2007-10-26 05:48:15 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'd like to think that I'll go to Heaven. It's more likely that I wont.
2007-10-26 08:10:21 · answer #1 · answered by Mir 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
My consciousness will shift to another plane of reality. I don't believe in heaven or hell, and am not sure of what I'll see. I think it will reflect who I was when I was alive, and if I lived good, I'll experience the same after; If I lived bad, I'll have to learn from it just like now. I'm not sure there's any kind of organization after life, but I think it's likely. All the beings who grew and progressed the most would be able to affect things more. I doubt there is evil because those beings would be lost in themselves, unable to affect anything, but feel torment.
That's my vision.
2007-10-26 05:54:37 · answer #2 · answered by denimcap 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I assume the world will go on and for 50 or so years people will remember me as an individual and then I will be forgotten. It is the same for 99% of the world. Hopefully the things I stood for while I was alive will go on until the sun explodes or we become universal explorers.
2007-10-26 05:57:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
At death all the consciousness is withdrawn from ones body. This has been described as a million bee stings. Fortunately this is short lived. One then finds oneself in a great light, and shortly thereafter, one finds oneself in front of a "judge".
You and the "judge" evaluate your life relative to how well you lived it relative to how you wanted to live it. Your life, or Fate Karma, was determined at the close of your past life, at which time you and the "judge" set out your life just completed in considerable detail as to what you wanted to explore and experience... all the while completing as much Karma as possible.
If you have done things that require "corrective action" then this will be done in areas [hells designed to effect lasting changes in such tendencies], after which you will await your next incarnation.
If you have done things of a positive nature, then you will be sent to places where such deeds are rewarded in pleasant living. After a time equal to what is deserved, you will reincarnate with a new Fate Karma determined by yourself and the "judge".
Much of this can be found in any number of books on mysticism found in the Eastern section of most book stores. Both Karma and reincarnation are fearful to Christianity, so you will not find such information in mainstream resources.
2007-10-26 06:07:59 · answer #4 · answered by docjp 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ecclesiastes 3:19 (NIV) Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is vanity.
The clergy has a way of twisting this proverbial truth in the Bible to bank on "eternity"...
2007-10-26 05:58:55 · answer #5 · answered by Opus 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Psalmist is praying for deliverance to arrive before death here because he knows he won't have the ability to remember anything from the grave, nor can he give thanks from the grave.
* Psalms 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
* Psalms 146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish
* Ecclesiastes 9:5,6 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
* Psalms 6:3-5 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
* Isaiah 38:18-19, "For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth."
* Psalms 13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
* Job 14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
2007-10-26 05:58:01 · answer #6 · answered by Desir D 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Probably a Wake, followed by a Funeral. I'm not sure if there will be a burial, or a cremation, or even lighting me aflame and casting my body out to sea. I wouldn't mind rotting into the earth. I don't really want to be filled with Chemicals to falsely preserve me.
2007-10-26 05:52:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
You die
2007-10-26 05:52:09 · answer #8 · answered by Bobby 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus will come at the end of time to judge all human beings. This is called the parousia, His second coming. It was foretold by the angels as He ascended: "This Jesus who is taken up from you to heaven, will come in the way in which you saw Him going into heaven" (Acts 1:11).
However, those who die before the parousia will be judged immediately at their deaths. This is known as the particular judgment. The Epistle to the Hebrews says (9:27): " It is appointed to men to die once, and after that comes the judgment". Then, "Each one will receive his pay, according to his works" (1 Cor 3:8).
There are three possible outcomes to the particular judgment. Those whose love for God has been perfected in this life are taken straight to heaven, where they enjoy endless happiness in the face to face vision of God. Those who die in God's love but still love Him imperfectly must be purifed in the intermediate state of purgatory. Those, however, who reject God's love by mortal sin and die without repenting are condemned to the everlasting torments of hell. The general judgment at the end of time simply solemnly confirms the particular judgments of each one, with the difference that then the body as well as the soul will receive what is due it. And all God's judgments will be revealed as most just.
2007-10-26 05:52:40 · answer #9 · answered by Gods child 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
not sure, sometimes I think I've died a thousand times and at that moment a new alternate universe is created and I am dead in one and still go on in others.
But who knows. I wonder if you would even notice you were dead.
As far as heaven and hell, not trying to go to "heaven" or "hell", would like to rejoin with the Universe and perhaps be born again.
For the record, only christians go to hell.
2007-10-26 06:00:03 · answer #10 · answered by nonymouse 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
When we die, we undergo what is called the particular, or individual, judgment. Scripture says that "it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment" (Heb. 9:27). We are judged instantly and receive our reward, for good or ill. We know at once what our final destiny will be.
2007-10-26 05:52:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋