2006-10-20 21:43:35 · 33 answers · asked by hicapaul 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't believe in god or an afterlife. I don't understand why human beings want anything else after they are dead. The natural progression of things is that everything has to die in order to make room for another generation to be born. Sadly the human race is disrupting this natural order. Their are far too many of us and we are endangering other forms of life and even the planets ability to sustain us.
All forms of religion have promoted the idea that there is something else after we die because it gives us comfort. Personally I think we should make the most of the life we have and stop destroying everything in the name of a fictitious god.
So I suppose my answer to your question would be, whether you believe or not there is no afterlife.
2006-10-21 01:42:46 · answer #1 · answered by serendipity 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No It doesn't mean you will just cease and don't take any notice of those on here who say you will go to hell. There is a God, whether you believe it or not, and there is a place called the Spirit World (or Heaven as some call it) where all souls go when their earthly life has finished, there is no Hell. God does not judge and God does not punish for what we do on earth. When we depart this earthly life and go to spirit we have to face up to what we did as we are responsible for our own actions. The whole purpose of each earthly life (we have many reincarnations) is to learn lessons through experiences for the progression of our soul when it returns to Spirit. Our earthly body is just an outer casing for our soul and it is this soul which returns to spirit. I am a Spiritual Medium and I have contact with those souls who have passed over. Hope this answers your question and don't listen to those who try to frighten you with notions of Hell. If you would like to know more, get some books from the Library or attend your local Spiritualist Church. Good luck!
2006-10-20 22:17:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, this question touches a matter of great gravity and enormous import. Of terrible consequence and awful miseries. Everyone will have an afterlife. The things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal.
On the authority of Christ himself some "shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal." Christ warns us that there is hour coming when all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come forth, some to the resurrection of life and some to the resurrection of damnation.
If it were not so, why then should He have to suffer such an infinite punishment in our place that in God's justice we could be spared?
He didn't just die a painful physical death but bore the full weight of God's wrath for sin in His spirit also - the punishment of hell for each one of us when he died at the cross. Only because He is Divine, an Infinite Being, was He able to bear the infinity of everlasting punishment on our behalf. Such is the magnitude of God's love ! ! !
Christ prayed - and His prayers were perfect - "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt." He prayed twice like this.
It was not possible that we could be saved any other way.
How truly wonderful and noble of our Saviour !
That Christ's sacrifice was accepted by God is witnessed to us in His resurrection. God raised Him up.
How can we not respond and love a Saviour so great and full of love and compassion that He gave himself for us, each one personally?
What sadness and what a tradegy if we make light of this or fail to accept and take up what waits for us to claim ! And for such a cost.
2006-10-21 09:02:59 · answer #3 · answered by Iain C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That about sums it up, however you can convert to christianity really quick, repent your sins as the arab in the next seat on the 747 starts to swell up as the semtex shoved up in side her starts to explode and you should be all right.
Last shall be first and all that, you dont need a service history God is only interested in you believeing in him in real time as you queue at pearly gates. I am thinking Jesus's dad here.
Islams idea of the afterlife, loads of nubile young ladies to satisfy sounds like my idea of hell, I hope Mohammed stocks Viagra or them Muslim blokes are in for a rough time, anyway I want to live in heaven with my wife and parents and grand parents, and ride a tuned Harley XR 750 like Cal Rayborn thrashed the Japs with at Easter 1972, and go and have a laugh at the environ,mentallists trying to sneak under the wire and get in.
2006-10-20 22:09:34 · answer #4 · answered by "Call me Dave" 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You will not just cease to be. Whether or not you believe in God, He will take you to Heaven with Him when you die. I am a Christian and I do not believe that if a person is a nonbeliever or if s/he is not baptized that God will send him or her to hell. I just don't believe that God is that vengeful. Religious zealots will tell you that you can't possibly go to Heaven without faith in God, but I think that's wrong. I think God has a sense of humor and He probably gets a kick out of nonbelievers showing up in Heaven and saying, "Wow, this was real all along?" :)
2006-10-20 21:50:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you dont believe in god, but your friends do, that doesn't mean they will have an afterlife, and you will just cease.
2006-10-20 22:03:39 · answer #6 · answered by Je 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is reminiscent of Pascal's wager - he reckoned it was best to believe in god, just in case despite all the evidence to the contrary, he exists and you blow your chance of getting into heaven!
However, that has long since been unravelled, in fact there is a whole website about it!
God does not exist, he is just a cultural construct. If he did, he would surely be independent of belief, so your stance should not make any difference.
But here's an interesting point - which god? If your friend believes in one god, say the anthropomorphic guy-in-sky of christian mythology, then do they disbelieve in, say, Thor or Zeus? And suppose when they die they find themselves, not before the pearly gates, but in Vallhalla? What will happen to them then?
A believer is just a selective atheist, after all!
2006-10-20 21:54:18 · answer #7 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
But if you are right, we will all just cease, so no-ones the wiser...will it make any difference to your day to day life? If I live the best life possible and don't do anything that I might feel regret for on my deathbed, then I can die happy and if there IS an after life, I can go there with a clear conscience. A win win situation.
2006-10-20 21:51:59 · answer #8 · answered by youdancin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
,All is judged by their good works,..or how one does along side his neibour..It is a human beings job to spread the gospel,People not believing will be understood as not yet reached which,understandably is very Forgivable ,Not yet reached is not the same as lost sheep,which really means those who did believe have wondered off the path but is also forgivable..
there are, The seeing 1st then believing ...then there are, The seeing without believing ...like many we all know ,the people In my family are of Both..I love them all Equally.. Who do you think God would love.?
2006-10-20 22:10:01 · answer #9 · answered by James C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in God...but I believe in the afterlife! Does that make me weird?? If God really existed, why is there so much hate in the world, why are there child sex offenders, why does Cancer exist?? If there is a God he's got some evil ways of doing things!!
2006-10-20 21:45:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋