Do you believe in heaven, hell, both, or neither? Please explain if you like.
2007-12-08 05:57:44 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Neither
The same god that people consider all-good is credited with creating hell and banishing there all souls who do not accept him. Allowing anyone to suffer ultimate torment for all eternity--particularly when it is within your power to prevent it--is arguably the greatest form of evil possible. The only point to causing pain and suffering with no chance of redemption is petty cruelty.
Forcing someone to suffer for not returning your love is cruel, spiteful and petty. Society considers such behavior evil enough to enact laws to prevent it.
Causing one person to suffer for eternity (even for a truly heinous crime) is bad enough. Causing billions of people to suffer for eternity (especially when most are guilty of nothing more than never having been taught the "true" religion) can only be considered vastly more sick, depraved and evil.
2007-12-08 06:02:42 · answer #1 · answered by callie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I see all of life as aspects of God. There is nothing but God in all of existence. If you take an eye dropper of water from the ocean and place it on a plate, is it a drop of water on a plate or part of the ocean? Life is recycled back and forth like this. We just rejoin God, or "The All", and then are redistributed, always unique and individual, but never the same, always a mixture of what was in the all. The ego makes us believe that we are separate and different from God. Therefore, my concept of the afterlife has no "materialistic" components of self common to many descriptions of Heaven. It is kind of like a "collective consciousness" that is the whole of the Universe, or God.
2007-12-08 14:10:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither
2007-12-08 14:06:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both
2007-12-08 14:06:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both. Whether you believe in the existence of something or not doesn't change the fact that it does exist. EVERYONE will end up in either of those 2 places.
2007-12-08 14:20:52 · answer #5 · answered by yo189 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. I believe that when we die we all go to the same place and it is a place of spirit.
Peace,
Jenn
2007-12-08 14:04:15 · answer #6 · answered by jenn_smithson 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None. I've done various experiments with Astral Projection, and have been pronounced as dead twice. Haven't seen proof of any such thing.
2007-12-08 14:05:54 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix_Slasher 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe so because thats what the bible says.
Read the bible for yourself.
God Bless You
Also, If you need "proof" just pray to God and he will show you, keep an open mind when you get your answer you will know.
I asked God to show me if he was real and he infact did, you can read one of my questions I posted a few weeks ago..
I expect thumbs down....anything to keep you from hearing the truth.....hmmmm wonder why?!
2007-12-08 14:04:10 · answer #8 · answered by My3kin 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i believe in different frequencies projected on the self ,experienced in the mind as life
2007-12-08 14:05:27 · answer #9 · answered by gasp 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neither...no proof. A book isn't proof
2007-12-08 14:01:43 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋