Is it because they all believe the 'spirit' is immortal ? Why can't someone just die and be done ?
2006-11-20 00:31:23 · 16 answers · asked by jsjmlj 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is the cherry on the ice cream, the ultimate reward to keep the faith of the believers going & strong.
2006-11-20 00:37:52 · answer #1 · answered by Urumi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To take the attitude that when you die you are just dead in a box is the gospel of hopelessness. It makes us no better than an animal in the forest. It gives us no reason to be moral creatures. Religion has morality and order as its foundation. If there is no belief in the hereafter, then religion is pointless. This is the atheist's credo. If there is no hereafter, then there is no accountability oin earth, so why live a moral life?---there is no payoff. Why do anything but live like an animal?
2006-11-20 08:37:12 · answer #2 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strange answer to your own question. They believe in immortality because in some way all things are immortal. Immortality only makes sense. Conservation of energy makes sense. All things are recycled. We see it every day in nature. I don't believe in any eternal self-consciousness, but I do know that the elements that make up my self came from somewhere else and will go somewhere else soon.
2006-11-20 08:34:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
form my point of view not the religious .
it is a gift that we believe in life after death so we can be happy we are responsible of what we are doing good or bad.
can't imagine not believing in that , if i do so ,,,
how could i live happy although i know i am going to die ??
why would i do anything right if i am not rewarded for doing this ?
why would not i kill or steal or harm or lie or any of these bad things ?
i think we need religious more than we can imagine...
and it is the thing that both our souls and our minds believe the most...
without it life will be nothing...
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2006-11-20 08:47:37 · answer #4 · answered by A knight with a heart & wisdom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is because they want to give people a reason to hope for something more in life than to live and just die-that is it. It is a way to get people to follow the religion, too-to give them this hope.
I have known so many Christians ( I was raised in a Christian home) who spent their whole lives trying to be good, and sometimes also most punishing themselves to do so, just to get into heaven. This is sad.
As now Jew, I do not dwell on heaven. It may or may not be there. I live for today and living a good life. The rest will take care of itself.
2006-11-20 08:38:15 · answer #5 · answered by Shossi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in the course of human arrogance we find it hard to believe we are not all that important. The human existence on this planet has only wracked devastation. What we see as progress and civilization only serves humans, not the majority of life on this planet. Religions for the most part, and its important to recognize that not all religions follow this practice, simply give an excuse to humans to justify what they believe is the right to rape and pillage the very nature that sustains them. Believing that they live forever in some higher plane of existence is simply rationalization for not being accountable.
2006-11-20 08:43:16 · answer #6 · answered by tjnstlouismo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The soul can die. Ex.18:4: The soul that is sinning, it itself will die." It is not immortal. Adam's punishment for disobedience was eternal death.
2006-11-20 08:33:44 · answer #7 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is hard to be nothing at all, Buddhist try their whole life to achieve this, it's called Nirvana. (According to science we might all turn to nothingness when we die)
When you experience an OBE or you Astral Project you start questioning the scientific theory though. Or when you start having dreams that later materialize in the physical world. I will rather learn from science than blindly following every theory.
2006-11-20 08:34:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's too scary for humans to think about. They need something more comforting, whether it's true or not. The thought of someone welcoming them to an eternal paradise with open arms is far less scary than the thought of nothingness.
2006-11-20 08:34:15 · answer #9 · answered by E D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they don't have immortality in their teaching, then it is not
religion but psychology, philisophy, etc. You got it vice versa.
Because it preaches immortality, then it is class as religion.
Yes one can just die and be done, but we need drama for daily
existence.
2006-11-20 08:38:00 · answer #10 · answered by wcsj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋