For those of you who are not christians...?

Question

This not to insult you or disrespect your beliefs, I am just curious as to what you believe. Please enlighten me on your views of where the world came from and where you will go when you die. Please feel free to be as detailed as you desire. Thank you for offering me your point of view.

Answer 1

i am spiritualist and as such believe in life after death in realms of spirit
i believe in spirit communication via a medium .. with validated details given of those we have loved and have passed on to their new home
i have respect for all religions and have found some valuable teachings in most
i believe in god/creator
i have left a link below for more information xx

Answer 2

No insult taken, 'cause you're being polite. :-)

The world, as another described, coalesced from debris.

On it, very primitive forms of life arose (I'm not clear on this, and am pretty sure no one, at this point -- they're still working on it). These living things put out oxygen, changing the Earth's atmosphere. This was the longest period of time on Earth, just these simple algaes.

Eventually, more complex forms of live developed from those. (Random mutations in DNA happen all the time; occasionally, a living thing survives and procreates better with the mutation than its ancestors. The difference is passed on to offspring.) This process has been going on for a long time, too.

Not long ago (in geological time), humans arose. (After that, whales, cows, and pigs arose -- we weren't the last, BTW, which surprises a lot of people.)

When I die, I die. Worm food. "I" as a thinking or experiencing thing cease to exist.

I don't believe in any gods or supernatural anything, including angels, ghosts, reincarnation, witches, or any of it. Hence, I am not only not a Christian, I'm not religious at all, but am an atheist.

I appreciate your asking in a nice, neutral way. So many of these kinds of queries have built in assumptions about what I "must" believe or be; thank you for NOT doing any of that.

Answer 3

my point of view is not of the norm, but i hope it helps.

first and foremost, i don't put labels on my beliefs, that's like treating your spirituality like a folder in a file cabinet. for some reason, the human species has developed a habit of needing to know everything, so much that we've now forgotten how to simply exist. it has gotten to the point that we've created these mythologies of religions, just so we can have something to believe in. i believe that originally, the only difference between us and all other animals on earth was that we got lucky when some caveman discovered how to use fire as a tool, and we evolved from there. eventually, we'll kill ourselves off with our technology, and then nature (which is the true "supreme being") will do a little damage control, then start over with some other species. it's strange how as humans we're so fixated on being in control of everything around us, but we couldn't be more wrong. why do you think the weather has been so crazy in recent years, with the global warming and seemingly endless hurricanes? mother nature is severely pissed off at us, at how we are destroying everything, and eventually she'll get to the point where she's had enough, and she'll exterminate us like the meaningless insects we are. as for the "when we die" thing, i believe that the energy in our bodies, our "souls", goes out into all surrounding things, we become part of all that is around us, everything is connected.

on a side note, just to let you know, i was born and raised in texas, and i spent the first 12 years of my life being avidly involved in a southern baptist church. it was then that i realized that there was much more to the world than what everyone else wanted me to believe.

Answer 4

I believe in the Creator, but not the male god of the Christians. I believe that no religion offers a "map" or all the answers and so I try to read as much as I can about different religions, philosophy, mythology, science, etc. As for where I go after I die - I believe that we are held accountable for our actions but beyond that I refuse to speculate. As Confucius said: we understand so little about our own lives, how can we say with certainty what was before or what will be after?

Answer 5

i am an orthodox Jew - We are the Chosen people .
J.C. was a Jewish boy that didn't want to follow in the way of the Torah - Many people were put to the cross during that time of History in Israel. Your "bible" was written 70 years after his death and a lot of the teachings that you quote are just paraphrasing what is in the Torah.
As a practicing Jew we learn both the written and oral Torah "bible" that was given to Moses on Mount Sinai. We do not believe in hell - if you follow the laws of G-d then you will sit close to the throne of G-d and bask in his glory until the messiah comes . Anyone can be a Jew but it is not encouraged because it is difficult to fulfill the commandments and you will be punished for transgressing His law. In the Jewish faith their is only one
G-d who is the creator of this world and the world will come to acknowledge this through the Jewish people and the way they listen to his commandments and their behavior.
The Jewish people have never coerced, or killed to force people to believe in Judaism and we have never threatened eternal damnation if you are not a Jew. the only thing G-d asks of non Jews is to follow the 7 Noahide laws.
Being G-ds chosen people comes with burdens, loneliness and responsibility but great Joy too.

Answer 6

Where the world came from: if anything probably a more intelligent being, the clockmaker theory is rather logical

Where you go when you die: perhaps you go where you want to in a spiritual sense, or most likely, like one of the previous answerer said, worm food.

How can you know? Trying to comprehend these big questions is like penguins (for example) trying to figure out nuclear physics.

Sometimes there is no answer.

Answer 7

Before time was, there was The One, The One was all, and all was The One.

And the vast expanse known as the Universe was The One, all-wise, all-pervading, all-powerful, eternally changing.

And space moved. The One molded energy into twin forms, equal but opposite, fashioning the Goddess and God from The One and of The One.

The Goddess and God stretched and gave thanks to The One, but darkness surrounded them. They were alone, solitary, save for The One.

So They formed energy into gasses and gasses into suns and planets and moons. They sprinkled the Universe with whirling globes and so all was given shape by the hands of the Goddess and God.

Light arose and the sky was illuminated by a billion suns. And the Goddess and God, satisfied by their works, rejoiced and loved, and were one.

From their union sprang the seeds of all life, and of the human race, so that we might achieve incarnation upon the Earth.

The Goddess chose the Moon as Her symbol, and the God the Sun as His symbol, to remind the inhabitants of Earth of their fashioners.

All are born, live, die and are reborn beneath the Sun and Moon, all things come to pass there under, and all occurs with the blessings of The One, as has been the way of existence before time was.

I believe when we die, we are reborn to continue our lessons until we can move to The Summerland to reside with the Goddess and God, until the end of time.

Answer 8

I do not care where the world came from.
I do not care where I am going when I die.

I have a productive life that does not involve any religion.

I am happy,I have a good family,I have my health.All of this is down to hard work,both by my family and myself.

I am too busy enjoying the fruits of my labours to worry about,what could or could not happen if I do not live as others seem to think that I should.

Answer 9

I believe in a Creator, just not the image given by any religion that I have studied so far. I also believe in evolution. I dont have a problem with both of these things working together.

All life has a purpose... if you don't have one, it's because you aren't doing anything with the life you have. You get out of life what you put into it.

As for details, this is as detailed as I can get without yahoo killing my answer. ^_^

Answer 10

No one truly knows where the world came from.
For all we know, the universe is all part of a wheelbarrow that is inside another world and inside another universe. No one really knows what happens when you day. What happens to animals when they die, happens to us. I believe the human quest to be "spiritual" have left the world with war, hatred, and intolerance and has made us the most brutal heartless animals on planet earth.

Answer 11

I am a Buddhist. I believe we live our lives in a state of constant suffering brought about by our desire for worldly things. A quote explains the evils of desire and preference:

"Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear."
-Buddha-

We believe desire is caused by the ego, or self, which is the illusion within us that defines us, the thing that makes decisions for us and masks the true emptyness within us. The target of buddhism is to destroy this through meditation and free ourselves from suffering and from the cycle of rebirth. We do not worship buddha, we simply believe he was a great sage and teacher, but human none the less.

"I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, house builder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving."
-Buddha-