how do you know what happens when we die?

Question

who are you to say what will happen when we die?
and dont say i read it in a book--or a spirit told me
I want intelligent answers ONLY (if thats possible)
we will only find out what happens AFTER we die.
there is NO WAY to know while we are living........................
true or false?

Answer 1

I don't think it's possible to believe something that you've made up your mind not to believe.

Answer 2

well, i did read it in a book, but i'll give you proof by quoting from it ... THE BIBLE.

In the Bible, the words translated "spirit" basically mean "breath." But this implies much more than the act of breathing. The Bible writer James, for example, states: "The body without spirit is dead." (James 2:26) Hence, spirit is that which animates the body.

This animating force cannot simply be the breath, or air, moving through the lungs. Why not? Because after breathing stops, life remains in the body cells for a brief period—"for several minutes," according to The World Book Encyclopedia. For this reason, efforts at resuscitation can succeed. But once the spark of life is extinguished from the cells of the body, any efforts to restore life are futile. All the breath, or air, in the world cannot revive even one cell. The spirit, then, is the invisible life-force—the spark of life that keeps the cells and the person alive. This life-force is sustained by breathing.—Job 34:14, 15.

Is that spirit active only in humans? The Bible helps us to reach a sound conclusion in this matter. Wise King Solomon acknowledged that humans and animals "all have but one spirit," and he asked: "Who is there knowing the spirit of the sons of mankind, whether it is ascending upward; and the spirit of the beast, whether it is descending downward to the earth?" (Ecclesiastes 3:19-21) So animals as well as men are spoken of as having a spirit. How can that be?

The spirit, or life-force, can be compared to the electric current that flows through a machine or an appliance. The invisible electricity may perform various functions, depending on the type of equipment it powers. For example, an electric stove can be made to generate heat, a computer to process information, and a television set to produce images and sound. Yet, the electric current never takes on the features of the equipment it activates. It remains simply a force. Similarly, the life-force does not take on any of the characteristics of the creatures it animates. It has no personality and no thinking ability. Humans and animals "have but one spirit." (Ecclesiastes 3:19) When a person dies, therefore, his spirit does not go on existing in another realm as a spirit creature.

What, then, is the condition of the dead? And what happens to the spirit when a person dies?



"Dust you are and to dust you will return"
"To Dust You Will Return"
When the first man, Adam, deliberately disobeyed God's command, He said to him: "In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." (Genesis 3:19) Where was Adam before Jehovah created him from the dust? Why, he was nowhere! He simply did not exist. So when Jehovah God said that Adam would "return to the ground," he meant that Adam would die and return to the elements in the ground. Adam would not cross over to the spirit realm. At death Adam would once again be nonexistent. His punishment was death—absence of life—not a transfer to another realm.—Romans 6:23.

What about others who have died? The condition of the dead is made clear at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, where we read: "The dead know nothing . . . There is no pursuit, no plan, no knowledge or intelligence, within the grave." (Moffatt) Death, therefore, is a state of nonexistence. The psalmist wrote that when a person dies, "his spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish."—Psalm 146:4.

Answer 3

once I die, others will nevertheless be alive getting on with their lives. possibly i'd choose to think of a few would mourn my dying, yet that relies upon on what I did in existence. once I die, I would be not extra, so I heavily isn't conscious and as a result I won't have the skill to correctly known what happens following my dying. So there is not any component demanding approximately it.

Answer 4

No idea, I've never been dead before. I've had low blood sugar nearly put me into a coma before, but that's so far as close as I've gotten.

People who have had near death experiences (e.g. being in cardiac arrest for a few minutes), you aren't quite dead; your brain is still functional, you're still a warm body. Those few minutes in between while your heart stopped is not true death, IMHO. Your brain may be frantically saying and acting like "OMGWTF our body is DYING", and firing off neurons and old memories like firecrackers, but you haven't crossed that threshold of true death, when the brain and body have shut down, when your flesh is rendered to fatty ooze, and your bones dry to dust.

If you can do that and come back, tell us the story, but otherwise welcome back to life from NEAR death.

Answer 5

False...

You are alive. There is something that is part of you while you are alive. Take a dead body. They have all of the equipment to be alive, but cannot be reanimated... So what is the thing that made them alive and where did it go???

Well, we know that energy cannot be created or destroyed, just translated, so it is simply logical that the thing that makes us alive (call it a soul if you want) goes on somewhere.

Answer 6

No one knows for sure. We speculate. Different people believe in different things. There are many books written by people who claim to have died and come back to life. They tell of their experiences. Is what they say true? No one knows.

Why do you say IF THAT'S POSSIBLE when you ask for intelligent responses only? Are you saying that no one here is intelligent? Or are you saying it's not possible for some people to give anything other than a sarcastic remark?
Sure, some of the little teenagers who come here think everything's a joke, but some of us who have reached maturity do our best to help.

Answer 7

You are correct, there is no way to KNOW, I have faith in my beliefs and that faith is based on a record that has not been wrong in 7,000 years sense it was started. Many will disagree with this, that is their option. As of yet I have not had one person give me proof of one mistake. Many say it is filled with contradictions, but as of yet no one has giving me a contradiction that i could not show otherwise. Everything else that the bible has told me has been 100% ccorrect on the dot, I can list you 10 examples, 100 examples or even 1000 examples if you would like. but in closing, Every promise, every fact, every statement has been true so far, so why would I doubt this one simple thing, when everything else has proven true?

Answer 8

We are no different to nature than all of the other living things here on earth. What happens after death to the other animals ( remember, we're animans too ), the fish, the birds, the trees, bugs, trees, weeds, worms, everything will happen to us. Religious superstitions might make you feel better, but comon sense says otherwise.

Answer 9

So let me get this straight, you ask a question and then you answer it and say you do not want any answers that may contradict your answer.

I have news for you. Christ is not a spirit. Christ is Christ.

Christ told me that if I did not get my act together I would end up in Hell.

So Hell exists and Heaven exists and that is where we go when we die.

The answer you your second question is False.

If you are interested in Physics you could read up on the Multi-verse and that might give you an idea of the possibilities for the existence of both Heaven and Hell.

Answer 10

Depends on what you think consciousness is: I think it's a product of the body, so I can only tell you what happens to the human body, It decays. Thus consciousness must cease to exist also.
I don't think there is a God, so I can't pretend to be one.

Answer 11

Since it has been amply demonstrated that our conscious and unconscious mind, our ego, id and super ego, all those elements that give us the sense of being us, the famous "I think therefore I am" are the results of an electrical-chemical process that occurs in our brains, and that at death, this electrical-chemical process ceases to function and ends, that all that we think we are, experience, remember, thoughts, feelings, emotions, egotistical attachments, everything, also ends and we are just plainly dead. End of story.