or before conception i should probably say. do we exist before this life? many people wonder what happens next but what about what happened before? if we dont remeber what happened before will we remeber this life when we move on
2007-03-07 10:06:24 · 23 answers · asked by vibrance0404 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What did your face look like before your parents were born?
2007-03-07 10:08:45 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No there isn't; having consciousness (the main part of a humans 'life') is something that developes as an after-effect of various activities of the brain. For example: When you make a cup of coffee you could add milk, hot water, coffee and sugar... you get your coffee but end up with steam coming out of it, which you didn't want, you just get it. So consciousness is the 'steam'. Once you take out the hot water, the steam disappears and when you die, certain things die too, including your consciousness. So you didn't exist before you were conceived and the only way you exist when you die is from the empty vessel that you leave, which is just your body.. Sorry!
2007-03-07 20:06:39 · answer #2 · answered by zoe s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, according to some religions, sort of, according to catholics, probably not, according to protestants.
The most common belief in life before birth would link it to reincarnation in a karma-linked cycle.
Catholics hold a view that the sperm and egg have some kind of non-soul life potential that requires people to ride without a jacket or any other form of birth control except good timing.
I haven't heard any similar nonsense from protestants (which is not to say that it doesn't exist).
2007-03-07 10:09:15 · answer #3 · answered by Dave P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have no remembrance of what came before, what significance could it have? If there is no continuation of consciousness after death, what meaning is there to life?
If that is the case, the biggest scoundrels who ever lived - Hitler, Stalin, John Wayne Gacy and the like get off scot-free from all the evil they did. There is then no justice, no fairness, no real meaning or purpose in life. It is just dog eat dog, and the prize goes to the most slippery snake.
This, I do not for a moment believe to be the case.
2007-03-07 10:17:42 · answer #4 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - we agreed in a council of Heaven that we would accept the plan of salvation as placed before us by the Lord Jesus Christ; those who didn't will never gain bodies and are followers of the son of perdition, even Lucifer.
The remainder would follow the righteous plan, and receive bodies - yes this included Hitler, Saddam and the rest - we live according to our consciences here in mortality.
We then die at the time the Almighty has set for us, and are judged for our eternal progression. We will remember all we learned here on earth in the next life.
2007-03-07 10:13:07 · answer #5 · answered by Modern Major General 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knew you before you were a thought in your mom and dads mind. Know that fact that you don't recall this is that you were not born yet, but you still exisited and when you die your life force will move on your breath will return to God and your soul, or spirit will either go to be with the Lord or go to hell
2007-03-07 10:43:48 · answer #6 · answered by Tom Sawyer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. Cells are alive, amoebas are alive. Your parents are/were alive with you inside and their parents before them with them inside with you inside etc etc. Everyone has been living since the beginning of humankind in one form or another and our remains will become part of new life as grass, flowers, etc. It is a circle. Humankind is just one part of everyone's eternal circle. Shame human cycle is so short. Kind of hard to go to a party in the form of a tree leaf.
As far as remembering, I think that goes with having a memory to remember with, which we do not have as eggs or blades of grass. So I'm guessing the memory goes when the mind does. Live it up while you can remember it!
2007-03-07 10:18:29 · answer #7 · answered by AJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe that there was life before conception. Once conceived however, we are a living being with a soul.
2007-03-07 10:09:12 · answer #8 · answered by Chimichanga to go please!! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life begins when the soul is given to a person.
There will be life in the hearafter, and we will remember this life, simply because our living in this life is what will lead us to the life in the hearafter.
We don't remember a life before this, because there wasn't one.
All you have to worry about is where your next life will be.... heaven, or hell.
Peace.
2007-03-07 10:17:08 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing about existing before we are born. All we know is God knew who we would be before he created the earth.
2007-03-07 10:14:13 · answer #10 · answered by handsomeworshipper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋