Is the bible jus made up to stop people from going crazy by thinking about what happens after death?

Question

because in my opinion u dont know u die....ur coincience jus ends..

Answer 1

I have an answer you might want to consider.
I hope you are asking this question in sincerity and not as a trifling, passing thought.
If you do your homework, which most people don't, you will find the Bible to have been written by Prophets (Old Testament) and Apostles(New Testament) and each and every one of these prophets testify to the reality of a Savior of mankind (aka humanity) who would come at some future period of time. The Apostles who knew Jesus the "Christ" (a translation of Messiah as found in the Old Testiment which also means annointed one) who witness to the reality of his mortal life and his divinity as the Son of God the Father have prophesied of his coming in the Last Days, as it is written in the New Testament.
I don't know what method you seek to discern truth from falsehood but this much I do know as surely as you live now there is an afterlife and as surely as the sun shines each and every living person on this earth who have lived, who now live and who will live existed as conscious, self willed beings before we were born here on the Earth.
To directly answer your question I honestly don't think people are going crazy thinking there is no afterlife. I could be wrong.
What I do understand is it is an inborn, ingrained human instinct to seek after some kind of higher power no matter who you are and to wonder where we came from before we were born, why we are here and where we will be going after we die.
This phenomenon [of questioning an afterlife] especially happens when someone is on their death bed even if they have denied any belief in a supreme being.
Many if not most people fear death especially those who have violated universal principles of right living (fairness, sanctity of life whether created(aka unchastity) or terminated(aka murder), justice, fidelity in marriage, honesty, loyalty, generosity, kindness, love of neighbor, of family, etc...). I hope you would know what I am talking about.
The Bible is a testimony of God's prophets to the people of that time of a Savior of Mankind; a testimony or a declaration of truth that God, Jesus Christ lived, died, and rose again on the third day after his death in a living immortal body of flesh and bone as tangable as ours and as such broke the bonds of death for every human being on the face of this Earth and made it possible for us not to fear death because we would live again as Jesus Christ does.
I have found this to be true. I know it is true. And I know our conscience just doesn't end. We have always existed and always will exist. Please refer to my answer to the gentleman on the question about the "universe having an edge" on this subject. It's a more impirical approach but I hope you will find it enlightening.
Please write to me if you would like to know more. Thank you for your attention.

Answer 2

Hey, that's a pretty novel idea.

Personally, I don't believe in the Bible. And I constantly wonder about things, not just what happens after death, but like "where did we come from" "where are we going" etc.

I think it's a possibility that the Bible and other religious texts were indeed created by man to keep people from thinking too much.

Answer 3

First of all no. People make them selves crazy no matter what you do or say. When you die you either go to Heaven or hell...I really hope you go to Heaven and I think that since you are starting to ask questions and wonder, that is a sign that God is tugging on your heart. Why don't you just go somewhere quite and say a small prayer. it's hard to just open up the bible and understand things, You should start off with something like a Quest bible. Answers to all your questions. P.S. God wants us to be excited that we will be with him sooner or later : )

Answer 4

In essence you are doing what you say is so wrong. Simply coming up with a view of the afterlife based upon nothing but your own inclination and opinion. Most likely you will find that this view is very similar to your peer group and local culture. In essence, your view is very homogenized and requires no conviction or comittment to anything in particular on your part...

Answer 5

The bible is made to show you the true way to live your life and also to tell you what is to come it is warning you that if you dont repent and ask for forgivness for your sins then you will spend eternity with Satan in hell but if you follow God then you will spend eternity in heaven

Answer 6

The Bible doesn't teach an "after life"...when you die you are dead and the Bible says so...

Yeah...but then again...that's what the Bible teaches so why would writing the Bible amend that line of thinking. The idea that we are all immortal little spirits inside a flesh, blood and bone body is man's conception..not scriptural at all...the Bible teaches this...:

Genesis 2:7

7And 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 3:19
19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

God created people. People are flesh and bone. God puts the "Spirit of life" into people. We are souls (meaning individuals beings) not spirits in a flesh body. When we die our bodies go into the ground and decay and God's Spirit of life leaves us. We stay in the ground dead (no thoughts, no dreams, no physicality at all) until Judgement then are raised to life either to face the "second death" Rev 2:11, 20:6, 20:14, 21:8 or to eternal life on a newly created earth. Only God is immortal offering the gift of eternal life. He is devine..we are human, mortal, created beings. So what happenes then at Judgement..well, here's the rest as copied and pasted from a previous post...I hope this helps you to understand.

Hell is an anglo-saxon word that means "hole" or "to hide". Hel is also the name of the Norse god, not very liked, of the underworld.Where did we get our modern day version of Hell? Return to the 13th century, to the Roman Catholic Church right before the Reformation, to the period of time called the Romantics or Middle Ages where if you were to be anyone in the vicinty of Europe you must be occupied by music, art, poetics, politics, religion or science or some such other endeavor. Dante Alighieri wrote Inferno, published in the year 1300 and as depicted by many artists is the source for our main visual concept of a place that contains all of the souls of the damned that burn for eternity. However, scripture will prove that this is a man made concept.

No one goes to heaven or "Hell"...we go to the grave. Jesus Himself called death a "sleep"..

John 11:11-14 Sleep means to be unconscious, having not thought...our dream process are chemical reactions in the brain that keep us going from deep sleep to near wakefulness so that we don't fall into a oxygen deprived coma and never awaken. When you are dead you brain pretty much is worm food..so there goes that theory that we have awareness after death. The Bible strictly states that only God is immortal. We are Souls in that we are individual beings...not that soul and spirit are ever used together in the same context and never the term "immortal soul". All this is a Catholic tradition. When you are dead..you are dead and all thoughts cease..

Eccl 9:5

Eccl 12:7

Psalms 146:3-4

1 Tim 6:16

1 Thess 4:15,16

Psalm 115:17

Psalm 6:5

Romans 2:7

1 Cor 15:51-54

Real death is ceasing to exist even from the mind of God and that is what will occur at judgment. All those belonging to God will be raised to eternal life (believe so or not) while all those rejecting God will be raised to eternal death (not everlasting torment in a lake of fire *HELL*) He will say "Depart from me I never knew you." Then the whole world will be destroyed and and a new heaven and new earth where death, sin and all things corrupt and imperfect will never exist again. So in effect in this existance we are choosing eternal life (God as The Father, The Son and Holy Spirit) or eternal death. There are literally hundreds of scripture describing death the very way you believe...I only gave a few for you to search...just copy and paste the scripture into this search engine

http://www.biblegateway.com and it will bring each up for you easily. The same message is throughout the Bible from beginning to end...don't let anyone decieve you with the stories of Lazerus (a prophetic parable) or Saul and the Witch of Endor (demons and devination of evil spirits..not ghosts). You are right about consciousness just ending..but the Bible says the exact same thing so it was not written to dispel that fact and so one is required even if they believe in God to trust that they will be resurrected..that is the Hope of all those who die and are in Christ blood. That is what we have faith in. So...the Bible isn't man's conception..it is a message from our Maker laying out for us our choices. Love in Christ, ~J~ <><

Answer 7

if people would truly read what the bible says,they would see what really happens when we die,and see the hope mankind has for the resurrection...LET see who reads the scriptures;
Ps.146:4 / Eccl.9:5,10 / Gen.3:19
Isa.25:8,9 / John 5:28,29 / John 11:25,26

Answer 8

I dont so much believe in the bible.. i dont know.. it's hard to truely ever determine things such as this but.. it makes you just as crazy thinking about such things as what you've brought up.

Answer 9

I believe that the bible is here to keep people in line.

Answer 10

The Bible is so obviously made up by men trying to make themselves feel all warm and fuzzy.