There is an afterlife. Where you spend it depends very much on how you lived you life here on earth.
Happy Easter :-)
2007-04-06 18:21:08
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answered by chekeir 6
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The Bible answers this;
(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. 6Â 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.
We simply remain 'asleep' in death until we are resurrected.
(Psalm 13:3) Do look [upon me]; answer me, O Jehovah my God. Do make my eyes shine, that I may not fall asleep in death,
(2 Peter 3:4) and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep [in death], all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.”
(Revelation 20:12-13) And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. But another scroll was opened; it is the scroll of life. And the dead were judged out of those things written in the scrolls according to their deeds. 13Â And the sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Ha′des gave up those dead in them, and they were judged individually according to their deeds.
2007-04-07 01:54:03
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answered by pugjw9896 7
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I believe that the Bible tells us that death is like a sleep..and and it will seem like we just went to sleep when Jesus returns and raises people up. Many people think that their 'spirit' goes to heaven, but if that was true Jesus would not need to raise anyione, because the bible also says when we go to heaven we will all be changed and have new bodied. Besides, if that about our spirit was true then that means even bad peoples spirits would go there and the Bible says that no bad people will go there. Our spirit is the life in us..at the moment we are a living spirit.....the spirit is the part of us that makes us think and feel..the life in us...
So..I am positive that the Bible teaches that when we die we sleep in the grave..until He returns for us.
2007-04-07 01:27:15
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answered by Anonymous
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You stay asleep in death until you are resurrected. The first resurrection (the one to heaven) has already started. The second one (the one to earth) will not start until after Armegeddon (God's war against the wicked). That is what the Bible says.
2007-04-07 02:42:48
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answered by Sparkle1 6
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First, the Bible is emphatic and clear that everyone dies: “For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yes, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again” (Ecc. 3:19-20). This reveals that a human being simply dies and returns to dust like any other living creature on earth.
The Bible provides even more detail of what happens after death. Notice Psalm 146: “His [man’s] breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish” (vs. 4). A human being no longer thinks once he is dead; he simply is not conscious.
Now read Ecclesiastes 9: “For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For 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” (vs. 4-5). Again, the Bible is clear about the state of the dead.
But this leads to the age-old question asked in the Book of Job: “If a man die, shall he live again?” (14:14). The second half of the verse begins to answer the question: “…all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.”
God’s Word speaks of this “change” in scores of places, but what is it?
God’s Ultimate Goal
Most people believe that they are born with “immortal souls.” But the Bible states otherwise: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 6:23). Eternal life is a gift. People are not automatically born with it. Since “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23), and “sin is the transgression of the law” (I John 3:4), there is a penalty—wages earned—for breaking God’s Law!
Some religionists try to reason around Romans 6:23, saying that “death” merely means separation from God. But these scriptures are plain. God declares, “Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine: the soul that sins it shall die…The soul that sins, it shall die” (Ezek. 18:4, 20).
When a person dies, he is dead. Death is the ultimate “separation.”
However, there is hope after death! Everyone who has ever lived will be resurrected: “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” (I Cor. 15:52-53). This is the “change” of which Job spoke—a change from this temporary, physical existence to eternal life. This is God’s ultimate goal for humanity.
Death is terrible. The Bible describes it as a “sting.”
But there is coming a time when death will lose its sting—a time when death will no longer exist: “So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?” (I Cor. 15:54-55).
Death has no place in mankind’s incredible future!
2007-04-07 02:01:41
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answered by Anonymous
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What dies actually is the temporary body, the eternal soul remains as it is without any change just as a water on a lotus leaf untouched. But, due to misidentification with the body one changes from one body to another until getting liberated by spiritual practices and worshiping God.
Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be. As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change. Bhagavad-gita-2.12 & 13
Lord Krishna says the different destinations according to what they worship, Bhagavad-gita-9.25, "Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those who worship the ancestors go to the ancestors; those who worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; and those who worship Me will live with Me."
Further, Lord Krishna says the different destinations according to what the three modes of material nature, Bhagavad-gita-14.18, "Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those in the abominable mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds."
2007-04-07 01:34:57
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answered by Gaura 7
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I'm a Christian, and Christians believe that they will die and their souls will rest until the Second Coming of Christ, where all souls, living and dead, will be judged by God according to His Word (the Bible). If people have accepted Christ as the Son of God and their Savior from sin, then they will be in heaven with God forever! If they rejected God in their lives then they will be separated from God, sent into the darkness forever...
2007-04-07 01:22:28
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe that we are here for a purpose..either to live our life and do right or to plague mankind...I believe that i am here for the right but there are those people too drive us nuts! I think that on day 1 when we are born that we were delt our choice and thats what we follow..
2007-04-07 01:30:53
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answered by skurz32 1
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It all depends on the kind of faith and belief you have in your own religion and god. As per Hinduism .... after death they go to another birth until they achieve moksha from this world and reach heaven, and its different for others. But as far as i am concerned, its the kind of life that we live here in earth that make all heaven and hell...... live life to the sweetest of the moments... u will find heaven here itself.
2007-04-07 01:28:18
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answered by salil 1
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Well if you are bad and regret a LOT OF THINGS you did then you will probally go to H*** ( Hell). But if you are nice to people and have not a lot of regrets of bad things that you did you will go to heaven. But knowone is perfect and doesn't have regrets.
2007-04-08 09:45:45
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answered by lovebug3 4
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well...i don't believe in god or anything, sort of wish i did, cause i would like to have something to believe in, anyways have you ever seen the movie with Robin Williams in it What Dreams May Come? Well, i hope its like that...I love my family so much, I don't want to be without them ever, however I do fear death for myself and my family members...So...whenever I die I want to be with my family when they die too.
2007-04-07 01:27:35
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answered by Jessy 5
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