life after death?

Question

how can we objectively prove that there is life after death, so that we will do good here in earth, so that we can go to heaven as they say?

Answer 1

That's why it's called "blind faith". There is no proof, you just have to go with your gut instinct.

Personally, I don't believe in life after death. *shrugs* But hey, to each his own.

Answer 2

I will give you a similarity. You pass your tests and you graduate high school or college, right?
You were not given life for no purpose at all.
Do you think God is dumb and stupid, for bringing you out to this world without a purpose?
You better believe whether you like it or not, there is accountability with the way you live. That is why God gave you brains and a superior intellect with the freedom to choose between right or wrong as well as to discern.
If you cannot stop the world from turning, stop time from flowing or defy the law of gravity even for 15 seconds, think deeper again. You are just another passenger on planet Earth. You cannot hijack this ship and demand what you want from the captain, if you get my drift.

Answer 3

There is already so many things out there that prove there is life after death (like visions of ghosts, dreams with passed loved ones, etc). Everyone will go to Heaven after we die b/c that is where we came from in the first place. Earth was created by God in order for us to experience any type of negativity (jealousy, pain, whatever!) b/c that kind of stuff doesn't exist "Up there."

Answer 4

Well, we can't. We can only assume. In the end, is that really a bad thing? If we're following the common conception that being good will let us enter Heaven/not wander the Earth in limbo/whatever other idea you may have, (as opposed to the Christian ideology that says we need to accept Christ to be let in) then at the very least we've spent our short time here on Earth trying to make people happy and be happy ourselves. If it turns out that we really do NOTHING but rot in the ground, what's the difference?

Best to just assume that an Afterlife exists in SOME fashion just to make sure that we're all trying to be good to each other, imo. :)

Answer 5

I don't know, but I have a good question for you, what is the one thing on this here Earth that you can be absolutely sure of? What is that one thing?

Doing what's right is of the essense, and it's what people will remember you by.
Either way, if there isn't life after death, what would you do different?
Always follow what you believe in.
To betray oneself is to kill oneself.
He who is always true, shall be true even in death.


Look at this quote that I just read 20 minutes ago from the book Dracula:

" 'But, Lord love ye, miss, I ain't afraid of dyin' not a bit; only I don't want to die if I can help it. My time must be neigh(near) at hand now, for I be aud(old), and a hundred years is too much for anyman to expect; and I'm so nigh(near) it that the Aud(Old) Man is already whettin' his scythe........ Some Day the Angel of Death will sound his trumpet for me. But don't ye(you) [fret],' for he saw me crying, 'if he should come this very night I'd not refuse to answer his very call. For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all we can rightly depend on. But I'm content, for it's comin' to me, me dreary, and comin' quick. It may be comin' while we be lookin' and wonderin'. Maybe it's in that wind out over the sea that's bringin' with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts. Look! look!' he cried suddenly. 'There's something in that wind and in the hoast beyont that (it) sounds, and looks, and tastes, and smells like death. It's in the air; I feel it comin'. Lord, make me answer cheerful when my call comes!' He held up his arms devoutly, and raised his hat. His mouth moved as though he were praying. After a few minutes' silence, he got up, shook hands with me, and said good-bye, and hobbled off. It all touched me, and upset me very much."

Yeah.


One analogy that I would like to add is that it's sort of life after school. If there was no life after school, nobody would do their homework, learn, etc. What if there was?


Good luck, Peace.

Answer 6

I cannot prove that there is life after death with 100% certainty, but let me offer this anecdote. Several months ago I was rushed to the ER. I was in acidosis before arriving, as I am a COPD patient in the advanced stages of the disease.

When the medics arrived I lost consciousness. From that point on till they apparently hooked me up to the masks and IV's at the ER, my body was slowly shutting down.

I remember hearing sounds around me, but they made no coherent sense. I saw NO LIGHTS or TUNNEL, but felt very much at peace with the world. Disjointed events from my life seemed to appear dreamlke in rapid fire manner. The there was nothing but stars. I felt cold, but welcome and at ease.

From this experience I believe there is something after life. Where it is or what it is I cannot say.

Hope that helps.

Answer 7

One can never prove this subjectively. One has to change there view of things and this is done by changing ones view point. If one is open to other view points it maybe possible to change ones opinion on life after death? Let me introduce another view point on the subject such as reincarnation. I believe in reincarnation and having life more than once after death of the body. For the eternal parts of our body are Soul & Spirit which are Eternal, Muti -Dementional & can have contact in ma ny lives.

Answer 8

I do not want to sway anyone to a point of view but mine own personal is that if we die it is really a lonely way of thinking that our lives just end once our heart starts beating. Seems a little cruel and abrupt. It's just like looking at the stars. The universe is a big place and much more to see. There is no finite area. I would like to think Earth is the same way.

Answer 9

Some people can't prove it, but can know by other people having near death experiences, they know and believe it to be true. I have had two.

The first Near Death Experience I had was when I was 4 1/2 years old. I had just recently had a tonscilectomy and unknown to me or my mother, didn't heal. I literally bled to death down the back of my throat. By the time we realized I was bleeding down the back of my throat, a week after the opperation, I had to be rushed to the hospital. I was having convulsions and they laid me on the opperating table, rushing around to hook up the monitors on me. I heard the faint beeps of the monitors. I was too tired to be scared. I just laid there and looked up at the ceiling. I saw the dots on the ceiling tiles and just watched them. Suddenly, the beeps on the monitors faded and were gone, and a louder steady beep came. I felt the cold metal of the table under my back still there, but the table was rising up towards the ceiling. I didn't understand what was going on, but I could see the dots on the ceiling get closer and closer, then I realized that they were not dots at all, but were holes in the ceiling tiles instead of dots. I thought to myself, in a 4 1/2 yr old mind, "I'm going to hit my head on the ceiling." Suddenly I was WHOOSHED through the ceiling and was now standing on something that felt like it was solid and I could see though it like glass. I could see with a vision that was better than my Earthly vision. I could hear better too. I heard the doctors and nurses as they rushed around, and I heard someone yell out, "We're loosing her!!" I thought to myself, "Why are they saying they are loosing me? Can't they see me? I'm right there!" So somehow I knew I was still there laying on the opperating table. There was a being next to me on my right, that I could feel the love and warmth coming from him, radiating out and lightly touching me there. (I felt that I still had a body, and since I could see and hear, apparently I could. Some people say it's only because the brain has not died yet if you are in an NDE, but if that's true, why could I see down and see my body laying there and watching the doctors and nurses and not just only see upwards which is the direction that my eyes were facing on the opperating table?) Anyway, the being next to be, his love and warmth merged with me and I was at complete peace. I felt so much love, I did not want to leave. I wanted to stay right there. (I had been a shy child, but yet here, I was with someone who I was at so much peace with that I wanted to stay.) The doctors revived me and I was returned. That has been over 43 1/2 years ago and I've never fogotten it. I had another NDE when I was 25. Do I believe there is life after life? Yes, I do - with all my heart.

Does that guarantee me heaven? No. The second NDE was not like the first at all. I was drinking and drugging at that time. I was in a place of total darkness. It was not a comfortable place, there was not peace there for me, nor did I feel the loving presence I felt during the first NDE I'd had. Yet, I did not change my ways for many years. My change came when I finally asked God for help, my life being one I no longer wanted to live with anymore. I was ready for life after this life, apparently even if it was back in that dark place, but God saw fit to help me change my life and sent people in my life to help me to do that.

Even if I thought I lost every chance of being in heaven, I would still choose to do good here on Earth and to continue to love and praise God. He is worth it.

Answer 10

No one knows the real answer, no matter what they tell you otherwise.

It's a neverending story with no end in sight. Just live your life for today, and don't worry about something that may or may not exist.