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The concept of Life after Death in Christianity is very clear. When we die, our soul separates from the body and ascends into heaven while our body returns to the dust. One can determine their life after death according to the life one has spent on earth. Life after death is directly linked to our life on planet Earth.
The moment we are born, God has a purpose for us. If a person has found out the purpose of his life and led his life according to it, he then receives eternal life. If that human being has spent a good and God Fearing life in this world, God accepts his soul and sends him to Paradise, while a person who has spent a life full of wrong doings and has rejected God’s purpose for him, his soul is rejected by God and is thrown into Hell. Our religious leaders have always taught us that this world is a temporary home for us. God wants us to lead this temporary life in doing good to others, and fulfilling God’s purpose, and then only would you gain everlasting blessings in Heaven.
Then the concept of Paradise and Hell also comes into life after death. The Bible defines Paradise as a fertile land with streams of honey flowing through it. Paradise will be a peaceful place where everybody will live happily. There will be no pain and suffering. While hell as defined in the bible will be a very dark and miserable place to live. There will be so much heat and your soul will be thirsty. There will be no one to give you water to drink. Your body would constantly burn and you would not be able to die. You will be miserable and you will cry but God would have no mercy on you. The Christian end-time expectation is directed not only at the future of the church but also at the future of the individual believer. It includes definite conceptions of the personal continuance of life after death.
Many baptized early Christians were convinced they would not die at all but would still experience the advent of Christ in their lifetimes and would go directly into the Kingdom of God without death. Others were convinced they would go through the air to meet Christ returning upon the clouds of the sky. There is "a time to be born, and a time to die" (Ecclesiastes 3:2). Although eternal life is a gift that is granted to all who accept salvation through Jesus Christ, faithful Christians await the second coming of Jesus for complete realization of their immortality (John 3:36; Romans 6:23; 1 Corinthians 15:51-54). While waiting for Jesus to come again, Christians may be called upon to care for the dying and to face personally their own death.
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