2007-01-22 13:45:05 · 36 answers · asked by High? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
2007-01-22 13:48:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well, I know Jesus as my Savior, so I know I'll be there with Him someday, therefore I figure when my time's up, it's up. I guess the only thing that keeps me from being eager to die is the death process. I work at a nursing home, where I see a lot of sick people and death, so naturally, I think about what I might die of. Will it be quick and painless? Will I be sick for a long time, or in pain? That's the only thing that scares me, not dying itself, because I know where I'm going, but what I might die of.
2007-01-22 13:58:54 · answer #2 · answered by sunflower 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those who tell you heaven is beautiful are the same people who try to make you accept a lower quality of earthly life. And, those people are not God. Unless people hear it directly from the source, it is safe to assume that they are being played for fools.
How many people hoping for an eternity in heaven give money to those (who already are probably richer than those they seek money from) who promise to show them the way? Which do you think lives in the nicer house (and works less for it)? Imagine that. What a coincidence, huh?
2007-01-22 13:58:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the Lord can call us to heaven. Through Him I have the hope of salvation. When I think about all the innocent that are suffering, I am eager for Christ return. The Lord has put in my heart the desire to live and the joy of life.
2007-01-22 13:54:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
who says noones eager to die? like they've mentioned above..nearly all religions disallow suicide or harming one's body so rushing the process is out of the question. But in order to make your chances of entering Paradise more favorable, why dont we patiently wait on earth doing good deeds and worshipping the Lord until He takes back the trust He had once given to us (our body)? Worshipping the Lord is fulfilling, whether it be in Heaven or Earth. Being a Muslim, we believe that Heaven is the ultimate place of pleasure, bliss and happiness, so of course through my actions i try to gain the Lord's pleasure to be allowed to enter it.
Why don't you ask this:
If Hell is a place of ultimate torment and displeasure, how come we aren't eager to leave our bad ways and follow the Lord?
2007-01-22 13:58:44 · answer #5 · answered by Buncharoses 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course we are all eager to get to heaven. But we just can't kill our selves. We'll go to hell! God has a will for every one of our lives. who knows, maybe I'm the one who will go around the world preaching in India, or Africa, to make a difference. It could be anything! But you can't get to what god wants for you until you have the holy spirit, meditate on the word, and speak in tongues, you might as well be dead.
2007-01-22 14:02:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When it's my time, I'll be happy to go. However, I don't need to be in Heaven, I have a wonderful time every day. I have a family I love dearly, friends, things to do, places I want to go. I thank God daily for this lovely planet and all the wondrous things it contains. Besides, I already have Jesus in my life - I can wait.
2007-01-22 13:55:09 · answer #7 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't want to go to heaven. It is not my calling. I want to stay here on earth to play with the animals, swim in the ocean, travel & meet new people, eat exotic foods, be a dancer..all that good stuff that I don't even have time to do in this wicked system of things. These are also things that you cannot be doing in heaven because the spirits in heaven will be ruling over people on earth. I don't want to spend my time watching everyone having fun.
2007-01-22 13:51:03 · answer #8 · answered by sunny4life 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One might also ask why not kill one's own children before they enter the Age of Accountability. Then they get free tickets to Heaven! Surely a sacrifice any parent would want to make! And then all you have to do is repent...and sound really, really sincere. Then you get to join them!
Or maybe that's too much? Too crazy? Too extreme?
Extreme, yes...but a logical extreme of Christian dogma.
2007-01-22 13:54:12 · answer #9 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but if I killed myself, I may not fulfill the destany God put me here in the first place for and I would not want to fail him. Besides this lifetime is but a flicker and it is over, but depression can make time seem as if it slows down. I have been mad when I was in four situations were I almost died, because it seemd like satan was trying to to kill me because I was not saved and therefore, if I died I would have gone to hell, and I wanted to to die, but God saved me everytime. But who wants to spend an eternity in hell on fire. When I got saved, the need to die cease to exist and the I didn't have anymore near death incidences.
2007-01-22 13:52:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is sin!
Once you come to Jesus, ask for forgiveness of your sins, you have died in Christ. We know when we die a physical death, our spirit (soul) will be in heaven.
Besides, God's time is not our time. Therefore, we don't place limitation on God. Your question more or less places a limitation on God to call us unto Him through physcial death.
When our journey here is over, that's when we will be with God in heaven.
2007-01-22 13:55:52 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋