Christians, what happens when we die?

Question

I know that we either go to Heaven or Hell, but can you give more detail than that. For example, do we meet God right away, and how do we talk to him if we are out of our bodies?

Answer 1

For a Believer in Jesus, death is swollowed up in Vicoty when we come to our eternal home...heaven.

Many people imagine we will remain disembodied spirits in the afterlife and that Heaven won't be a tangible, earthly place. They mistake the intermediate heaven, where we go when we die, for the eternal Heaven, where we'll live with Christ as resurrected beings on a resurrected Earth, as part of a resurrected culture. Our unbiblical assumption that Heaven won't be a real, tangible, earthly place blinds us to what Scripture actually says.

Rarely do we hear descriptions that capture what the Bible portrays as a New Earth, with animals and trees and rivers and mountains, and eating and drinking, buildings and walls, with a great city where resurrected people come in and out of the gates, engaged in meaningful relationships and productive activity. Our ideas of Heaven are based more on Platonism and Eastern Mysticism, rather than Christianity, which is centered in the anticipation of God's ultimate redemptive purpose—resurrected people living on a resurrected earth with the resurrected Jesus.

I can't help but look forward to going to heaven. People need to create a fundamental paradigm shift. For instance, I can look at the beauty of a waterfall, forest, flowers, rivers, animals, and people and manmade wonders and not say "But I shouldn't love these things, because this world is not my home." No, I should say, "God has revealed himself to me in these things. While the world as it now is—under sin and curse—is not my home, the New Earth filled with beauties such as these—no longer under sin and curse—will be my home forever! I will not be reunited with disembodied loved ones floating in clouds, I will walk the earth again—or for the first time with those who died young or handicapped—with those I've loved who know Jesus." This will bring an indescribable hope and joy and vitality to our lives.

Answer 2

Well, according to what the Bible really teaches, When a person dies, he ceases to exist. Death is the opposite of life. The dead do not see or hear or think.

After Solomon observed that the living know that they will die, he wrote: “As for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.” He said that the dead can neither love nor hate and that “there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in [the grave].” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10) Similarly, Psalm 146:4 says that when a man dies, “his thoughts do perish.” We are mortal and do not survive the death of our body. The life we enjoy is like the flame of a candle. When the flame is put out, it does not go anywhere. It is simply gone.
Jesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. 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) Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. 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.—1 Corinthians 15:6.

http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/6/1/article_02.htm

Answer 3

No, that is a popularized concept but that isnt actually in the Bible. The Bible describes many resting places for souls until judgment. Or our spirit can wander like ghosts and demons do. Then at the resurrection, ALL will be brought back to life that ever lived and will be judged. We will either go to Heaven or hell at that point. So enjoy your nap after you die and I hope you choose Jesus and come with us.

Answer 4

when a true child of God dies, their soul existance is carried away to heaven by angels:

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; - Luke 16:22.

Heaven will be a place of beauty beyond description, no longer will there be anymore sorrow, all sorrow will be forgotten:

Isaiah 65:17 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Answer 5

http://www.90minutesinheaven.com .

net search 'hell experiences Bill Weise'.

For people who are born again of Gods spirit, there is a spiritual birth. There are the eyes of the soul/spirit, the nose of the soul/spirit, the ears of the soul/spirit, the touch of the sou/spirit, the voice of our soul/spirit. So? We talk from our soul/spirit mouth. We look forward for the day of resurrection complete when we come back with the Lord to be resurrected like Jesus did, an everlasting body, soul & spirit.

Answer 6

no one is familiar with! What we do be conscious of is all our organic and organic purposes quit, so subsequently we've not got any memory or concept of something that handed off till now we died anymore than a leaf is familiar with from which tree it fell. there are a number of interpretations of what happens to any residual existence, what some religions call a soul or spirit, and it relatively is not uncommon to apply metaphors like "sleep" to describe the priority. there isn't any consensus among religions, or perhaps interior Christian sects there are a number of diverse interpretations. that's what your faith leads you to believe that represents the terrific wager at what happens.

Answer 7

God will talk to you as soon as your journey to heaven, when th devil takes over he will rule the world for 1000 years, and then god will make an army strong enough to defeat him.Then god will make this earth made of gold and we will live for 10000 years, and then the earth wil come to a complete end.

Answer 8

We wait in the dirt for the resurrection.