2006-06-26 14:36:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I belive its a transition. We are here to learn.. and at the end of life will go onto a better place to continue our enlightnement.
2006-06-26 15:27:19 · answer #1 · answered by Tamsin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer you get will depend on whom you ask.
If, as is taught widely, all there is is natural law, time and chance, then there is nothing after the cessation of the chemical activity that we call life.
If, however, the religious thinkers of the world are right, there is a life after this one, and death is a transition into it; the nature of the life that you enter into is based on the life that you have lived in the current one. Note that this is more or less invariant across most religions: even the Eastern religions that preach reincarnation say that the bliss or misery of this life is conditioned (whether totally or partially) by the good or evil of the prior one.
To actually know for sure, of course, you'd have to have someone that had been on the other side of death long enough to know what was going on, then returned to pass along what had happened. As far as I know (among currently extant religions) Christianity has sole claim to a founder that has died and been resurrected.
You'll get a lot of opinions out of this one, of course, but remember--that's exactly what they all are, unless they have been there and back, or have information supplied by one who has been there and back.
2006-06-26 21:45:37 · answer #2 · answered by gandalf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is an end to this particular life as we know it but it is also a transition to the next life as well.
2006-06-26 21:40:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
definitely a transition. near death experience showed me that death is not the end just a new beginning. At least thats how I view it
2006-06-26 21:44:52 · answer #4 · answered by phaedron 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is a journey and death is a transition.
2006-06-26 21:43:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no death of the soul just the body and the mystical laws of cause and affect, will determine your transition .
2006-06-26 21:57:39 · answer #6 · answered by Dvplanetwaves 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate to think its the end...I hope its only a transition...
2006-06-26 21:41:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
HELL IN KJV
One Hebrew word “sheol” is rendered hell. Definition; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranian retreat), grave, hell, pit. Three Greek words are rendered hell; geenna, hades, and tartaroo. Definition of geenna; a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment: - hell. Definition of hades; properly unseen, that is, “Hades” or the place (state) of departed souls: - grave, hell. Definition of tartaroo; (the deepest abyss of Hades); to incarcerate in eternal torment: - cast down to hell. Tartaroo is used only one place II Pet.2:4.
Christ teaching the Pharisees in Luke 16:19-31 shows us a separation from God is truly what hell is. The “water” is symbolic for God’s Spirit and love. The word “tormented” means distressed in the Greek, not torture. The “fire” is symbolic for the shame and desire not to be separated from God.
So all who die the first death of the flesh return to God Ecc.12:6-7, but on which side of the gulf do they end up?
Hell is not eternal but is done away with in Rev.20:14-15, called both the second death and lake of fire. This second death is non-existence, for death and hell and those not written in the book of life. This second death or lake of fire is like fat drippings that fall into the fire. Just a poof of smoke into non-existence.
Psa.37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
In my mind what’s worse yet is no memory of you, no tears will be shed for you like you never existed.
Rev.21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
So hell is a separation from God and is not eternal torture or burning. Eventually hell will be done away with or passed away and also some souls. Like fat drippings in the fire, a poof of smoke into non-existence, the second death.
2006-06-26 21:39:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would say it is neither...
but if it had to be one or the other, i'd say transition...
catholics believe in purgatory...which is a place between heaven and hell...
i'm an evangelical christian, so i was taught that when you die, you don't linger...you go to be judge by the Most High God
2006-06-26 21:47:03 · answer #9 · answered by malarajii 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're asking a lot of death questions. Are you gonna off yourself or what? That's not a good idea btw.
2006-06-26 21:39:33 · answer #10 · answered by luckyme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋