Why do some people think we go to Heaven when we die?

"Why do some people think we go to Heaven when we die?"

Because of a broad misinterpretation of Scripture.

CONCERNING HELL

The word "hell" in the same verses in other translations of the Bible simply read "the grave," "the world of the dead," etc.

Collier’s Encyclopedia (1986, Vol. 12, p. 28) says this concerning “Hell”:

“First it stands for the Hebrew Sheol of the Old Testament and the Greek Hades of the Septuagint and New Testament. Sheol in Old Testament times referred SIMPLY TO THE ABODE OF THE DEAD.”

For more, see: Myth 2: The Wicked Suffer in Hell

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp2009...

CONCERNING HEAVEN

Most people believe that every righteous person goes to heaven.

The Rapture is the belief that faithful Christians will be BODILY caught up from the Earth, suddenly taken out of the world, to be united with the Lord “in the air.” The word “rapture” is understood by some persons, but not by all, to be the meaning of 1 Thessalonians 4:17.

Yet the word "rapture" does not occur in the Bible and the belief that faithful Christians will be BODILY caught up from the Earth is not found in the Bible.

For more, see: Myth 3: All Good People Go to Heaven

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp2009...

Rapture

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101989259#s=0:...

THE BIBLE'S VIEW OF THE FUTURE FOR MAN

The Bible shows that God's original purpose was for mankind to live on earth (Gen 2:17) and that the vast majority of mankind have the prospect of living on into, or of being resurrected in the future to life in Paradise on earth - not in heaven:

"But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace." (Ps. 37:11)

"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." (Matthew 5:5 KJV)

The Bible even says that not every righteous person will go to heaven. Acts 2:34 specifically mentions one good person that did not go to heaven:

"David [whom the Bible refers to as being `a man agreeable to Jehovah's heart'] did not ascend to the heavens."

So, even though the Bible does show that only 144,000 will be "bought from the earth" and have the hope of heavenly life, the remainder have the hope of a future life in Paradise on earth.

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Eternal Happiness—In Heaven or on Earth?

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Yahweh says the body returns to the dust but the spirit is carried either to heaven or prison. Heaven is called the Paradise of God. The unbelievers wait in spirit prison for Judgment Day.

Jesus preached to the spirits in prison who were disobedient in Noah's day. 1 Peter 3:18-20.

Some people become angels.

Judgment Day is at hand, so it is time to repent and pray for Holy Spirit.

Best wishes to you and yours, Yahweh, Jesus and I.

Here is the real verses

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

We all return to the dust in which we were created from. It is vanity if we believe that we are better and can live forever. Our spirits will return to paradise before we are judged.

The thing about Ecclesiastes is that it's Solomon's book on the weariness and discouragement with life from a worldly perspective.

He also starts by saying "everything is meaningless" and clearly that is not the teaching of the Bible.

lack of life: The Bible says that at lack of existence someone ceases to exist (which we can hint scientifically to the cancellation of all purposes that matter on the mind). The soul, it truly is existence, dies. The lifeless are thoroughly subconscious and ignorant of their ecosystem - Ezekiel 18:4, Ecclesiastes 9:5 Heaven and Hell - properly, thinking the truth that i'm no longer precisely able @ the prompt 2 attain 4 a Bible and do a set of bringing up, i will in effortless words briefly contact on that. Gimme a 2d and that i will come again to it, cuz I gotta lay some foundation. thinking the truth that the Bible tells us that at lack of existence we thoroughly stop to exist, something that stated eternal torment for our souls in Hell can be a contradiction. Hell because this is placed forth contained in the Bible is basically a observe which means the abode of the lifeless, the straightforward grave of mankind. existence in Heaven is in effortless words promised to a particular volume of folk. (look contained in the seventh and 14th chapters of Revelation). those who're to flow to Heaven were chosen to rule alongside Jesus Christ in the course of the only thousand 3 hundred and sixty 5 days era at the same time as mankind will be gradually resurrected and restored to perfection. particular scriptures educate us that the lifeless are to be resurrected, which shows that they should be napping as antagonistic to being tormented in hell or residing in heavenly bliss. - Daniel 12:2, John 5:28,29; Acts 24:15 lengthy tale short, there's no such element as hell (contained in the experience that maximum ppl believe), very few all of us is amazingly going to heaven, and the wish held out to maximum folk of righteous people is existence in the international.

Because the bible says so clear as crystal.

Jesus said I go to prepare a place for you...that's hardly a hole in the ground.

He talks of the 'many mansions' and how we are going to be with Him.

Paul talks of being absent from the body and present with the Lord.

Whole chunks of Revelation describe scenes in heaven and what it is like and who is there and how eventually God will wipe away every tear from our eyes.

But only those who accept Jesus as Saviour will go there. Those who have asked for forgiveness from their sin.

It is the body that returns to dust but the soul lives on eternally. Find a bible and see for yourself.

All the best. :)

This is probably a mistranslation. Many other scriptures indicate that when we die we go to the spirit world. Both Sheol and Hades refer to the spirit world. Jesus told the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. They both died, one went to Abraham's bosom, and the other was in torment, but they were both in the spirit world.

We ALL die (ie return to dust). ALL souls will go to EITHER Heaven or Hell; you need to read ALL the Bible, not just one verse. EVERYONE DESERVES to go to Hell, but God has made a way for those who repent of their sin and trust in Jesus Christ to go to Heaven; NOBODY DESERVES to go to Heaven, and it is impossible to get there by 'being good'; all our righteousness is as filthy rags in God's sight. The ONLY way to get to heaven is through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, who paid the punishment for our sin; he died, when he had never sinned and didn't deserve to die, so that we don't have to endure God's punishment for our own sin; God punished Jesus Christ instead.

Lack of gaining accurate knowledge of Gods word the bible.

Everlasting Life on Earth—A Christian Hope?

“[God] will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more.”—REV. 21:4.

A RICH and prominent young man ran up to Jesus, fell upon his knees before him, and asked: “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit everlasting life?” (Mark 10:17) The young man was asking about inheriting everlasting life—but where? As we discussed in the preceding article, centuries earlier God had given the Jews the hope of a resurrection and everlasting life on earth. That hope prevailed among many first-century Jews.

2 Jesus’ friend Martha apparently had in mind restoration to life on earth when she said of her deceased brother: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:24) True, the Sadducees of the time denied the resurrection. (Mark 12:18) However, in his book Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, George Foot Moore says: “Writings . . . of the second or first centuries before our era attest the belief that at the expected turning-point in the history of the world the dead of former generations would be brought to life again on earth.” The rich man who approached Jesus wanted to gain eternal life on earth.

3 Today, many religions and Bible scholars deny that the hope of living forever on earth is a Christian teaching. Most people hope for an afterlife in the spirit realm. So when readers of the Christian Greek Scriptures come across the expression “everlasting life,” many think that it always refers to life in heaven. Is that true? What did Jesus mean when he spoke of everlasting life? What did his disciples believe? Do the Christian Greek Scriptures hold out the hope of everlasting life on earth?

god tells us we do

that verse say our physical bodies die and return to dust out spirit leaves our body and goes to god

Ecclesiastes 12:7

King James Version (KJV)

7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.