What so you think happens to us when we die?

[Anonymous]

I think that our consciousness and everything we are as a person is gone, along with our physical bodies. Our atoms are recycled and continue to exist for much, much longer than our lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think that our consciousness and everything we are as a person is gone, along with our physical bodies. Our atoms are recycled and continue to exist for much, much longer than our lives.

+1

[Anonymous]

As I've gotten older and have experienced the deaths of people close to me, I've become more open to the possibility that we can come back when our loved ones -- and even people whom we don't know but with whom we have some connection -- need us. My mom died 10 years ago and every once in a while I feel her presence -- always reassuring and loving. Before she died, she often spoke of having the same experience with her own mother.

Here's a beautiful example of what I'm talking about: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/feeling-loving-paranormal-presence-at-death/2020/12/31/50a0dfbe-2833-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As I've gotten older and have experienced the deaths of people close to me, I've become more open to the possibility that we can come back when our loved ones -- and even people whom we don't know but with whom we have some connection -- need us. My mom died 10 years ago and every once in a while I feel her presence -- always reassuring and loving. Before she died, she often spoke of having the same experience with her own mother.

Here's a beautiful example of what I'm talking about: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/feeling-loving-paranormal-presence-at-death/2020/12/31/50a0dfbe-2833-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html

I often feel the presence of deceased loved ones, but am aware that the feeling is happening inside me, and does not indicate a reaching out from the grave.

[Anonymous]

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
--1 Thessalonians 4:14

When you die, you "sleep": you have no consciousness. When you "awake", even if it has been 2,000 years, it will seem like you only took a nap, just as after 8 hours of sleep or a coma you have no recollection of time. You do not go straight to heaven or hell when you die, you go to the grave and remain until Jesus returns.

The order of coming back from the dead is this: (1) Jesus (2) Christians at Jesus' 2nd coming (3) non-Christians

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end... --I Corinthians 15:20

When is the 2nd coming? It is after the 7th (last) trumpet in Revelation:

And the seventh angel sounded...and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints...--Revelation 11:15, 18

When does Jesus gives rewards? It is after his 2nd coming:

Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2000+ years does not seem "quickly" to us, but to God it has only been 2 days since Jesus died.
I wonder, since Jesus rose from the dead on the 3rd day, will Jesus return in 3 days, approximately 3,000 years after his death?

By the way, there is no "secret rapture" where Christians are spirited out of the earth before the tribulation.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
--Matthew 24:29

Jesus returns after the sun and moon are darkened, not before. All those Christians with that sappy smirk on their faces thinking they will escape tribulation are in for a very rude awakening, so much so many will fall alway from the faith which results in the Man of Sin appearing:

2 Thessalonians 2:1
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
...Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition

Those who think Jesus returns before the anti-christ have been deceived and are living with a false sense of security.
Instead of reading the bible for themselves, they trust the words of sugar-speaking ministers who tickle their ears with words of comfort, security, convenience, and prosperity.

Jesus clearly gives the order of events before his return. The 6th Seal in Revelation 6:12 corresponds directly with Matthew 24:29 so there is no "secret rapture" before these bad things (tribulation) happen.

[Anonymous]

When DD was in the NICU for two months, I remember a few nurses talking about seeing spirits at the hospital. So maybe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
--1 Thessalonians 4:14

When you die, you "sleep": you have no consciousness. When you "awake", even if it has been 2,000 years, it will seem like you only took a nap, just as after 8 hours of sleep or a coma you have no recollection of time. You do not go straight to heaven or hell when you die, you go to the grave and remain until Jesus returns.

The order of coming back from the dead is this: (1) Jesus (2) Christians at Jesus' 2nd coming (3) non-Christians

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end... --I Corinthians 15:20

When is the 2nd coming? It is after the 7th (last) trumpet in Revelation:

And the seventh angel sounded...and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints...--Revelation 11:15, 18

When does Jesus gives rewards? It is after his 2nd coming:

Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2000+ years does not seem "quickly" to us, but to God it has only been 2 days since Jesus died.
I wonder, since Jesus rose from the dead on the 3rd day, will Jesus return in 3 days, approximately 3,000 years after his death?

By the way, there is no "secret rapture" where Christians are spirited out of the earth before the tribulation.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
--Matthew 24:29

Jesus returns after the sun and moon are darkened, not before. All those Christians with that sappy smirk on their faces thinking they will escape tribulation are in for a very rude awakening, so much so many will fall alway from the faith which results in the Man of Sin appearing:

2 Thessalonians 2:1
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
...Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition

Those who think Jesus returns before the anti-christ have been deceived and are living with a false sense of security.
Instead of reading the bible for themselves, they trust the words of sugar-speaking ministers who tickle their ears with words of comfort, security, convenience, and prosperity.

Jesus clearly gives the order of events before his return. The 6th Seal in Revelation 6:12 corresponds directly with Matthew 24:29 so there is no "secret rapture" before these bad things (tribulation) happen.

Only If you believe the New Testament, written 2000 years ago, offers credible answers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When DD was in the NICU for two months, I remember a few nurses talking about seeing spirits at the hospital. So maybe.

Really, a "few nurses" can sway you so easily?

[Anonymous]

What so you think happens to us when we die?

Worm food

And I'm at peace with that
I'm a good person who has lived an honorable life.

[Anonymous]

I am a Christian. And even though I believe a man named Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected three days later, I do not believe in eternal life. Sounds like a complete contradiction as the Bible states that if you do not believe in this, there is no reason for Christianity. But I look at Christianity as more of a foundation for how to live a life than prepare for the next one. I really don't see someday joining my father and sister in a different world family barbecue that also involves my grandparents. But who knows, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What so you think happens to us when we die?

Worm food

And I'm at peace with that
I'm a good person who has lived an honorable life.

+10000

Same.

I don't think there's a man in the sky who made human beings special. We're not, and our souls are not. We are born, we try to do what we can on this planet, and then we die. Circle of life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What so you think happens to us when we die?
I don't think there's a man in the sky who made human beings special. We're not, and our souls are not. We are born, we try to do what we can on this planet, and then we die. Circle of life.

There is not a "man" in the sky but a living God who created all things. We are indeed special, created for a purpose, not the result of lucky evolutionary chance but by specific and direct design.

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
--Luke 12:6

Humans are more valuable than birds, which God also created for a purpose.

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

[Anonymous]

I don't really understand why people quote scripture in answering/quoting others. What are they trying to accomplish?!

You might as well quote a random book on the NYT top 100 fiction. Nice story, but has zero bearing on fact, or science, or truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand why people quote scripture in answering/quoting others. What are they trying to accomplish?!

You might as well quote a random book on the NYT top 100 fiction. Nice story, but has zero bearing on fact, or science, or truth.

They think you do - or should- believe what they do, therefore you'll be impressed by a Bible verse showing that they are right.

or maybe spouting Bible verses is all they know how to do when confronted with something they don't know how to address logically

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand why people quote scripture in answering/quoting others. What are they trying to accomplish?!

You might as well quote a random book on the NYT top 100 fiction. Nice story, but has zero bearing on fact, or science, or truth.

They think you do - or should- believe what they do, therefore you'll be impressed by a Bible verse showing that they are right.

or maybe spouting Bible verses is all they know how to do when confronted with something they don't know how to address logically

Either you will place as your authority God, the evidence for whom is clearly shown in the creation around us, and the knowledge of whom presented in the Bible, or you will place as your authority the knowledge of man who once stated as fact that the earth was flat, snake oil can cure disease, and currently, that humans evolved from an ape-like ancestor.

Anyway, this is a religion forum for those who believe in God. That you think this is fiction does not negate the truth that God does indeed exist. Your disbelief does not in any way negate the existence of God.