Question

I decided to re-open this question because I really feel that this could be a way to moving God into peoples lives. I would like to know what people think about life, pointing towards God, what happens after you die, etc

Answer 1

u stay in ur tombs until God comes for second time and take you to heaven with him if u had his character and a character of a child.

Answer 2

@aaliyahfairgood

Answer 3

I don't really get what you are saying there
but I know I haven't died yet

Answer 4

@Chiko_1278

Answer 5

I know that as a roman catholic, we believe that when we die, we'll be judged based on how we lived the faith and also our actions, and depending on those things we either go to hell (an eternity in the pit of torture unimaginable), purgatory (a middle ground between heaven and hell where the soul takes time to clean itself up as an effort to get into heaven), and then heaven( where God, Jesus, and Holy sprit live along with Mary and saints and angels. Basically paradise and absolute bliss.) We also believe that when Christ comes for the second time he'll raise up our bodies. so in heaven, instead of just being our souls, we'll be reunited with our bodies. Our bodies will be made perfect and we'll live with God for eternity. Does this mean that he will Physically take each body out of the ground and into where ever it is heaven is? no, it's just that we'll be made whole in heaven once Christ comes for the second time, at the worlds end. I know that when I think about this it's hard for me to wrap my mind around sometimes as a catholic.

So that's just a super extremely condensed blurb about what the Roman Catholic church believes as far as life after death, as for the entirety of Christians, it's similar but not really. Hope this helped.

Answer 6

preach it

Answer 7

@paigeRG , you do make a good point there
I remember though, reading the Pilgrim's Progress, it reflects this mistake people often think, that if we are good throughout our entire life, then we will be rewarded

Answer 8

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none. The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world. Not that the heart can be good without knowledge, for without knowledge the heart is empty. But there are two kinds of knowledge: the first is alone in its bare speculation of things, and the second is accompanied by the grace of faith and love, which causes a man to do the will of God from the heart. The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue. God's grace is the most incredible and insurmountable truth ever to be revealed to the human heart, which is why God has given us His Holy Spirit to superintend the process of more fully revealing the majesty of the work done on our behalf by our Savior. He teaches us to first cling to, and then enables us to adore with the faith He so graciously supplies, the mercy of God. This mercy has its cause and effect in the work of Jesus on the cross. A work of grace in the soul makes itself known either to the one who has it or to onlookers.

“This parlor, said the Interpreter, is the heart of a man who was never sanctified by the sweet grace of the gospel. The dust is his original sin and inward corruptions that have defiled the whole man. He that began to sweep at first, is the law. But she that brought water and sprinkled it is the gospel. Now you saw that as soon as the first began to sweep the dust flew about the room so that it could not be cleaned, and you were almost choked with it. This is to show you that the law, instead of cleansing the heart by its working, from sin, does revive, strengthen and increase sin in the soul even as it does discover and forbid it. For the law does not give power to subdue sin. Again, you saw the young woman sprinkle the room with water, upon which it was cleansed with pleasure. This is to show you that when the sweet and precious influence of the gospel comes into the heart then sin is vanquished and subdued and the soul made clean and, consequently, fit for the king of glory to inhabit.”
― Max McLean, The Pilgrim's Progress
“Mr. Worldly-Wiseman is not an ancient relic of the past. He is everywhere today, disguising his heresy and error by proclaiming the gospel of contentment and peace achieved by self-satisfaction and works. If he mentions Christ, it is not as the Savior who took our place, but as a good example of an exemplary life. Do we need a good example to rescue us, or do we need a Savior? If”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come
“We should not take lightly the horrible thoughts this place of death and destruction are meant to unveil. We are warned about the misery of death and Hell and should reflect upon its timeless torments and endless darkness in which men grope hopelessly for some relief that they are fully persuaded no longer exists.
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― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Come

The great enemy of grace is the strict accounting of our sin and corruption that when added up totals such a staggering debt that no person without faith in the sure promises of God would ever dare calculate that anything good awaits him and would further be convinced that all that does lie ahead is a complete foreclosure of his soul and all its contents. The new convert is tested to see if the words he professes are justified with corresponding fruit in his life. Most men will not ignore the present world that they can see in order to make the world they cannot see the object of their desires. Therefore, there is an immediate friendship between this world and a man's fleshly desires and a corresponding distance between carnal man and eternal things. Wake up, see your own wretchedness, and fly to the Lord Jesus. He is the righteousness of God, for He Himself is God. Only by believing in His righteousness will you be delivered from condemnation. There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life. There’ll be no more crying, or sorrow; for the owner of the place will wipe all tears from our eyes.

Answer 9

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1960084-the-pilgrim-s-progress-from-this-world-to-that-which-is-to-come-delive?page=1

Answer 10

I'd like to help. What happens at death is no mystery to Jehovah, the Creator of the brain. He knows the truth, and in his Word, the Bible, he explains the condition of the dead. Its clear teaching is this: When a person dies, he ceases to exist. Death is the opposite of life. The dead do not see or hear or think. Not even one part of us survives the death of the body. We do not possess an immortal soul or spirit. Solomon wrote: “As for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.” He then enlarged on that basic truth by saying that the dead can neither love nor hate and that “there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in [the grave]. (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10)
Psalm 146:4 says that when a man dies, “his thoughts do perish.” We are mortal and do not survive the death of our body. The life we enjoy is like the flame of a candle. When the flame is put out, it does not go anywhere. It is simply gone. (Taken by What does the Bible really teach)

Answer 11

Those question marks are the quotation marks.. sorry about that

Answer 12

@Rookies2121
Yes, the brain dies, the body dies, I don't agree when you say the soul dies along with the body. The Bible teaches otherwise, and the quoted verses should be interpreted differently, since the Bible talks about life after death multiple, multiple times, and those verses can't just be ignored. (Matthew 10:28, Matthew 25:41, Matthew 25:46, Luke 16:19-31, Luke 23:43, John 3:16, John 14:2, 2 Corinthians 5:1-8, Revelation 6:9-11, Revelation 20:6, Revelation 21:8)
A bit of a late reply to this.. just now saw the post

Answer 13

I got another question about the anti-christ

Answer 14

if any of you people know Kanye west, knowing that he thinks that he is God, would he be an example of one

Answer 15

@TheRaggedyDoctor , @Rookies2121

Answer 16

He could be an example of AN antichrist, yes