Why are christians waiting for death?

Question

Why spend your life worshipping god so when you die you'll be ok? Why not try to enjoy life instead of thinking about heaven, which you don't know even exists. I realise some people on here may think i'm going to hell but i'm ok with that, because it's not real. They just tell you that to scare you

Answer 1

If it is not real why are you on this site so much. To mock and put down Christians? well you certainly are living your life to the best.
get a grip.....
If I chose to worship GOD that is my business and I live my life the best I can in a world full of people like you who would rather have sex with all sorts of people and flaunt in front of our kids and worry more about making money so you can buy the nicest things which then cause people who do not posses the intelligence to do it honestly to kill and rape people to get it because that is what society preaches. Take a look around here, this world is going to Hell because the Devil is getting more and more people like you to say "we need to be tolerant and loving and at the same time preach money and sex and violence." WOW...
makes me so happy I am here.
No my friend...................I will wait for my Lord because I KNOW HE LIVES.

Answer 2

Here is a news flash. This reality? Only a testing ground. Not the full deal. Point is, what you do here affects what happens next. God needs people that can act as His ambassadors, His representatives in The New Creation. They have to be totally loyal to Him, because they will have His abilities. You gotta prove yourself to be worthy of that. That's what this life is all about.

The point is, we are all failures. We mess up a lot of the time. And the pass mark for this test? Well, 99.9999999999999% is no good. So, not a chance.

That wasn't good enough for God. He made all thes people, He wants them with Him for eternity. So, He comes down and lives life as a human being, shows what a Holy Sprit powered person can do, than gives His life for the World.

That's over 100,000,000,000 people by some estimates, that have ever lived. Evreything everyone of them did wrong, and everyone in the future. Jesus paid the price. Every white lie, theft, murder, torture, rape. Everything anyone did, Jesus took the punishment for.

So, anyone stands before God and can say "Jesus Christ died for me, He is my Lord and Saviour," not only that but that person has to be totally obedient to what Jesus taught, "Love All, Forgive All, Show Mercy, Judge No-One". That person will be transformed in the blink of an eye into the image of Jesus Christ and have Eternal Life

So, we enjoy life to the full, because The Holy Spirit gives us a taste of that life here and now. We Christians are already citizens of The Kingdom of God. We belong to the biggest family in existence, the adopted Sons of God (women have the rights of Sonship too). We are here to show other people what this life is all about and to bring them into The Kingdom.

Then, when our time is up here, our life really begins. Eternal Life will make this reality seem like a feverish dream.

Answer 3

AMEN! as a christian and true believer in Jesus Christ, i will live in eternity with God. my body may die, but my soul lives forever in the kingdom of heaven. we worship God so when we die, we will be ok. life IS being enjoyed to the fullest because heaven does exist.

Answer 4

In my own opinion I can't wait for the day of the second coming, this life is only a short period compared to the eternal life which we will have in heaven. It is exciting to know that our God is the only true and living God and that we are saved through Jesus Christ. You just won't understand it until you know what it is like to be a Christian and to know Jesus Christ and our God in this way.

Answer 5

Dear Mrmoo,

I’m a Christian, and I can surely say that I don’t just sit around all day waiting for my heart to stop beating. I still have a life to live and a responsibility to fulfill Gods purpose for me here on this earth. But as a Christian I have something to look forward to, I have Salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ and when I die I look forward to living in heaven with Him for an eternity.
You see.......

The Bible says there will be a Day of Judgment, when you die you are going to stand before God and Have to give an account of every thought, word and deed. The Ten Commandments will be God's standard, so lets look at a few to see how you will do on Judgment day.

Have you ever lied (even once--fibs, white lies, etc.)? Ever stolen (anything--the value is irrelevant)? Jesus said, "Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery already with her in his heart." Have you ever looked with lust? If you have said "Yes" to these three questions, by your own admission, you are a lying, thieving, adulterer at heart; and we’ve only looked at three of the Ten Commandments. How do you do when judged by Gods standard? The Bible tells us that God requires us to keep these Commandments in thought, word and deed. Have you? If not your not alone, No one has kept the Law perfectly. The terrible news is that if you stand before God and your guilty, when God gives you Justice you will end up in Hell. You may not believe in hell, but I want you to ponder this thought. What if you are wrong? What if God, Jesus the prophets, the Jews, and the Christians are right and you are wrong? If there is no afterlife, no Judgment day, no heaven and no hell, then God is unjust in that there will be ultimate Justice for murders and rapist, and on top pf that all the above are guilty of being false witnesses. But, if you’re right and there is no heaven or hell you wont even have the pleasure of saying "I told you so". However if your wrong, you will lose your soul and end up in Hell eternally condemned. You are playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun. That’s not God’s will. He provided a way for you and I to be forgiven.
He sent His Son to take our punishment: "God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." He was bruised for our iniquities. Jesus then rose from the dead and defeated death.
Your own so-called “goodness” can’t get you into heaven any more than mine could. Jesus is the only way to Heaven. He is the "Door," the only "mediator." There is salvation in no other name, so pray something like this: "Dear God, I repent of all of my sins (confess them). This day I put my trust in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Please forgive me and grant me your gift of everlasting life. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen."

Answer 6

If you are "ok" with what you believe, why do you hang around in the Religion & Spirituality site?

Don't you have a life?

Don't go away mad . . . just go away!

We're here because we have met God and want to know more perfectly about Him so we can do what He says.

If you have rejected the Bible and have a concrete mind on the subject (thoroughly mixed up and permanently set), don't hang around here asking insincere questions just to pester us.

Answer 7

You are meant to seek knowledge,why don't you do proper research before concluding that this is our last stop,have you ever thought of what gave you life,and no its not you parent (sure you'll say that) who gave everything life,remember there are other creatures that exist apart from humans (animals..) the ones we see and the ones we don't..

Answer 8

Well we arn't "Waiting to die" We just know that When we die, we will go into heaven. Our body is dieing but our soul and mind stay alive.
We also have something called Faith. This mean that we trust that it is there. Get what I mean?

Answer 9

Can you see the air you breath? Can you see radio waves, gravity, magnetic field etc. etc. You will see Hell ok, when you get there. Enjoy yourself till then. Your time to suffer will come later. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Answer 10

It's kind of like waiting in line to ride a roller coaster. The wait may not be the most fun, but the end result will be worth it!

Answer 11

Well I'm no expert, and non prejudiced, but I thought Christians spent there lives doing good, righting wrongs, looking forward to the next event, death being only one of them.
Like I said, I'm no expert.