This coming Wednesday, immersⁿ is hosting Dr. Stanley E. Porter for a lecture/talk on the Dead Sea Scrolls.  Dr.

Where will we go when we die? Heaven? Hell? Spirit World? or do we just rot in the ground?

This question has always bothered me.

I do believe there is a God, but no Heaven or Hell. Does that make me a bad person? I do believe there is a afterlife for us, but where?

When people died 2100-3000 years ago, where did they go if Jesus wasn't born yet?

Sorry for all these  questions, I'm not a very religious person.

Is there a 'general concensus' in the United Church, about praying for the dead? Mormonism holds this belief.