Why do you want an afterlife?

Question

Where do you think you're going? Isn't this life bad/good enough?

Answer 1

People are afraid of the unknown, and there is nothing more mysterious than death. Even neanderthals understood that someone who was dead was someone who was gone, never to return. But gone where? This is how I believe the concept of an afterlife came into being among primitiive peoples, people wanted to know where they were going to be after death.

Then Christianity changed everything with the concept of eternal life, of a happy place to go to after death. I believe it was the ghost of Achilles who said in the Odysesy "it is better to be a slave on Earth than to be a hero in Hades", so most concepts of an afterlife were quite unpleasant until the Christian era.

As for me, I don't devote too much thought to an afterlife, there are much more important matters at hand.

Answer 2

If there is nothing to life other than what we see right now, then what is the purpose of living. For life then is a defeatist situation in which man is always the loser and will never grain anything. It would then be reasonable to understand and accept the logic of "winner take all" "king of the mountain" and the "hell with the rest.".....

a vision of an after life and the means in which to obtain give man the reason for the goodness he can do for all of those he touches. It gives man the hope he needs when all the hate of the world is sucking all the life from it.

What lies beyond our existence right now, no one knows, except we go on what a few have said......that there is another life, and we must prepare ourselves for it.

Answer 3

Staying dead depresses me. I was thinking on that point at 8 years old. I didn't think that there was a way wround that until I was 24. That's hard for a kid to take, and a long time for a teenager to live thinking that death was the end.

Now I know that death is nothing. There really is no death. You either live with God who removes the bad part of us, or you live away from God, in a place where you might wish you were dead.

So the afterlife is coming. Everybody gets to decide to go God's way, or your own way. The balls in your court.

Answer 4

It is never a question of what we want, an elevated soul does not even desire liberation, the only desire a purified soul has is to please God, that is the symptom of true success.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18 Verse 54

One who is thus transcendentally situated, at once realises the Supreme Brahman(Spiritual Platform). He never laments, nor does he desire anything. He is equally disposed toward all living entities. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto me (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead).

God is not Christian, Hindu, Muslim or Judaic, just like the sun is not the Christian sun or Hindu sun etc, the purpose-full conclusion of any religious process is love for God, when this is attained then questions such as this become meaningless, because you are able to perceive your real Spiritual identity, Spiritual Reality and everything in its right perspective, you're questioning is rhetorical, to find out the answers contact:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 5

I think that when people say things like that, then you don't really have a grasp or and understanding of what heaven will be like. Why am I waiting for Heaven?

All of the bad things that have happened to me in life, and all the things that I've gone through and see other people going through, all of these things are not there in heaven. Think of your happiest moment, and then multiply it infinite and that's how you'll feel.

Think about the moment at the beach, mountains - looking over trees and the sunset, or looking in the sky, or anywhere at all, and remember the awe or the sense of bigness or smallness, or just think complaceny and peace, and multiply it.

Think about the most tired you have ever been in your life and the moment you lay in your bed to go to sleep, the rest, and now multiply it.

You take the best things that God has given us in life to experience, perfect it and multiply it, and you'll have just the tip of what Heaven will be like. That's what I'm looking forward to. The sense of rest, peace, love, completeness, and fullness.

Answer 6

It seems the great quest for many in this life is eternal life and youth, along with peace in the world. There is no way to achieve these except to have these in the "afterlife" by being saved unto Jesus Christ.

I do not quest these things so much that I just believed in order to obtain them. I have a longing inside my soul to know my Creator and His goodness. All around me is evil, and I hold onto His love and purity. I hunger for the pure things and detest the wicked.

Answer 7

In the afterlife there will be no more pain or suffering. If you do not believe in eternal life then you have nothing to look forward to. You will be stuck in a deep, dark hole. In the afterlife, we will see our realitives and friends again. It will be a better life than we have ever known because we will not sin and no one will sin against us. There will be no evil. It is hard to imagine but I truly believe that I will have eternal life because I believe that Jesus was the Son of God and that he died on a cross for my sins.

Answer 8

"Where do you think you're going?"

I'm an atheist and I don't think I'm going anywhere but I'd love an afterlife! I think the majority of people would want to continue "living" even after their death. Just because I want something to exist though doesn't mean it does, reality will always win.

Answer 9

I hope I am going to heaven & yes this life is great, but if there is an afterlife I hope I would be reunited with loved ones that have passed on. If they are in heaven. Ha! Ha!

Answer 10

The life we lead and live today, is for an afterlife