There is life after death, the soul of man is eternal.?

Question

144,000 refered to the tribes of the chilren of Israel, not the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses believe the bible to teach that most dead humans will be resurrected to life in a restored paradise earth, with the hope of living forever under God and Christ.

So what does the bible teach about "the soul"?

A "soul" is a life, with no implication regarding some immortal otherwordly entity. Each deceased life is in Jehovah God's remembrance (with the potential for future resurrection), but the dead do not exist anywhere but memories until and unless the life is resurrected.

(Ezekiel 18:4) The soul that is sinning - it itself will die.

(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all

(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]

(Genesis 2:17) But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”

(Genesis 17:14) And an uncircumcised male who will not get the flesh of his foreskin circumcised, even that soul must be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

(Judges 16:30) And Samson proceeded to say: “Let my soul die with the Philistines.” Then he bent himself with power, and the house went falling upon the axis lords and upon all the people that were in it, so that the dead that he put to death in his own death came to be more than those he had put to death during his lifetime.

(Job 33:22) And his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to those inflicting death.

(Psalm 78:50) He did not hold back their soul from death itself; And their life he handed over even to the pestilence.

(Isaiah 53:12) he poured out his soul to the very death

(Acts 3:23) Indeed, any soul that does not listen to that Prophet will be completely destroyed from among the people.’

(Revelation 16:3) And the second one poured out his bowl into the sea. And it became blood as of a dead man, and every living soul died, yes, the things in the sea.

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Answer 2

If you believe that the 144,000 listed in Rev ch. 7 are fleshly Israelites,

Then you must also believe that Jesus made a mistake in the list.

The list in Rev. ch 7 does not agree with the fleshly sons of Jacob, nor does it agree with the list of the 12 tribes in the book of Numbers.

So either Jesus made a mistake or he was referring to a different Israel and not the fleshly one.

This leaves only Spiritual Israel, whom Paul calls a new creation in the book of Gal.

(Galatians 6:15-16) 15 For neither is circumcision anything nor is uncircumcision, but a new creation [is something]. 16 And all those who will walk orderly by this rule of conduct, upon them be peace and mercy, even upon the Israel of God.

Here fleshly Israel is circumcised, Gentiles are uncircumsed,

being joined together as the Israel of God.

Answer 3

Dude, it really is speaking about eternal life in a body with God. eternal life speaks about a million) the customary of the life 2) the dimensions of the life 3) the life being life in fellowship with God. The unredeemed's life in eternity will be a million) negative 2) continuously 3) with out fellowship with God. Rev 14:9 And the third angel said them, saying with a noisy voice, If any guy worship the beast and his image, and get carry of his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, Rev 14:10 an identical shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, that's poured out with out blend into the cup of his indignation; and he will be tormented with hearth and brimstone contained in the presence of the holy angels, and contained in the presence of the Lamb: Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up ****with no end in sight: and they haven't got any relax day nor evening,***** who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his call.

Answer 4

Yes there is life after death! We all have life lessons to learn and until we learn them, we will keep coming back until we finally figure it out!! Then and only then can we become one with The Divine!

Answer 5

All religions believe life after death

Answer 6

Our soul belongs to God... The easiest way to understand a soul -

Think of a pitcher of water... That is GOD~~ In each of us, from the day we are born, God pours a drop of Himself (the water) into us (or a glass). We live life, protecting the soul... But as we grow, and mature, and sin... The water becomes dirty... It can be purified only through Jesus... And He DOES purify our souls. God only wants to put back into the pitcher (Himself) the pure droplets of water out there... He does not dirty, tainted water full of sin... He will only accept purity... So there u GO... The soul never belongs to man, for it is something that God instills in us. It remains His... whether he takes it back, or not~

Answer 7

the soul is different from the spirit ....
Animals has souls but not spirits .. although sometime it is written and referred to souls in writings but meaning the spirit... the 144,000 is symbolic number as it doesn't make sense that those to be the only one to be pure in God's sight... truly if you count the righteous they are more than 144,000 since creation..

Answer 8

144,000 is men who have never sinned, never have been in a sex activity with women, "OR ANY SEX" They are men,,,,
Guess that leaves alot of us out.

There is also death in life if you have no salvation blood upon you, so go figer. Its eternal, now here on Earth, living, Read Romans 8 the whole book< there is your answer from God himslef.

Answer 9

I would say that there is no death, but the soul of man is eternal !Yes, when you say that a person dies it is erroneous.

Answer 10

It's a fantasy. Absolutely nothing supports this but what a few whack-jobs who walked around in the desert said 2,000 years ago. There's no more reason to believe this than any other bunch of whack jobs that we have spouting stupid crap that we have walking the earth today.