Unless there's proof, there is no afterlife.
Fact: the human race has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.
Fact: the concepts of an afterlife, of gods, spirits, etc. have only been around for a few millenia.
Fact: these concepts were invented and promulgated by ignorant barbarians as an attempt to explain the world around them, before there was a such thing as science or epistemology.
Fact: most of the books of the bible were written by people who were never there, as second- or third-hand accounts decades or even centuries after the events they claim to tell about.
Fact: the books of the bible have been heavily edited over the centuries, with passages or even whole books being re-written or omitted to fit the theological and political climates of the time.
Fact: the books of the bible have also been subject to extensive errors, misinterpretations, and differences of opinion in interpretation as they are translated from one language to another and from that to yet another language.
Knowing all this, how can ANY religion be viewed as anything BUT the invention of men? I know this may not be what you want to hear, and I doubt I'll do much harm to your faith if you're one of the believers; faith is remarkably impervious to reason.
2006-12-19 15:15:24
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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I think so. I have no scientific proof. It is purely a subjective belief.Scientific proof does not exist. No one has ever verifiably seen another come to life after dying. No one has ever seen heaven or hell and came back from wherever they are to verifiably tell what they are like.Yet the hope for life after life is as ubiquitous as humanity itself.
It is this prevalence of some belief in life after life that is my proof. How could it be so widespread among different cultures and languages if there were not something to it? I am a scientist but am not an atheist. Most of the great and some not so great religions have some explanation for what happens to one when they die.It is true that death comes to all of us and we all eventually know and dread it so hope that that is not the end may prompt beliefs. BUT STILL THERE IS THE HOPE. WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM? To lose hope in anything is preparation for losing it altogether. That is why I believe that if you believe there is, there is, but if you don't believe then there is not life after life. I don't believe in a hell except of your own making in your own mind. There is no disgrace in hope against all lack of evidence and in saying or preferably quietly believing in a life after life.
2006-12-20 09:03:51
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answered by Mad Mac 7
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You cannot possibly understand this question, nor this answer, until you understand geometry and enfinity. you must understand the cycle and the circle. There is proof everywhere you look. People are being born and dying all the time, people with identity and soul. The people, the wind, the sky above, the color white, sound, songs, words born and reborn, this is all proof. The proof is everywhere. Who are you to ask for proof? Its right there. No one can make you see it.
2006-12-19 20:23:35
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answered by Anonymous
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Of course there is, look at where you stand this very moment, in Eternity. Positive proof you are within your life form.
Remember death is not the beginning of Eternity, you are living in Eternity right now!
2006-12-19 19:54:28
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answered by kickinupfunf 6
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yes and no--you will find out when you get there. If there is a God and the Bible says there is then he/she has given you free will. He/she has to respect your ideas about life and death
2006-12-19 20:35:02
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answered by operaphantom2003 4
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you receive proof every day. for example, speak to or read the material produced by the millions of ppl who have seen spirits of unknown ppl and deceased family members. i am one of them. to deny what i have seen and experienced too many times to count, would be to deny my own existence. you cannot provide descriptions of dead ppl unknown to you, to others who knew them, if you didn't see them right? you cannot see what is'nt, or wasn't real, if it did not then, or does not now, exist. that simple.
2006-12-19 20:02:46
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answered by Anonymous
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