"And as it is appointed unto man once to die, but after this the judgment..." How dead do you have to be?

Question

Is being "dead" for over 4 hours total enough? Or does it have to be all at once? If it's the permanent variety, then where is the fun in that?

Answer 1

To my knowledge I've never been dead, but once I am dead, I'd be happy to come back and let you know. Therein lies the fun.

Answer 2

"Absent from the body, present with the Lord"
"Our God is a god of the living, not of the dead."

I suspect that if we don't know the Lord, we keep coming back until we get an honest chance to meet Him.
I'm calling death a spiritual experience. The soul that sins by refusing Salvation dies. If you accept Salvation, Jesus absorbs the penalty, and His substitutionary death is accounted to you.

Reincarnation is real.

Answer 3

Yes, four hours is total, sort of. But Jesus was dead two days, and he got up and started walking around like nothing ever happened. As for the other part of your question, they said man dies once, seems to me that's stating the obvious.

And once I'm dead what do I care if they judge me?

Answer 4

Ha. If there's any judgment done it is done by us. We weigh in our karma. No punishment. We see where we went wrong and give it another try. Unless we have ascended beyond the cycle of life on earth. Have you noticed any ones DNA changing and what those changes entail? There is something happening to our DNA. More strands attached than before? More spirals?

Answer 5

Read Revelation chapter 21 and 22.

Answer 6

Not true no more death, the minute the body dies the spirit is set free, and the spirit goes to the spirit world where it meets all its loved ones.

Answer 7

dead.

Answer 8

You obviously are unaware that there is a physical death and a spiritual death as well.