If you believe in the next life...?

Question

what will you be doing?
If Heaven, what purpose will you serve? What plans might God have for you?
or will you be sitting around on a cloud??
I believe in the next life, and I plan on working hard to assist in restoring the earth, and whatever tasks that God may have for me..In other words, to be useful.
How do you view your afterlife?

Answer 1

Before asking what we will be doing in the next life, it is important to understand what we as humans were originally designed to do. We were designed to work. In the first few chapters of the Bible we see that God created a workplace for man (We call it the garden of Eden), and then created man to work at tending that garden. I believe that Adam found the work he had to do was very satisfying to him.

Since that time, each generation has worked. Here's the rub. Because of what we call the "Fall of Man", the earth was also put under a curse. The work that humans had to do became much less than fully satisfying. There is still something in the nature of man that requires him to work. Look at Bill Gates and Bono. They have absolutely no need to work, but there is something inside them that "requires" them to work.

In the Christian Scriptures, as Jesus is departing, he says three things.
First: that he was going to prepare a place for us. By inference he also said that this place would be compatable with our nature. A big part of that nature is the need to work.

Second: That wherever that place is, God will be there in a much more tangible sense than here on Earth. I believe that this implies that the work that he assigns us to do will be completely satisfying, and completely righteous.

Third: that he is with us and guiding us. I believe that this indicates that the work that he is preparing for us is something that is not completely foriegn to us.

What do I expect to be doing in the next life? Working at the most satisfying tasks I could imagine and having fellowship with others and with God himself

Answer 2

I think to believe in an afterlife, as if it were a new entity or life, is to stunt ones life mission here and now, and allows one to believe that magically solutions to problems will come because of death. Today is a good day to think as if you are in your "afterlife," because in reality you are. Life does not end, and progress is not aided by death. This idea does take time to be allowed entrance, let alone a home.

Answer 3

it depends on ur evolution and the level of spirirtuality ur on hafe u heard about ascension it meane once u becoming enlightment ur physical body will take form and u will be kind floating around takes a lot of explaining to do some which die will take next step to come down and reincarnate again in diffrent gender to learn and become goe realized it works like recyccling once u get it then u done with thr earth lifes and no need to come back any more

Answer 4

I agree with you Jo Jo.

Sitting on a cloud sounds pretty boring.

This is why I believe in the next life.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 5

Only Jesus Can Give You That.
Even His Angels Do Not Know His Plans For You or Anyone Else In This Life or The Life To Come

Answer 6

Beyond the portal of death lies a great light filled with knowledge, wisdom, and power. I will sit in the halls of knowledge, learning the wonders and mysteries of all.

Answer 7

You are willfully sacrificing this life for the next, which isn't going to happen ( no evidence, not one little shred), so you are making a very bad trade. And supporting terrorism where it lives. We are accomplices of death when we support after lives.

Answer 8

I'll be born again, literally: "verily, verily" -- as most of us will be -- to continue my spiritual evolution toward a state of perfect harmony. Resurrection = reincarnation, translated and edited by a mercenary early Christian church.

Answer 9

Nothingness

Answer 10

Peace and happiness I hope awaits us all.. Its really beyond us what kind of place Jesus has prepared for us as he promised but I believe it is far far beyond our wildest dreams..