Physical Death

Is there life after death?

Best way to know, is to actually die, but I’m sure not everyone is rushing to find out. Let’s look at some peoples beliefs and perspective on death?

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What We Believe "Hindus use fire as their means of communicating with the gods. We believe the human body is a composition of the five elements [earth, water, fire, air, void]. The body, in which the soul is hiding, is supposed to have been doing fire rituals throughout its lifetime, and cremation is the ultimate sacrifice — the disposition of the physical body.

What We Believe "In the pre-Islamic world, there was a notion of fate, with time (dahr, but also known as zaman or al-ayyam) being the determining agent of a person’s life and death. This is reflected in the Qur’an, where the pre-Islamic Arabs say: 'There is nothing but our life in this world. We live and we die and nothing destroys us but Time' (45:24). Muhammad [changed this perception when he was] commanded [by God] to say: 'It is God who gives you life, causes you to die, then gathers you together for the Day of Resurrection, of which there is no doubt' (45:26)... On the Day of Judgment, the body is judged, and those who have earned their reward are allowed into paradise, while those who have earned a punishment are consigned to hell

What We Believe "In Buddhism, we believe that the body dies and disappears, but the mind goes on — the mind has existed endlessly and continues to go on. And, we believe that there is rebirth. The most positive rebirth is full enlightenment...[which] means removing all negative imprints from the past, all delusions, and just having no suffering ever again. The second positive rebirth is a human rebirth, because in that rebirth we again have the opportunity to purify our past negatives and get to enlightenment. Gods, demigods, animal realism, hell realms, ghost realms — those are not good rebirths at all... A god realm, that sounds good, right? But, if you get reborn in the god realm, everything is perfect, and that makes you not interested in attaining enlightenment. Then, you might pass into another body without having cleansed your imprints, and you might not have a positive rebirth... If you get born into a hell realm, you might be wandering around in two-degree weather on the streets of New York endlessly until you work through the suffering [and can move on to a more positive rebirth]. Eventually, everyone will attain enlightenment, but it will take eons."

What We Believe "In Jewish tradition, there’s a strong belief in the idea that people have a soul, or neshama. The soul lives forever, and the body is on borrowed time, and we give it back to God. [According] to the texts we read in Genesis, with Adam coming from the Earth, we give our bodies back to the Earth and to God — that’s why we bury our dead. As for what happens to the soul, there is a hope that there’s something else, something beyond. In a more traditional view, the soul lives on, goes up to heaven — some even go so far as to say that at some point, in a messianic era, souls will return to the body. A lot of it has to do with memory: You live on in the form of the memories of the people who survive you."

What We Believe "Christians have a diversity of practice. There are Christian traditions that say when someone dies, they're sleeping, and they’ll wake up when Jesus comes again. In mainline traditions, it’s more that death is a transition to another kind of life. It's been an encouraging thought for oppressed people that their oppressors might go to hell. There’s also been a need for people of power to say, 'These people aren’t good, so they’re not going to be in the heaven I’m in.' "[As for grieving], Christianity largely comes from a grief response — it comes from Jesus' death. Grieving gives people a chance to acknowledge what has been lost to them, and then to assign that loss to another dimension of life, so that the community can reconnect with what is living. This is how resurrection happens, and it's the purpose of funerals and memorial services."

HAYLEY MACMILLEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2015, 6:10 PM

I got to say, there are way more religions with all kinds of beliefs about what they believe happens when a person dies. That being said, I think it fair to begin the study in prayer-O God, I ask for your wisdom and insight on what happens to us when we die? In our Lord and King Jesus Name Amen

Before the Intermediate State and just after Death

Is there a feeling-do we feel?

Whats the very first thing we see at our last breath?

If the Soul gets separated from the body, are we recognizable?

Depending on our faith and beliefs-but only looking at what the Bible says;

Believer floats upward to be with Jesus in Paradise, Heaven

Non-believe either sleeps until Judgment or floats down to a holding cell call hell?

The Intermediate State

The Bible is clear that intermediate state for both the believer and the wicked are very much conscious when our Physical body dies, but our Soul existence remains awake. The problem I have is how to explain, when we die do we go directly to a good place or a bad place? Moreover, or do we go to sleep and are woken up at the final Judgment or the second coming of Jesus? Or are we asleep, in the Greek the word asleep is translated dead, death, the bible calls death asleep, now is that literally asleep or figurative? The Greek <G2749> (keimai); to put to sleep, i.e. (passive or reflexive) to slumber; figurative to decease :- (be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead. Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.

So to be clear, when I hear the bible say, asleep or sleep I can be sure in the right context that it’s being used- talking about when we die.

Death-For the baptized, born again Believer in Jesus Christ, when they die [go to sleep] or possibly be alive during the Rapture-[Caught-Up] 1 Thess 4:16-17 will go directly to be with Jesus. I guest this would be called Heaven [Paradise] Luke 23:43 and where Jesus said,”He has prepared a place for us.” John 14:1-4 These are just some of the Scriptures that say what happens when we die. Before going any further, Lets look at the meaning of Physical Death?

Physical Death, what is it?

Systematic Theology I. Physical Death

I. PHYSICAL DEATH

Physical death is the separation of the soul from the body. We distinguish it from spiritual death, or the separation of the soul from God; and from the second death, or the banishment from God and final misery of the reünited soul and body of the wicked.

Atheist Perspective on Physical Death- that this separation of Soul from Body just doesn't happen. In-fact, nothing happens to the Soul, because there isn’t a soul to separate from the body for most believing Non-Believers, an atheist believes death is just death-the body going back to the earth where it came from-no heaven, no hell, just dead or gone asleep for ever.

For the Non-believer or as the bible calls it, “Separation from God.” Is 59:2 This separation are for those who in their lifetime had the free will to choose Jesus for what He did on the cross for humanity John 3:16 , which would be their Salvation from the penalty of sin caused back in gensis which sends a person to Hell and which is called the second death Rev 21:8 that is, if a person doesn’t choose Jesus as their Savior

More on the atheist and other perspective on death through Systematic Theology eyes

Systematic Theology I. Physical Death

Although physical death falls upon the unbeliever as the original penalty of sin, to all who are united in Christ it loses its aspect of penalty, and becomes a means of discipline and of entrance into eternal life.

Systematic Theology 1. Upon Rational Grounds

Aristotle, Nic. Ethics, 3:9, calls death “the most to be feared of all things.… for it appears to be the end of everything; and for the deceased there appears to be no longer either any good or any evil.” Æschylus: “Of one once dead there is no resurrection.” Catullus: “When once our brief day has set, we must sleep one everlasting night.” Tacitus: “If there is a place for the spirits of the pious; if, as the wise suppose, great souls do not become extinct with their bodies.” “In that if,” says Uhlhorn, “lies the whole torturing uncertainty of heathenism.” Seneca, Ep. liv.—“Mors est non esse”—“Death is not to be”; Troades, V, 393—“Post mortem nihil est, ipsaque mors nihil”—“There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.” Marcus Aurelius: “What springs from earth dissolves to earth again

Systematic Theology 1. Upon Rational Grounds

and the company are not too trying.”

The book of Job shows how impossible it is for man to work out the problem of personal immortality from the point of view of merely natural religion. Shakespeare, in Measure for Measure, represents Claudio as saying to his sister Isabella: “Aye, but to die, and go we know not where

The very nature around us tell about the existence of God

Systematic Theology II. The Intermediate State

II. THE INTERMEDIATE STATE

The Scriptures affirm the conscious existence of both the righteous and the wicked, after death, and prior to the resurrection

Lets dive into the deep end and flow through the scriptures that prove every human ever born or killed at their pre-birth will indeed go on for eternity after, either at first the Intermediate state before the 1000 year region and the Second coming right to Heaven or Paradise or separated from God’s presence and eventually thrown into the Lake of Fire

That the Righteous do not receive a spiritual body at death is plain 1 Thess 4:13-18 and 1 Cor 15:52 This is the Intermediate State