Where do we go when we die?

[achilles12604]

This question was raised by Melis here.

Achilles wrote
Ah the catholics.

Well I'm certainly not going to try and defend their belief system. They have included many things which are either not included in the bible, or even run contrary to its teachings.

If you feel the need to pick apart catholocism then go for it. I wont even argue.

However, the protestant beliefs (or at least MY beliefs) do not include much of their rhetoric.

Melis wrote
Catholics make up the majority of all christians, so we could consider their beliefs as predominant. However, I'm not insisting in any way on this if you don't share the same view.

Just out of interest: where protestants believe souls go after death?

Achilles wrote
Protestants or me?

Melis wrote
Both please.

So the question is where do souls go after death.

I think most protestants believe that the soul goes straight to heaven or hell depending on their faith in Jesus or lack of it.

I can accept this as possible. I have my own view of what occurs.

We die.

We enter into a state much like what the atheists feel is permament. Sleep. No conciousness at all. Then all at once we are raised and judged and then seperated and we go to heaven or hell.

Effectively, for the dead person there is no real difference as they would be totally unaware of the passage of time while they were waiting for judgement.


What do others think?

[AClockWorkOrange]

im pretty sure ive made the following statement before somewhere else on this here forum. Regardless, it bares repeating, and is of course appropriate.


The idea that there is nothingness after i am dead does not boggle me becuase before i was alive, i know nothing of that time.

I was nonexistant (for all practicle purposes of this debate) before then, so being nonexistant afterwards does not phase me too much.

[KnowJah]

The soul doesn't go anywhere. It goes out like a flame from a candle:

Ezek: 18:4: The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.

Psalms 146:4: His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground;
In that day his thoughts do perish.

Ecclesiates 9:5,10 says: For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all... All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She´ol, the place to which you are going.

[Hugh]

When a living-body dies ... life-sustaining energy just slip away. .. and definitely will enter to other hosting body. Where and when ... who knows.
Since life-sustaining energy is just a prime-mover ... it's up to the next body-host brain's to recover previous consciousness and to reconcile the past.

[McCulloch]

When a living-body dies ... life-sustaining energy just slip away. .. and definitely will enter to other hosting body. Where and when ... who knows.
Since life-sustaining energy is just a prime-mover ... it's up to the next body-host brain's to recover previous consciousness and to reconcile the past.

Is this your own speculation or do you have any evidence to back up your claim?