what happens to the soul after a persons dies?

Answer 1

We don't know. We can only guess.

Answer 2

The soul is different from the body and is is independent. When the body becomes useless it is discarded and moves to a new body according to the consciousness of the living being as Krishna says :
BG 2.20For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.

BG 2.21: O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, eternal, unborn and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?

BG 2.22: As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.

BG 2.23: The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.

BG 2.24: This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.

BG 2.25: It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable and immutable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body.

Only once taking to Devotion to God completely can one escape this cycle of our own desire.

BG2.64 But a person free from all attachment and aversion and able to control his senses through regulative principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord.

BG 2.65: For one thus satisfied [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness], the threefold miseries of material existence exist no longer; in such satisfied consciousness, one's intelligence is soon well established.

That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not bewildered. If one is thus situated even at the hour of death, one can enter into the kingdom of God.

Answer 3

Don't you find it amazing of all the other `18 answers, only one chose to actually look in the Bible? It is the only source that has knowledge outside the limits of man.

The soul is as in Genesis, the dust of the ground and the breath of life and man became a living soul.

Ezekiel 18: 4 and Matt. 10: 28 both clearly say the soul dies. It is not immortal.

As in another answer, Eccles. 9: 5-7, 19 the dead have no thoughts or activity.

Answer 4

Well that depends- okay i know this is all religious and stuff and some people say it's a "matter of opinion" but I'm serious. The ONLY way that your soul is going to heaven is if you give your life to God and ask him in your heart, and work at your life to follow him- know God love God and worship God...understand?? I know I sound like a preacher but it's absolutely TRUE. Read the Holy Bible- attend a CHRISTIAN church, anyways...if you live that kind of life your soul will go to heaven for eterntity.

Answer 5

Soul? What soul. When circulation ceases, the brain dies. There has yet to be found an organ or set of tissues called "The Soul". Now if you had asked what happens to the stomach, we could tell you.

Answer 6

The soul does not die with the body but is immortal. If one is truly saved their soul goes to heaven, if not, their soul goes to eternal torment. There is no soul sleep as some heretical sects teach. Their belief is eisegesis of Scripture texts speaking of the death of a soul being spiritually dead in sin. There is no reincarnation as they teach.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 7

Humans ARE souls and they DIE. Nothing is living after death.

Eccl. 9:5: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.”

Ezek. 18:4: “Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul* that is sinning—it itself will die.” (*Hebrew reads “the ne′phesh.” KJ, AS, RS, NE, and Dy render it “the soul.” Some translations say “the man” or “the person.”)

Matt. 10:28: “Do not become fearful of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul [or, “life”]; but rather be in fear of him that can destroy both soul* and body in Gehenna.” (*Greek has the accusative case of psy·khe′. KJ, AS, RS, NE, TEV, Dy, JB, and NAB all render it “soul.”)

Acts 3:23: “Indeed, any soul [Greek, psy·khe′] that does not listen to that Prophet will be completely destroyed from among the people.”

Answer 8

The bible tells us to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, but this is only if you have been saved by the blood of Jesus. Other passages say the unsaved will go to eternal torment after judgment day, where the worm never dies and there will be a gnashing of teeth.

Answer 9

Our soul and spirit goes on to heaven and we are
with the Lord Jesus

Answer 10

It's judged then purged or damned or ,if fully cleansed by Grace and converted to God, fully united with Him. At the end of time ,there is a resurrection of everybody in immortality in Heaven or Hell.

Answer 11

The soul is the breath of man and it goes back to the creator.