How do we wake up from the dust and go to everlasting life?

Question

Any idea?

Answer 1

God can do anything.

Answer 2

This is my understanding. My body & mind is dust or of the earth so it will go back to the earth. However the everlasting I is spirit & that can never die. However I need to "wake up" to this fact while I have a body. Also we don't "go" to everlasting life we are everlasting life.

Answer 3

That will be when God resurrects those who are in the ground back to the land of the living so that they have this opportunity to have everlasting life!

Answer 4

Mircals are Miircals I mean look at it with this poor example " You make a creally hard and complex cacke the first time it's rally hard the second it's easy" So do you really think the God who created you can't recreat you???

Answer 5

It doesn't work exactly that way.

Once we die, we're finished with our body, and it decays and returns to the earth, never to be seen again.

Our soul returns to God, where we're judged to either heaven or hell.

On the day Jesus comes again (Judgment Day) God will recreate brand new, glorified, resurrection bodies for each and every one of us, match them up with our souls, and we wil once again be complete human beings.

Then, there is the rest of eternity.

Answer 6

That is not possible.
Try to read slowly the question. Think about it for a few seconds? You will realise perhaps that it just does not make any sense.

Answer 7

Put your faith in Jesus Christ, accept Him as your God, accept His gift of eternal life, & you will have everlasting life. Not by what we do but because of what He has done.

Answer 8

the only way clean the dust is jesus christ because he poured all his blood to clean all human being dust and give them everlasting life.There is no another way to wake up.

Answer 9

We don't. There is nothing after death. The human mind makes everything we experience real to us. When we die, our minds do not continue to function. There is nothing.

Answer 10

We're already in "everlasting life" -- the everlasting life of "God." We are parts of the whole, and thus a feature of the infinite.

Take the cliched chanting of the word "OM" from meditative types. Part of the idea of that word is that it is more than just the one sound. The silence that comes before you start saying the word and the silence that comes after you finish saying the word are also a part of the word. If you repeat the word over and over -- OM OM OM OM -- you see the cycle happening, and come to realize that you never finish saying the word, even when you're not talking. When you're not talking, you're simply "saying" the silent part of it. Thus, you're always saying the word.

Looking at it in only a very slightly different way, you can see that breathing in and breathing out are not two different breaths. It's one breath, moving in two directions. It moves in and it moves out, but it's all one breath. We separate them into two separate concepts in order to be able to refer to one part of the action or another, but really it's all one action. And, if you extend the idea and stop separating one person's breath from another person's breath, you see that it's an endless breath, constantly flowing, in and out, over here and over there. "A single light shining through many bulbs," as it were.

Many of the christians here will immediately dismiss that sort of thing as mumbo-jumbo, but think about it for a minute: It's not a magic concept. It's not even intended to be a magic concept. It's meant to teach a concept about the infinite -- or, if you're Christian, about God. It's meant to symbolize the endless nature of the infinite... of "God," however you define "God." It's a teaching tool that helps people to conceptualize a facet of something that's impossible to fully wrap our heads around.

For God to be God -- for God to be everywhere and everything -- he would have to not only be the things, but also the not-things. He would have to be both ON and OFF. He would have to be the OM and the silence. If he wasn't then you'd have to believe that there was something beyond God... Something outside of the infinite.

In the same way that the silence after the word OM is part of the word, the lack of you after your physical body dies is part of the eternal sweep of Life. It's another syllable of existence.

How does that relate? Because even when you're physically gone, your moment in time is still a part of the infinite, endless being that is God. Subjectively, that part only takes up one relatively small place in space and time (just as your fingernail only takes up a small portion of your body), but that small part is still part of God's endless existence, and that part always exists for him.

All the stuff about raising the body physically and all that is metaphor for the idea that there is more, and that we all go on. If God is infinite and God is all, then all of everything -- past, present, and future -- always exists, simultaneously (it's our meat mind's way of interpreting time that makes it appear to happen in sequence) -- unless you wanna argue that God ages or something (which would be a decidedly human trait). Thus, from God's point of view, we always exist, forever (because that moment -- the moment of our physical life -- always exists, forever). From our human point of view, however, the physical body and our earthly identity passes by and eventually ends.

Heaven, for humanity, is something we build. It's something we attain through conquering our animal natures. The rules of most religions focus on creating a harmonious society (don't lie to each other; don't steal; don't kill, etc). The end result of a harmonious society -- especially one with exponentially advancing technology -- is unity (as we see already starting to happen with the internet, cell phones, constant connection, etc -- the first baby steps toward a hive mind). By advancing our abilities, developing our minds and bodies, and aiming at being nice to one another, we will eventually transcend the human condition (through technological singularity, most likely), and eventually unify with the endless being/existence that is God. In that way, humanity as a whole -- or, really, LIFE as a whole -- can go to "everlasting life" in the way Christians imagine it... but the need for individual identities will be long gone by that point, and thus the idea of individual identities living forever in a magical "heaven" will be moot.

Think of it this way: No matter what religion you follow, "God" never said that humanity would not evolve in any way, shape, or form. There's no reason to assume that we'll reach "Heaven" -- whatever you believe that to be -- in the same form that we exist now.

Turning heaven into some sort of magical wonderland that we go to after we die (ie., taking the Bible's metaphor literally) is a result of people's fear of death and the unknown. We want to believe that there's something afterward, otherwise we have to accept the idea that our specific earthly identities are not the be-all, end-all of existence and will someday end. People are not comfortable with the idea of simply being a small part of a larger system, so they grasp at magical straws...

The truth, I think, is much bigger and better. Rather than going to live "with" God in some magical wonderland with golden streets and all the sorts of materialistic things that humans hold dear, we transcend our experience by conquering our animal tendency to only think of self, and thus become unified with God. We realize our place -- physically -- as a part of God's existence, and -- spiritually -- as God itself (because if God is infinite, then God is also us, and we are also God. We can not be God separately, because God is infinite, and God cannot be God without us, also because God is infinite (you can't remove something from infinity and still have it be infinite)).

Answer 11

We don't. "I think, therefore I am". The brain is what makes you who you are, and when it dies, you cease to exist.