dont get all high and mighty on me. i'm only asking the question.
2007-09-21 05:32:36 · 52 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Uhhhhh, if you do not believe in a god of some sort, then souls do not exist. We are just lumps of carbon that revert after our physical vehicle wears out.
2007-09-21 05:47:02 · answer #1 · answered by Bob W 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It is all fixed in the drama. You don't believe in God, but believe in soul? If you believe in soul, how you could forget the "Supreme Soul" , The supreme father of all soul. Soul is a tiny point of energy situating in the centre of eyebrows (more precisely in the centre of hypothalamus). Once the soul take a body (birth) on earth for the first time, that time onwards it is bound in a "Karmic Philosophy". All souls are like actors on a world drama stage. At the time when one's character role is over, it has to leave that body and to come on a re-birth. At the moment of physical death, the soul withdraws its energy from the organs of the body and vacates its seat in the middle of the forehead.
It takes with it the impressions accumulated in that life and enters into the body of an unborn baby, while that new body is still being formed in its mother’s womb. This normally happens between the fourth and fifth month of pregnancy. A human soul only enters a human body. The type of body the soul enters and the conditions of birth are determined by the past actions of the soul in its previous life or lives, and the cumulative account of give and take that it has built up with other souls. Without proper understanding of this process, the leaving of one body and the taking of another is often an experience of great fear and anguish; but the details of the old life are soon obliterated by new experiences so that the soul is not overwhelmed and confused by past memories.
Therefore do not create your own karmic account so that you will have to suffer in the next life without knowing the exact reason for such suffering. Remember the God almighty at all time, while walking, talking, eating, thereby your sins will be absolved. Ohm Shanti (I am a peaceful soul)
2007-09-21 05:53:54 · answer #2 · answered by Surettan S 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe in religion but I believe in all living beings having a "soul", for lack of another word.
When you kick it, I think your soul joins the dark matter of the universe, the "soul" of the universe, where the knowledge and experience and feelings of all living beings who ever existed on this world or any other lives for eternity. Not as a single conciousness, but as a greater, unified conciousness. So, when you're dead, you won't know that you existed,or that you still do, but rather a gathered conciousness, which you'll be a part of, will know everthing from when you did exist, along with the knowledge from everyone/thing else. Easy.
2007-09-21 07:10:10 · answer #3 · answered by dsanchez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really like that bit about getting "all high and mighty"...but it does make it rather difficult to answer your question.
I've been searching for a very long time for a way to tell people what I believe is the truth without coming off as "sanctimonious"...
But anyway, what I believe is this:
When you die, your spirit will go back to God, Who gave it. He will allow it to sleep until the last day, when time will finally come to an end. At that time, He will consider what kind of life you've lived. If you are a basically harmless spirit, He will allow you to live forever, but you won't live in the Holy City with Him...that is reserved for Christ's followers, who will go there immediately when they die (and there aren't nearly as many of them as you might think). Everyone else will live somewhere in His new Creation, which will last forever...no death, disease, greed, or any other harmful thing will be allowed. (This could be a recreation of the universe we know, with a few changes...or it could be something brand new, that we can't even imagine. I wouldn't go all cross-eyed trying to figure it out if I were you...)
If He decides that you cannot live without greed or jealousy...or, God help you, worse...then He will dispose of you, along with death and hell, in the Lake of Fire. (Think of it as God's incinerator...you will simply be burned up, and you won't exist any more.)
NOTE:
For those who think of the "second death" as being "separation from God", I would add this caveat:
Nothing can exist separated from God. To say "you will be separated from God forever" is the same thing as saying "you will not exist".
It really is that simple.
2007-09-21 06:00:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Personally, I think you'll find yourself in a place of recollection and understanding where you'll discern what you'll do and in what general circumstances you'll find yourself in the next life.
I don't believe in the God of the Christians; that particular system seems unlike what a just and loving God would actually set up.
In any event, we are each to choose what it is that we shall believe. It may or may not be what the majority believe, but the quantity of believers should never determine correctness.
Believe as your mind and heart lead you because you are the best judge of what is right for you.
2007-09-21 12:00:37 · answer #5 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Long story made short ...you will be tortured in the grave.On the day of judgment you will stand for questioning for 50,000 years with the sun barely over your head.You might ask how could that be?When you are resurrected from the grave you will have a new body that will never die.After questioning people will be flung into hell (those destine for hell) you would remain in hell for all eternity.Hell has many levels and descriptions and would take to long to explain.I hope that you would reconsider your decision and look around at the signs of Gods existence i wouldn't want you to regret.
2007-09-21 06:31:28 · answer #6 · answered by Conservative 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming you have a soul, the same thing will happen to it that happens to every other soul when it is released from its physical body. If you don't have a previous contract with a supernatural being that offers a different path OR if the contract you have isn't valid, then your soul will be subject to the same rules of existence that every other soul faces.
What is this existence like? I know a lot of people want to paint vivid pictures of what happens to people that don't believe in their particular "god", but the simple fact is that we can't possibly imagine what our existence would really be like without our bodies. Some people may have a pretty good imagination but even the best human imagination is colored by perceptions related to our bodies.
While your body is alive, you can perceive your environment using your physical senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell)...what would your existence be like if all of those senses died with your body? What senses will take their place to allow our soul to perceive and interpret its environment?
Personally, I think it would be really scary to suddenly have to function with unfamiliar senses...especially if I retain any memories of my previous existence (does the soul have a memory?). I can imagine trying to frantically replay all of those memories looking for clues to help me understand what's happening to me now. ...and if my soul doesn't have a memory, wouldn't it feel a lot like being an amnesia patient...frightened, alone, and frantically trying to find something that seems "familiar".
For me, I'll take the contract offered by God through Jesus. He promises that my soul will be happy and at peace if I accept his contract before my body dies. Perhaps faith is the "sense" that our soul needs to know how to use to escape the confusion and fear of the soul that dies without it. Perhaps by exercising my faith to perceive God here on earth, my soul is learning to use the sense it needs to perceive its environment after my body dies.
2007-09-21 06:25:15 · answer #7 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't believe in God or any religion, what makes you think you have a soul? Having a soul is part of belief in God or religion. Good Luck & Blessings
2007-09-21 05:48:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Or, what do you think happened to your soul before you were born? Or what do you think would have happened to you if your parents never got together to give birth to you?
That's the circle of life. Just as you were existing as a potential in the reproductive seeds of your father and mother (they too existed in the seeds of your grandparents who also existed in the seeds of your great-grandparents and so on back to the beginning of time) prior to their coming together, so will you go back as potential somewhere in nature.
This is what Jesus meant in John 8:58: "Before Abraham was, I am"
Nothing is created nor destroyed in reality but constantly move from potential to manifestation and from manifestation to potential.
Before you were born, you always were (potential existence)
When you were born, you became manifested (life)
When you die, you return to being potential (afterlife)
When the "right" human beings come together again maybe some thousand years later, you become manifest again(reincarnation)
It's the cirlce of life! There is nothing to fear, no Satan or hell whatsoever.
"One tomato seed potentially contains in itself a whole garden of tomato plants" given the right environmental conditions, this garden, with time (There is always a time factor to all natural workings), will become manifest.
This is the secret of existence!!!
Shalom.
2007-09-21 09:32:59 · answer #9 · answered by Makaveli007 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I wouldn't worry about it, if I were you. If you don't believe in god or religion, what on earth would make you think that you have a soul? Christians have a totally whacky idea of what the 'soul' is supposed to be, anyway. For the Jews of biblical times... including Jesus (if he actually existed)... the 'soul' was an enveloping emanation from the godhead that resulted from the community's relationship with god. The soul as a component of a human being (Christian view) is an artifact of Greek thinking on 'dualism'... which was incorporated into Christian dogma and lore by Gentile theologians, who were ignorant of the Jewish concept of 'soul'.
So... everyone's worries about what happens to their personal 'soul' are of no consequence... it does not exist.
If Jesus had heard you talking about your 'soul', he wouldn't have had a clue what you were babbling about.
2007-09-21 05:41:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
You don't have a "soul". There's no such thing. When you die, your heart will stop beating, and the chemical reactions and nerve firings which take place in your brain and make you who you are will stop.
The loved ones you leave behind will have memories of you. That is all of you that will go on, unless you donate your organs of course.
2007-09-21 07:54:08 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋