What really happens to a man after he dies?

Posted by Mike Lopez under Faith and Religion
Dec 2005
04
08:51am


This is something that is really difficult prove myself since I haven’t returned from the dead nor has anyone come back to life from death. Of course, in Christian teachings we have Jesus Christ who is claimed to have died, have gone over to the place of the dead, and resurrected back to life. However, Jesus made his teachings of heaven and hell BEFORE he had died and did not make mention of anything about it after his supposed resurrection. I understand if you will argue that Jesus knows because he is God, or at least the son of God as some Christian sects teac but then that’s a different topic on its own.
Remember that what you will be reading is based on my own beliefs. Let’s proceed. First let’s tackle the physical matter.After man dies, his body starts to decay. Typically (if buried), his body continues to decay until it becomes part of the soil. The soil gets nutrients from the decayed body and the nutrients will most likely be taken in by plants and / or soil ingesting organisms such as earthworms. Either way, they get eaten… and so on and so forth. There comes the possibility that the cycle will involve another human being who is alive and makes use of ‘recycled’ nutrients for himself or herself. A pregnant woman can also be involved after which the nutrients can be transferred to another baby. Of course, this is an oversimplified story but I’m sure you got the point. One way or another, there is the probability that you have taken in the nutrients from a dead man…. Gross???? Fact.

Ok, now onto the spiritual matter – the more interesting part.

There are two major beliefs when it comes to life after death – one is eternal life (or damnation) in either heaven or hell and the other is reincarnation.

Note that I am merely stating my own belief and not trying to prove the truth or the lack of it in the either of these beliefs. To me, I believe that we are to pass this life only but once and there is no second chance. After we die, our non-physical being (spirit or soul or both – whatever it is) simply goes back to where we came from – to God. Whether you did good or bad doesn’t really matter – at least that’s what I believe. However, this is not a ticket for us to do evil. For our deeds are rewarded accordingly. When and where will these rewards be given? Here and now, in this very lifetime.

Let me clarify this further.

We all come from God and therefore we must all return to God. In the end, there is neither heaven nor hell but there will be God. Our deeds on the other hand are rewarded in this very lifetime. We are judged here and now and we receive the punishments and rewards here and now as well. Do a crime and you are separated from the general population. Do good and you gain acceptance. Simple and true. ?Will I reap eternal fruits from the good or bad that I do?”, you may ask. I say no. Even as the ripples in a pond would settle a while after you thrown a stone, so shall all things in life. Neither good nor evil is eternal. Only God is eternal and God is neither good nor evil but he is all in all.

So to sum it all up, two things happen after we die – our physical body gets recycled with the rest of the earth and our spiritual body returns to God much as how it came from God.

This is what I believe in.



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