We believe that when we die we are in a sleep like state, until we are resurrected. No one really dies then they are gone forever, or die and go to the heavens. You are plainly in a sleep mode, waiting to wake up from death.
To clarify more:
The Bible teaches that when we die, we are dead; not alive somewhere else. Gen 3: says that we "return to the dust, from whence we came." We did not come from heaven before we were born; there was no 'sign of our existence' before we existed. That's where we go again, when we die, into nothingness / non-existence.
The concept of an 'immortal soul' is NOT a Bible teaching, but comes from pagandom.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe what the Bible teaches. When we die: any sign of us (other than God's memory of us) goes back into nothingness; into the grave, the ground, the earth.
The 'sleep-mode' is only in the sense that as during literal sleep, -- we do not know anything that's going on; we are not conscieous of anything around us. Jesus likened death to sleep for that reason.
Therefore just as God created us from the elements of the ground the first time; once we return there, God can re-create us again from the same earth elements. This is called a 'resurrection'. This is what the Bible teaches, this is what Jehovah's people believe.
The same place a Jehovah's Witness goes. The bible doesn't teach that we will go to Heaven or hell when we die. It teaches only the anointed class will go to heaven which is 144,000. It says this in the bible about when we die....
Ecclesiastes 9:5 "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten."
In the book of John chapter 11:11-14 it refers to death as a long sleep.
But the Bible does explain an earthly hope. "For evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more; and you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace" Psalm 37: 9-11.
So we all, (unless of the anointed class), have a hope of being in a Paradise on earth. Just like Jehovah intended it to be when he first created Adam and Eve.
Titus 1:2
There are two classes of Jehovah's Witnesses. Those with a heavenly hope and those with an earthly hope.
Those with an earthly hope believe if they die they will be resurrected into the paradise earth. Until that time they are 'asleep' (in a state of complete non-existence) in the grave. Those with a heavenly hope, are known as the "anointed class". Their hope is that if they die before Armageddon they will be instantly resurrected to heaven and thereafter share in rulership with Jesus over the resurrected ones on earth.
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe that faithful servants of God have two possible scenarios after they die.
A limited number (Revelation 7:4, 144,000) go to heaven as spirit creatures and rule in the heavens with Jesus as Kings and Priests. They are referred to as anointed ones and are sometimes called the "little flock".
The remainder, the "other sheep" have an opportunity to be resurrected on earth and have a new physical body and are to "inherit the earth" (Psalms 37:29) They will join the survivors of Armageddon. Jesus resurrected ones while he was on the earth as a demonstration of Jehovah's power.
do jehovas go to heaven and hell
They believe they will.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe 'hell' is literally the grave. Therefore all who die go to the grave or hell. However they do not believe that hell is a place of everlasting torment, fiery or not.They believe that all who die before Armageddon will be resurrected back to earth for another chance to prove themselves worthy of everlasting life on a Paradise earth as they believe was the original intention at Eden.All those who die at Armageddon will not have another chance.
Yes they do; they go there to bury their dead and to visit the graves of other individuals that were not Jehovah's Witnesses. Answer 2: Jehovah's Witnesses are just ordinary people like everyone else. We lose loved ones in death, some are buried in cemetaries and others are cremated. We may actually visit cemetaries to look in the Bible and offer comfort from the scriptures when we see ones visiting grave sites of their dead loved ones.
Yes they do.
I an a Jehovah's Witness. We do not believe there are truly evil people other then the devil and the demons. people who are not good and do horrible things, they do not get to go to heaven or paradise.
None. If you have a specific question or bible verse- please post and we can discuss. You can also go to Watchtower.org and feel free to look up info, and/or contact someone who you can speak with.
No. Jehovah's Witnesses, for example, do not. And Mormons (LDS) do believe there is one, but that only very few people ever go there.
Christians believe that when they die they go to heavento be with god.
If there are people who believe that when they die they are anything but worm food...I assure you, there are those who believe in individual heavens.
afterlife and that music will go with them after they die
They believe that they will either go to heaven or hell
reincarnationSome people believe that they go to heaven or hell