When a Christian dies does he go immediately to Heaven?
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I believe that an angel is sent to escort us home.The angel is there throughout our lives to guide us and help us on the path to Christ.His love for us is infinite,and he only loans us to our 'human' families for our specific purposes.When we have accomplished those goals,he calls us home to be with him in his House of glory!Enjoy your life on earth,but live toward an everlasting life with your heavenly Father!
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Good works won't get you into heaven. Only having faith in Jesus Christ and believing that He died on the cross for you and rose again will. Jesus forgave all of our sins when He died on the cross.
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Those who are dead cannot communicate.  By Christian teachings those that are dead do not ascend to Heaven until the Second Coming.  Until then, they're dead.
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I believe there is only one way to God and that is through Jesus Christ. If you believe he died for you, saved you from your sins, and ask Him to forgive you, you will be saved. I'm really not interested in this question, I want you to believe. God is the only way to heaven and if you don't confess your sins to Him you will go to hell, but if you do you will  spend eternaty(sp) with Him in heaven.
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Christianity believes that as long as you claim you love Jesus and believe he is the Son of God right as you die, you'll go to Heaven. So, be Atheist, kill everybody, and then right before you die say you believe Jesus is the Son of God... and you're in Heaven... sounds like it does to me. :)
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Yes, when you die, you will either enter into heaven or enter into hell.\n\nHow to make sure that you go to heaven.  Go to crosswalk.com and click on either steps to assurance or another subject on salvation.  It will guide you through the verses and steps to take to come to the understanding that you really do need this free gift that is offered.  Once you understand that you need this, you should feel the need to pray the sinners prayer and ask Jesus into your heart and submit your life to him.\n\nAfter this is done, you will know that you have been saved, and you will want to learn more about what you have just done, read and reread the bible, get into a fundamental church that teaches right out of the bible, and begin obeying the word of GOD by actually doing the things that you learn are right and just.\n\nYou are now on your walk with GOD and you will be on this walk until your dying breath, you will never stop learning new things about your life with GOD.
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No.\n\nJust as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment ... (Hebrews 9:27)\n\nCatholics and most other Christians believe there is no "reincarnation" after death.\n\nDeath is the end of man's earthly pilgrimage, of the time of grace and mercy which God offers him so as to work out his earthly life in keeping with the divine plan, and to decide his ultimate destiny. \n\nWhen "the single course of our earthly life" is completed, we shall not return to other earthly lives.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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What happens when you die depends on what happens before you die. The Bible classifies the whole human race into two broad categories-the saved and the lost. What happens to the saved is radically different from what happens to the lost. \nA. For the saved\n\nThe Bible is abundantly clear on this point. When the saved die, they go directly into the presence of the Lord. At this point we remember the words of Jesus to the thief on the cross, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43). This appears to be a straightforward promise that at the moment of death the repentant thief would pass from his life of crime and his agonizing death into the realm called "paradise." This would seem to contradict the teaching called "soul-sleep" which implies that at death a believer "sleeps" in a kind of suspended animation until the day of the resurrection. How could the thief be that very day in paradise if his soul were to go to sleep when he died? At the moment of death the believer passes immediately into the personal presence of Jesus Christ. This is our hope and comfort as we stand at the graveside of a loved one. Paul said he had a desire to depart and to "be with Christ, which is better by far" (Philippians 1:23). He also said, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body (that is, separated from the body by death) and at home with the Lord" (II Corinthians 5:8). These are the words of a man who believed that heaven would begin at the moment of his death. Was Paul looking forward to an unconscious slumber after his death? No! He was looking forward to the personal presence of Jesus Christ.\n\nBut that's not the whole story. The soul goes to be with the Lord in heaven and the body is buried until the day of resurrection when Jesus returns to the earth. I Thessalonians 4:14 says, "We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him." Here you have both sides of the truth. Christians who die are said to be "with Jesus" (that's the soul in the conscious presence of the Lord) and "have fallen asleep in him" (that's the body which "sleeps" in the grave). Listen to Paul's description of that great reunion of body and soul: "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first" (I Thessalonians 4:16). Here is a clear promise of future bodily resurrection for the believer. First Corinthians 15:51-55 adds the crucial fact that our bodies will be "raised imperishable"-that is, with a body that is perfect in every way, free from the vestiges of death and decay. In this life our bodies wear out, like a clock continually running down, but when we are raised, it will be with bodies that can never decay, never wear out, never suffer injury, never grow old, never get sick, and thank God, never die.\n\n\nWhat Happens after Death?"\n\nIt is clear that during the test during the life of this world, people will be clearly divided in three groups: 1) those, who excel in piety, truthfulness, justice and submission to God; 2) those, who excel in transgression, rejection and are clearly averse to accepting God's truths; and 3) those, who are neither clearly among the first nor clearly among the second group.\n\nAs for the first two groups, these are people, who are themselves witnesses upon their own behavior. These are people, whose ultimate destiny - whether it be heaven or hell - is decided during the life of this world and they start enjoying or suffering the fruits of their deeds, immediately after death. If falling in the first category, they shall be in a state of blissful slumber till the Day of Rising, while if falling in the second category, they shall be in a
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A, of course, most christians do not realize that they already are in heaven on earth.  When we die it will be all over, the end. We don't even know that once we were part of human race.\n\nSo, don't look forward to be with God in Heaven, this is the only life we have, enjoy it while you can.
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I believe when I die here, I will go either to heaven or hell.  the soul never dies.  it will keep on living, because the Bible speaks of eternity in heaven or hell so even fire can not kill the soul.
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Depends on what you believe.  Under christianity, NO.\n\nBUT nothing says they have the answer.  I'd say you can get into heaven by doing that  - YES.\n(there's just no guarantee it's the same one they are thinking of - we'll all find out one day - one way or another.)
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"Hell" is the common grave of mankind, so everyone who dies goes there to await resurrection on the last day. They don't need a name while they are in the grave.\n\n(Acts 24:15) there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous\n\n(John 11:24) Martha said to him [Jesus]: “I know he [my brother] will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
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I don't know who told you that he's not in Heaven. He did die, and we believe that if a person who has put their trust in Jesus (which he had) dies, they go to Heaven.\n\nSo we believe that when he was beheaded (I think that's what happened, my history's a little bad), he went to Heaven, yes, but that doesn't mean he became God. I don't know if that's what you're getting at (your question's a little hard to understand).\n\nHope I helped.
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goodness, you are confused. Let's put religion out of the picture for just a second, okay. It is simple, you either believe Jesus died on the cross for you and God created you or you don't. You can say that only christians will enter into heaven but i believe no matter what religion you call yourself, if you believe in God and have accepted God as your savior then you can call yourself whatever you want and you will still go to heaven. People choose to worship God in many ways. But the key to the door is Have you confessed that you are a sinner? Do you believe Jesus died on the cross for you? Do you want to spent eternity in heaven or hell? I'd be too scared not to believe and to not be saved. What if all us "crazy" christians are right? What if we are wrong? Which is worse? right or wrong? heaven or hell, HUM.... lets see, I'll go with heaven and believing in God.
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When you die, you'll either go to Heaven or Hell, but that is up to you, you either have Jesus in your life or you don't if you don't you go to Hell if you do you go to Heaven but you have to mean it with all your heart to have Jesus in your life, to go to Heaven.
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well their are two possible death and the bible says that after your first death you are judge based on if you accept or rejected Jesus and not living for him is rejecting him and then if you fail the judgment your soul is sent to hell which is a second death and you suffer for eternity but if you chose the right path then you get to spend the rest of eternity in a palace and there will only be joy
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I testify to you that the following words are TRUE and you can find out for yourself by asking God in the name of Jesus Christ. having faith and real intent.\n\nDeath is not the end. Death is really a beginning—another step forward in Heavenly Father’s plan for His children. \nSomeday, like everyone else, your life on Earth will end and your physical body will die. But your spirit will not die. At the time of physical death, your spirit will go to the spirit world, where you will continue to learn and progress. \n\nDeath is a necessary step in your progression, just as your birth was. Sometime after your death, your spirit and your body will be reunited—never to be separated again. This is called resurrection, and it was made possible by the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.