Were we dead before we came into existence?

Question

Before we came into existence, we were not even considered for life. We were completely dead. Not even a thought of becoming a live person. Then something happened. I don't mean a man & woman got together and made woopie! There had to be another reason why we came into existence, were we destined to be alive? Were we brought back from the dead?

I'm not suggesting reincarnation! In order to be reincarnated, you have to have been in existence first, then die and then come back as someone else. I'm saying, in a sense, you never existed before, you were kinda waiting in line to be created/born/etc.

Answer 1

That depends on your definition of death.

Answer 2

If you were "waiting in line" then wouldn't you by definition be alive and not dead? If one were as you suggest not even considered for life and completely dead, IE non existent on all levels then how would destiny play a part as even that suggest a plan of sorts. At which point in the whole cycle would you consider one to be "alive"? At the point of conception? At the thought of such? Or long before we even know anything ourselves? If all life began from only an amoebic form, then could it not be put down to natural progression or nature?

If someone dreams of something does it not take on existence at that time?

Answer 3

You would have to ask yourself how you felt as a child really...

When I was young growing up, I thought that I was more than what I was. I seemed to have known things that I couldn't have possibly known or how to do..

I wasn't taught certain things, yet I knew how to do it. But naturally as a child I talked to other kids about funny things like "what were you in your past life, I think I was so and so".. things like that.

Children don't really grow up with that certain knowledge at least I wasn't.

As anyone knows, your body will die... but your spirit will live on forever. I believe that when you are gone from this world, your spirit will be "ordained" to a family that God feels fit for you to live and endure. And that it's our job in the humanity scheme of things to understand what family is.

More importantly, I believe that we are to find God in each of our lives... re-incarnated through the spirit.

Many cultures believe that your spirit comes back into existence from your past life. What you reap is what you sow. Christianity believes in the resurrection of Christ's Spirit. So we do know that resurrection of the spirit is alive and well, what we need to show ourselves is what we live today.
Does today seem so easy for you to do the things that you do because perhaps you lived before this lifetime... hmmmm

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Answer 4

Our youngest son started to talk in complete sentences very early. Even his doctors were shocked.

One evening when he was about 3 or 4 we were laying in bed talking. He told me about the place he was at right before he was born. He called it the place where the babies wait to be born. The story was fascinating. I assumed that he was making it up. The next evening I asked him to make up a story, but he did not understand what I was asking him to do. I realized that he was able to recount actual things that had happened but he was not able at that age to make up a story.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 5

A primal state of consciousness. It doesn't have to be human or animal. Even quantum physics says the smallest of matter has a consciousness.
Rent the movie (BlockBuster) "What the #&% Do We Know". Quantum physics is where science meets spiritualality now.

Answer 6

no, you would be nothing before you came into existence, not dead, not waiting in line, you wouldnt exist at all, there would totally of been no you
as to what point you were created, began, there are many opinions on that, but before you began, you there again just were not, anywhere, doing anything

Answer 7

actually, i believe there is no such thing as "death" we only leave our mortal bodies to become even more alive in heaven. we're never dead before we are born and we never become dead when on earth we are considered "dead" (however so our bodies may be). our souls live on forever and will never be destroyed unless by the will of God. :)

Answer 8

we all started from a living cell. everything and everyone has come from that living cell. As the cells divide new organisms are created but this of course brings us back to the question of where did that first cell come from?

Answer 9

Are you suggesting reincarnation?

And how do you know, if that's what you are suggesting, that we weren't waiting in line waiting for our chance?

Seriously, life develops slowly. One cell is only aware of its basic needs. Four cells are aware of their basic needs AND aware of each other. 400 cells are aware of basic needs, aware of each other, and starting to communicate. 4000 cells are aware of basic needs, aware of each other, communicating, and starting to specialize.

Every organism capable of thought is made up of millions of individual cells cooperating and caring for each other.

We are a city.

Answer 10

interesting metaphysical question. it would depend upon one's belief system. as one respondant said, you could be reffering to reincarnation, that is, being dead and coming back. or if your of the belief that there is another realm besides the physical realm, then it seem to me that you believe in eternity, in particular eternity past. as i said, interesting question.

Answer 11

The universe reabsorbs us, and than spits us out, and than reabsorbs us. I was dead and than I came back, and I died and I came back, its called reincarnation.