2007-03-14 00:49:48 · 11 answers · asked by hussein a 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A body will begin to decompose shortly after death.
2007-03-14 00:53:21 · answer #1 · answered by Kedar 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It all depends if your name is written in the Lamb's book of life or not. Read Revelation 20 verses 12 through 15.
2007-03-14 08:45:35 · answer #2 · answered by thanks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While you were in your mother's womb, you 'died' and were 'born' in this world. Just compare both the worlds and situations in each. Almost the same will happen when you 'die' again. You will be born in a much superior world. Just do not lose opportunities here to build your 'superior-self' for the other world by firm faith and good deeds. Otherwise you may end up handicapped in the other world (forever).
2007-03-14 07:56:13 · answer #3 · answered by irf 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well gee...I guess that would depend on how you believe and the answer would be different for each of us.
Truth of the point is unless you believe in past lives and reincarnation or spirits from the beyond coming back to speak with you ...that is impossible to answer until it happens.
2007-03-14 07:57:01 · answer #4 · answered by mom tree 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For some will sleep until Christ's return. Others will be raised at the end of all things
2007-03-14 08:08:20 · answer #5 · answered by אידיאליסטי™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you die, you become dead. Then nothing else happens. Ever.
This makes some people so afraid they need to make up stories about a fairy granting people eternal life.
We call these stories 'religion'.
2007-03-14 07:56:00 · answer #6 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What happens when a person dies?
The spirits of both the righteous and the wicked return to God. Their bodies return to dust.
"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." Ecclesiastes 12:7.
Answer: The body turns to dust again, and the spirit goes back to God, who gave it. The spirit of every person who dies--whether righteous or wicked--returns to God at death.
3. What is the "spirit" that returns to God at death?
There is nothing mysterious about the spirit that returns to God at death. It is the breath of life.
"The body without the spirit ["breath," see margin] is dead." James 2:26. "The spirit of God ["the breath which God gave him," see margin] is in my nostrils." Job 27:3.
Answer: The spirit that returns to God at death is the breath of life. Nowhere in all of God's book does the "spirit" have any life, wisdom, or feeling after a person dies. It is the "breath of life" and nothing more.
4. What is a "soul"?
These four people are four souls.
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Genesis 2:7.
Answer: A soul is a living being. A soul is always a combination of two things: body plus breath. A soul cannot exist unless body and breath are combined. God's Word teaches that we are souls.
5. Do souls die?
"The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Ezekiel 18:20. "Every living soul died in the sea." Revelation 16:3.
Answer: According to God's Word, souls do die! We are souls, and souls die. Man is mortal (Job 4:17). Only God is immortal (1 Timothy 6:15, 16). The concept of an undying, immortal soul goes against the Bible, which teaches that souls are subject to death.
6. Do good people go to heaven when they die?
"All that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth." John 5:28, 29. "David ... is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day." "For David is not ascended into the heavens." Acts 2:29, 34. "If I wait, the grave is mine house." Job 17:13.
Answer: No, people do not go either to heaven or hell at death. They go to their graves to await the resurrection day. King David will be saved in God's kingdom. However, he is in his grave now, where he awaits the resurrection.
7. How much does one know or comprehend after death?
"The living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun." "There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10. "The dead praise not the Lord." Psalms 115:17.
Answer: God says that the dead know absolutely nothing!
8. But can't the dead communicate with the living, and aren't they aware of what the living are doing?
Though millions think it is possible, the dead cannot communicate with the living.
"So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." "His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them." Job 14:12, 21. "Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun." Ecclesiastes 9:6.
Answer: No, the dead cannot contact the living, nor do they know what the living are doing. They are dead. Their thoughts have perished (Psalms 146:4).
9. Jesus called the unconscious state of the dead "sleep" in John 11:11-14. How long will they sleep?
Jesus calls death "sleep." It is a state of total unconsciousness.
"So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more." Job 14:12. "The day of the Lord will come ... in the which the heavens shall pass away."
2 Peter 3:10.
Answer: The dead will sleep until the great day of the Lord at the end of the world. In death, humans are totally unconscious with no activity or knowledge of any kind.
10. What happens to the righteous dead at the second coming of Christ?
The righteous will be raised to life and given immortality at Jesus' second coming.
"Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be." Revelation 22:12. "The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, ... and the dead in Christ shall rise ... and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17. "We shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, ... and the dead shall be raised incorruptible. ... For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." 1 Corinthians 15:51-53.
Answer: They will be rewarded. They will be raised, given immortal bodies, and caught up to meet the Lord in the air. There would be no purpose in a resurrection if people were taken to heaven at death.
11. What was the devil's first lie?
The devil's first lie to Eve was "You won't die" - a statement completely contrary to all Scripture.
"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die." Genesis 3:4. "That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan." Revelation 12:9.
Answer: Satan told Eve that sin would not bring death. "Ye shall not surely die," he said.
12. Why did the devil lie to Eve about death? Could this subject be more important than many think?
Those who believe the dead are alive become easy targets for the devil's deceptions.
Answer: It is one of the cornerstones of the devil's kingdom. He has worked powerful miracles down through the ages through people who claim to receive their power from the spirits of the dead. (Examples: Magicians of Egypt--Exodus 7:11; Woman of Endor--1 Samuel 28:3-25; Sorcerers--Daniel 2:2; A certain damsel--Acts 16:16-18.)
A Solemn Warning
In the end-time Satan will again use sorcery--as he did in Daniel's day--to deceive the world (Revelation 18:23). Sorcery is a supernatural agency that claims to receive its power and wisdom from the spirits of the dead.
Posing as Jesus' Disciples
Posing as godly loved ones who have died, saintly clergymen who are now dead, Bible prophets, or even the apostles or disciples of Christ (2 Corinthians 11:13), Satan and his angels will deceive billions. Those who believe the dead are alive, in any form, will most assuredly be deceived.
2007-03-14 08:19:30 · answer #7 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we decompose and our mind goes with it.
long after your buried all that is left are your bones.
Religion has nothing to do it. imo
2007-03-14 07:54:42 · answer #8 · answered by mark [mjimih] 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you cease to exist and decomposition
2007-03-14 07:52:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depending upon what kind of life you lead, i believe you will either go to heaven or hell.
2007-03-14 07:53:00 · answer #10 · answered by *PEACE BEGINS WITH A SMILE* 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋