And which one do you think you're going to?
2007-03-02 13:40:02 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. i.e. no-one is going anywhere. When you're dead, that's it. Lights out. End of story.
2007-03-02 13:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neither
They are to be dead just like the other dead.
You make the teachings of Christ of no effect by your man-made traditions.
One man-made tradition is "good people go to heaven when they die and bad people go to hell when they die."
Isn't it time we transcended the fables of childhood?
No one has gone to heaven except the Son of man (John 3:13).
And hell?
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Where are they?
In their graves!
"Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth, they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation" (John 5:28-29).
The King James "damnation" is from lthe Greek word "krisis", meaning "contesting".
The "contesting" takes place in a second physical life after the 1000 years. The vast majority of mankind is not being called now.
Some of the ones who are "contesting" in the future will still not repent. And they will cease to exist. The words "you only live twice" will be only too true for them.
2007-03-02 21:42:06 · answer #2 · answered by onelm0 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadly, I believe that most people are not going to make it into heaven. Why? Because of people's misconceptions about eternity. You see, you do not go to heaven because you are good (Good works can't save you - Ephesians 2:8-9). By the same token, you don't go to hell because you are bad. Where you end up in eternity depends upon your decision to accept or reject Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. As for where I'm going... as long as I continue to serve Jesus, I will go to heaven. Can a person know where he or she is going? Absolutely! Read 1 John 5:13 - These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
2007-03-08 01:34:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 7:13 Go in through the narrow gate because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction and many are the ones going in through it.
Whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life and few are the ones finding it.
They asked Jesus are those being saved few? He said "Yes"
Luke 13:24
When the earth was destroyed by a flood only one family was saved. Most people are not doing God's will.
2007-03-02 21:47:38 · answer #4 · answered by Ruth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who can judge a man's heart? I'm going to try to say that anyone is going to heaven or hell, because I don't know their heart.
I'm going to heaven.
2007-03-07 13:07:16 · answer #5 · answered by Tamara M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Death is a state of non-existance.
2. Heaven is where those go, who've been chosen to rule with Christ, as kings & priests with him, in God's heavenly kingdom (over earth) for a thousand years.
3. Hell is the common grave of mankind, not a place of torture for evildoers (myth).
4.Where do I think I'll wind up?
I'm aiming for life in a restored, paradise, earth --
as one of Many subjects of God's heavenly kingdom.
For more details, see ...
Is There Life After Death?
http://watchtower.org/e/20010715/article_01.htm
The Hereafter--Where Will It Be?
http://watchtower.org/e/20001001/article_01.htm
Life in a Peaceful New World
http://www.watchtower.org/library/t15/peaceful.htm
They are Bible-based explanations of #s 1-4, above.
2007-03-02 22:26:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know that I am going to heaven because I am saved. I beleive that God gives everyone a chance even after death to choose him. God loves all of us and wants us to live with him. I only feel that the people whom reject him timt after time and deny him are the ones who go to hell. Jesus died for all of us and now is the end time and may God give everyone the chance to hear his word and believe in him before it is too late.
2007-03-02 21:46:17 · answer #7 · answered by chrislynn_0089 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is very clear. No one can go to Heaven.
In Luke 10:25-28, when asked how to get into Heaven, Jesus made it clear that to get to Heaven you must "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself."
In Luke 18, in order to get to Heaven, Jesus says to a certain ruler who asked how to get to Heaven, "You know the commandments. Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor thy father and thy mother." When the ruler said he had kept all those since he was a boy, Jesus replied, "You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven. Then come and follow me."
Yes, He said you must SELL EVERYTHING. No, He wasn't joking, and no, He didn't say "sell everything except..." He said, "SELL EVERYTHING." And He says you must FOLLOW HIM. You must become His disciple. In order to become His disciple, Jesus says, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and his mother, his brothers and sisters, and yes, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple."
So now you have to HATE your father and mother, not HONOR them, (so which is it?) and again, He reiterates that you have to SELL EVERYTHING you have. (He says it in TWO different places, so you KNOW He's serious! That means YOU, TOO, all you out there who are going to try to make excuses as to why 'He didn't mean it THAT way' so that you don't have to sell everything! Yes, He meant it THAT way. Don't try to bend what He said to fit what you WANT it to mean...you're the ones saying we must follow what He says to the WORD!) Are you going to sell everything you have? I don't know a single Christian who is willing to sell everything they have, so sorry, NO ONE is going to Heaven.
2007-03-02 22:30:24 · answer #8 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would have to say more people will spend eternity in hell, rather than heaven. why? because man wants to enter heaven their way. they want to clean up their " act" and then come to GOD. GOD says he wants you to come to him as a little child. humble without questioning anything, putting your faith in Him, as you would a doctor, or a pilot. you have faith that they will see you through safley. why can't man treat our LORD the same? HE wants you to come to him in all of your filthy rags and HE will clean you up, inside and out!!!!.i know because over thirty years ago He did just that for me. HE , made me a new creature, inside and out,and he will do the same for you!!!
2007-03-08 06:15:03 · answer #9 · answered by bigbrowneyesdd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Himself said the road is broad that leads to destruction but narrow is the way that leads to life. (MOP, of course -- oh,never heard of that translation? My Own Paraphrase.) There will be many more who end up in Hell because they didn't think they needed to do anything about it and wouldn't listen to those who told them they did. There's a lovely saying I came across in Sweden that translates roughly to:
What do you need to do to go to Heaven? Believe in Jesus and trust in Him as your Lord and Savior.
What do you need to do to go to Hell? Absolutely nothing.
I think you can tell where I'm going.
2007-03-02 21:47:29 · answer #10 · answered by thejanith 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think they are.
Heaven and Hell are places on Earth.
2007-03-02 21:43:10 · answer #11 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋