Do you believe in hell NOR heaven?

Question

every one know what is recarnation (after life) right?? what if it doesn't exist? i mean if you died, you're laying below the ground, where there's nothingness, no lights, no thought no feeling. i mean your brain rotten up right? you can't dream, so you won't have enternal dream. Well i know i am weird for asking this question, however, some one i know died, and i just thougth that what if heaven NOR hell doesn't exist, it just gives me the creeps,, i just wanna hear your opinion on death..

Answer 1

Your experience reminds me of something I read recently which, while not directly adressing heaven/hell, addresses what I firmly believe regarding life and death, I quote from it here:

Robert Blatchford, in his book God and My Neighbor, attacked with vigor accepted Christian beliefs, such as God, Christ, prayer, and immortality. He boldly asserted, "I claim to have proved everything I set out to prove so fully and decisively that no Christian, however great or able he may be, can answer my arguments or shake my case."6 He surrounded himself with a wall of skepticism. Then a surprising thing happened. His wall suddenly crumbled to dust. He was left exposed and undefended. Slowly he began to feel his way back to the faith he had scorned and ridiculed. What had caused this profound change in his outlook? His wife died. With a broken heart, he went into the room where lay all that was mortal of her. He looked again at the face he loved so well. Coming out, he said to a friend: "It is she, and yet it is not she. Everything is changed. Something that was there before is taken away. She is not the same. What can be gone if it be not the soul?"

Later he wrote: "Death is not what some people imagine. It is only like going into another room. In that other room we shall find . . . the dear women and men and the sweet children we have loved and lost."

Answer 2

What is it you really want to know?
I read this question a lot but people seem to be looking for answers that they don't quite voice in the question.

If you're looking for proof of an Afterlife you will not find it in science, but then science has nothing to say on the subject one way or the other.

You might find this part heavy going but I think it's worth reading..

Science finds no evidence of the possibility of life after death, but science has a lot of very big holes in it that cannot be filled by any scientific method. A big one for me is the question of how the Universe began - how do you create something from nothing?; when I ask about it on forums like Richard Dawkins.net, all I get is a lot of mocking responses directing me to the Big Bang theory; but when I ask "what came before that?" there is no answer. Scientists says that time began with the Big Bang so as far as they're concerned there was no "before", but even they freely admit that it's a non-answer because they can't explain what caused time to begin (there's talk about a "vacuum" but then there's the question of "what caused the vacuum?" - and so on it goes ad-infinitum).

I'm certain that without someone to be aware of things - to be aware of the Universe - nothing has and form or meaning; time cannot exist unless there is someone to give it relevance: without us, time would not be time in the same way as a Planet would no more be a Planet than a hamburger or a song or a sneeze or a memory or a color. Try to imagine a Universe in the palm of your hand: It has galaxies and stars and planets but it does not exist; it has no dimensions or inhabitants to make it real - apart from you.

I don't believe death really exists because it is a physical process, and like all physical things it exists in our minds.
Think about how you are sitting there right now looking at this screen; everything you see and hear and feel is within your brain - you don't actually exist "out here", you are that gray thing inside your skull.

But where does your brain really exist?
Even the most conservative of scientists must admit that life is not just a series of electrical impulses; life is something undefined by science because ultimately it exists outside of all scientific laws, it is not limited by physics or time or space.
Everything we see and hear and feel does not actually happen in out brains, it happens in our MINDS. Even your brain is the creation of your mind: Most Atheists scoff at that notion, but I challenge anyone to prove the physical existence of their own brain.

Really, no Atheist actually believes in death because they believe that the Universe continues to exist after they are gone; but how can it? If YOU don't exist then neither does the Universe; it's not just that the Universe would stop existing from your point of view but continue for everyone else, it really would cease to exist. I don't believe in Solipsism (the idea that you are the only person who can be proven to exist) but it does make some good points about how people unconsciously believe that life does not end.

What comes after you die? Well, since you are the creator of the Universe (and again, I defy ANYONE to contradict that) then what happens next is whatever you want to happen. Nothing impossible, no limits, anything you want to be.

Answer 3

I believe that if your a good person, you believe in god,your not a murderer:...That when you die you float around for a little while -then you go to a long tunnel .With a bright light you travel yo the bright light. At the end theres 2 doors.Bad people go to the left door which is dark and scary and is the doorway to hell.The right door is paradise and all your loved ones and pets are there.Its eternal life and its where god is. I think you go there and rest for awhile then at your choice you come back for another life or you can stay in paradise . Because god promises eternal life that is heaven. If I'm wrong I'm wrong .But I did have a near death experience and I floated around and heard every word about me.My life flashed before my eyes as I was in a tunnel going toward a light. But I wasnt ready to die . I woke up in surgery but I'll never forget the tunnell and the light.

Answer 4

I think there must exist something to differentiate between good people and those who are bad, murders, thieves and tyrants.......if life after death doesn't exist so life is not fair at all, and then we are living for nothing.....I think God is fair, and he is gonna give everyone his portion....life is very short, some people say.."it's just a big joke".....
Life is just an exam for the Life after death which is immortal, we either fail and go to hell, or succed and go to heaven...it's just a path to it.....if it's not like that, then our life is meaningless...and unfair..

Answer 5

Well, most religions that believe in Heaven and Hell, do not believe in Reincarnation. It would kinda make them pointless, wouldn't it?

Answer 6

I don't think either exists, but I believe that there is life after death. Once you gain self-awareness, that cannot be lost. I believe that's forever.

Answer 7

When you die you will come to know nothing, afterwhich they will bury your body flesh and be eaten by the worms and return to dust.

Your soul be taken by God under his care until judgement comes. If your sins have not forgiven you will be thrown to the lake of fire in hell and be burn to ashes but if your sins have forgiven, you will be brought by God to heaven for eternal life in heaven.
You are not reading the b ible that is why you are very ignorant about it.
jtm

Answer 8

Hell represents danger, heaven represents greed. Just get rid of this notion & love thy God. You will feel happy.

Answer 9

No comments on this. Cause either hell or heaven only a legend, no one have say that :"i have reach hell before." nor "i have reach heaven before." So maybe it have or don't have...

Answer 10

Both heaven and hell exist and they are eternal. Everyone will go to one or the other.