It seems to me like most of these faiths counter the "thinking of others in hell" qualm with the classic "me so happy" answer -- in that they are in such euphoric rapture (from being with God) that they have no room for misery.
It seems to me that the mere reflection on memory and realization that others are suffering (coupled with the fact that you are helpless to do anything) would cause your own sadness.
Since sadness would not exist in "heaven", would you be apathetic to the whole ordeal, would you still have free will, and would you still remember your time on Earth?
If not, what part of you transcends the hereafter? (if you say the soul, what bearing does the soul have on anything in THIS life?)
2007-07-23 11:01:43 · 6 answers · asked by Moodrets 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes there would be free will
2007-07-23 11:05:23 · answer #1 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Judaism does not focus much at all on any kind of afterlife; it's very much a religion of the 'here and now'.
To the person who said that Judaism includes a belief in reincarnation - that's a new one. I've never heard that one before; very interesting.
2007-07-23 11:35:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
sure I do. greater or much less the form you describe it yet relating to the non secular element of loss of existence. whilst actual physique dies, the soul (spirit) travels to flow back to the place it belongs- its writer. (take notice, the spirit has greater gender after death). on an identical time as interior the technique of going back, it perspectives a flashback of its previous existence in the worldwide the two stable and undesirable. The undesirable issues makes it sense remorseful( Reference:purgatory and right it is the conflict which you're pointing out), and the stable issues could enable it to be with God (Reference: heaven) the place it extremely is going to commune in His loving goodness continuously. in spite of the shown fact that, there are unlucky souls who are not waiting to renounce the flaws that the worldwide promises, those are the only trapped in this actual worldwide. they decline to place up, they decline to conflict, they cant flow on and it looks like hell.
2016-10-19 06:53:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think you are correct in your thinking. Everyone will still be who they are and have their memories as well as the ability to make new ones. Friends and associations will continue. I do not believe all is total absolute bliss and that we will still have feelings and at times sadness. I cannot believe that God himself felt no loss or sorrow when his Son was suffering. Surely he felt for him. As far as what continues in the hereafter, your spirit and intelligence continue until the resurrection where the perfected body is rejoined permanently with your spirit.
2007-07-23 11:16:55 · answer #4 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Judaism doesn't have anything like an eternal hellfire, that's Christian. They didn't get it from us, they got it from Zoroastrianism and other old pagan religions.
Judaism believes in reincarnation, so yes, a continuation of consciousness is included in that.
2007-07-23 11:09:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
in Judaism there *is* no eternal hell, it simply does not exist.
this solves the problem, really.
the "heaven" concept many christians belive in is truly horrific, really.
2007-07-23 11:10:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋