2006-08-20 03:10:57 · 33 answers · asked by juan h 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You can never tell. I do believe, but I also do question its existence.
2006-08-20 03:16:03 · answer #1 · answered by athame 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I want to know, not merely believe. To believe means to be convinced something is true without proof. That was not my way even when I was a child. There is no convincing evidence that an afterlife exists, so I KNOW it doesn't, and I don't settle for groundless beliefs. All too many people waste their lives preparing for versions of afterlifes that don't exist. Someone said life has no meaning without the imaginary heaven. Well, that only gives a pretense of meaning. Who says it needs any meaning at all? I can make my own without some priestly con man telling me every move and thought I am allowed to make or have. This always includes paying the priest. Some people's beliefs about heavens are so bleak annd grim that I am indeed glad that they are wrong. They would be too if they could think deeply. The Moslem heaven with 72 houris for my sexual pleasure is much better than the Christian heaven in which pleasure isn't allowed.
2006-08-20 03:30:54 · answer #2 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe that at death we just cease being. But I also do not believe in Heaven, at least not in the biblical sense. I'm not sure what happens to us after death. I have a few ideas, reincarnation being one of them. But no one knows what happens after death, so if wishful thinking keeps some people going then that is fine for them.
2006-08-20 03:20:11 · answer #3 · answered by steph 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have to say it is just wishful thinking, nothing more, life is just a miracle as is, why people don't enjoy life more and have to hope for an afterlife of going to heaven or hell is beyond me, we live we die, plain and simple, if there was anymore to it then all of this supposed god's creations would also go to heaven or hell, not just man alone, we are all forms of energy and when we die the maggots and the worms feast upon us and then they get eaten by other things in turn, that makes a lot more sense to me than an afterlife, in fact, that is the way it is
2006-08-20 03:18:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 1966 I had a heart attack. On the gurney I straight lined, meaning I was clinically dead. I was just under the ceiling watching the doctor and nurse work on my body. From my vantage point up high I could see what was on the other side of the two green screens on each side of my body. While up there, I was shown proof of life after life, or death as you call it. After receiving instructions regarding my future life here on earth, healing, I returned to my body. A few days later the doctor quizzed me on details on the other side of the screens and verified that I had to have been up there.
You can read an abbreviated version of my story, there is much more, in the book, "An idiots guide to near death, chapter called "A nurses mistake" I since started a healing group with a web site, www.internationalhealers.org
Vaya con DIOS
2006-08-20 03:58:40 · answer #5 · answered by chrisbrown_222 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe there's a heaven... and life after death!
2006-08-20 03:15:21 · answer #6 · answered by Tracy C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in life after death or in heaven. If I am wrong and there is, I agree with Mark Twain who said, "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." I wouldn't want to be in heaven with all the sanctimonious religious zealots that I run across everyday.
2006-08-20 03:28:17 · answer #7 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, I do believe that there is a way after we die. It can be different things. It may be like a game which has levels and we are in one level. I don't know exactly how I think, but I think that there are other times that we had came or come to this world and live, and after that we go to heaven or hell. who knows? no one. (only God) but I think if people try to find themselves and try to know what they are, then they can answer what is next. Maybe. It's funny that we people think of the possibilities of future or past, but not today, or what we are! Even I can't stop thinking of future or past.
2006-08-20 03:31:40 · answer #8 · answered by melina b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, one certainly hopes there is...I think it depends on what kinds of proof you will accept. It cannot be proved like a theorem in Euclidean geometry; nor can it be observed, like a virus. For the existence of life after death is not on the one hand a logical tautology: its contradiction does not entail a contradiction, as a Euclidean theorem does. On the other hand, it cannot be empirically proved or disproved (at least before death) simply because by definition all experience before death is experience of life before death, not life after death.
2006-08-20 03:19:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I believe in life after death. There is a heaven and there is a hell. The only way to make it to Heaven is asking The Lord through his son's name Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sins and ask him to come into your heart and life. The best choice you will ever make is accepting Jesus today. I urge you to do so before time is up. The place for people that reject Christ is Hell. Everybody that rejects him and denies he is the only way in this life will be cast into the lake of fire.
2006-08-20 03:17:43 · answer #10 · answered by always_trust_in_jesus 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What is a persons definition of life? We all have a pretty one-sided view right now because we only live here. To think that there isn't life after death, to me that seems somewhat of an obtuse way of thinking.
2006-08-20 03:18:16 · answer #11 · answered by Mr. Versatile 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋