Does the afterlife really need to exist?

Question

Is there really a need for people to 'live' after death? If so, then why?

Answer 1

You are looking at it the wrong way.
People don't "need to live after death"...
death is the true reality where we really exist all the time and
here and now is only just a small portion of our existence.
So, maybe you should be asking,
"Do we really need to be alive here and now?"

Answer 2

Yes. Do you know how much time and effort it takes to make a Soul? A lot, and it isn't to be wasted.

However, they don't live eternally. When a person dies (trust me) they're absolutely NOT happy about it, simply because death, to most, isn't a good experience. It's quite painful for a soul to be snatched out of a body.

Depending on how strong the spirit is, the soul can last sometime between two hours, and two-thousand years. After that, it just fades away, leaving room for another soul to be made, another life to be created, and in the process, another life to be destroyed as somebody else dies.

It's all part of keeping the rotation, as well as the Balance.

Answer 3

You got a minute?Ok,God created the earth and everything on it including Adam and Eve(Gen:2)Jah created humans to live on earth in a paridisic envoronment and to live forever in a state of happiness.Doing fulfilling work and learning about Him.Now this may sound like a fairy tale but you must understand when humans decided to follow their own standards instead of God's(Gen3:1-7)God allowed man to be the master of his own ship.
For melliniums man has had control of his destiny with desaterous results.
Now I said all that to say this:the so-called afterlife is not really the afterlife but the true life.Here is where we get into some differences of opinion.Jah told Adam and Eve that on the day they eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad,they would positively die.(Gen2:17)Please remember2Peter3:8 reminds us that one day with Jehovah is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.So,Adam lived to be 930 years old and died.(Within a day in Jah's time.)God did not tell Adam on the day he ate from the fruit he would die and go on to live in a place of eternal torture.Some people believe a loving God would torture people for eternity for a mistake they made in a day.
So the afterlife as it's called is the life we will live after the reserection of the dead ,which will come after the war between good and evil or Armageddon(Rev16:16,Rev.20:6)And that,for us,will not be the afterlife but will be the beginning of the real life.The life we humans were created to live.It is truly something to work for and look forwards to.

Answer 4

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I guess you weren't aware that the answers your questions are but a few 'clicks' away:

Is There Life After Death
... Do You Have an Immortal Spirit?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2001/7/15/article_01.htm

The Hereafter - Where Will It Be?:
... Earth--Just a Testing Ground?
...... Eternal Happiness - In Heaven or on Earth?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2000/10/1/article_01.htm

An Inheritance You Can Count On
... “The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth”
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/10/1/article_01.htm

Have You Lived Before? :
... Do You Believe in Reincarnation?
...... Should You Believe in Reincarnation?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1997/5/15/article_01.htm
(In case this was also on your mind ... )

For more information, you are welcome to visit ...

Answer 5

Actually, scripture says that the lives we all have now are fleeting and calls them "a vapor". So, this is really the "before-life". Real life will be forever. It is called immortality. God's written Word tells us how we can attain this "real" life.

The reason people will gain eternal life is to become sons of the Most High God and live in His kingdom forever. His purposes have not been fully revealed for the life to come. We only know up to Revelation. But, whatever he has in store for those who are given eternal life will be beyond what our minds could even imagine...

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have eternal life." John 3:16

Answer 6

There is no need for an afterlife to exist.

There IS need for most people to believe in an afterlife. Without the fear of punishment and promise of reward, most people would behave like wild animals. With it, they behave like domesticated ones.

Maybe someday humans as a species will evolve to the point that they no longer behave like animals at all and instead become an intelligent species. At that point, there will be no need to believe in an afterlife. People will see good behavior as its own reward instead of expecting to be rewarded for it in the afterlife.

Answer 7

Everyone will get what they deserve. If they were good people they will get heaven and If they were evil people they will get hell which is actually not an eternity in the lake of fire. Just what each persons deserves and then they are completely destroyed. Wouldn't you want go to a place after you die that is 1,000,000 times better than Disneyland?

Answer 8

Myself believe in an afterlife because I cannot imagine our conscious awareness that we exist just fading away when we die and we cease to exist. It may be just me but I cannot accept that when we die, we just cease to exist. I believe that something happens to our consciousness and that it continues to exist after death, and that it goes somewhere when we die. Believing that we just cease to exist just seems wrong, and that belief does not come from my brain but from my heart and soul.

Scientists say that reality is formed from our perspectives and interactions, so perhapes death is too. Maybe the afterlife is whatever we imagine it to be.

Answer 9

If this is what life is all about, I definetely want an another, different one. Oh sorry, answer: Coz not everyone lived equal lives in terms of happiness and peace and obedience to God. So it balances out after death.

Answer 10

My understanding is that when God breathed into man the breath of God He was giving man a spirit which will exist forever, because it came from the eternal being of God. Creation and any part of it could cease to exist but that spirit of God implanted by God can not. Therefore eternal existence in one way or another must happen.