To those people who don't believe in day of reckoning.. Judgement day?

Question

Then how are we rewarded for our good deed...or punished for our sins ..are we presently living in Heven or are we living in Hell ??

I meant heaven

when i do a good deed...i feel the fulfilment ,and gratification , satesfaction to know i helped..get a grate sence of pride and achievement present in live on earth..
Should i not expect to be rewarded in after life..if there is a heaven would it not be right that i should be reward for all good deeds i done here on earth..
for all the bad deeds and sins that goes on
unpunished in life present..dose that mean
they got off scot free no recompense.no
amende no damages to pay..do you not think there should be higher power to deture us from sining ..should we not expect to be punished if not now but later
in hell...

Answer 1

If judgement day comes about, it will be brought upon us by mankind. Man created the weapons, man created the systems to deliver them.

Let me ask you this though, why does a good deed need a reward? If an action someone calls sin does not harm anyone, why should you be punished for it? That punishment would create harm where none existed before.

Answer 2

Most people who don't believe in Judgement day, like myself, don't believe in either Heaven or Hell, and also don't believe that we should be rewarded or punished by some external authoritive figure for what we do in life. We've grown up, we're adults. There are earthly consequences for our misdeeds, and there is no need to 'reward' a good deed. That's an absurd idea. Doing a good deed is a reward in itself.

Answer 3

For some of us its heaven, for some of us its hell, for most of us its mixed. None of it is reward or punishment. Its just contingency. The throw of the dice.

Of course, there are rewards and punishments, but its man made. There are social pressures. There are our own principles which we have learned or chosen. There is cause and effect.

There is an old saying: "Virtue is its own reward." I take that to mean that the reward of doing something good is your own knowledge that you have done it. That's not necessarily all the thanks you will ever get, but its best not to expect anything more for fear of disappointment.

Answer 4

I do not understand why there should be a reward or a punishment 'after death' at all. The world, the creation and the cosm goes on without the distinction of good or bad deeds and without rewards and punishments.
I cannot seriously believe that the big bang happened just to separate the bad ones from good ones - this seems really narrow minded to me.
I can imagine that everyone builds his heaven or hell according his own ideas, experiences and desires. Everyone is solely and exclusively responsible himself for his Ideas, principles claimed and desires pampered.
To me, heaven and hell are the same, but, depending on how you imagine it, you will experience it. One may suppose that poeple who are revengeful and somehow cruel tend to believe in hell as a place of cruel punishment.
To me, hell is a place of transformation, completion and perfection rather than of destruction and extinction. Hell is a kind of workshop or fitness center to devellop into more complexe conditions of awareness and creative being. This is likely as painful and stressing as making experiences and true learning can be, but fruitful at the end.
Heaven, on the other hand, is more like the horizon you experience optically on earth. It moves away from you as you strain after it. It's the untouchable. As long as you insist on longing for it in order to touch it and get hold of it, you may feel as being banned from it and hence condemmned to Hell.
A corresponding illustration of the feeling to be in hell may be the futile attempt to get rid of your shadow instead of accepting it as an unescapable condition of being.
But this is all speculation. It's just an attempt to approach the qualities of the conditions of an existence without the material conditions we experience in physical life.
What we get aware of in face of death is a transition of awareness from certain ranges of spectra to differnt ones of the same 'reality'.
This all sounds a bit abstract. Remember the untouchability of the horizon - heaven!

Answer 5

We will not be judged at the end of our lives. We will be put into a box and either buried or burned (or dumped into the sea if you're into tat sort of thing!!)

We are only judged by the people around us on the basis of our actions and how they are perceived. The word Karma is often used, but if you think about it - treat everyone like you would like them to treat you and the world will slowly but surely become a better place.

Answer 6

Are you my keeper to decide whether i sin or not? Or are my actions labeled good deeds or sins by some 70 year old man who wears nicely pressed robes? Must all good deeds demand rewards and sins retribution?

Answer 7

Some of them are living in Heaven (Rich countries people). And Some of them are living in Hell (War countries - eg. Lebanese). Some of them are living in Hell in their countries (suffering from illness)......a mixtures of heaven and hell states on Earth.

I believe in doing good deeds because it makes me feel like living heaven on earth. The feeling from doing good is joyous but I realized stillness of my mind through mediation gives me more blissful in life. I will continue to do good and meditate because it helps my total well-beings.

Answer 8

If you only do good deeds to recieve a reward then it is not a good deed?.Do you only give presents to get some back?.

Answer 9

Some of us are living in heaven now, and some in hell.

I heard a story about a man who was leaving one town to visit anther. On the way, he met a stranger coming in the opposite direction. He asked the stranger what the people were like in the town he was heading for. The stranger said 'What were the people like in the town you just left?'
The man said 'They were all arguing and backbiting, really horrible'.
The stranger said, 'Then that's exactly what you will find in the town ahead.'

We tend to think we are passive victims of fate, but we are often responsible for what our lives are like.

Answer 10

You know I have always, always believed we live in hell and you go to heaven when your time comes, with all that is happening in this world right now I am beginning to wonder if what I have always believed is true.