Life After Death?

Question

The Bible talks about life on the other side of the grave. In fact, in the book of revelation we find a passage that describes spirits talking with God and saying "those who dwell on the Earth." Why would they say "those who dwell on the Earth" if they were on this planet.

For example, you would not say, I am going to take a trip to Chicago on the Earth, right? We all know that Chicago is a place on the Earth, right? If you lived on Mars and said "I am going to Miami Florida on the Earth," this makes perfect sense because you are traveling from another planet to this one.

What is your view?

Answer 1

The Bible never talks about life after death.
It does explain the condition of the dead in
Ecclesiastes 9:5,6. You have to understand that most of Revelations is not to be taken literally. I have a good book for you to read and it will explain Revelations in a manner we can understand. If you would like I will send it to you. It's called" Revelation It's Grand Climax At Hand".
It will explain all the horse men, the woe's, the openning of the seals and what they mean for us today, the sacred secret, Babylon the great and so on.

Sincerely yours.
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Answer 2

Death is an unconscious state. At death the body returns to the dust.Man does not possess an inner soul. We are either living soul or dead soul.

At the first resurrection(Christ return), the dead in Christ shall be awaken from their sleep. 1Thessalonians 4:13-16. Not before this time. There would be no need for Christ to come if the righteous were all taken up at the time of death.

The dead are simply asleep in the grave(John 5:28,29) until the second coming of Christ.

Answer 3

"The bible" is not the only book of religious doctrine in the world, however it IS one of the most inconsistant and bigoted..

The fact is, it's : "death after life", so just deal with it by getting the most out of yourself with your time here..

Getting a REAL education within the mainstream sciences would be a good start, and then maybe you could become part of the scientific solutions, instead of the religious problems...
You know it makes sense..

Answer 4

I would say (off the top of my head) it isn't so much that "God" is on another planet; but rather to indicate that they speak to 'those on earth' is more of a reference to speaking to those who are still on/in the Outer World.

Earth = Outer World
Death/Heaven = Inner World

So if you are/were in the Inner World it would be grammatically correct to refer to "those who dwell on Earth".

Answer 5

I could be totally wrong about this so dont laugh...but who said heaven or hell was on this world? Life on the other side of the grave is everything that is not material. So either I am really confused about what you are saying or it is just really obvious! Tell me if thats what you mean! Or clarify or something

Answer 6

The demon spirits must also know that God has life on other planets in other galaxies.

Answer 7

Have you considered the possibility that they have to specify where because there are others in heaven from planets unknown to us?

Answer 8

my view is that you read enough Bible to form an opinion and then stop without all the information

Answer 9

Because they aren't on Earth. So you would say those in Chicago if you weren't in Chicago.............

Answer 10

See this video of some men who are convinced:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864&q=rawlings

problem with video?
read:
http://www.near-death.com/storm.html