Does this prove what happens when you die....?

Question

Start with a bacterium. Does it have a soul and does it get an afterlife? A bacterium is a cell membrane filled with a variety of molecules. These molecules react together in different ways to create what we call life. Although all of these molecules are reacting in fascinating, interlocking ways, they are still nothing more than chemicals reacting. The "miracle of life" is no miracle -- it is a big chemical reaction. When those reactions stop, the cell is dead.

Now here is the question: When the bacterium dies, does it get an afterlife?

There are not many people in the United States who believe that bacteria go to heaven. The Bible does not talk about heaven being filled with all the disease, putrefaction and pestilence that bacteria cause. And what, exactly, would go to heaven? Do all of the bacterium's molecules get transported to another dimension so that they can keep reacting? If that were happening, there would be thousands of tons of chemicals leaving earth every day.

What about mosquitoes? A mosquito is much more complex than a bacterium cell. For one thing, a mosquito is a multi-cellular insect with amazing capabilities. But if you look at each cell in a mosquito, it is very much like a bacterium in its basic functioning.

Do mosquitoes get an afterlife? Clearly not. Think of how many mosquitoes have lived and died over the course of millions of years. No one imagines heaven being full of septillions of everlasting mosquitoes. There is also the problem that we saw with bacteria -- the only way for a mosquito to go to heaven would be to somehow transport all the chemicals in a mosquito from earth to heaven.

The human body is nothing but a set of chemical reactions. The chemical reactions powering a human life are no different from the reactions powering the life of a bacterium, a mosquito, a mouse, a dog or a chimp. When a human being dies, the chemical reactions stop. There is no "soul" mixed in with the chemicals, just like there is no soul in a bacterium, a mosquito, a mouse, a dog or a chimp. Why would there be an afterlife for the chemicals that make up a human body?

Answer 1

It is a good start.

Using logic i came with this conclusion

The theory of eternal recurrence
because matter is not created or destroyed, there is a set amount of matter, there fore a set amount of possible uses of this matter. So over a Very long time, the same outcome will occur.. Therefore, EVERYTHING REPEATS AND HAS REPEATED OVER AND OVER. our lives will repeat... my keystrokes will repeat. everything.

Answer 2

well, first of all in heaven there are no "flesh" type creatures. Angels and other creatures that to exist in heave are spirit.

When bacterium dies where does it go. Unlike much of religion, the bible gives a clear answer

The bible says when a person dies, their thoughts perish, and also when a person dies they are conscious of nothing at all. Hell is simply not a place of burning and suffering , but the grave. Job even requested he go to hell to be hid in the day of Gods anger.

bacteria as important as it is, simply rots and becomes part of the soil, as explained again in the bible.

Its too bad so many believe false teachings and not really read the bible for what it is, namely those that preach it.

Answer 3

I love it!!!!! WELL SAID! It's good to know that there are more and more thinking "souls" around and who knows, maybe one day everyone will finally realize that there is no invisible man floating around keeping tabs on everything you do, say, and think. I find it incredible that people still believe in the fairy tales found in books written by unknown authors about talking bushes and some dude pulling out a rib mixing it with dirt and creating a blonde woman!! Oh and by the way did adam and eve have belly buttons?

Answer 4

This is the condition of the dead [ people]
(Ecclesiastes 9:5-6) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.

They are 'asleep' in death.

(Psalm 13:3) Do look [upon me]; answer me, O Jehovah my God. Do make my eyes shine, that I may not fall asleep in death,

Bacterium are life forms. like animals, created by God.

(Ecclesiastes 3:19-20) For there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast, for everything is vanity. 20 All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust.

Nothing goes to heaven.

Answer 5

Jesus died for the souls of men, which are eternal. He did not die for animal or bacteria--but all mankind. However, what you really need a handle on physics when you are talking about death and the afterlife. First, when you die, you pass from the boundaries of space-time into timelessness. When Adam died, he did not "sleep" as we understand sleep. The moment Adam died he entered timeless eternity. The next moment, the entire of earth's history has played out and the judgment has begun.
Sleep is sort of like that. When you sleep, time seems to pass by in a moment. Ever gone a night without sleep? It is like the night lasts forever. In the eternal, time has no hold and no limitation. As we live in these bodies, time drags on. But upon our death, click, the world's scenario has already played out. What happens after the judgment depends on what you decide in the here and now.

Hebrews 9:27-28
...it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

Answer 6

Sure the mosquito's get a second go at you and me in ell. They were put on earth to just give you an example of whats coming.

Answer 7

nicely no one is specific by way of fact atheist arnt non secular, and not each and every Christian believes in technological know-how by way of fact all what human beings attempt to do most of the time is push aside God in some variety of style. a acceptable occasion is destiny vs out of danger which potential its out of danger the often happening no longer something is why we are right here, from a concept attitude for human beings we are the main rational, and in straightforward terms creatures to decipher between good and undesirable potential we've a objective right here, then right here we see why the two can't meet and why atheism and no concept in a afterlife can't merge. in the event that they merge then atheist exchange into agnostic and later attempt to be sure what God is the authentic God. concept interior the unknown is complicated, that is hard for some human beings, and others are merely ignorant. yet as a manner to understand why a Christian believes what they suspect you gotta walk a mile of their shoes quite of accuse till you're choosing to be ignorant, or merely discover it difficult to do.

Answer 8

Good question, especial since some bacteria is very beneficial to us. So does that mean heaven is a sterile environment? Doesn't sound like fun.

Answer 9

Man/woman is the ONLY creature given a soul unto which heaven or hell becomes its destination. As much as I love my animals (4 dogs and a cat) when they die their bodies will decay and return to the earth, they are without souls and will not inherit the kingdom of heaven with me.

Answer 10

"Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? I Corinthians, chapter 1, verse 20

and another:

"He (God) catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon them." Job, chapter 5, verse 13

You need to be very careful when making fun of the Creator of the Universe. It WILL come back to bite you in the booty!