The dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7; NIV).
This is what I believe will happen after we die:
- At death we will leave our bodies behind on earth, and our souls will return to God who gave them.
- We will be judged on how we lived, how we used the genetic inheritance, bodies, minds, hearts, gifts, talents, opportunities and difficulties God gave us.
- We will also be judged on how we treated others.
- No matter what we have done during our lives, God is still our soul.
- God is One, and cannot be divided. God cannot not send part of themself into eternal separation from themself.
- When we see God as God really is, we will be deeply awed. We will humbly confess, and bitterly repent of, everything we have done which has hurt God in others.
- God will understand and forgive us all.
- We will forgive those who have sinned against us.
- We will be completely healed.
- We will be reconciled with one another, and with God.
- We will be one with God, and with each other.
He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies (Psalm 103:3-4; NLT).
I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one – as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one (John 17:21-2; NLT).
References
The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Genesis 2:7; KJV).
I am God, and not man; the Holy One within thee (Hosea 11:9; BST).
The LORD our God, the LORD is one (Deuteronomy 6:4; NIV).
There is… one God and Father, who is over all and in all and living through all (Ephesians 4:5-6; NLT).
We are the temple of the living God (2 Corinthians 6:16; NLT).
Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us (Colossians 3:11; NLT).
Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me (Matthew 25:25; NIV).
We will see him as he really is (1 John 3:2; NLT).
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness (John 1:9; NIV).
Suggested reading: Psalm 103.