What do Christians think about afterlife?

Answer 1

Most of them are scared to death; which may be an indication of the state of their faith. Solomon is quite clear that 'the day of a man's death is better than the day of his birth,' although the exact meaning of this passage in Ecclesiastes is debated. It should be noted that the human definitions of 'Christian,' and even the terms 'life' and 'death' here differ from God's definitions, and will impact an objective answer to this question.

Answer 2

There is not one clear view accepted by all Christians, however, the view presented below is commonly held by many Christians, and comes from Gospel quotations of Jesus.

Christians do not believe in an "after-life". They believe that once you die, your soul goes to heaven, and then, if you've excepted Jesus into your heart, you will live on forever in heaven. But if you've denied Christ, you wil not be welcomed into his kingdom and will stay in hell for iternity. We believe that God's kingdom is pure wonder. It has streets made of gold, you will never go hungry, there is no sickness, and allyou know of is joy. That is what Christians believe!

Answer 3

Most Christians believe that if you are truly sorry for your sins, you can be with God in Heaven. They also believe that if you are not sorry for your sins, God will punish you and you will go to Hell. Some Christians also believe that when you die you should get buried and not cremated, because they believe that one day there will be a judgment day and God will come down to Earth and reincarnate those were true to God etc.

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Answer 4

I'm a christian

it's heven. when a christian dies he (or she) goes 2 heven and spends eternity with God. it's a prfect place like nothing on erth. i ont no xactly wot its like, (i havnt been ther) but if u reed the bible it wil describe bits of it 4 u.

Answer 5

Christianity teaches that everyone lives forever. It's a question of where you live that makes a difference.

We are all sinners. However, by accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and entering a relationship with him, a person can be saved from theirs in, and their names written in the Book of Life. People whose names are found in the Book of Life can expect to spend eternity with Jesus in Heaven.

Those who deny Jesus as the Son of God do not have their names written in the Book of Life, and will be judged according to their deed on Earth. Since one sin is all it takes to separate a person from God, not believing in Jesus means an eternity in Hell.

Answer 6

Christians believe that there are two place you can go after death: heaven or hell.

They believe that to go to heaven you must believe that Jesus Christ (born in 3 B.C.) is the Son of God and he died on the cross to save the world from their sins, and then rose from the dead three days after crucifixion. They believe that if you do not believe this, you will spend eternity in hell rather than heaven.

Answer 7

Christians believe that, in the afterlife, you will either go to Heaven to be with God or to Hell in separation from God.

There are, however, some disagreements among Christians concerning the nature of Hell. Some believe that Hell is an actual spiritual place where souls are in eternal torture, while others claim that Hell is actually just a state of not existing. Those who hold the belief of the latter say that the original word for "Hell" is "Hades", and that it means "the grave." They continue to say that the destruction of souls is not eternal fire, but that the souls will cease to exist (literal death of the soul).

Answer 8

A Christian is to believe in what The Bible says and not the ideas of mankind. But it would be fair to say that there are a host of different ideas of the afterlife for those calling themselves Christian. It extends from immediate reward or punishment for the majority of Christians to the biblical description of dead as a deep sleep awaiting their call to the judgment process.

The Greek philosophical ideas of the afterlife were soon incorporated into the new Church of the late 1st Century. Concepts of the Elysian Fields and Dante's Inferno are closely resembled by the teachings for the majority of Christians.

Jesus told the crowd that the death of the child was not a permanent state but akin to sleeping. He called several people - Lazarus the most noted - back to life in the physical world. How unfair that would be if the deceased party had already receive their reward and now had to go through life again jeopardizing loosing what was once theirs. The Bible clearly teaches all (see Hebrews 11) await their call to the resurrection to stand before Jesus Christ in the judgment process. At that conclusion, they will either be changed in a twinkling of the eye into spiritual children of the God family or be thrown into the ever growing Lake of Fire receiving the 2nd and final death (see 2 Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 20 and below):

2 Peter 3:7-10New International Version (NIV)
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.

Answer 9

As with Judaism, from which Christianity was founded, Christianity teaches a heaven to which the souls of the righteous go. Unlike Judaism, Christianity also teaches of a hell, to which the souls of sinners and non-believers go.

Catholics have two further states of afterlife: purgatory as a form of temporary punishment for those who have committed minor, venial sins, and limbo as a place for unbaptised infant children of Catholics.

Answer 10

i think they do believe in life after death