CHOOSE: no side-stepping or excuses, you can have one or the other...lets just pretend anything you try to explain in the faults of having only these choices is just a lack of understanding of the way things are. Which do you want...A god, or an afterlife?
2006-12-03 07:46:34 · 13 answers · asked by Poo 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No & No.
2006-12-03 07:48:38 · answer #1 · answered by The Chaos Within 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, I'm glad you arent God. Plus, in life there are always more choices.
Without one or the other what is the point? Why want an afterlife if there is no God that oversees it? to direct it? Without an afterlife why need a God?
2006-12-03 15:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by sherrylynn1965 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having God improves your life here on earth and ensures an afterlife. So God!
2006-12-03 15:53:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God lives in the present. When I die I will continue to live with God in the present. The afterlife, the kingdom of God, begins in the now.
2006-12-03 15:51:50 · answer #4 · answered by Mary W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A God. That's looking out for the world's longterm success. After all, with the way the world is shaping up I don't think I'd want to be born into this world 20 years from now. Better to have God restore the Earth to its fertile state.
2006-12-03 15:50:13 · answer #5 · answered by Atlas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An afterlife as long as I still have what I have in me now if there was to be no God.
2006-12-03 15:52:24 · answer #6 · answered by Labatt113 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fade to black. End of story. No God, no afterlife. Just my legacy will live on. That is motivation enough for me to make this the best life I will only have.
2006-12-03 15:49:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
EVERYONE who believes wants an afterlife. They'll say 'god' because they think this is what god wants them to say which will ironically give them the reward of an afterlife.
2006-12-03 15:50:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Understand the concept, "Who is God" and it would become simpler to understand God Almighty in its entirety.
God Almighty... a cluster of pure energy is but the sum total of all souls (atmans) in the cosmos at a given point of time. The essence of every soul (atman) being the same as God Almighty... every soul is but a minuscule God in its entity.
The moment the big bang occurs... all souls (atmans) existing in the Cosmos spread all over the cosmos with unimaginable speeds. The magnitude and the scale of the big bang are beyond the comprehension of the human beings to visualize. Nothing that exists in the cosmos in energy form can be visualized by the help of the senses and the mind.
This explosion of the big bang results in creation of a new cosmos... a new beginning! After billions of years when some planets become suitable for giving birth to life... the souls start manifesting body after another. And a planet like Mother Earth is born.
Now... what is this big bang theory! The big bang occurs in what! As has been defined above... the definition of God is, "the sum total of all purified souls atmans in the cosmos at a given point of time is what we know as God Almighty".
This cluster of pure energy we know as God accumulates in its absolute pure state only when the dissolution of the Cosmos occurs in its entirety. It is as if a huge cauldron of fire... a massive black hole has reduced the whole of the Cosmos to the size of half a thumb. It is this stage when every single soul atman in the Cosmos in whatever stage of life it may be liberates after gaining enlightenment and salvation. There is just no escape for the collapse of the whole of Cosmos has occurred.
As has been expressed by Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism that souls atmans in whatever stage of life they may be... continue their journey into the next Cosmos exactly from the point where they stood in the earlier manifestation is totally wrong. This is where the teachings of Jainism are flawed.
Bhagavad Gita... the sacred doctrine of Lord Krishna distinctly clarifies this point. And it is logical that when the collapse of the entire cosmos occurs... the question of souls remaining in their position as such and transitioning into the next Cosmos after the big bang occurs is but a flawed parable that defies all reasoning and logic.
The point of difference where Mahavira went wrong in understanding the teachings of Bhagavad Gita! The reason why Jainism branched into a new thinking pattern as advocated and doctored by Bhagwan Mahavira (the 24th and last Tirthankara of Jainism) is evidenced here.
This cluster of pure energy... the sum total of all purified atmans in the Cosmos equals half the size of a thumb as has been clearly spelt out in the Bhagavad Gita... the most sacred doctrine put forward by Lord Krishna in the battlefield of Mahabharata.
Unable to contain itself for long... this enormous source of pure energy explodes with a big bang giving birth to a new cosmos... a new journey! God Almighty is the source and the cause of the big bang. This theory of creationism is unpalatable by Scientists all over the world. Why? Science demands proofs and in the kingdom of God... it is absolute faith (in the system of God) that rules. More on who is god here- http://www.godrealized.org/god/who_is_god.html
2006-12-06 05:42:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not worthy of god so afterlife for me.
2006-12-03 15:49:17 · answer #10 · answered by myshinigami 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of man is to glorify God. Thats done right here
2006-12-03 15:49:36 · answer #11 · answered by sdr35hw 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋