what do you think happens after death?

Question

i've done some thinking and looked at a bunch of perspectives. i've been wondering if there really is a life after death and eternal punishment or if that is just something some guy made up thousands of years ago to give the world hope. no ancient story of the afterlife is similar. i wonder if there really is someone who loves us no matter what. it is hard to imagine that when you die everything disappears and it is over... it just seems weird... do you think this is it or is there a God who will welcome us with open arms after that terminal cancer or that icy road or will life just go black and be nonexistant? or will your life turn into a never ending dream? thoughts like these have caused me to become a vegetarian. i want to know what you think about this topic... i mean, if there was no heaven or hell, i wouldn't go crazy having sex or killing people. and if there is no heaven or hell, why would someone write a book like the bible? just to mess with us in 2000 years?

Answer 1

I believe that our Spirit is taken to Judgement upon death to determine if you should be allowed into Heaven or not...

I also believe that those who are not allowed into Heaven can change somewhat and gain entry at a later time...

I believe that nearly EVERYONE on this Earth will eventually make it into a part of Heaven.. because we have ALL already followed Jesus and accepted Him as our Savior.. PRIOR to our birth...

I also believe that Jesus' Atonement for our sins is infinite and we do not fully understand all that He has done for us.

Answer 2

Personally, I don't see how it is possible for there to be any kind of afterlife. I've said before that if there is life for us beyond the grave, then the same has to be true for everything else from manatees to bacteria. I don't think that many people would try to argue that there is an afterlife for animals, but aren't we made out of the same stuff as the animals? And the bacteria? Why should we be special? When we die, I think that that's it. To me, that's nothing of which to be scared! On the contrary, it let me shake free the notions of "heaven" and "hell" and allows me to live my life without worrying that I'm doing something wrong that will ultimately lead to my eternal punishment. I think that when we die, it's just like going to sleep, except you don't wake up. Does falling asleep hurt? Is it scary? Nah. It would also be like it was before you were born. After you die, your brain no longer functions, so what part of us would go on to live in this afterlife? Your consciousness? Nope, that was seated in the brain as well. When we die, I think it will be nothing but extreme peace. You won't be aware of any of the things that made you sad or brought you down, because there won't be anything left of you that knows that you were ever alive in the first place. The ideas of heaven and hell make absolutely no sense to me. But that's just my opinion.

Answer 3

I believe we are spirits who come into the physical world to experience choices and consequences, the positive and negative so that our spirits or souls may progress to a higher level of being in the spiritual realm. We are brave souls to do this as this world can be a tough place and the lessons and experiences, tough ones. But it's worth it. I believe in reincarnation of the soul to keep on learning from other life experiences. Our souls are in the process of creation. When we reach the highest realm of being, we no longer need to return to the physical world for experiences to enrich our soul. We are higher beings, loved by a greatest of all beings who created us and wants us to be of the highest level. To get there, we must live good lives and make the best choices. When your physical body dies, you have another opportunity to return and learn, grow some more. This world is a kind of pergatory not really a hell or heaven. If you advance spiritually, you will experience a "heavenly existence" in the spiritual realm.

Answer 4

The Bible says there is a heaven and hell. It says life has a beginning but no end. When you die physically, your soul(the real you) moves on into the next world. As I said before, that world consists of heaven or hell. You will spend eternity in one or the other. Which one you end up in depends on whether you have repented and turned your life over to Christ and therefore have received the payment for your sins which Christ payed on the cross. The door to heaven is wide open, thanks to what Christ did on the cross. But we must choose to walk through that door. That's what the bible says.
I guess the real question to ask is, is the bible true? The Bible has the signature of God attached to it in many ways. One of those ways is Bible prophecy. The old testament has 333 prophecies about the first coming of Jesus Christ and 456 specific details about his life(all written between 400 and 2200 years before he was born). The 4 gospels in the new testament(Mathew, Mark, Luke & John) tell the story of Jesus. Had those 4 gospel writers chosen to not write their gospels, we could still have re-created the whole life of Christ just from the old testament(all written before he was born). In fact, that is how the christians preached the gospel in the first 20-30 years after the death of Christ. They preached it from the old testament because the new testament was in the process of being written. The story of Christ is all there in the Old Testament including some details about His life that are not even mentioned in the New Testament. Man sees history like a person sees the Rose Parade sitting in the stands. The floats that have already gone by him are like the past. The floats in front of him are like the present. The floats still coming are like the future. These prophets in the old testament who wrote about Jesus Christ seemed to be able to see history the way you would see the Rose Parade from a helicopter. They seemed to be able to see the end from the beginning. That tells me that though they were writing these things down the info was not ultimately coming from them but from a higher source because man simply doesn't see history that way. Also, the bible has amazing knowledge about many scientific principals long before these principals were discovered. Seventeen times in the old testament the bible says that God is "stretching the heavens". For thousands of years bible scholar struggled with what that could possibly mean. Then in 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding. The bible told us that long ago.
No other religion or Holy Book has this kind of knowledge. All this tells me that these prophets in both the old and new testament were not nutcases but true prophets of God.

Answer 5

On the perspective of having Someone who loves us no matter what, could in a way, no different from having no afterlife if we try to see it from a different perspective. having this notion in mind, one would be careless or would take no responsibility for the consequences of his actions because it's either he will be loved anyway .... or it won't matter as we will not answer for it in the afterlife as there is none. I think to better understand what happens after death is to appreciate first the presence of God. If you cannot get yourself to appreciate God, then ask for that Faith, and it will be granted. By then, understanding the afterlife should be easier. Godspeed

Answer 6

Christians believe: go heaven, if you are in a real and true relationship with God, through His Son Jesus.

Catholics: go purgatory first. suffer for awhile for your sins, then even if you did reject Jesus in your life, you could still go heaven. Jesus death did not fully paid the price for salvation. obedience to the catholic church must be a requirement to enter heaven too.

Buddhists: you either go to hell and live there rich, or go into an endless reincarnation cycle (where you become a bird, pig, dog, ant etc), or you become nothing. (according to different sects)

Muslims: you enter paradise by being obedient to allah. you miss out one single detail, you can say byebye to paradise.

Atheists: go back to the dust. (that is why they should not hold funerals)

Answer 7

As muslim we belief every one will be brought back to life;

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Surely We give life to the dead, and We write down what they have sent before and their footprints, and We have recorded everything in a clear writing.

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SHAKIR: So. he who has done an atom's weight of good shall see it

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SHAKIR: And he who has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it.

Answer 8

once you die, it particularly is it! no longer something. on the time of dying maximum persons are comatose using fact the organs close down one via one. Your senses start to fail with scent, style, touch and sight going first and listening to final. it particularly is estimated that listening to maintains for greater or less 4 minutes after medical dying so it can be a probability to nonetheless pay attention what substitute into occurring after dying. although as loss of oxygen to the techniques could reason techniques injury giving the sensation of insanity after approximately 2 minutes you does no longer understand what substitute into being suggested besides. the thought-approximately existence after dying substitute into invented to reassure ourselves that we can nonetheless exist after dying and consequently no longer be fearful of it. it is likewise a gadget to recruit human beings into countless religions with can provide that when dying there will be some form of heaven or paradise finding forward to us. As we are purely animals like all different, yet of better intelligence, it isn't any longer elementary to think of that each and each dwelling subject that preceded us could, by some potential, be filled into heaven. besides, who could desire to pass there? it is going to likely be full of catholics!

Answer 9

Read the story of the unclean spirit when it goes out of a man (dies), and the story of Lazarus and the rich man, they are both in the Gospels.

Answer 10

The bible was made to guide us in life God said whatever questions you have the bible would give you the correct answer it was not made to mess with our minds its to perfect