is it possible, in any religion, to have the idea of god not linked to "eternal life"???

Question

would it be "useless" to believe in a god that says that there is no life after death, that death is just death and full stop????

god can be eternal but why must our lives be eternal too???

Answer 1

Probably not. People who desire religion do so out of fear of the unexplained and fear of death. A religion that didn't provide life after death wouldn't satisfy them. That's why you don't see religions without that concept in some way or another.

People who are willing to accept death as the end are usually realistic, skeptical kinds of people who reject religion anyway.

Answer 2

That's a good question. Hmmm - I had to think about that one for a sec!! Assuming the circumstances of earthly existance were the same (for example, there are no quick or instant answers to prayers, and answers to prayers are not exactly how we would have them) - then no, because what motivation would we have to do right, other than the threat of death/damnation/a lowered existance in the next life, or a promise of eternal reward in some kind of paradise or better existance after we die? The state of humans is that we default to the easiest way of doing things - one that is clearly demonstrated to not being the best. We do not want to delay our gratification. Nobody would choose to just be good, if there was no reward or punishment for doing bad.

Answer 3

Well I doubt there is a NATIONALLY established religion (WITH A GOD) that would claim that there is no life after and that it just all stops.
Instead of living an eternal life, they might claim to believe in reincarnation, but essentially, that is the same as eternal life.

They would have to have a very good reason to attract followers to believe that there is nothing after death.

Answer 4

It efficient does! i don't have a issue with that IF the universe may be 'turtles each and each of ways down' too. i.e. If God may be countless fantastic yet by technique of an same idea the universe could too & the large Bang could be led to by technique of an unseen phenomena like a proceeding universe all of us understand no longer some thing of or possibly a multiverse. in spite of a theist says they're what legal bodies call 'particular pleading' - asserting 'you won't be able to say the universe had no reason yet i visit claim God did not.' OR: 'i visit claim God is eternal yet you won't be able to say the universe is.' significant names like Sir Roger Penrose & Stephen Hawking now believe the universe could were 'born' from a proceeding one hence the large Bang is purely easily one of an unlimited form of cyclical phenomena without starting up. - Turtles each and each of ways down in essence!

Answer 5

Some Wiccans believe that when we die, our spirits return to the general pool of universal energy -- therefore, the survival of individual consciousness beyond death doesn't happen. Other Wiccans believe that we have no "soul" per se and that when we die, consciousness ends with brain function and our bodies return to the earth.

So yes, in our religion the idea of the existence of God/dess doesn't necessarily automatically lead to the existence of "eternal life" for human beings.

Answer 6

Your question is definitely interesting! If historical deduction is to be accepted, then even the ancients, polytheists, and pagans believed in some sort of afterlife, that differing according to their various mythologies. Modern religions seem to offer the continuance of life (in Heaven, Paradise, Nirvana) as a reward for adhering to their precepts and laws. Psychologically, however, I tend to think that the belief in "eternal life" is a wish by egoistic humans that they may persist following mortal demise; perhaps we can not conceive of the world's ensuing minus our presence!

Answer 7

I think that some eastern religions have beliefs in spirits/deities but none in an afterlife. See Shinto or perhaps variants of Buddhism.

What interests me are the low rates of Christians who believed in an afterlife in the early 20th century but that more accepted belief in a deity as time went on and churches competed for members.

Answer 8

It would be useless.
"God" by definition is eternal. If the one trusted is not eternal, then why bother? We've plenty of demons to go around, and we can put our trust in them if there isn't anyone stronger. The point of trusting God is that God made the demons, controls them, and gives us power over them. If we haven't such a God of eternal power, "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain" (1 Corinthians 15:14).

Answer 9

The Saducees.

Answer 10

Pagan
Wiccan
we like instant gratification and prefer evidence before we are dead