How many of you believe in an afterlife, regardless of religion?

Question

Whether you're atheist, christian, muslim, buddhist, islam, etc. etc...do you believe in some kind of afterlife? Or do you think life ends RIGHT after we die, and that's it?

Answer 1

Yes, definitely do believe in an afterlife in a manner of speaking. But it isn't really an afterlife in the true sense of the word, because there is no actual death. Our souls are immortal...it is only our bodies that are mortal, and we are not our bodies. Our bodies are just like a vehicle or clothing, that we use until we are through with them, and then we discard them. Eternal life requires nothing to attain...eternal life just is. And, there absolutely is no Hell. Our souls are pure and perfect, and that is the way God sees us...ALL of us...period.

Answer 2

I'm a Christian, and I personally believe that when I die, there is NO (zero) immediate, after life ! I believe that I will go into the grave and remain there until Jesus Christ returns to this earth and I will be resurrected ( see: I Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses 15 - 17) .. this makes for some very, interesting reading about NOT "going to heaven" immediately when you die ! GREAT question.

Answer 3

I certainly do believe in an after life-i have had too many experiences not to believe. A person is not necessarily alone either even if people think they die alone! From experience a very wonderful peace. Close encounters and experience are great teachers.

Answer 4

Although I am a Buddhist person, I do not believe in an afterlife but I do not know for certain. Nobody knows for certain

Answer 5

If Afterlife be true, then how it is possible that population is increasing? It would have stuck to fixed numbers of living beings.

Answer 6

I defintily belive in afterlife and life after death.
P.S. u mentioned muslim, islam.. etc.. muslim is the same as islam. to be more precised, muslim to islam is the same as christian to christianity :)

Answer 7

That there is God, soul and/or afterlife no one is certain but I believe that most people on earth hope so!

Answer 8

I'm a Christian but that doesn't answer your question. Above me is a peson who wanted to say that all Christians believe in afterlife. Well it isn't so.
Why I don't believe? Because the Bible doesn't say anything about afterlife, how is there etc.

Pagan religions are noted for teaching red-hot hells. The ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Persians, Grecians and Hindus taught flaming hells. The Buddhists teach a hell wherein people cook and sizzle in blazing kettles. Is the Bible hell as hot as the pagans paint theirs?

I'm going to give arguments from the Bible because I'm a Christian. I don't know if you believe in it but I do.
Job was a faithful servant of God. Trying to break Job’s integrity, the Devil placed Job in a miserable state of affairs. So the suffering Job prayed to God: “Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell [Sheol, AS], and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?” (Job 14:13, Dy) Since Job was already being tormented by the Devil, would he pray to be “protected” in, of all places, a Devil-managed compartment of red-hot coals? Hardly! Job would not pray to go from the frying pan into the fire! Job understood hell to be the common grave of mankind where he would rest until the resurrection.

How does Almighty God look upon the idea of roasting men and women in fire? Well, man is made in the image of God. Yet we would not torture a man or a woman, even for one day! Why, the man who would torture a cat is, we say, a fiend. This is natural, since man does not love fiends; he detests them. Fiendishness repels. It is repugnant to God. For when the Israelites religiously burned their children in fire, Jehovah said: “They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.” (Jer. 7:31, AS) Fiendishness does not even enter the mind of the Creator. And no wonder, for “God is love.”—1 John 4:8.

Turning now to the Christian Greek Scriptures, we find that the word translated “hell” and that corresponds to Sheol is the Greek Hades. Does the literal meaning of Hades carry the thought of glowing fire? No, it simply means “the unseen state.” As with Sheol, there are no live people in Hades. “Death and Hades [hell, AV; Dy] gave up those dead in them.” (Rev. 20:13, NW) Since at the resurrection Hades gives up its contents of “dead” people, it is not eternal.

Thus far we have learned four things: (1) God detests fiendishness, (2) the good as well as the bad go to hell, (3) hell is not eternal, and (4) the Hebrews viewed hell or Sheol, not as a place of red-hot fire, but as the cold, silent grave.

I think that all religions agree that their gods are love. And a loving God wouldn't let his sons to be tortured over and over again.

Answer 9

I kinda do believe, but i always wondered ok so I go to heaven and so...what happens after 10 years and what happens after 1000 years and what happens after a million years, am I still in heaven and doing what exactly?

Answer 10

i dont really got a religion but i do believe in life after death. you kno the souls move on and stuff. sometimes you have to believe to see