Why does there have to be an afterlife?

Question

What the am going to do for eternity? I'll get bored too easily on acount of my attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. I'm just not at all attracted to the idea that life is forever - be it in heaven or hell!

Are Christians simply too afraid of death and thus invent this after life as a means of making death more acceptable?

Answer 1

There isn't an afterlife and, yes, you are correct in your assessment of how fear of death has created it.

Answer 2

I get bored easily too. I could find an interesting label and leave it at that. Instead I find something interesting to do and if that doesn't do it I look around for something else to do. That takes effort. With you being hyperactive you would have lots of energy so you should be chuffed at all the possibilities at your disposal.

The afterlife thingy is well worth your applying some energy to because if you get that wrong you may well rue your words that a forever life is not very attractive.

Answer 3

There does not Have to be one there just Is one. All will experience it, but for some it will be short as they have a second death and then its finished with forever.

If there was really no after life, then that would mean we have no Soul. So we would be little better than colonies of termites that live in cities made of cement instead of the equivalent made of earth, slaves to our environment and instincts. So if you believe that actually the case, I don't see whats stopping you bowing out now. Save yourself a lot of problems and you would have nothing to fear afterwards either because you do not believe there is one

Answer 4

There is no after life and you are right you would be bored to just fly around the sky for ever unless there was a purpose for you to be there like ruling ever the earth. Man was made to live here on earth and if you were to live for ever I guarantee you that you will not ever be bored. How much time do you need to really get to know every species of birds, insects, flowers, taste every fruit there is, or even live for a while by every mountain, river and beach that exist on this beautiful earth of ours, and what about become a close friend to each and every person that lives on earth??? OH! you would need eternity to do and really enjoy all of that and so much more. So how so very wonderful it would be if we lived for ever on this eath with out the fear of death!

Answer 5

I believe in reincarnation. At the beginning of time Spirit created only so many souls and we never meet anyone over here who we have not known before. Each lifetime we come back and learn more so that our soul advances on to the next left of awareness until, at some point, we become good enough so that we no longer have to return. If there is an ending to this world as we know it, we will all go back to the One that created us.

This is a pretty simplified way to put my belief, but it is the basics!

Answer 6

I do think it has to do with fear of death that many people have. That, and they're so overcome by the need to live their life to please an invisible man on a cloud that they need the promise of an afterlife to actually start having a good time after they die.

Katskan, yes... most rational people are willing to accept that after they die they'll never see their loved ones again. Because they're dead... You know... Gone... Life ended. Kaput. Poof.

When I was diagnosed with a life threatening disease two years ago it was the hardcore Christians I knew who became basketcases and constantly asked me if I was terrified. I wasn't.

Answer 7

This is not your life the after life is your real life.

It is packed with these excisions into secondary imaginary lives in this illusory physical reality.

Trust me you will never grow tired of it.


This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 8

If one develops one's intuitive spiritual senses, you will feel that part of you is eternal. That you have a spirit residing in your body, that can exist at times with out the body. If you have dreams at night, in which you feel like your spirit leaves your body, to explore the spiritual realm, and connect with other spirits, some of the living , some of the dead, you may sense that their is more to life than just material stuff. I believe in reincarnation, since I believe the spirit will alway want to return to a body, either when its leaves its body in sleep, or after death to a fresh body. I don't believe we can escape the reality we know, as a lot of christians believe, after we die. I believe I am in one of many, many after lives.

Answer 9

There is an afterlife (and a before one) but you won't find much truth on it in old religions.

Can you imagine explaining their life after birth to a fetus in the womb? The same thing applies here.

Answer 10

Compared with the millions of years the world has been around, a 70 year lifetime would be rather pointless. There is an afterlife but you wouldn't be bored.

Answer 11

Belief in the afterlife can be traced to paleolithic times. We have people arranged in graves and items placed with them they may need: food, tools, totems,etc. In this age to survive you had to kill, alot. Kill to eat, kill attackers vying for resources, kill predators wanting to eat you. Death came easy and life was hard. The Psyche had to come to terms with all the killing and death in the daily struggle for life. The answer became 'there is no death.' Certain rites were performed when taking the life of an animal to assure it would return to feed people again. Hunting was a sacred act with spiritual significance. Rites were performed for people to assure their return or continuing life in the next world. People noticed the dying of plants in winter and their return in spring and extended this to animals and people.