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Or is it a lack of existence... you can check my q's and the one about Kirilian photography.... energy... soul...
What do you think happens after you go.... body I mean.... answer away.....

2007-07-03 13:59:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT DEATH

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.” 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.

2007-07-03 15:18:57 · answer #1 · answered by BJ 7 · 0 0

I don't want to spend eternity in church, so I hope we all get a remote control and can push buttons and select where to go and what to be. You could relive great moments, go visit uranus, be a dolphin, be a bird, visit relatives, go spook people out, sing, eat drink, all that without a body caught in 5 senses and time and space.
As for hell? I can't imagine a loving God would have any need to torment anyone for eternity. Why not just throw the bad ones away? Or make somebody a tree or turn them into a mosquito.

2007-07-03 14:18:57 · answer #2 · answered by topink 6 · 0 0

There is eternal life for all. The only question is where it will be spent, in heaven or hell. We can know that eternal joy in heaven can be ours when we accept Jesus as Savior and Lord.
If you know that you are a sinner, if you sincerely desire to be forgiven by God, if you claim that forgiveness through what Jesus did in dying on the cross, you can know that eternity in heaven is promised to you.
Hell is total separation from God, which is an unimaginable horror.
The end of existence idea is not true.

2007-07-03 14:06:06 · answer #3 · answered by Bob T 6 · 0 0

No. The burning fires might normally kill you besides, however you might on no account be ready to outlive given that if you'll be able to get a main sunburn by means of tanning for three hours, that when you had been in temperatures of 1100 levels, then your epidermis might burn in approximately 20 seconds and the leisure of your frame might comply with within the path of approximately thirteen minuites.

2016-09-05 14:11:06 · answer #4 · answered by andromache 4 · 0 0

See short article on site below. The science of cosmology explains how only the physical universe has time and space. How can you imagine something outside of time and space?

2007-07-03 14:17:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

hopefully nothing. i could sure use the rest. Everyone has different ideas on this. You are going to figure out wht suits you. I am sure you will get some great ideas here.

2007-07-03 14:08:51 · answer #6 · answered by Traveler 7 · 0 0

After we die, our spirit will live forever - it just depends on whether we go to heaven or hell. For more information on where we will spend eternity, visit FaceEternity.com

2007-07-03 14:58:43 · answer #7 · answered by faceeternity 3 · 0 0

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