1) Everlasting life with a soul that lives on in peace and happiness with God, and yes, with those whom you have loved on earth who have also died.
2) Eternal damnation in Hell
3) An end to all things period...... your body rotting in the ground.
2007-01-07 13:11:14 · 45 answers · asked by Lily P 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If none of the above, then what???
2007-01-07 13:18:26 · update #1
If none of the above, then what???
2007-01-07 13:18:37 · update #2
Isn't # 3 morbid and sad?
2007-01-07 13:20:34 · update #3
With God all things are possible. It may seem foolishness to a lot of folks, but after all we're not God, so what is unrealistic to you may be realistic to those of us who believe in Him and the reality of knowing Him.1 and 2
2007-01-07 13:18:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
1
2007-01-07 13:13:25 · answer #2 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
3
2007-01-07 13:16:07 · answer #3 · answered by Lily M 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I dont beleivei in a Petty God who would put people into Hell.
I hope it would be 1. It would be better to do the right thing and try and make this world more like heaven wether or not we go to heaven, or just Rot. If I just Rot the people I have touched and the lives I have affected will live forever.
So I hope there is 1 but I live my life as if there were no heaven. so that what I do to people is that much more important. Its bigger than me and getting what I want when I want it and getting rewarded for doing what I should do anyway.
2007-01-07 13:19:28 · answer #4 · answered by Rich 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
3
2007-01-07 13:12:45 · answer #5 · answered by Dr. Brooke 6 · 8⤊ 3⤋
Neither of them
It will probably be an Everlatsting Life with God, doing as God so decrees. You have NO warrantees of peace and happiness. What if God assigns you to stand guard for enternity over a tree he doesn't want anyone to touch and gives you a flaming sword to hold and you are there ALL alone, unless someone comes and you must chase them away or vanquish them.
God did that once. You have NO idea at all what God will expect out of you.
2007-01-07 13:16:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pascal's wager:
"If god exists, it's infinitely better to believe, since you get heaven instead of hell for eternity. If he doesn't, it doesn't matter since you're dead anyway. So overall it's better to believe"
This is, of course, false.
Some of the problems with the argument:
* The implied assumption that god may exist (with a 50% probability, no less!)
* The assumption that there is an afterlife with a heaven and hell
* The assumption that the god cares about belief in him/her above all else
* The assumption that if you believe in a god, it will definitely be the same god that actually exists.
* The assumption that you lose nothing if it's false. You have lost a great deal, from time praying to a nonexistent entity (somebody mentioned just today praying several hours a day!!!) to morality (your god may ask you to hurt other people) and much more besides.
* The assumption that people can believe in something simply because it benefits them. Would you believe goblins exist for twenty bucks? Why not?
* The assumption that any god won't see through the "believing just to get into heaven" ploy.
For more:
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/wager.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/wager.html
2007-01-07 13:13:33 · answer #7 · answered by eldad9 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
To answer your first question - #3 sound much much much more realistic
To answer your second questions - NONE OF THOSE OPTIONS YOU PSYCHO! I live for my family, my friends and the passions of my life (art, science, love, etc.)
-- It those aren't the reasons you live for than I feel sorry for you because your life is a lie. :(
-- I think that believing the people you dislike are burning in hell is much more morbid.
It's only morbid to you because you don't like thinking about it. Just because you don't like the idea of something, doesn't mean it isn't true. To be honest, whether or not it is morbid is irrelevant.
2007-01-07 13:17:22 · answer #8 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first one, the 2nd one would really suck, and the 3rd is impossible. Every body is made of energy, so when we die that energy has to go some where. Hopefully somewhere beautiful and peaceful. No one has ever come back from the dead so unfortunarely we dont know for sure.
2007-01-07 13:17:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That there is a God sounds most realistic to me. Beilieving your number 1 and 2 came to me by faith, and I know that I will see number 1, (assuming that all my loved ones are saved by that time).
2007-01-07 13:15:00 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋