What do you think will happen to you when you die? I'm just curioius because, being an Agnostic Christian, I believe/hope that I will go to the Other Side (aka heaven).
And I'm not trying to ask in a way that sounds smart-a**, I'm genuinely curious.
2007-11-05 16:59:36 · 24 answers · asked by **[Witty_Name]** 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To Kimbo- I don't think you're being rude, lol. Its a legitimate question. Okay... ummm.. The easiest way I can put it is... I do believe in God (the Christian God), I don't believe that Jesus died on the cross. I think he lived a long life under an assumed identity (far fetched, I know, but it makes sense if you think like I do, lol). Basically, (and I'm not trying to be spammy), if you read Sylvia Brown's book "The Mystical Life of Jesus Christ: An Uncommon Look at the Life of Christ", that basically sums up what I believe, and even if you don't want to believe it, it still makes for a pretty interesting read, lol. Not to mention a good conversation peice. (End commercial, lol)
2007-11-05 17:46:07 · update #1
I'm a spiritual Atheist and there is life after death. I visited with my dad after he died. When we die, we usually go back to where we came from, other dimensions. Reincarnation is real. My experiences proved that to me and I was a hard sell, even though I "knew" there was. I was just in denial because I was a christian then and that wasn't allowed. When we ascend spiritually we ascend at death. Ascension is a higher vibrational level. We currently are in a low vibration, 3d. The real you never dies. You are immortal. This all ties together. Life is the same in your body or out of your body. You simply change location and vibrate faster in a higher vibration dimension.
2007-11-05 17:12:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's an interesting and valid question, Kirsten. But you don't seem to understand the term "agnostic." An agnostic does not believe in God but, unlike an atheist, the agnostic acknowledges the possibility that God exists. An agnostic "does not know" (the literal meaning of the word agnostic) if God exists.
It is therefore impossible to be a "Christian agnostic" because the Christian faith not only demands absolute belief in God, the Judeo-Christian God specifically, but in Jesus as the Son of God. So a Christian cannot be an agnostic or an atheist, and vice-versa.
As for me, an agnostic, I know that when I die my body will merge once again with the earth and the universe from whence it came. I also think that it is very possible that my soul, mind, life energy, whatever you want to call it, will likewise rejoin the cumulative energy of the universe.
2007-11-05 17:15:50 · answer #2 · answered by Don P 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am not an atheist but I am absolutely not a Christian either nor am I Hindu. But may I ask if you are you familar at all with the Vedic philosophy?
This may help.
The Main Ideas of Vedanta
God is one without a second, absolute and indivisible. Though impersonal, beyond name and form, God assumes various personal forms to reveal itself to us. God is our soul. We are primarily consciousness, part of the cosmic consciousness.
All of the incarnations (manifestations of God on Earth) are actual embodiments of Divinity. No one incarnation can be regarded as the only manifestation of that Divinity.
There is no accident in the cosmic universe. Human destiny is governed by the law of cause and effect.
We are born on earth repeatedly to finish the unfinished work of realizing our divinity. Although we suffer because of actions, commonly known as karma, we can control ourselves and hence our destiny.
There is a higher state of consciousness which can be achieved in this human birth.
There are many ways to achieve union with God, through the intellect, emotions, actions, and the will. A specific path or a combination should be followed to realize the aim and objectives of life.
I hope this helps you to understand that this realm of existence called the physical realm is but one level of what many call "reality". There are at least two others that I know about and at least one of them has been proven to exist by modern science. The other is not far from verification as well.
Do you know about quantum reality? Ah, then well there is virtual (or spiritual) reality as well.
The three levels of reality - physical, quantum, virtual.
Each of us is an expression of the infinite one and we all move back and forth between these realm of universal reality.
I know it sounds crazy but that is the way it really is and contemporary science is beginning to verify it through their research, studies, and discoveries in quantum physics at
such places as the international physics laboratory called CERN.
2007-11-05 17:24:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing happens after death. The body decays and that's it. Not exactly a comfortable thought and clearly less appealing than living in hope of sitting on a cloud playing the harp forever, but there it is.
2007-11-05 17:06:46 · answer #4 · answered by scubalady01 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To understand completely you will have to understand I do not believe we have souls/spirits...
When we die it's the end body function stops and that's it nothing leave the body to carry on it's simply over...
I really don't expect you will fully understand my belief, most often the problem comes from not being able to fully accept the nonexistance of a soul/spirit.. But thanks for trying...
2007-11-05 17:06:59 · answer #5 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not trying to be rude... I promise! But how are you in Agnostic Christian... what does that mean?
I thought Agnostic means that you believe in a god but you just don't know which one.
And a Christian is that you believe that Christ died for your sins...
I promise I'm not trying to be rude! : )
2007-11-05 17:05:19 · answer #6 · answered by Kimbo 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe we return to the spiritual whole. While we are each individual entities, spirit energy kind of melds together - like the Force, I guess. It runs through everything and everyone.
Just no deities involved.
2007-11-05 17:05:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How I wish I knew. I don't know if you saw my most recent question. It dealt with me being an atheist and wanting to believe good people are rewarded in some type of afterlife.
2007-11-05 17:04:48 · answer #8 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your own belief system.I'm not sure what will happen to me but I just know that there is something out there that is greater than all of us and whether that means i just die and decompose or go to heaven that it will not be decided by me or my actions.
2007-11-05 17:09:32 · answer #9 · answered by storesboy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am an atheist. I don't know what happens after death. No one has come back to tell us.
Assuming nothing happens after I die, I intend to live my life as fully as I can.
2007-11-05 17:13:12 · answer #10 · answered by CC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋