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If you need an afterlife to give meaning to your life, what meaning will there be for living in an afterlife?
If you will never die, you will have no risks. If there is time, it is endless. If there is no time, your life, while ever lasting, will have no sense of time passing.
If there is perception, how can there be beauty with no squalor with which to compare it?
What purpose will you have in the next world?
What gives someone a reason for existing in eternity?
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2007-07-10 12:14:04 · 8 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You have answered your own question and have illustrated this Bronze Age myth for what it is. The purpose of this life is life, nothing more. Considering what happens after death is like trying to understand infinity.
2007-07-10 12:18:08 · answer #1 · answered by canucklehead1951 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From an actual Christian perspective, the answer is that the afterlife should NOT be the purpose of this life. The purpose of this life is to love and to help others out of suffering. Too many people misunderstand that.
Of course, this idea also makes me wonder why God didn't just make us all loving believers in the first place...
2007-07-10 12:21:50 · answer #2 · answered by Skye 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I see little "purpose" in this life or the next, except to experience it.
That's all I need. My afterlife is not the Christian afterlife - its purpose is just to be there.
2007-07-10 12:21:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm still working on finding the purpose for this life. I'll worry about the next one if and when I get there.
2007-07-10 12:19:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be with God. To be without the physical limitations.
I am sure I do not long for risk taking in heaven.
I am sure it is going to be beautiful in heaven and that
To live in harmony in the presense of God.
God.
2007-07-10 22:23:11 · answer #5 · answered by Ulrika 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a far out question... Hurray for you!
I can't wait to read the twistin' and turnin' evasiveness of the answers you'll provoke with this one...
Well done. Now let's see who's fool enough to attempt an answer.
(Do you need an owner, a parent or part-time valet? I'll be happy to offer my free services to you... LOL. )
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2007-07-10 13:34:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe when we die we go to the summer lands.
Below is a link to a small page that pretty much sums up all the Questions you have asked.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spiritwolf/summerlands.htm
I hope you find what you are looking for!
Ariel
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2007-07-10 12:22:51 · answer #7 · answered by *~Ariel Brigalow Moondust~* 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cheerios.
MOUNTAINS UPON MOUNTAINS OF CHEERIOS!!!!
2007-07-10 12:17:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋