Christians, do you believe that after you die a spirit leaves your body?

Question

Christians, do you believe that after you die a spirit leaves your body and goes to heaven?

I read in the Bible that God creates new bodies in Heaven, but am not sure on your beliefs on spirits. Are there any passages about Christians having spirits (besides the holy spirit)

Answer 1

Most Christians believe that we have a body and a soul. The soul is the part of us that lives forever. We will get new bodies when Christ comes again to raise the living and the dead. Some verses to look at include Matthew 10:28, Acts 2:27, and Romans 2:9. I hope this helps.

Answer 2

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, and body organs can be transplanted from one person to another. But once the spark of life is extinguished from the cells of the body, all efforts to restore life are futile. All the breath in the world cannot revive even one cell. The spirit, then, is the invisible life-force—the spark of life—that keeps the cells 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 regard. Wise King Solomon wrote: “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 3:21) 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 electric current that flows through a machine or an appliance. The invisible electricity may be used to perform various functions, depending upon the type of equipment it powers. For example, a stove can be made to generate heat, a computer to process information and perform calculations, 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, no thinking ability. Both humans and animals “have but one spirit.” (Ecclesiastes 3:19) Hence, when a person dies, his spirit does not go on existing in another realm as a spirit creature.

Answer 3

I believe that after we die we go to heaven. Our bodies are nothing to us anymore. Like a shirt we would take off, it stays here and our spirit moves on. Look in the back of your bible under "Spirit." Mine says GE-1:2, 6:3, 2Ki- 2:9, Ps-321:5, 51:10, 51:17. There is awhole bunch you can find them at the end of your bible.

Answer 4

Yes. 2 Cor. 5 Paul eludes to the fact that we are spirits that live in bodies and when we die we leave them behind for a season until our new ones are ready.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=54&chapter=5&version=31

Answer 5

Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

2 Corinthians 5:8
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.


Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon 1:3

Answer 6

Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Psalm 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Answer 7

God made us as a three part being, much like himself, (father son and holy spirit) we are, body, mind, and soul, our soul is what is going to heaven. yes, i believe our soul leaves our body and goes to heaven

Answer 8

That is where it is said you must be born again. You die to your flesh and blood body and are given a new body a spirit body.

Answer 9

Enough of people's opinions. Now I'll state the facts and in "back it with scripture". In the verse below, we see that the "spirit" is an "existence in the spirit form" because
Jesus was in the "spirit" and also "the spirits in prison refers to beings that exist in the spiritual realm"

1 Peter 3:18-22: "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him."

The "true existence" is in the "spirit" because God is Spirit. Indeed,

"God is Spirit". John 4:24

Moreover, isn’t it that our spirit is what will live to God and not the body and the soul which makes up our flesh? Here are the verses to back my claim :

“And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [Jesus] a quickening spirit. Howbeit that [was] not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.”
1 Corinthians 15 : 45 - 46

“To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus” 1 Corinthians 5:5 (KJV)

Note in the latter verse, it shows that one can be destroyed in the flesh but live to God in the spirit as saved by our Lord Jesus.

Yes. Life is in the spirit :

“Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life”
2 Corinthians 3:6

He is talking in the Spiritual sense as the verse below proves. Note also Jesus says that the ‘flesh’ profits nothing.

“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life.” John 6:65 (KJV)

Jesus says that ‘His words’ are ‘Life’ ( not death ) & ‘spirit’. The very words of God is what we live by in the spirit; In other words, we live in the spirit by every word that comes out of the mouth of God; This is consistent with the scripture below :

“But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” Matthew 4:4 (KJV)

Prophet Ezekiel has experienced "being in the spirit":
“The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which [was] full of bones,”
Ezekiel 37 :1 (KJV)

God is the Father of spirits :

“Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits and live?” Hebrews 12:9

Soloman said another wise thing regarding men’s spirit. He said that the body which of dust will return to earth but the spirit will return to God who gave it. That is we will all be with God in the spirit one day! Yes. All and not some.

“Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” Ecclesiastes 12:7 (KJV)

Regards

Answer 10

No, I believe that when my body dies, I leave my body. I am who I am apart from this flesh. Yes, we will not be encumbered with these heavy mechanical tools called bodies when we are at last in the presence of our Father. I´m free; I´m free, thank God all mighty,´I`m free at last!