if you .believe in god?

Question

i answered a question last night from a young girl who has lost her mum and doesn't want to live anymore....i gave her a really positive answer and said that he mum would always be with her.....if people believe in god without having seen him, whats the harm in taking comfort that your lost ones spirits are still around?

Answer 1

we should always comfort people in a way they need it , even if it isnt what we really believe ....
peoples feelings should come first in my opinion...
but then i am also of the opinion that our loved ones are always around

thank you for giving that girl comfort and keep doing what you do xxx

Answer 2

A part of her mother will always be with her. Because her mom raised her. They live in your heart and mind but they aren't spirits walking around every where. This goes against what the Bible teaches us. I lost my grandma a few years ago it was very rough. However, I know that I will see her in Heaven someday and that gives me comfort that someday I will see her again. I have prayed for the young lady that lost her mother. I can only imagine. I still have my mom with me. And I thank God for that. I'm glad that you took the time to talk with her. I'm sure that that made her feel special. Sometimes people don't talk to kids when a death occurs because they are afraid of what to say or that they might say the wrong thing. You are to be commended!

Answer 3

Friend, there is real security and there is false security.

The bible teaches that departed loved ones really do depart and stand before God.

Having said that, I have read that there used to be a strong Jewish tradition that the spirit of a man hovered around or near the body of a man for three days after his death and then the spirit went away.

god bless

Answer 4

Deazone, you have about as much evidence for death being the absolute end as you do for life eternal in the spirit realm. Neither of these things can be proven absolutely. And Gastounet, you're asking people to stop living in fantasy worlds, but there is no actual evidence that there is not a soul that survives death and goes on to exist in another unmeasurable realm or dimension. In the absence of certainty, would it not be as much folly to claim death is the end of everything as it would to claim that death is NOT the end of everything? The only thing we have proven is that biological functions cease and the body dies/decays. That is all we can observe. So, in a way, the pessimistic view cages the mind inside the human realm and does not even admit the possibility of different interpretations--the very definition of narrow-minded.

I prefer to believe in the possibility of a transformation and survival of vital energy in another form after death. In my view it is as valid a view of the Law of Conservation of Energy as is the total collapse of the system. After all, science is still discovering truths that redefine what we thought we knew about tiny particles and large ones, too. Our knowledge is incomplete. Neutrinos do indeed have mass, albeit tiny, so perhaps the eternal soul is there, waiting to be measured when our skills progress far enough.

P.S. In answer to Just Me...'s question though, it is not a bad thing to encourage the girl to remember her mother as she was and look upon death as natural and not something to be feared and wailed over--as long as the girl understands that her mother has gone on and will not return in the flesh. This much we DO know!

P.P.S. I understand, Deazone, that earthly existence and experience DOES require a brain and it requires that the brain function properly in order to interact meaningfully with oneself and others in the terrestrial realm. But certainly this does not disprove the possibility of another order of "being" that is so far removed from the brain-created consciousness that is all we know now, that we cannot conceive of how it might function or even what sort of phenomenon it might be. Certainly one cannot function on Earth without a brain; that much I do not dispute. My divergence of opinion is based upon the equation of the brain with the soul, the point at which I differ with most who believe death is the end of all.

Answer 5

because the truth is so much better than your fantasy answer.

Is the spirit in man the immortal soul?
Earlier we noted a special spiritual aspect of the human mind that gives us our intellectual abilities, separating us from animals in function and purpose (see 1 Corinthians 2:11).
What we've seen so far is that the Bible shows a dead person is in no way immortal; his life has perished.
So what happens to the spiritual essence that separates man from animal? Does it continue as an immortal soul independent of the physical body? Certainly not!
The Bible shows that the spirit in man, which originally came from the Creator God, returns to Him. "Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it" (Ecclesiastes 12:7).
This spirit that returns to God is neither the source of human life, nor is it human consciousness. Life and consciousness both perish when one dies. God does not tell us why this spirit returns to Him, just that it does. This may be the way God preserves the characteristics of each person until the resurrection.

Answer 6

Don't eat yellow snow.....

I'm sorry but I lost interest in your question about half way through reading it, so I thought that I should just answer the question with some general advice.......

Anyway I happen to know for a fact that everything in the bible is real..... Jesus told me... Jesus, Moses and I all play poker together once a week round Winnie the Pooh's house.

Answer 7

I am in full agreement with you.I believe in the higher life and the spirit world.I do not suffer from a mental illness nor am I sticking my head in the sand .The idea of heaven and hell is to me ridiculous.Thought up by a lot of scaremongering, so called men of God centuarys ago .You die and return to Spirit with all your loved ones.I prefer to believe we are surrounded by loving Spirit friends.I am sure your words were of help.May the love of Spirit be with you

Answer 8

just because your too weak to tell the girl the truth in the face of a few deserved tears is no excuse for your joined paranoia .
it's far better to not take comfort in lies and take comfort in the integrity of facing the bitter realizations of the finality of death and
be all the more appreciative of the limited time we have and how much more it's worth and then hopefully not having to go out into a cheapened world to kill the next unbeliever for his oil or whatever is at hand for a pusillanimous defender of fabrications as so many christian devils really turn out to be .just tell the truth this never lets one down and is always justified without false rationales.
peaceout

Answer 9

You gave a very good answer to the little girl.
But what would you have said if she asked you why God took her mother away? What a cruel God some fools believe in!

Answer 10

False hope provides false security. Without looking at life's problems in perspective we will never arrive at a solution. This is the problem with such a mentality.

Here is an example:
We live on average to around 70 years of age. We then die, because God wanted it that way.

Solution: Do nothing because God wishes us to die at 70 years of age.

Real solution: All evidence points to biological death as being the end of existence. We must strive to postpone death in any manner possible.

EDIT:
Spacebunny,

Look at things in perspective. We require a brain to experience. When we die, our brain breaks down into simple molecules. It is not very difficult to come to the conclusion that we require our brains to experience the world around us, and for thought. Proofs are numerous when you research what occurs to people who have had brain trauma.

Reality sucks, it is hard to deal with.. but there is overwhelming evidence that without a brain we are not capable of thought. Sure I can not provide absolute evidence that an afterlife does not happen, nor can I provide evidence that we are all not in the matrix, or that after we die we live in a mash potato dimension where our sole nourishment is kidney beans. But common sense makes it clearly evident to me that there is no afterlife.