I think about this all the time, and i've come to my own conclusion that it might be some sort of state of mind, whether it is good or bad depends on your own outlook...what do you think?
2006-09-03 19:28:05 · 25 answers · asked by Amandy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
why worry about death when there is living to be had. cross that bridge when you get to it.
2006-09-03 19:29:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think the bible tells the truth on this one. Jesus died and came back to life, nobody has been able to refute it, so he would probably know right? What happens.
Short of it is:
Jesus returns at some point in time in the future. The dead are raised, and everyone is judged according to what they have done. Christ saves those that he chooses, those the Father gave him. The saved go to be in heaven with God for eternity, the rest are eternally punished along with Satan in a neverending state of rotting and decay, devoid of anything good (hell).
I figure Jesus would know, since he actually died and then came back again.
2006-09-04 02:34:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
we go to a dream like place, it is called the astral plane.
there is no heaven or hell,
but instead the astral plane is one of pure thought.
when we die we still retain aspects of our personlity which create what we would invision a heaven or hell...but it is all an illusion.
eventually the soul is able to overcome this relm and become ready for the next incarnation.
The soul reincarnates based on Karma, the universal law.
why reincarnation, is because god made us in his own image, meaning god is each of us. in order to return to that energy or know god is to master the phyiscal plane. how do we do that is anohter question.
can you imagnine a god that would create a world and life just to destroy it and take only christians...thats as ridiculous as getting a bunch of virgins when you die.
instead, there is nothing but free will, god does not interfere......
free will and the karma we create for the soul.
it is very complicated and christians have really got to get over this raputure notion.
when the master teacher, jesus returns it is to guide humanity into the next age, just as he did in the last age.....
rapture..? please.
2006-09-04 02:31:41 · answer #3 · answered by nefariousx 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well it depends upon your will you leave behind and if people respect your wishes. My friend who adhered to the belief of the Indians that if you are not cremated your soul may wander the earth was not cremated because it upset her younger son so they buried her which upset me because it was not respect of her beliefs. I think that we are that which we make ourselves on this side on the other side but more so no longer hindered by the tethers of a physical being. If you adhered to one faith then you become a part of that faith whether it be good or bad. Just as I see here people often who do things that are very terrible do not realize it because in our views they are twisted or perversed such that they derive pleasure from it or desire it. I think those who see good as good and bad as bad go onto a spiritual realm that adheres to their standards and levels of beliefs. But as to a punishing God I do not think that exists. I think that God is the existance and assimilation of the things that we categorize as good things like charity, compassion, cleanliness, helpfulness etc. such that this type of God would not seek vengance but allow us free will and free choice to choose to live in a realm of heavenly values or a realm of hellish values by free will alone. So I guess you really cannot tell anyone to go to hell they make that choice here and in the after life by that which they prescribe to.
Do you see the streets of heaven as being gold which is valued in the physical realm or of pure golden energy of a healing virtuous nature?
2006-09-04 02:36:46 · answer #4 · answered by Faerieeeiren 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am Wiccan and i believe that there is no "Satan" because i believe that the christians came up with him to scare the Pagans into their Christianity. I believe that what we do here on earth now is our choice and that there is no "Devil" to blame for our own actions. Wiccans believe that there is a place called the Summerland and this is where we go to wait till we get riencarnated.
2006-09-04 02:51:27 · answer #5 · answered by kingofsamhain 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The dead know nothing. God formed man and breathed life into him and became a living soul, when one dies, the dead lay in the grave, the breathe returns to GOD and then becomes a dead soul or sleeping till CHRIST comes again and raises us and restores us to life, not including the living at HIS coming that is translated.
2006-09-04 02:49:44 · answer #6 · answered by Jake 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You reincarnate. That said, that doesn't mean you get to waste your life. You are still obligated to live your life to the fullest, and grow spiritually and learn and progress toward becoming enlightened enough that you and Buddha are one in the same.
2006-09-04 02:37:10 · answer #7 · answered by ktgb2001 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where you go when you die depends on the life that you live while you are on this earth. When death comes to claim you..your spirit/soul will leave your lifeless body..and you will either end up in Heaven, forever with the one that died for you, or in hell..(eternal seperation from God).
2006-09-04 02:31:04 · answer #8 · answered by Judah's voice 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Nothing. Dead is part of the life. We are part of the nature and our "future" is the same to all the living things on this planet.
Why people can't accept that and prefer to believe in supernatural or after life concepts?
2006-09-04 02:37:58 · answer #9 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I believe in reincarnation.
Like, if you fulfilled your purpose in life, you become a new person and will a new purpose. But, if you haven't fulfilled your purpose, you're doomed to repeat the same life until you do.
2006-09-04 02:28:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I find out the meaning of life, when I don't even need it anymore!! Life sucks, or should I say Death?
Lolz.
2006-09-04 02:31:59 · answer #11 · answered by AmandaGurl<3 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋