In the mind of God.
Jeremiah 1:4 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
2006-06-27 17:36:53
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answer #1
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answered by Martin S 7
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originally we were the elements of the earth.
A plant feed from the elements of the soil and and processes from the sunlight
the animal ate the plant
our parents ate the plant and the animal
Our parents assimilated the elements of the plant and animal that ate the plant
the elements formed to become the egg and sperm in your parents bodies that combined to produce you.
and the process of consuming elements from the earth and processes from sunlight continues to this very day
God began this human reproduction when he made Adam and Eve (it had to at first start somewhere) from the elements of the Earth (dust)
2006-06-28 00:39:52
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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Socrates illustrates this situation in the Myth of Er. So we turn now to the story of Er.
Part of Er’s fate is that he will tell men yet alive his story of life after death. Er is a brave soldier who dies in battle. Ten days after his death, his body is taken home and laid on the funeral pyre, but there Er comes back to life and tells the story of his adventure.
After Er’s soul left his body, it traveled with other souls to a wonderful place where there are two chasms in the earth and two above them in the sky. Between the chasms and between heaven and earth sit judges who pass judgment on the souls of men who come before their court. The just souls were directed to take the right-hand chasm leading into heaven; the unjust souls were condemned to the left-hand chasm down into the earth. Er was told to sit and watch the proceedings of the court, for he was to return to life and tell living men his story. As Er watched, he saw souls coming from the exit-chasms from heaven and earth; those coming from earth were weary and careworn and stained from travel; those from heaven were clean, rested, and bright. The souls told Er their experiences: The just souls had been rewarded for their just lives during their stay in heaven; the unjust, punished in the earth, condemned to wander a thousand years below the ground. The unjust told tales of other more evil men, murderers and tyrants, who were still condemned to suffer longer beneath the earth, never to be released again.
The souls stayed with Er near the chasms for seven days, and then Er and the souls journeyed to where the Fates dwell. The Fates would give the souls new lives as mortals. Each soul was permitted to pick the sort of new life he would lead; some chose wisely while others did not. The first soul chose a new life as a tyrant, thereby condemning himself to a life of misery. Orpheus chose to be a swan; Ajax, a lion; Agamemnon, an eagle. Odysseus, who remembered his earlier sufferings pursuing a life of glory and deeds, chose to be a common citizen.
After choosing their new lives and being granted them by the Fates, the souls were made to drink from the River of Forgetfulness, so that they could remember nothing of the other world and could not tell men of it. Er was forbidden to drink; his fate was that he must remember and tell what he had seen and heard. A great earthquake occurred; the souls were taken away to be reborn to new lives. Er awoke, found himself on his funeral pyre, and told his story.
http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/republic/82.html
2006-06-28 00:44:04
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answer #3
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answered by crao_craz 6
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As I'm a cristian, I beleive that God created our soul upon our entering this world.. we didn't exist before then. Budists though think that their exists a certain place where the spirits of babies stay untill they are born.
2006-06-28 00:38:52
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answer #4
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answered by irina 2
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The same place you will be after you die. Nothingness. Or to put it another way, you are one with the universe.
Where is star (sun) before it shines? Scattered among countless billions of hydrogen molecules in space.
Where is it after it dies (explodes)? Scattered among countless billions of (various) molecules in space.
2006-06-28 01:21:39
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answer #5
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answered by fresh2 4
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In the other abyss. We choose our families after that. Then we watch the ones we love, hoping to help them.
2006-06-28 00:36:26
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answer #6
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answered by piledriver911 2
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In Indiana, well at least that's where my parents were so I guess the potential for me was there too.
2006-06-28 00:49:11
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answer #7
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answered by Stand 4 somthing Please! 6
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In yo mamma's belly
2006-06-28 00:36:23
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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Mummy's womb.
2006-06-28 01:04:30
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answer #9
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answered by Quiet Amusement 4
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umm are you thinking about that rencarnation thingy. well we didnt even exsist
2006-06-28 00:36:07
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answer #10
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answered by sesso*E 4
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