only those who have been to a heaven and back could know
I've never met anyone who has even claimed that
2007-05-04 13:10:05
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answered by anonacoup 7
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My belief is no. The reason I think so is because in the Bible God says that we live here once and after that we are destined for God to judge us.
Assuming that our spirit goes to heaven is also a mistake. Not everyone goes to heaven, only those who have asked God to be the ruler of their lives.
The reason some religions believe in reincarnation is that they don't know about God's judgement. Many people do wrong and many do right in their life. People also have a sense of justice, that wrongs should be punished and rights rewarded. However, by experience we know that many good people suffer in this world through the faults of others while many bad people have an easy life. What is the answer?
Hindus came up with the belief that what is not put right in this life you will suffer in a future life. In that way, our sense of justice is appeased.
However, they have no proof of this. It is only their belief. Christians, on the other hand, have the message from Jesus Christ, that everything will be put right when he returns to judge the world. Justice is appeased when evildoers are punished in hell. In fact the only way out of hell is to repent from your failure to put God as the ruler of your life.
How do we know that Christians are right and Hindus wrong? Jesus proved that he was right by rising from the dead, a historic fact that is recorded in historical documents called the New Testament. We can also know that Christ rose from the dead because of external historical evidence. The earliest Christian writings describe his resurrection as an established belief, and in fact the Christian faith would have gotten nowhere had the apostles been lying, as the evidence that they were lying would have been readily available in a tomb in Jerusalem.
2007-05-04 13:26:53
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answered by Raichu 6
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Although some people make fun of my belief on this subject, I DO believe that we can come back to earth, once we become a spirit in Heaven.
2007-05-04 13:11:50
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answered by HeatherM 3
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When your spirit goes to heaven, you will be in such awe of the beautiful things that our Lord has surrounded you with. You will be seeing loved ones that has passed on before you. There will be no more pain, sorrow, fear, you will feel total LOVE. You won't want to. Read
Revelation 21:4
2007-05-04 13:20:15
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answered by SAS 3
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Heaven does not come in to being until after the Millennium period. Are you talking about after death? After death comes the judgment. And no, according to the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, there is no going back to earth.
2007-05-04 13:15:41
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answered by Anonymous
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no. Think of it as this way.....Jesus's Spirit lives within all whom believe, the Holy Spirit of God and Jesus's Sprit is one, so, why would anyone's spirit return to Earth if the people on Earth already have the needed Link to God ? Besides....I do believe that Heaven's Gate is a one-way door....opened ONLY by God Himself when the need arises, such as was the case of Lucifer......
2007-05-04 13:20:37
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answered by ForeverSet 5
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I take it that you are referring to those who have accepted Jesus Christ into their lives as Lord and Savior, are "born of the Holy Spirit", and have endured in their faith to the end as true and faithful servants of God. These are the true saints of God. They will be the only ones that will eventually receive a glorified spiritual body and reign as joint heirs with Jesus Christ in the Kindom of God on earth. They will not have access to the new heaven on earth, until after the Millenium (1000 yr) reign of Jesus Christ and shortly after the Great White Throne Judgment (second resurrection), when billions more will be resurrected and called to their salvation .......Many are confused by an expression the apostle Paul uses in his letter to the Thessalonians: "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
What does Paul mean by the phrase "spirit, soul, and body"?
By "spirit" (pneuma), Paul means the human mind, which gives us the ability to reason, create and analyze our existence. By "soul" (psuche), Paul means physical life and its consciousness. By "body" (soma), Paul means the flesh of a physical body. Paul wished for the whole person, including the mind, vitality of life and physical body, to be sanctified and blameless.
Revelation 6:9-11
"When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, 'How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?'" (Revelation 6:9-10).
To understand this scripture we must remember the context. John was witnessing a vision while he was "in the spirit" (Revelation 4:2). Under inspiration he was seeing future events in symbol. The fifth seal is figurative of the great tribulation, a time of world turmoil preceding Christ's return. In the vision John sees under the altar the martyred believers who sacrificed their lives for their faith in God. These souls symbolically cry out, "Avenge our blood!" This can be compared to Abel's blood symbolically "crying out" to God from the ground (Genesis 4:10). Though neither souls nor blood can literally speak, these phrases figuratively demonstrate that a God of justice will not forget the evil deeds of mankind perpetrated against His followers.
This verse does not describe living souls that have gone to heaven. The Bible confirms that "no one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven" (John 3:13). Even righteous King David, a man after God's own heart (Acts 13:22), was described by Peter as being "dead and buried" (Acts 2:29), not alive in heaven or some other state or location.
2007-05-04 14:58:15
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answered by TIAT 6
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Ecclesiastes 12:7 >Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
2007-05-04 13:29:11
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answered by Heaven_Bound 2
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Look up Luke 16:26
2007-05-04 13:12:22
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answered by Anonymous
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Your spirit does not go anywhere.It vanishes in the air.You seem to be believing that heaven is some where up! No coming down or going up.Everything ends here below.
2007-05-04 13:15:54
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answered by cupid 3
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