If life is a test, how could it have any type of reliability or validity? No two people are given the same lot and circumstances in life, so wouldn't that make the results of the tests incomparable and essentially meaningless? I guess life could be a good test if the each set of results was judged invidividually, but many seem to believe that the afterlife is a place where people are separated into large genealized groups, like those who go to heaven, hell, purgatory or move up or down the existential ladder. If life really is a test and peoples' results determine their post-death fate, like children's I.Q. scores may determine what class they are put in, wouldn't that mean that the testmaker has made serious methodological errors?
2006-12-09 04:57:53 · 5 answers · asked by Subconsciousless 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It IS a test; to see what you will do with your eternal soul. Will you trust Jesus, (who suffered, died and rose again to pay for your sins) with the eternal care of your soul by coming to Him out of a repentant heart for forgiveness, or will you pay for your sins yourself for eternity? THAT'S the only question on the test!
2006-12-09 05:04:07 · answer #1 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is what happens when Arminian beliefs are followed, and it leads to the conclusions you've come up with.. Calvinism on the other hand states that we are all guilty and nobody passes the test. Makes me a lot more thankful to know that God is in charge, not man.
2006-12-09 13:34:58 · answer #2 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, your reasoning is absolutely correct. It would make no sense for Earth to be merely a proving ground for some kind of afterlife. Humans were not made simply to live for a few years and then die.
Gen. 2:15-17: “Jehovah God proceeded to take the man [Adam] and settle him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to take care of it. And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: ‘From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.’” (God here spoke of death, not as an unavoidable circumstance, but as what would result from sin. He was urging Adam to avoid it. Compare Romans 6:23.)
Gen. 2:8, 9: “Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. Thus Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree desirable to one’s sight and good for food and also the tree of life in the middle of the garden.” (After Adam’s sin the human pair were driven out of Eden so that they would not eat from the tree of life, according to Genesis 3:22, 23. So it seems that if Adam had remained obedient to his Creator, God would in time have permitted him to eat from that tree as a symbol of his having proved worthy to live forever. The presence of the tree of life in Eden pointed to such a prospect.)
Ps. 37:29: “The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.”
This promise makes it clear that God’s basic purpose regarding the earth and mankind has not changed.
2006-12-09 13:07:41 · answer #3 · answered by sheba 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A test? I dont believe life is a test. I think no one knows. Ive heard, ......ask and ye shall recieve....If your saved you will have eternal life....some say god already has your life planned. .....One thing so far has caught my attention. ....God gave you this day. You can do with it as you wish. You can waste it, or you can make it a productive and good day . Life too.
2006-12-09 13:17:50 · answer #4 · answered by wonderingallthetime 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is fair & he gives every body equal chances before he decieds his destiny
2006-12-09 13:13:19 · answer #5 · answered by ahmed_mo2nis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋