Where do people go after death?
Q: Where do people go after death?
A: There us only 2 places and both are eternal. Heaven (to be with Jesus) or Hell (awaiting the eternal Lake of Fire). (1)
Where you go depends on if you are "born again" or not.
All are already Hellbound cuz all are sinners, however for those who are redeemed by Christ, who obey the Gospel, whose names were written in the Lambs book of Life from before the foundation of the world, are saved and Heavenbound. The rest are already judged for rejecting Christ/the Gospel (2)
People either die in Christ or in their sins.
This tells us [the basics] about God, and this about the essentials of Christianity to understand and believe about God and Jesus.
From there, grasp the Gospel message, which God calls us to obey.
Jesus in Mark 1:15 said "Repent & Believe the Gospel." Once you obey the Gospel... and your life shows proof God radically transformed you, and you persevere in the Faith, you can know you are saved.
If you get saved, turning your life over to God, today, this will be a help to you as you begin your new life in Christ.
This can help you reach someone for Christ, as God called us to go proclaim this truth. It is the main mission God left us here to complete. The other is to live to glorify Him.
Hope this helps
God bless
Footnotes:
(1) Some relevant Bible verses
Believers:
Luke 23:42-43: "Then he said, 'Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.' Jesus answered him, 'Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.'"
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 "Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord."
Philippians 1:21-23 "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far."
John 14:2-3"My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am."
Thessalonians 4:16-17 "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. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever."
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 "Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed."
Revelation 21:3-4 "And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.'"
The unsaved
Hebrews 9:27 "Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment."
Matthew 25:46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
Luke 16:23-24 "In Hades, [Hell] where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'"
Mark 9:43-48 "[speaking on sin]. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where 'the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.'"
2 Thessalonians 1:9 "They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might."
Revelation 20:10 "And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever."
(2) John 3:16-21
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
John 16:8-11
Jesus said, "And He, [The Holy Spirit; at Penticost], when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world [Satan] has been judged."
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