Seriously, do you believe the soul goes on after death?

Question

I do because I was visited by my Grandmother's spirit after her death when I was 6 years old.

Answer 1

read this story:

http://www.near-death.com/storm.html

Answer 2

No your grandmother wasn't there it could have been a wicked angel posing as her.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) 5 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.
John 5:28 says there is going to be a resurrection of both the good and the bad.
Why would they need a resurrection if they are not dead but in heaven somewhere?

Answer 3

No, of course not, not if you believe the Bible, and what Jesus says:

Jesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.


The Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death.
The account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle.

Think about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it? And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place? Of course not!

Yet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Gen. 2:7, Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.

The Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.

Clearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection. You enjoy the best sleep ever, until Jesus resurrects you, sometime in the future.

Answer 4

I'm not sure whether I believe that or not...

However, I have had this recurring dream:...
In this dream...
---I'm dying...and I'm going down this long, cold and dark tunnel.

At the end of this tunnel I can see a light which gets bigger and brighter as I get closer to it...

I finally reach the light, its warmth beckons me to enter it...
Then I go to take my first step into the light, - and onto everlasting Life...

...when I am summarily stopped by someone who looks like a cross between an angel and a Wal-Mart greeter, at which point I'm told to "take a number"...

...which, for some strange reason, is always 42^42.

---Go figure...

Answer 5

Our thoughts and emotions are only visible through the animation of our bodies. You can’t see them but they are REAL. In our present state of being this “thought/emotion energy" is perfectly suited for the human body. However when the human body can no longer sustain this energy this energy returns to the originator, “God”. God, issues this energy a new body to continue its existence.

34 Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God I speak this to your shame.
35But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?"
36 You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies;
37and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.
38But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
39All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.
40There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.
41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;
43it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
44it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
45So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL " The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Answer 6

Here's what happens when you die -- you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I promise you that when you die, nothing cool happens.
— Howard Stern

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky; (1821-1881)

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
— Publilius Syrus, Maxims

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

There isn't any such thing as a soul. And a 6 year old has a pretty active imagination.

Answer 9

For Christians, we are assured in the Bible that "...absent from the body, ...present with the Lord."

Answer 10

I hope my soul is not upstairs eating those candy I hid today.

Answer 11

uhm that means the soul STAYED, not moved on. souls either go to hell or heaven.