im buddhist so i believe in reincarnation, but i was just wondering...ne body that does believe in a heaven, dont u evr think it would get crowded? i mean theres only so much space in the atmosphere. i believe that when u die u go to someplace up there for a little while then u ge reincarnated as something else and com back to earth. What do u think?
2006-11-08 17:39:43 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think hell will be a lot fuller as the path to heaven is narrow.
2006-11-08 17:43:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says it is appointed unto humans ONCE to die and then the judgement. If we were going to be re-incarnated, then we would later again die. But we are told that for us it is ONCE to die.
Heaven is more than just the "atmosphere" around this planet. That is the "first heaven"; then there is the "second heaven", the whole cosmos. And then there is the "third heaven", where God dwells, Either that is beyond the cosmos, beyond the universe ... or, as some believe, it is another dimension. Either way, it will be limitless.
And from reading R&S, it sppears that many have their reservations for "the other place" anyway. Obviously they wouldn't be content in a place of bliss and contentment where they behold the Saviour face to face.
2006-11-09 01:57:42 · answer #2 · answered by kent chatham 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was like you half a year ago.. i have been a buddhist for the whole of my life, and i ask the same question to my christian friends.. i also laugh at the idea of heaven..
now, i can tell you that when Christ say that he will prepare a place for us in heaven, we will not doubt his words...
if God can create the world, he can create something even bigger for his children... and spirits are not of flesh and blood.. it shouldn't take up too much space....
by the way, buddhist don't believe in reincarnation.. only taoist does. buddhist also believe in "ji le" or something like that heaven..
and the idea of reincarnation is very sad.. because you will forget all your past and get reborn again.. but in heaven, we will meet with all our loved ones..in reincarnation, your sins in the past lives is bring forward to the current one, and you will be punished based on the past lives..cause and effect. there's no fairness
like if you killed someone in the past lives, you get reborn as pigs or someone blind or you die young.. what has the past got to do with me??
in christ, you break this cycle, and you go to heaven.. and god forget all your sins, past and present..
2006-11-09 01:52:21 · answer #3 · answered by cheesecake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol god can make an area where you can teleport(i dont think you even have to teleport), god can make more and more places, etc. Remember that it is god himself that created this world and the universe, if he can do that, he has solutions for a over-populated home, if he can give moses powers to lift the water in egypt for people to cross and that was only 1 example of god's powers. Don't you think god have ways to make the places bigger, remember that heaven isn't runned by goverments with no special powers like we humans on earth today.
Earth is going to be destroyed once the sun explodes and the sun is a star, like all stars do, they explode when their too old.
If we reincardant, I think we start all over again and our mind resets... therefore we forget everything. I'm not sure if we'll remember our past-past lives once we go back "up there". It makes me feel scared.
2006-11-09 01:46:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, you seem to be a very stupid person who doesn't understand your religion very well. You never know what Heaven looks like, and you never know how it feels being there. But as a religious person, I believe so much that it's never crowded, 'coz everyone doing good deeds will be rewarded a heaven as wide as land and space for each as they die. It's according to books on islam I ever read.
2006-11-09 01:56:04 · answer #5 · answered by FerdhyMS 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, you're a little of track. heaven is not material what we imagine on earth. it doesn't have atmosphere, and your soul goes to heaven, not your body. does your soul take up space? your soul isn't matter, it's not made up of atoms, or neurons, or anything of that kind. it's like a mind. a mind doesn't need space to exist, it can exist without limits. hopefully that kind of gives you an idea of how heaven can never get crowded by souls...just like the earth can't get crowded by minds.
2006-11-09 01:44:04 · answer #6 · answered by sportzgurl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard the road to hell is wide and long and the path to heaven is straight and narrow. What's that say about over crowded.
2006-11-09 01:43:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i dont think heaven is crowded at all , ive heard that the size of the comfort room there, is about the size of a shopping mall, then the rooms are a different size too, bigger of course, and the roads are made of gold
2006-11-09 01:43:02 · answer #8 · answered by haringmarumo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friend, I am not Buddhist, But Christian, NO heaven will never get crowded, But hell has enlarged itself, & friend I do not believe in recarnation. But in a Ressurrection.
2006-11-09 06:37:27 · answer #9 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not crowded because those who go there has a way to the place and only those whose sins are forgiven and washed by the blood of Christ has their place there so it is prepared according to the number of those who declare that they want to go there.
2006-11-09 02:00:33 · answer #10 · answered by Rozzy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋