is death a temporary state for our souls to exist in, if it is then what state comes next?

Question

i have no doubts that our existance is made up of infinite miracles. we live, and so therefore we must eventually die. life is temporary, is death also temporary?

Answer 1

My own thoughts blending Bible with a bit of modern physics... The soul knows no TIME once the body has died. Only components of the physical realm experience the passing of time. That realm WILL BE DESTROYED at Jesus' return --
2 Peter 3:7 BY GOD’S WORD THE HEAVENS AND EARTH OF TODAY ARE BEING RESERVED FOR FIRE. They are being kept for the day when God will judge. Then ungodly people will be destroyed.
8 Dear friends, here is one thing you must not forget. With the Lord a day is like a thousand years. And a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow to keep his promise. He is not slow in the way some people understand it. He is patient with you. He doesn’t want anyone to be destroyed. Instead, he wants all people to turn away from their sins.
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The HEAVENS WILL DISAPPEAR with a roar. FIRE WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING IN THEM. God will judge the EARTH and EVERYTHING IN IT.
11 So EVERYTHING WILL BE DESTROYED. And what kind of people should you be? You should lead holy and godly lives. 12 Live like that as you look forward to the day of God. It will make the day come more quickly. On that day FIRE WILL DESTROY THE HEAVENS. Its HEAT will MELT EVERYTHING IN THEM.


Time itself is a component of the physical realm. When it is gone, only the eternal will remain. The "soul sleep" concept does not make sense since the soul is NOT PHYSICAL but part of the eternal spiritual realm. Matter experiences time because electrons orbit nuclei, but the soul is not matter.

When you die, time ceases to exist for you. You are judged and sent to your reward... good or bad.

Answer 2

Yes, the souls of the accountable wicked will abide in a spirit prison, and the souls of the righteous and the innocent will abide in a spirit paradise. When Jesus returns to begin the 1000 year millenium the souls in the Spirit Paradise will be resurrected and given perfected bodies.

Some believe during this time the ignorant and innocent will then decide whether to serve God or not, not sure if this is true or not. The book of Revelation mentions at the end of this 1000 year millenium Satan will be loosed for a short season, perhaps this is to try and tempt these innocent and ignorant souls,

After this period comes the final judgement where the righteous will inherit the kingdom of heaven, perhaps a physical place, and the wicked will at this time be resurrected into incorruptable physical bodies and sent to hell. Possibly also the innocent and ignorant who failed the tempations during the end of the millenium will also go to hell as well. Really there is not much written about it... only the need to repent and prepare in this life is strongly written.

Answer 3

It is surprising that the Man who reveals all the secrets of the earth is himself a secret till date in the eyes of science.His past life is a undisclosed, his future is undisclosed and his vividness is undisclosed. Scientifically it is proved that not a single atom which exists today but will not exist in future. Soul is not the exception to this universal law.
When people were ignorant of electricity. we used oil lamp to enlighten the house. Now it is replaced with electricity. That is the tendency of other sense organs and soul also. We cannot know reality with the help of sense organs. We can comprehend it only with the help of pure consciousness.
The atoms of good deeds in the past gave us human life. The atoms of present will decide our existence in future. But one thing is that though body and soul two different things, both cannot be separated. The soul is invisible and it changes body. The next stage is the man to determine with the atoms of his deeds in his present living.

Answer 4

Everyone likes to believe in their own brand of this or that. But in the end, only 1 will be right.

If you die and are not one with Christ, you will go to hell and that's it for you. No more life at all...just fire. Man is fallen via the first Adam. Only through a second Adam, Jesus, can man be brought back to worth. Outside of that... it's the trash can. You eat a chicken without considering its life right? Or a cow? Without Christ, both chicken and cow out-value you.

Answer 5

Death is temporary because when Jesus was resurrected, he bought the right to resurrect mankind from the dead and bring them back to life where they will be educated with the new scrolls like those who survive the Great Tribulation.
Then after the final test, those who are resurrected, survivors and children born to those survivors will inherit everlasting life IF they remain faithful to the end and pass that final test.

Answer 6

It depends if you have put your faith into God. I believe that your soul is in limbo till it goes to heaven. The length of time depends on if you have unfinished business at hand or not. You get to talk to God if you want to go back into a new baby either be animal or human. So yes and No.

Answer 7

Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

Answer 8

Lets us look into the scriptures of Hindusim ,for the answer.

The soul dwells as the inmost body of light and superconscious, universal mind of a series of nested bodies, each more refined than the next: physical, pranic, astral, mental. In our conscious mind we think and feel ourselves to be a physical body with some intangible spirit within it. Yet, right now our real identity is the soul that is sensing through its multiple bodies physical, emotional and mental experience. Recognizing this as reality, we powerfully know that life doesn't end with the death of the biological body. The soul continues to occupy the astral body, a subtle, luminous duplicate of the physical body. This subtle body is made of higher-energy astral matter and dwells in a dimension called the astral plane. If the soul body itself is highly evolved, it will occupy the astral/mental bodies on a very refined plane of the astral known as the Devaloka, "the world of light-shining beings." At death, the soul slowly becomes totally aware in its astral/mental bodies and it predominantly lives through those bodies in the astral dimension.

The soul functions with complete continuity in its astral/mental bodies. It is with these sensitive vehicles that we experience dream or "astral" worlds during sleep every night. The astral world is equally as solid and beautiful, as varied and comprehensive as the earth dimension-if not much more so. Spiritual growth, psychic development, guidance in matters of governance and commerce, artistic cultivation, inventions and discoveries of medicine, science and technology all continue by astral people who are "in-between" earthly lives. Many of the Veda hymns entreat the assistance of devas: advanced astral or mental people. Yet, also in the grey, lower regions of this vast, invisible dimension exist astral people whose present pursuits are base, selfish, even sadistic. Where the person goes in the astral plane at sleep or death is dependent upon his earthly pursuits and the quality of his mind.

Because certain seed karmas can only be resolved in earth consciousness and because the soul's initial realizations of Absolute Reality are only achieved in a physical body, our soul joyously enters another biological body. At the right time, it is reborn into a flesh body that will best fulfill its karmic pattern. In this process, the current astral body-which is a duplicate of the last physical form-is sluffed off as a lifeless shell that in due course disintegrates, and a new astral body develops as the new physical body grows. This entering into another body is called reincarnation: "re-occupying the flesh."

During our thousands of earth lives, a remarkable variety of life patterns are experienced. We exist as male and female, often switching back and forth from life to life as the nature becomes more harmonized into a person exhibiting both feminine nurturing and masculine intrepidness. We come to earth as princesses and presidents, as paupers and pirates, as tribals and scientists, as murderers and healers, as atheists and, ultimately, God-Realized sages. We take bodies of every race and live the many religions, faiths and philosophies as the soul gains more knowledge and evolutionary experience.

Therefore, the Hindu knows that the belief in a single life on earth, followed by eternal joy or pain is utterly wrong and causes great anxiety, confusion and fear. Hindus know that all souls reincarnate, take one body and then another, evolving through experience over long periods of time. Like the caterpillar's metamorphosis into the butterfly, death doesn't end our existence but frees us to pursue an even greater development.

For more info,please visit http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/wih/

Answer 9

Purgatory isn't suggested in the Bible in any respect. whilst i grew to become into in Catholic college I asked a clergyman approximately it and he stated it grew to become into probable something a clergyman got here up with decrease back in the middle a while to respond to a query, and finally grew to become into accompanied as doctrine by skill of the Catholic church. there is not something in the Bible that asserts purgatory does or does not exist.

Answer 10

After we die we're judged according to our acts, those who followed Jesus's steps in life will inherit eternal life, as said by himself: "I am the way, and the Truth, and the Life".
So as long as we live we ought to try our best to live according to his commands, doing it everyday because no one has life for granted,

May God bless you.