is there truely and afterlife or heaven/hell when you die?

Answer 1

I think so but others think not, you have to decide that yourself. That's whats so cool about it, you can spend your entire life leaving everything up to others to figure out but your afterlife is your decision alone.

Answer 2

When you die there are many 'stages' your consciousness goes through. Psychologically speaking, these are dreamlike states filled with visions that are dependent on your mental condition at the time of your death.

Religions, or other belief systems, have no real meaning here other than how they influenced your mental condition while you were alive.

Some religions, or belief systems that accurately explain the death process, may ready your mind and help guide you through these stages in a positive way.

I don't have the time or complete knowledge to explain each type of 'vision' or 'dream' you will see, but ultimately what it comes down to is they will range from being terrifying to peaceful. After these dream stages you will enter another body and the cycle of rebirth continues unless you have become enlightened, then the rebirth cycle stops.

There *are* two visions that can be described as 'heaven' or 'hell' (again, depending on the condition of the mind) but they are not eternal.

Answer 3

What exactly do you think a soul is? What properties does it have? What part of 'you' resides in the soul?

If it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia. How could a straightforward chemical, injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time? If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical.

How about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are? How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain. We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage - Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on. Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'. We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain.

So, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'? As far as I can ascertain: Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.

NB To the contributor called 'hopeless' I would say: If I believe I've won the lottery, can I expect a big fat cheque with lots of zeros to arrive on my doormat tomorrow morning? In the real world, things do not become true just because you believe in them.

Answer 4

I believe in an afterlife, I believe in heaven, not the Christian version, but one that is open to all who live on this planet no matter what religion you are from. I do not believe in the Hell of the bible. However, I believe that there is a place where sicko's like Hitler, Ted Bundy and the other serial killers go, not as a punishment, but because of their own choice. I also believe in reincarnation.

Answer 5

Think about this bro, if there was a heaven/hell, doesn't that mean that 99% of the population is going to hell? seriously

But if there wasn't, then that just means that once you die you will be gone, non-exsitent once you die. Everything that you are right now in your conciuosness will be gone. Just an emptiness, never to return.

So would you rather suffer in hell for eternity or be gone from existence?

I find myself wanting neither.

So to answer your question...

no one really knows. Thats why they call it 'faith'

Answer 6

Everything that has a beginning has an end. Whatever has life will meet death.

Nonetheless, man is a synthesis of the temporal (things that exist in time) and the eternal (things that do not exist in time). Whatever belongs to us that is temporal will one day cease.

However, whatever belongs to us that is eternal has been with us before we were born and will continue to be with us after we die. I generally disagree with common perspectives on heaven and hell because they are given physical characteristics (clouds, pearly gates vs. fire and brimstone), when eternity itself is not a physical thing at all.

Answer 7

No, there is not. That is an old wives tale told throughout the centuries by parents and civic leaders to scare the crap out of people and send them running to church to tithe. There is anothr plane of existence after this and you will be judged by the good deeds you have done for other needy but deserving people. Go with God, my child.

Answer 8

Certainly.

John 14
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.

Answer 9

Yes there is. I had a peek of it when I was in a coma for a time. The memory is still very vivid in my mind. God is real and He does love you. Jesus is real and He died for your sins. Accept Jesus and ask for forgiveness of your sins and you will be saved by the grace of God.

Answer 10

That's the 64-dollar question, isn't it? I wouldn't wait until I died to find out. Check out what the Bible says on the subject.