God is offering you everything, and forever to do it. Some say they would become bored living forever, but I for one can't understand this way of thinking. We will have a perfect body, and a perfect mind. Can you imagine what awaits you?, Will we be able to travel the universe? Think for a moment, if you live to be 150 years old, what is that compared to Billions upon Billions of years?
In the Bible, the book of James says in 4:14 "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow, For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away"
I am not asking you to join a church, or give anything. I just want you to think about your future, where will you spend it? This is one of the most important questions you will ever have to ask yourself, so I wouldn't take it lightly. How much time have you spent reading the Bible? Are you 100% sure you have all the answers? Will you be a follower, or make up your own mind?
2006-12-14 13:23:20 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fuster, Maybe?
2006-12-14 13:29:30 · update #1
This is on of the most spiritual and nicest questions that i have read posted on this site. you are so right. Why do people live this short life like they are going to live forever. Sure its nice to respect your life and others, but in eternity you don't have to worry about things, you will be eternally free.
2006-12-14 13:30:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it's important to point out that just because someone SAYS nonbelievers are going to hell, that doesn't mean we nonbelievers are "gambling on eternity." I can just as easily SAY that if you don't eat a Snickers bar at 9:05 Central, then you're going to hell. But that doesn't mean anything more than the claims of Christianity. Have you given thought to this: maybe God rewards not people who believe, but people who use their reason to come to a well-thought out judgment. Maybe there are atheists in heaven because they came to the honest conclusion that God doesn't exist, and maybe there are Christians in hell because they believed in God for all the wrong reasons. Maybe God reserves the lowest level of hell for those people who pragmatically "gamble" on eternity, who presume that this life is some kind of game. But then again, maybe he really wants us to eat Snickers bars. Better hurry up. You've only got 3 minutes!
2006-12-14 22:03:18 · answer #2 · answered by Leon M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen
And finally:
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
2006-12-14 21:30:21 · answer #3 · answered by Double O 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AMEN!
In church last Sunday the speaker was talking about daily scripture study. He said would you brush your teeth 14 times on Sunday and go the rest of the week without brushing? I thought that was a good analogy.
2006-12-14 21:31:04 · answer #4 · answered by Becky F 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know without a doubt that the spirit of God is with me, it talks with me. I hear the very quiet voice of God.within me.its guides me.and comforts me.I appreciate the miracles it has bestowed on me and my family.theres no doubt that Gods Spirit will guide me or an angel to heaven when I pass on from this world.everyone in the world could tell me I am wrong but the thing is when you know the Spirit you know it. it is as natural as breathing to me. to know the spirit and to hear its voice and be guided by it.I appreciate Gods Spirit being with me so much theres no words to express my love and appreciation for it.
2006-12-14 21:35:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I shall live my life as I see fit, treating others as I should like to be treated, and i shall be happy until the day I die. At which point I will be buried and live on forever in the wonderful eternity that is the carbon cycle.
2006-12-14 21:28:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
THE PULPIT IS OVER THERE ->
If you want my attention, PROVE to me through EVIDENCE that there is an afterlife. Until you do, I'm not going to waste the little time I have in this life worrying about what happens after it. I can taste, smell, hear, touch, and see this life. Everything that comes after is just speculation, so why waste the time I have here praying for the next when I don't even know it exists? I chose happiness and reality.
2006-12-14 21:28:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Life is too short to focus on the fantasy of immortality.
Oddly, it takes more of a follower in this superstitious nation to believe in an afterlife than to accept this is the only life we get. Believe me, anyone who decides that there is no heaven or hell has made up their own mind, in spite of swimming up the stream of the Bible thumpers....
....like thou.
2006-12-14 21:29:34 · answer #8 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have made up my mind and I will not believe blindly, faith is simply that. There is no justification for faith other than fear over disbelieving and rewards for believing (otherwise no one would believe), however I will spend my life trying to contribute as much as I can to society as a whole or simply have as much fun as posible, Carpe diem you know.
2006-12-14 21:33:32 · answer #9 · answered by Crayola 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here’s what your dogma also says in James…
James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress…
So Christians should be out selling their possessions and helping the needy as they’re supposed to rather than worrying about unbelievers.
2006-12-14 21:33:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋