and it is where you will be richly rewarded, then why are you here? If I believed it was that much better I don’t even think I would wear a seat belt! Why would you wait to get to such a great place? Why do you cling so hard to this life if it so much better there?
2006-07-24 04:32:27 · 12 answers · asked by go_to_girl 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So, by that logic- if you refuse treatment at a hospital for say cancer, you are violating God's law?
2006-07-24 04:39:21 · update #1
So, by that logic- if you refuse treatment at a hospital for say cancer, you are violating God's law?
2006-07-24 04:39:24 · update #2
Excellent question! I think death is our greatest fear, yet as you mention christians should have nothing to fear about death. I believe cultures from begining of time have created the concept of an afterlife since they cannot accept death. We might all be better off if we accepted the fact that life on earth was all there is so we had better make the best of it. Maybe there would be fewer wars and more compassion to our fellow man.
2006-07-24 05:52:49 · answer #1 · answered by rec 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is instinctive to survive as well our body parts even though we are not conscious keeps on pumping and breathing, automatically. Heaven has different meanings to different people. Depending on your interpretation of the bible or teachings, many do not believe you go immediately to heaven upon death, but to a waiting place and some have different names for that too. Many will say you go immediately to God, absence of the body, is to be with him, but that verse does not say Heaven. What I do know is Christ stated he goes to prepare a place for you and since at death you have no sense of time or earth bound things to keep you here or worry about I am sure Christ knows what's best for your personal Heaven since you came from God and he gave you your distinctive personality, not your mother. We are bound by gravity and weaker minds than our God and we can't possibly know all things.
2006-07-24 05:04:56 · answer #2 · answered by AJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I you will be richly rewarded, don't you think you will need to show been able to accomplish something?, what will it be to be rewarded for something you haven't ever know you can do in your own?, Creation was necessary, from the point of view of a good and positive living energy, necessary because as you know energies don't have a physical existence. though heaven wasn't a physical nor a material place, and God will find necessary to achieved a physical and a material existence to be able to store much of his knowledge\ and experience he begun to have in the essences of his own energy, long time before he begun to develop the material world. and there is so much more to God, but so little time, that he gave us his Son to teach and guide us to heaven. after the experience of the material existence.
2006-07-24 04:42:27 · answer #3 · answered by paradiseemperatorbluepinguin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many would accept a decision not to arrange for treatment but simply allowing death to take its natural course and it is wrong because it would be taking ones life into our hands and violating God's sovereignty.
How much time does God need to work a miracle? If God is going to intervene He will do so on His time and not ours.
2006-07-24 05:05:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only God has the authority to decide when we should die. The more we suffer here on earth, the greater our glory will be in the afterlife. We should hope to live a very, very long life. If God gives us a difficult life, we should rejoice. If he gives us riches, we'd better use that money for His greater glory than to spend it on ourselves. People who have an easy life and store up their treasure here on earth and constantly buy themselves everything they want should beware!
2006-07-24 04:40:27 · answer #5 · answered by SeraMcKay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have a purpose here on earth. The ultimate goal is to live a life worthy of worship to God, since He put us here, and believe that in the end we will spend eternity with Him.
2006-07-24 04:35:52 · answer #6 · answered by phil 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's kind of like being in school.... you know that you're getting an A in the class whether you take the final test or not. But you do it anyways, because you're a good student and you're trying to prove something to yourself and others.
I'm sure not everyone does this, but I know many that have.
2006-07-24 05:16:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, God put us here on earth... if He wanted us to be in heaven He would have skipped all of this... there's a big picture that we're missing here and it's difficult to see because we're only humans... but God has to defeat Satan in order to ensure a perfect world in heaven, otherwise there's always going to be the threat of people going to hell...
i would kill myself in a second if i thought God's placement of me on earth was pointless... but why would God, the infinitely wise being, do soemthing like that? Unless He was fallible and cruel? Since as Christians we believe Him NOT to be that way, we have to believe there's a reason for our existence...
2006-07-24 05:05:58 · answer #8 · answered by constanze_mylove 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Angels are jealous of us that we get a chance to be on earth. It is a privilege to live here for Jesus and to tell people about Him. We are blessed to be here because we know where we are going when we die.
God won't be too happy if you ended your life before doing something for him. Where is your sense of accomplishment?
2006-07-24 04:38:15 · answer #9 · answered by Lori O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am going hell or so i have been told so whats wrong with a little fun and from what I have ever heard all you do in heaven is sit around and tell God how great he his all day what so grate about that sounds boring to me
2006-07-24 04:45:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋