if there is no life after this, was what ever you held true, worth it?

Question

& likewise, if there IS a life after this, will whatever knowledge you believe in, worth what ever happens next?

Answer 1

There is an everlasting life for us all if God deems us worthy enough to go to Heaven. So what I hold true to myself will infact help me when I face God and answer for my sins.

Answer 2

Whether we acknowledge it or not, we are all mechanisms in the inexorable progress of civilization. Whether you shovel french fries, or design space shuttles, whatever knowlege you have is utilized for the greater collective good. There is worth in knowing this truth, even upon ones deathbed.

If there is an afterlife wherein a person rejoins an omnipotent creator (i.e. returns to perfection) than whatever knowledge the person had during their mortal existence would be pointless and trivial. Furthermore, if reaching a divine pinnacle is our ultimate destiny, that would make all the struggles and achievements of mortal existence equally pointless and trivial, which seems a thoroughly irrational and wasteful reason to create reality in the first place.

Answer 3

Here's how I see it. There's life after death, or there's not. If I'm wrong, and Christianity is fake, then I've lived my life as a good person, helped a lot of people, loved people, and tried to make a difference. If I'm right, which I believe I am, then I'll be in Heaven. So yes, in both cases, living a Christian life is worth it.

Answer 4

Yes.
Matt.22:37-40 All is worth it, the soil we are living on is not what we created, it was here for us that are born in sin after Adam and dying the whole time we have life to its end,
and the least we can do is have respect for the earth, the provider of the earth and the others that share the earth that are each in the same position with us and give thanks for it Matt.6:9-13; and believe the only history book we have that tells us exactly how humankind is.

Answer 5

Of course it was worth it. Even if there is NO God at all, taking up a moral, loving lifestyle contributes to the betterment of ALL of humanity. It may NOT give the person the reward that was sought for throughout life but it STILL gives the reward of of being remembered as a truly loving individual. Evenif there is NO Deity or afterlife, I'd still like to be remembered fondly as a loving, tender person. One who did the BEST he could in service to his fellow humans. In MY opinion, the existence or non-existence of a Deity is irrelevant. It's the SORT of person that we TRULY are that's important. Doing good simply for the sake of an eternal reward by some Deity is a selfish act. Doing good SOLELY for the sake of doing good is it's OWN reward.

Raji the Green Witch

Answer 6

for my own belief..if ever there is nothing after death and yet you believed in, nothing will be lost to you.. because the religion you had or faith you preserve unto yourself just simply guide you to have a good way of living which morality actually dictates.. it just made you a better person and productive without becoming destructive to other ones

while

not believing and yet something exists beyond death, great lost will be yours,, and why? because the life after death requires good living and belief to HIM to be able to have a comfortable life in His kingdom in return while not believing somehow states that you will probably go to the place where ultimate suffering resides.. it's called the place where His presence doesn't exist and it's all because you actually don't believe in Him at all so you deserve that place as your residency.. big lost will be yours because that place is said to be where unending suffering resides and that time, you can't do anything just to repent and save yourself from that tragic difficulty you are experiencing

Answer 7

If there is no after life... whatever is held true is worth it because it gives meaning and purpose to life while it exists. It serves to make life worth it for the now, coz the past is long gone and not graspable, and the future is too far away to hold.

If there IS after life, whatever is held true is worth it because it gave meaning and purpose to life while living. It served to make life worth it for the moment, it brings satisfaction to a past well lived and prepares one for what is about to come.

Answer 8

For me it is. As a Christian I have tried to live my life according to what I believe God expects of me. It has been a good and rewarding life filled with happiness because I can look my fellow man, and myself, in the face. I don't look over my shoulder. I don't wonder which of my misdeeds are going to catch up with me. Should I die and there is nothing, then it will have been in vain --- except for those I left behind. They will be better off because of how I lived my life for I have not abused them. God assures me, though, that that's not going to happen.

I'd rather be wrong and live as I have, than to be right and live otherwise.

Answer 9

I never believed in life after death so it does not worry me that whatever I have in my life now will not be worth after death.

Answer 10

There are 84,000,000 lives in this world. half of that lives in the water and rest on this planet earth.

Human life is considered the best of all.

Depending on our deeds we go through the different life cycles after death and come back to human life.

So there is life after death.

Answer 11

Yes, even if there is nothing after this, it would be worth it. If I am wrong because I believe, then I really lose nothing. However, if one who doesn't believe turns out to be wrong, Eternity is a verrrrrrry long time to be wrong.