This is a question for true believes and hard core athiests alike please read the whole question.?

Question

Our life after this one is a mystery. Perhaps we are reborn perhaps not. To commit suicide could be akin to premature birth where the baby is not fully able to function in this world because it is not ready to be born. In order to function in the next reality shouldnt we be totally open to every aspect and idea of this life so that when we die, if there is an after life, we will be able to move into it without doubt or reservations? If you dont believe in the after life wont you be spiritually premature and unable to accept what is happening? On the other hand if you are to deep into the dogma of religious beliefs and when you die if there arent angels singing to you and its just your soul floating around like a ghost will you not also be lost. Dont you think we should be open minded enough to except all possibilities? This will be to deep for some but i would like your honest answers anyway. Thanks.

Icarus62: like your namesake in the end you will become nothing because that is the future you have created for yourself. If we believe there is something else and are ready for it i believe when we move on it helps the soul to adjust.

Answer 1

To be open minded is to use the your intelligence gained from experiences, perhaps from other liefs. Perhaps atheists are fairly new spirits to life, and they have to live many liefs to gain the knowledge to build the spirits wisdom. And this perhaps is the reason why ghost are stuck in this dimension, because atheists are negative to the spiritual world- heaven, therefore they are afraid to go to the light, the light is positive.
This is not deep for me, because I am open to the possibilities of many aspects of the spiritual world and life after death. Reincarnation perhaps is true when you die, you have that choice to stay as a spirit with God or be redeemed again on this planet or perhaps others. One reason why perhaps we live so many liefs is to build out spirits full of Knowledge and wisdom of God, since God's wisdom and power is unlimited. We need to understand God to a degree in order to live eternity with him, so we learn and build our spiritual memory.

Answer 2

I don't know if you mean this as a joke. There's fundamentalism, the theory of evolution, and a mix of both. These are three theories people have before them, in a simplified manner. Fundamentalists believe that the Bible happened as it happened because the Bible is the word of God. Therefore: -The world was created in seven days. -God created man. From man, God created woman. -Out of nothing came something by way of supernatural, not cosmic, force. -Everything was as it is now, meaning a duck has always been a duck, a human has always been a human, a ape has always been an ape. DO NOT CONFUSE THIS WITH CHANGING ACCORDING TO ENVIRONMENT. To adapt is not to change shape from one to another, like a monkey to human, it is simply to change to accommodate the environment. For example, if the same species of bird live in two different places, and in one area the bird needs to crack open nuts to eat, and in the other the bird just eats the seeds open on the ground, one will have a more defined beak than the other. But I think that accommodation is something that someone who believes in a mix of the Bible and science would believe. Evolutionists believe a variety of different things... there is a theory of evolution that is based on the similarities between certain animals and what not... I don't really know evolution, to be truthful. I learned it a long time ago and I can't really remember.

Answer 3

I consider myself to be a true believer, a Christian. I also believe there are things we will never understand as long as we're on "this side" of things. Unlike many other Christians, I don't discount the possibility that I will be reincarnated and that I have been reincarnated. However, after saying that, I also believe that both those who are dogmatically religious and those who are hard-core athiests will find their way in the afterlife. I don't think anyone will need angels to guide them, and I don't think athiests will be spiritually unable to accept what's happening. Maybe I just have a cheap "feel good" attitude about the whole thing, but I believe that no matter what you call the "force" on the other side, s/he long ago figured out we were all just human and therefore imperfect, and that many, many of us would fall short of our "potential," whether that be human potential or spiritual potential. And I believe that that will be taken into account when we die, and it's that grace that will allow all of us, religious and non alike, to negotiate our way to the light.

Answer 4

Agnosticism... Skepticism... Religious... Spiritual... Atheism... all alike are beliefs...

Sometimes there is nothing wrong standing up to what we believe... Respecting other's belief doesn't mean we need to believe... it's just a matter of seeing and understanding...

Accepting all possibilities is called agnosticism... a belief that one cannot simply tell the truth due to insufficient informations... but a time will come for one to decide as to believe or not... you are opening a suggestion that you are an agnostic person... either way we must learn to respect

Answer 5

I used to be open to possibilities, but those possibilities never got me anywhere. Now I embrace truths that give me peace. To you they'd be religious dogma, but it was never religiosity that I sought after, nor things that were merely possibilities.

Just the truth.

This truth dispels any doubt or reservations that I have regarding it because it is a faithful truth, and promises to lead me in straight paths.

Suicide is a premature act no matter what age you are, and it will give you no wisdom, no solace, no understanding. However, it will enlighten you to the fact that there is an after life, but that enlightenment will come with a price.

Questions or comments welcome.

Answer 6

I think that all things are possible. I know that we continue without a doubt. My Mom recently crossed over and the morning of she told me in a dream that she was "breaking away".
I dream in French quite a bit but cannot speak it. I believe I have in a past life but whatever the reasoning I think it is great to question it all.
I have had many thoughts and questions in my life and continue to ask and seek answers.
I honestly think what you want to happen or expect to happen is what happens when you "die". If you think you'll see angels playing harps that is what you'll experience.
I think it is rather fun thinking about it all.

Answer 7

I think that you raise a good point, but because I am a true believer, and having seen Gods' miracles with my own eyes, I would rather live the way I believe is right (which is to be a good Christian and do good to others). I think you should do some soul searching of your own. I would never try to tell you what to believe, Just keep on keeping on!!!

Answer 8

Suppose you're at the beach and you make a nice big fancy sandcastle, complete with moat and turrets and so on. Later, the tide comes in and washes it all away - the sand gets spread around the beach and all trace of your sandcastle disappears.

Where did it go? Well, clearly the castle didn't 'go' anywhere as such - it was a temporary arrangement of grains of sand that went to make up something recognisable to us, and when the sea washed it away, it simply ceased to exist. Another day, someone else might come along and make another castle using some of the same sand that went into your castle, but the one you made is gone and can never exist again.

This is how it is with human beings - we are recognisable to ourselves and others as living organisms, but fundamentally we are temporary constructions of atoms and molecules and will one day simply cease to exist. Just as the sandcastle consists solely of the sand from which it is made, so human beings consist solely of the atoms and molecules of which they are made. When we die, our bodies will be returned to the environment to be incorporated into new living organisms, or to fall as rain, or to make the bedrock of a million years from now. We are ephemeral creatures, a brief pattern of order and complexity imposed on the raw material of the natural world. We should make the most of it, for this is all there is.

Answer 9

I can understand where you get your logic from. It is difficult for many religious people (and athiests, too) to accept that as a possibility, though. They all believe that there is only one way...the way THEY believe. As a Christian, I believe that the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ; not through experimentation or believe in all other "options". That is a personal choice I have made, and I am willing to stick to it no matter what the afterlife holds. That is a good theory, though.

Answer 10

Death remains, to an extent, an unknown.

This is true even for us who know what lies beyond death.

The trick is to be ready, as you mentioned.

After all, if you think that the afterlife is nothing more than a Christian retirement and an invasion of the third heaven, you are in for a pleasant surprise.