The concept of existence after death

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Death is a controversial topic that most people in society tend to avoid. Death is often difficult to talk about regarding people. People often tend to lean towards having insight and control on everything in this world. Death is one thing that people cannot have control over or do not completely understand. Death often results in sadness for friends and love ones who wont see that person anymore. Death in a sense is unclear to individuals sense there is no scientific proof to understand what happens when a person dies. There are various beliefs of what happens when a person dies, according to different cultures. Some have a stance as seeing death as termination from existence. Others have a stance on death as leaving one world and having a portal to another life. In a sense comparing these to beliefs death is either real or not real. Philosophically death would be examined through human reasoning. Personally, I believe that when you die physically your spirit man goes to either Heaven or Hell, depending on belief in Jesus. My stance is based on the Christian stance on how you will spend eternity in one place or another. Even though there is no evidence of what happens when you die, when you die you either go to heaven or hell because the Bible and Christian faith have a firm belief in this doctrine. An individual also has a spirit that is eternal.
My main reason for my belief of life after death is based on the Christian faith. Jesus was speaking to Martha and stated, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying” . This scripture refers to life after death. People who have died physically in Christ will live in heaven until the day of the Lord. People who are not in Christ when the...

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...n the supernatural realm when our physical body dies. I believe what the Bible says regarding life after death, which there is. I believe this through scriptures as well as teachings through church and family members. People who are not Christians can look around at philosophical teaching, which do not completely deny the fact that the spiritual realm exists and people live on after death. Philosophically life after death is hard to prove since this belief is strictly based on faith and not rational or empirical knowledge. We have a choice how we live our lives due to our free will. We are responsible for our actions during our life since we based them on fulfilling desires. The bible says, “Don’t be misled¬–you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant” . This is a basic characteristic of life, everything we do we have a result for it.

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