Does Christianity Believe in a Soul or Ghosts

[Muffled]

Not according to the Bible, which is what I base my faith upon.
At death, the Bible says we all go to the same place (the grave, sheol, hades) the only way to live again is by resurrection...literally a "standing up again".....like "hades", the meaning of the word "resurrection" has been obscured and distorted by belief in an immortal soul, which basically makes the resurrection redundant because nobody really dies.

If we recall Jesus raising his friend Lazarus, who had been dead for 4 days, Jesus did not pluck this man's spirit from 'the other side' and put it back in his body.....he actually repaired his decaying body and returned the breath (spirit) into his lungs. He had no recollection of where he had been, and if it was heaven, then how was it doing him a favor by bringing him back to this life only to die again later?

According to scripture, all the dead "sleep" (in an unconscious state) until the day Christ calls them from their graves (John 5:28-29)....some to life in heaven and some to a restoration of life on earth. Those chosen for life in heaven will have specific roles as 'kings and priests' and these will be resurrected first.... (Revelation 20:6) and they will rule over subjects on earth, where God put humans in the first place. (Revelation 21:2-4)

There are no such things as 'ghosts'....the Bible says that there are rebel spirits who like to impersonate dead people, but those who know what the Bible teaches about death, know that the dead don't talk to anyone.
The devil told the first humans that they would not die, and he has been lying about that ever since.

The only choices people have concerning life is to continue living by remaining obedient to God and his teachings, or to ignore them and face having no future at all. If that is "eternal darkness", then "gehenna" is that place. No one is conscious there however. (Ecclesiastes 9:5; 10)

I believe I laugh whenever a JW says that. I believe it is more like what some JW leader's wild imagination thinks the Bible says rather than what it actually says.

 

[Muffled]

death is the judgment

I believe there is not just one judgment but many. Most of the time God uses His judgment to decide when a person dies. Murderers take a person's death into their own hands.

 

[PearlSeeker]

Are Christians waiting for a resurrection or face eternal darkness? Is their a soul or Ghosts in a resurrection theology?

205. What happens to our body and our soul after death?

After death, which is the separation of the body and the soul, the body becomes corrupt while the soul, which is immortal, goes to meet the judgment of God and awaits its reunion with the body when it will rise transformed at the time of the return of the Lord. How the resurrection of the body will come about exceeds the possibilities of our imagination and understanding.

(Compendium of the Cathecism of the Catholic Church)

 

[Muffled]

According to the Bible, all people have a body, a spirit and a soul.
The Bible also distinguishes between all three.(1 Thessalonians 5:23)

When a man's body dies, his soul goes to the realm of the dead, where paradise and hell are. (Luke 16:19-31)
There were also exceptions, the Nephilim who were begotten by the angels and human women, (Genesis 6:1-4) did not come after their death into the realm of the dead, but their souls remained on earth. They are the ones we call "demons" today.
The fallen angels who mixed with human women were sent to hell where they had to stay until the day of judgment.(2 Peter 2:4)

I believe I see nothing in those verses to support those misconceptions.

I believe the correct word here is "grave."

I believe it only says they sinned.

I don't believe one can base doctrine on a fictional story.

 

[Muffled]

205. What happens to our body and our soul after death?

After death, which is the separation of the body and the soul, the body becomes corrupt while the soul, which is immortal, goes to meet the judgment of God and awaits its reunion with the body when it will rise transformed at the time of the return of the Lord. How the resurrection of the body will come about exceeds the possibilities of our imagination and understanding.

(Compendium of the Cathecism of the Catholic Church)

I believe these days most people are reincarnated and what that will be like and whether or not it occurs does depend on the judgment of God.

 

[Muffled]

when a man dies .he is dead .its the same for every living thing ….we all have the same spirit . from the largest whale to the smallest thing that pro-creates.

I believe that is incorrect. Spirits of men are reincarnated and animals have no spirit.

 

[cataway]

I believe that is incorrect. Spirits of men are reincarnated and animals have no spirit.

I take it you do not believe what the bible has to say on that