verse 22, we read that as Elijah prayed over the young boy, “Jehovah listened to Elijah’s voice, so that the soul of the child came back within him and he came to life.” Once again, the word “soul” means “life.” Thus, the New American Standard Bible reads: “The life of the child returned to him and he revived.” Yes, it was life, not some shadowy form, that returned to the boy. This is in harmony with what Elijah said to the boy’s mother: “See, your son [the whole person] is alive.”—1 Kings 17:23.

The Bible says that when a person dies, “his spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground.” (Psalm 146:4) Does this mean that a disembodied spirit literally departs and lives on after a person’s death? That could not be, for the psalmist next says: “In that day his thoughts do perish” (“all his thinking ends,” The New English Bible). What, then, is the spirit, and how does it ‘go out’ from a person at the time of his death?

In the Bible the words translated “spirit” (Hebrew, ru´ach; Greek, pneu´ma) basically mean “breath.” Thus, instead of “his spirit goes out,” the translation by R. A. Knox uses the phrase “the breath leaves his body.” (Psalm 145:4) But the word “spirit” implies much more than the act of breathing. For example, in describing the destruction of human and animal life at the time of the global Deluge, Genesis 7:22 says: “Everything in which the breath of the force [or, spirit; Hebrew, ru´ach] of life was active in its nostrils, namely, all that were on the dry ground, died.” So “spirit” may refer to the life-force that is active in all living creatures, both humans and animals, and that is sustained by breathing. What, then, does it mean when Ecclesiastes 12:7 states that when a person dies, “the spirit itself returns to the true God who gave it”? Does this mean that the spirit literally travels through space into God’s presence? Nothing of the sort is implied. Since the spirit is the life-force, it “returns to the true God” in the sense that any hope of future life for that person now rests entirely with God. Only God can restore the spirit, or life-force, causing a person to come back to life. (Psalm 104:30) But does God purpose to do so?

Answer 5

No one knows until it happens, then you can't tell anyone because as a spirit you can have no contact with the present world that you left. Contrary to what people believe, ghosts or someone coming back from the dead is just demonic activity.

Answer 6

I think in heaven you can see what's going on in the earth. They can explore all of heaven and the rest of the universe too probably. You might even be able to go to earth and visit your loved ones. I think everyone in heaven is involved in some way with th earth.

Answer 7

as in the Godhead God the father,God the son,and God the holy spirit (the trinity)we are body,soul and spirit Jesus said our bodies will go back to the dust where it came from,when Jesus was on the cross the thief that believed in Him He told this day you will be with me in paradise(soul)to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord,our spirit goes back from whence it came

Answer 8

When you die your friends and family will mourn, you'll be given a funeral and either buried or cremated. You won't know that any of this is happening because your body will no longer be able to support your consciousness.

Answer 9

We lye in the grave until Jesus comes back for His followers. Then he will have the unbelievers
cast into the Lake of fire and we followers are taken to Heaven.
Gods Blessings to you! :)

Answer 10

Look up Eccl 9:5,10 and let me know what it says then I will explain it to you.

Sincerely yours,

Fred M. Hunter
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