What do you think happens when we die?

Question

do we go to heaven? hell? limbo? get reborn ? ect? I would like your views on this.

Personally I just think we die to.

Answer 1

Please see this video by cardiologist and researcher Dr. Maurice Rawlings:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864&q=rawlings

Answer 2

As a Christian I believe what the scriptures say>
"Absent from the body, present with the Lord"
2 Cor. 5:8

On the Cross, while Jesus was dying he told the thief who said "Lord remember me...."
"Today you will be with me in Paradise".>
Luke 23:43

I don't know if the unsaved go directly to HELL when they die, but there have been many who ALMOST died, unsaved who SAW HELL.

The Bible says "it is appointed unto man ONCE to die" Heb. 9:27. If you were reborn as the Hindu believes, that is, reincarnated, then you would be able to die over and over. I simply do NOT believe that at all!

Can't imagine why ANYONE would want to keep coming back as a person or animal. What difference would that make in ones existence?!

Answer 3

Nothing dies but the body which, for a Christian, simply houses the spirit, soul, and Holy Spirit. I believe when a Christian dies, they stand immediately in the presence of Christ. I do not believe in the re-cycling of the soul into another body. Each person is unique and precious to the Lord. Some think that in death, the spirit leaves the body after the person dies. I believe that God calls the spirit home and after the spirit leaves the body, there is no longer a reason for the body so it dies.

Answer 4

Scientifically Ur body decomposes and bacteria break down the nitrates and minerals present. Religiously ur body is just a casket, if ur Christian ur soul leaves this casket and goes to heaven or hell, if ure Hindu or Buddist ur Soul leaves the body to get born again and ure birth will depend on how u lived in ur previous life. Hope that helps, gud question tho...

Answer 5

Ecclesiastes 3:19 (New International Version)
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.

Job 7:9 (New International Version)
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to the grave does not return.

Answer 6

Well if you are a Muslim their dogma holds you get 27 Virgins. Christianity says that you go to some nebulous heaven (or purgatory and your relatives have to pay/pray you out) where you get a harp and float on white clouds? I mean what would there be to do in Heaven? I hate harps. Could I have an electric guitar maybe?

Answer 7

First of all the undertaker performs with cold complacency a number of undignified procedures upon your corpse.

Then he puts on his most solemn face and rips off the bereaved family using shame,emotional blackmail,confusion and irrelevance of money as his weapons of choice as he relieves you of thousands with hundreds of percent mark up.
He then goes into the back office and high fives one of his colleagues,browses through a holiday brochure whilst humming "fun in acapulco".

Ok .seriously.being a christiaan, I beleive that we will simply reside in heaven at peace with our father.
Although no one has so far been able to tell us exactly what form we would take ,we asume from our teaching that we would exist simply in harmonious spititual existance.
Of course,its unlikely that our forgiving lord would accept any lost sheep descending into the percieved pits of hell,but perhaps without a holy and righteous life,then you would be denied the heavenly bosom of god.

Answer 8

Read this story told by Jesus:

"There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
"The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'

"But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'

"He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'

"Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'

" 'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'

"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.' "

Luke 16:19-31

Answer 9

Could you imagine explaining life after birth to a fetus in the womb? The same difficulty exists here.

Most don't even realize they are 'dead'. It's not that huge of a change.

Answer 10

I think there is an afterlife, that the soul lives on. I believe in heaven.

Answer 11

Here is the Christian perspective: When we die, we go to one of two places. Either we go to be with God, or we are separated from God for eternity. In that sense, the next life is a continuation of this life. If we live for God in this life, we will live with him in the next; if we live without God in this life, we will live without him in the next.