i asked if you don't believe you have a soul...?

Question

do you think when you leave your earthly body basically there is nothing..i also made the point that if we thought there was no consequence to our actions in life it would make it easier to commit sin...some of my answers were saying just because they didn't have a spiritual influence wouldn't mean they would consciously commit crime because there are no consequences..ie,,heaven/hell, they were saying that because they don't believe in god doesn't mean they don't have morals..i totally agree...my question was missinterpreted...i was simply asking if those of you who think there is no afterlife,no consequence to the err of the human soul(which i accept some of you dont believe in)where do you go...what is the point in life...why do you live...i believe i live for an ultimate destiny...heaven.hell...i am not preaching simply want your views....please don't put words into my mouth

Answer 1

I HOPE SO, I THINK SO, ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT.

Answer 2

I believe in the true God of the bible.
Let's see what the bible says about the soul....

Please read Genesis. 2 verse 7: -
“God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.”
(Notice that this does not say that man was given a soul but that he became a soul, a living person.)
(The part of the Hebrew word here rendered “soul” is ne′phesh.)

Also, - 1 Corinthians. 15 verse 45:
“It is even so written: ‘The first man Adam became a living soul.’ The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.”
(So the Christian Greek Scriptures agree with the Hebrew Scriptures as to what the soul is.) (The Greek word here translated “soul” is the accusative case of psy·khe′.)

1 Peter. 3 verse 20:
“In Noah’s days . . . a few people, that is, eight souls, were carried safely through the water.”
(The Greek word here translated “souls” is psy·khai′, the plural form of psy·khe′.)
So we see that a soul is the entire person not a separate thing that can leave the body at death.

Can the human soul die?

Ezekiel. 18 verse 4:
“Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul* that is sinning—it itself will die.” (*Hebrew reads “the ne′phesh.” King James & other translations render it “the soul.” Some translations say “the man” or “the person.”)

Matthew. 10 verse 28:
“Do not become fearful of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul [or, “life”]; but rather be in fear of him that can destroy both soul* and body in Gehenna.” (*Greek has the accusative case of psy·khe′.)

Acts 3 verse 23:
“Indeed, any soul [Greek, psy·khe′] that does not listen to that Prophet will be completely destroyed from among the people.”

So - the soul CAN die & if we read
Ecclesiastes 9 verses 5 & 10 we see that at death our thoughts perish - which shows we dont float off to somewhere else.

John 5 verses 28 & 29 is the only hope for the dead
A resurrection onto the earth in the future
Psalm 37 verses 11 & 29

That is what the Bible REALLY teaches - (as opposed to what some religions say is in the Bible)

btw - what some athiests don't realise (judging by one or 2 of the answers) - is that the bible proves itself scientifically accurate, but of course because they havent read it they wouldn't know that, would they?
It's easy to criticise a book they've never read..... and it's biased & uninformed too.

If you want any more scriptures to check up, please dont hesitate to email me

:)

Answer 3

Buddhist POV: The mind is what goes on separately from the body's demise in any given birth. The logic of "karma" explains to me, sufficiently, what the consequences of my actions are and that, logically, there is no exterior source to blame for anything really... doesn't mean I'm a pushover, but it means that I understand that my existence in a life that I perceive as "suffering" is due to the fact that in some prior life I didn't generate the causes and conditions to "get beyond" this kind of "suffering"... I took rebirth in a world where I perceive things in a logical manner, analytically examine all things presented and I try to look at both sides of the coin (at the same time, as much as I can, which IS possible), but because of this, I'm hated because I don't toe the "party line", ride the bandwagon, nor am I led by the nose ring.

Hope this helps you understand how I view things as a Buddhist/atheist.

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Answer 4

that's the point why humanity made up religion so they would have a point a meaning a afterlife how would fell if you just discovered u have no purpose no reason for existing nothing that will make u live on till the end of time
i bet you wouldn't be the happiest person now what if just found out your going to heaven with your whole family better is in it
so if it makes u happy believe what u want if u are wrong nothing happens and u won't even now it

Answer 5

Oblivion v. Words
Enlightenment thinking has more or less disappeared up its own ****. Foundationalism i.e. establishing through pure reason a kind of metanarrative that shapes human thought on an empirical scale has become discarded and now meaning of life is communicated to us through the world of commerce and images.
Man's reasoning throughout it's plastic history has not progressed much since Adam questioned eternity and we are now asking the same questions that Thales asked milleniums ago. The universe presents us with an infinite number of possibilities, none of which can be narrated with any kind of authority other than through a selective use of internal truths.
One question though I would like to ask you is this, which will help to answer your question.
If the story about Jesus is true and you go through life pretending or ignoring that it isn't what do you think the consequences will be if your death comes without warning?
We can't go through life fudging the question, hoping that the entire Christian phenomenon is a fantasy. But a more logical approach might serve the purpose of clarifying what's really at stake here.
For the question is not about your philosophical & moral position in this life but it is more about your position in eternity. In addition to this you will need to consider the logic of comparing the outcome of the two ‘what ifs’, which clearly present you with a decision that has to be made one way or the other. For, if Jesus’ words are true, the consequences of being wrong are far worse than being right. The choice involves either losing everything and regretting the loss forever or oblivion. The certainty is unclear but the question remains. As Jesus logically put it, ‘What if you gain the whole world but lose your soul’.
Let me explain what you gain and what you lose, first from a logical standpoint. As to the question where you are going to spend eternity the answer has to be right or wrong. It’s not sensible or intelligent to ‘fudge’ this, considering the brevity and seriousness of the question, and pass it off with a casual remark. If you get the answer right, that there is no ‘waking of the dead’ and no afterlife, you can be sure that you will not know whether you got it right or wrong because in this kind of death there is oblivion. Oblivion cannot speak. It follows from this you can also be sure you will not be spending eternity gnashing your teeth with the anger and pain of knowing you spent your life believing in somebody who didn’t exist. For, if God doesn’t exist, there will be no voice to tell you that you were right or wrong beforehand, since you’ll be dead as a stone.
No-one will know whether you made a fool of yourself, no-one will care two hoots, oblivion is as deaf and mute as a wooden chair. In this potential scenario it’s a win win situation for all people then, whether they believed or not. For those who believed, no loss. For those who didn’t believe, no loss. Both believer and non-believer will know nothing about their past life to get angry or sad about it.
On the other hand if you get it wrong and there is a voice in the afterlife that tells you you got it wrong, the same voice that told you about it 2000 years ago, what kind of eternity will that be like?
The world that Jesus came to save us from is the life we assume ends when we die. It is this assumption that puts us under extraordinary pressure to try and achieve so much before we die and in the process we construct a world of fierce consumption and competition that always leads to slaughter and evil. Every history book is a testimony to this!
Of these two choices then the question you need to ask yourself is which of these positions of belief is the most logical? The one that is a win / win situation for the believer or the one that is a win / lose situation for the non-believer?
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” (John 14v1-4)

Answer 6

as a buddhist in the sect i am in, I don't believe in a "soul". I believe in karma, which, though the vast majority of people DON'T understand the term, is MORE than cause and effect. Your karma is what you would call a soul, your immortal life, which carries with it - in terms that are easy to understand - a ledger of rights and wrongs. Eastern philosophy is WAY to hard to explain so I won't try, however, I believe that heaven and hell are conditions that exist within a person and are part of the 10 worlds. I believe that you are reincarnated until you reach enlightenment at which point you go to the land of the buddha.

i have met those who believe that you die and that is it. none of them seem to distressed about it. I don't see why the "purpose to life" has to be more than what we do with it when we're here in this lifetime.

To me, it scares me when people believe that the only purpose is an afterlife, what drive to they have to make an impact here?

Answer 7

I answered your question of what I think of a.sole and had it removed. but I will re-iterate what I have said many times there is no purpose for life, we are here not by choice but a progress of evolvement, and a para cite to an atomic universe , no different to the lichen on the rocks, I am not happy to say this or proud, but it makes no different what sort of a bastard you have been on this Earth, when you die you are as equal as your so-called- saint. any emitted alpha or beta waves ceased from your brain the DAy your heart cuts off it's blood supply. but whilst you are walking the planet if you can't do a good deed, then try not to cause any harm

Answer 8

We live for our dreams I dream of being a radiologist, while maybe having a small musical career playing at clubs when I'm off. I live for that and I live hoping one day I will find love. I live to make myself happy sure I'm not part of some big picture in the end. But all that is just tough sh-t the cosmos is the way it is no changing it.

Answer 9

But, where you miss the point is this. You can have the lowest morals in the world. Murderer, child predator, and rapist, but as long as you ask for forgiveness, you get to go to heaven. But, do one little thing and say "I don't beleive in god because there is no proof", and even if you live a honest and moral life, you get an eternity in hell.

Even a fictional god, such as yours, would be able to see how ignorant his plan was in that form.

Answer 10

Firstly, there is no evidence to support any theory of the existence of a "soul". When you are dead, you are done, just like the opossum lying beside the road. There is no reason for life other than to make more life; if you want your life to have significance, do something significant.

Answer 11

As I already said, there is consequence to all you do here, in THIS life.

I live because I enjoy living, and when I'm not enjoying it, I have an instinct to survive.

Evolution gave us the will to live.

Point? For me - To be happy. Why does there have to be a point?