No life beyond death?

Question

I grew up catholic. I don't attend church at the moment but believe in God and heaven.

My boyfriend of one year believes that there is no life beyond death. He says when we die we just disapear and that's that.

I know I'm not overly religious but he tells me that a lot and talks about science and evolotion and all that kind of stuff.

Now I don't know what to believe

Answer 1

I'm not going to tell you what to believe, like every other answer did. Instead, all I'm going to tell you is to think. If you're starting to question your religion, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Find out what you need to know and what makes the most sense to you. In the end, only you can decide which path is best for you.

I will point out though, the the bible and evolution are not mutually exclusive. many people believe in both. you may be able to reconcile your catholic beliefs with your new evidence.

and if not, choose one path or the other. choose whichever one feels right to you.

good luck :)

Answer 2

How long is your life? Do you measure time by the revolutions this earth makes around this small insignificant yellow star? Time is a moment. They say before death, you can see your entire life in that moment. I guess that time is relative. We don't know all things. And me taking your word for it, is just well...hm. So narrow. Your entire life is not good enough for me, I'm afraid. Although I'm sure the quality of it is not in question here. I don't mean to insult your life, but well, your saying so doesn't really convince me. I have searched "all my life" and found that there was a time before the beginning. But I don't expect you to suddenly change your ideas because of my experiences. Maybe you can try some regression therapy. Some people have had some pretty wild experiences. Nobody will blame you if you suddenly find there is more to our spirit than just our bodies.

Answer 3

I think it makes more sense, from a scientific point of view, to believe that the universe and everything in it had a cause that was equal to, or greater than, itself.

Believing that everything you see around you just sprang from nothing all by itself is pretty stupid. I don't understand how intelligent humans, scientists no less, can purposely blind themselves to the obvious truth that the universe was created by God. One could disagree about which god created it; or what that god requires of humans, if anything.
But when a scientist starts a quest for the origins of time and space by first dismissing the possibility that they were created by a god shows degrees of arrogance and denial that belie a motive for the dismissal that is beyond a simple evaluation of facts presented. It shows a evidence of a guilty conscience that is frantically grasping at possibilities that, no matter how far fetched, may somehow reasonably explain (provided no one probes too deeply) the existence of the universe without an accountability to the God who created it.

Answer 4

It is good and, I believe, healthy to question your spiritual beliefs. It can only make them stronger. It may cause you to alter them a little or a lot.
I would, however, advise you to do your own reading, research and thinking on this subject. Don't go along with your BF's ideas just because he's there. Look into yourself and believe what is right for you.
My personal spiritual beliefs came to me through Science. So I see no split between science and spirituality. Check out some of the totally out there stuff from the outer edge of theoretical physics.

Answer 5

How could science tell you what's on the other side of death. Science can only investigate the here and the now. When you start talking about what beyond death you have gone beyond the realm of science. I would ask your boyfriend "how do you know that.......have you been to the other side?" Your boyfriend talking about what's on the otherside of death is like me talking about what's on the surface of a planet 1000 light years from here. There's no way I could actually know without actually going there.

Answer 6

You should take your miracle of a believing self and find a new boyfriend because he is not someone that you are going to want make a baby that is not going any were after death with . If you can't save him leave him! How far from your true sense of spirituality are you if you are even bringing yourself to ask these questions? Even if there was nothing after death why spend an entire life knowing that? it is better to believe! You need to get back in the spirit! Read Romans 8. and James 3 and 4

Answer 7

Creation is more provable then Evolution, 1st of all have you ever known anything to create itself?

Can a Car create itself, can a Computer create itself? can a House build itself?

If you answer no to all 3 of these then ask yourself this, could Humans and animals have their bones and organs located where they are at without the assistance of an intellegent designer?

My answer to this is no way, we have to have been created by an intellegent designer which I believe is God.

Ok so I agree with Christian and Jewish doctrines more than most Religions although creation stories from other faiths are more easier to believe than evolution.

For instance, yes I beoieve in the Judeo-Christian doctrine of Creation, but the Shinto story on Creation is brilliant, I disagree with the Shinto version but their story is more believable than the theory of Evolution.

An Atheist actually proved that Evolution was false, of coruse he wasn't ready to admit that God created us so he created the theory that the aliens brought us here.

Answer 8

Simply believe whichever option has the strongest supporting evidence. Either when we die our brains (the source of our thoughts, emotions, memories, etc) stop functioning and we no longer exist; or some invisible substance with no discernible function that somehow nevertheless 'is' us escapes and goes to a place that doesn't exist physically where it somehow becomes a person again and 'lives' for eternity in either pleasure or pain depending on which beliefs we held in our no-longer-functioning brains.

Answer 9

It makes no difference what others say; eventually you have to make up your own mind. How much weight can you assign to a person you have known only a year or to someone such as me who you don't even know? Advice is advice whatever the source. You must decide in the end. I have made extremely good and bad decisions, but in the end I had no one to blame or congratulate but myself. I am an atheist and that is that. My wife is the opposite.

Answer 10

You can believe whatever you want to. It's your prerogative;
your right as an individual. However, although I'm not going
to tell you that you're wrong to believe in God & Heaven, I'd
have to think your boyfriend tells you about science and
evolution because they can be proven. (God, Heaven, and
the theory of reincarnation, though, cannot be.)

Peace.