What happens when we die?
Man is composed of body, spirit and soul: 1Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole SPIRIT and SOUL and BODY be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person dies, his body is buried then rot, the spirit goes back to God that gave it while the soul enters Heaven or Hell the realms of comfort or torment depending on the weather the soul was saved or not to await the final Judgment. What happen in death is clearly pictured in Luke 16:19-31. This passage tells us that there is a place of waiting. Heaven is the dwelling place of God 2Chro 6:18, 2:6, Matt 5:34, Rev. 4:1, Acts 7:47-50, Isaiah 66:1-4, and the angels and the elects. It is this same Heaven that's refered to as Paradise in Luke 23:43, Rev. 2:7, 2Cor 12:1-4 for the Saints and for God himself in Hebrews 9:24. However this not the final or eternal Heaven as Revelation 21:1 shows us there will be a new Heaven and Earth. Hell on the oth...