What happens after death?

Question

do we go to heaven or do we go to hell or other places or do you believe in reincarnation the rebirth of the soul to another body to live in.

Answer 1

To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.

Answer 2

I guess that no one can answer this question for certain, unless they die and come back to let us all know about it. Yet as beings with a conscious mind, we long for the answer to this question, the question of how the universe came about and why etc. Theses are all questions we ask ourselves at some point.

The only answer I can give is what I believe and what I would like to believe, because as a logical being I would say that science sways us towards fact and fact is, we rot away just like the dinosaurs did before us. What I want to believe is that there is a purpose to all of this at the end. All the suffering some, if not all of us have to endure through our lives, seems cruel and pointless if there is nothing after this life. This is why people turn to religion, because it is better to believe in something than have the dead hope of nothing. However I would like to believe in God, but I don't believe in religion.

I would like my consciousness(soul) to go on and travel the universe, to look at everything first hand, I would like to know the ultimate answers and if all that the afterlife brings is enlightenment, I would be very happy indeed!!

Answer 3

There are many biblical problems with believing in reincarnation. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5:8 the apostle Paul states, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." At death, the, the Christian immediately goes into the presence of the Lord, not into another body. In keeping with this. Luke 16:19-31 tells us that unbelievers at death go to a place of suffering, not into another body.
Further, Hebrews 9:27 assures us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Each human being LIVES ONCE as a mortal on earth, DIES ONCE, and then FACES JUDGMENT. He does not have a second chance by reincarnating into another body.

If we receive Jesus as our Savior, our penalty for sin is paid. We are adopted into God's family, and Heaven is our eternal home. If we reject Jesus, we remain alienated from the Lord and under condemnation for our sin. We are destined to experience eternal judgment. God won't accept any of man's excuses because there is no acceptable defense for unbelief. (Acts 4:12)

Answer 4

Hey! I was going to ask this question!! :~)
I wonder about this, too...because there are many ideas on this subject, and depending on what you believe, each answer will be different.
If a person is religious, they may think that you either go directly to heaven or to hell. This is a popular belief,( but it is not mine, as I do not believe that God sends people to hell. Rather God allows them, at some point in the future, after their death, to learn to follow Him and to have their chance at Salvation)
If a person is Spiritual, (not necessarily affiliated with a church, but having a personal relationship with Christ) they have probably accepted the Bible saying that the "dead know not anything", meaning that when we're dead, we're dead, until the Resurrection... I tend to believe this.
As for re-incarnation; I wonder about this, I don't know enough about this fascinating topic to really say what is believed about death. But....there is some "evidence" that seems to support the beliefs that God allows the Soul to come back, in another body, to live again, and perhaps attain a higher level of spirituality, and keep on improving oneself, until a more perfect state is achieved. I tend to think that there's some truth to this belief...I've been told that in earlier days, in the Bible, re-incarnation was a common belief..so who really knows for sure??
What do you think?

Answer 5

If you accept the Bible as an authority, there is this.
John 3:13 And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. (DRC)

That was written ca 96CE, and Paul stated that those who taught the resurrection had taken place were misleading others.
When we then look at other scriptures about Christ's presence it become obvious that the first resurrection shall not begin until during Christ's presence (gr. parousia) some refer to this as his 2nd coming.

For these reason and more, those who die are 'asleep' in death, awaiting a resurrection.

Much more may be found about the soul, man's spirit, the condition of the dead here:
http://bythebible.page.tl/Soul__Immortal-f---Animals-f-.htm
http://bythebible.page.tl/Soul__What-is-it-f-.htm
http://bythebible.page.tl/Man-h-s-Spirit.htm
http://bythebible.page.tl/1-.--Dead__the-condition-of--.---.---.--.htm

Answer 6

Hell isn't a place of eternal torment, but the common grave of the humankind.

The teaching of hell fire has pagan origins. In ancient Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs the “nether world . . . is pictured as a place full of horrors, and is presided over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness.”
Early evidence of the fiery aspect of Christendom’s hell is found in the religion of ancient Egypt.

The Bible says that "The wages sin pays is death" -- Romans 6:23. So, in the day we die our sins are erased. See also Romans 6:7.

The Scriptures say that Jehovah is love (1 John 4:8). A loving God wouldn't torture us an eternity. Actually that never crossed his mind. Consider the next verse:
"They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart." -- Jeremiah 7:31

The soul is a man. The soul is not immortal. After death it ceases to exist.

"And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul." -- Genesis 2:7

"In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." -- Genesis 3:19

"The soul that is sinning—it itself will die." -- Ezekiel 18:4

"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." -- Ecclesiastes 9:5

"All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She′ol, the place to which you are going." -- Ecclesiastes 9:10

"His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground;
In that day his thoughts do perish." -- Proverbs 146:4

Answer 7

most probably and quite a bit away from regular religious approaches there will be nothing, neither for the body nor the soul.
Some may believe this could be disillusioned or without any hope but I personally don't believe in any unique exclusiveness of man and mankind to survive in any other shape; why and what for should this be good for - apart from keeping our souls calm (down) while being alive...

Answer 8

in my opinion. The next world is much like this one.you will go to the level you have earned in this life,you wouldn t put someone who can only swim 25 yards into a marathon to swim for two miles,they could nt keep up.no one forgives your sins,just because you ask for forgiveness doesant me you have yet erned it.I liken the next world to a microscope look into it and you see another world,look away and it has gone yet it still axists in another dimention.reincarnation:I have lived many lives,I died in the grait fire of london and in my last life I died in 1891,I cannot prove this to you,nor do I need too.Its up to you to find your own profe.nock and the door will be opend,seek and you shall find.

Answer 9

There is two way to go after death.


The first when someone buried with full uncounciousness for forever, or reborning at a brend new different place.

Answer 10

I've always believed we lay in rest until the return of Christ but the theft on the cross went straight to paradise so I really have no idea

Answer 11

Either into paradise with Jesus or to torment to await the Resurrection.