What do the contributors willing to use the language of
afterlife do with it?
The passages that warn the wealthy of their fate in
the afterlife do so if they, in greed and selfishness, fail to share their abundance with those who are truly needy.
Do you really think that people who don't believe in a God like yours or an afterlife don't have families?
Belief in myths and fables, wish thinking and being obsessed with threats and promises in
the afterlife does not help us as a species.
Your belief if the afterlife doesn't erase anyone's time here on earth.
For Pascal's wager, it would lead you to act as if God and
an afterlife did exist.
The fact that there is
no afterlife does NOT mean that what we do in this life has no meaning and does not affect the future.
Only with the book of Wisdom and thedevelopment of a belief and understanding in
an afterlife does a solution begin to emerge.
Not exact matches
This Albert Brooks romantic comedy starring Meryl Streep is an entertaining look at the
afterlife, which is really a court proceeding where it is decided if you move on or return back to earth to
do it all over again.
Among other questions, which dovetail with one's own
afterlife estate plans, businesses that cater to customers throughout their lives, might also wonder: How
do you manage their presence after they're gone?
If you don't believe in an
afterlife, or God for that matter, well then it's just a function of gravity and weak interfactions so there's nothing to worry about.
So, while I don't believe there is an
afterlife, I can not say that there is not one.
My believe system
did not change overnight, it took some time, but one day I realized religion
did not made any sense and since then in my mind I am not concerned about the
afterlife, I concentrate on what I have to
do now and I feel free.
If, as many of you are inclined to think, that mormonsim is a false religion, then the baptism will have no effect in the
afterlife anyways, so no harm is
done.
Whether you believe in the
afterlife or not, or heaven or not, or reincarnation or not, I think we can all agree that the intended lesson is to
do good in this life in order to graduate successfully into the next.
Nook — I
do nt find it hateful to hope someone as terrible as Bin Laden gets his due in the
afterlife (if I were to believe in such a fantasy).
Just don't force your beliefs of the
afterlife on me.
Glen Beck is a Christian if you believe that saved means that we get to live in the
afterlife with a chance to have eternal life in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus Christ are if we are worthy enough by
doing good works to progress to be there and that God's grace comes after all we can
do.
I'll tell you right now that I don't believe in a god or an
afterlife.
I have no idea what the
afterlife holds (if anything), and I'm perfectly comfortable saying «I don't know».
I read The Grand Design today, and I didn't get the impression that they were denying G - d, or the soul, or
afterlife in this book, merely holding up alternative reasons for why it COULD be true that the universe exists without them.
Even the great astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, despite he's belief that there is «no heaven or
afterlife», truly doesn't know.
If they want to talk about God and any possible
afterlife then by all means the chaplain should
do just that.
or Hell... I for one would not DIE for a cause if I
did not know what I am
doing... HE KNEW WHAT COMES AFTER IN THE
AFTERLIFE... otherwide it would not have made any sense to die for nothing!!!
yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond
afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?
If they want to speak about their god or
afterlife or ask for a prayer, I hope whoever is there will
do so.
I find it telling that the dying don't talk about heaven or hell or any other kind of
afterlife.
You said yourself «i don't know if there is a God or
afterlife.»
Mr. Hawking is brilliant, but the concept of heaven and the
afterlife has not yet been proven by science.Doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I'm not religious and don't know if there is a God or
afterlife.
we
do not go to a «spiritual state in the
afterlife... we will live with resurrected bodies... physical..
or Hell... I for one would not DIE for a cause if I
did not know what I am
doing... HE KNEW WHAT COMES AFTER IN THE
AFTERLIFE... otherwise it would not have made any sense to die for nothing!!!
If you are right (I think you are wrong) and dying in peace is the most important thing to take with you to an
Afterlife, then the right thing to
do is let the dying person clear the Guilt, Bad Feelings, and any other negative poisons out of their heart and soul.
Everyone deals with their mortality in different ways, but almost everyone when dying thinks about the regrets he or she has for things
done or undone while LIVING, not about the
afterlife.
The study of NDEs say's as much about the
afterlife as turning off the lights in your bedroom at night
does about the boogie man.
I think we're a much more subtle people now; we don't need to see someone struck down for disobeying God — we see «natural consequences» and we consider the
afterlife.
Athiests profess that they
do not believe in a diety or the
afterlife, which by extension implies that their existence ends with their death — the time you have on earth is all the time you get.
Nature is where life comes from, and religions make people believe that we, as humans, are special, but nature says we are not, so honestly, ALL life would have some «
afterlife» if we
do.
exlonghorn: As an athiest
do you believe in an
afterlife?
Do you really not see that your beliefs on non-existence after death are as unfounded as my belief in an
afterlife?
If there is no
afterlife, then, once you die, you don't remember the journey, so there is no way to value it.
I believe that you
do not stop existing after you die, and that you take your character with you into the
afterlife.
Wow what an idiot, you have just as little reason to assume that there is nothing as they
do to assume that there an
afterlife, yet you act as though it were a fact.
I don't believe there is an
afterlife.
The moment the Christian churches begin Attuning themselves properly to Jesus Christ and Preaching His eternal message of LOVE for Everyone, Without Conditions, and Teaching about the
Afterlife as God has promised us there is, and Teaching about the laying - on of hands to heal the sick as Jesus
did, and begin truly Sharing their money with the poor as Jesus
did, THEN you will find people flocking back into the church.
If all men are sinners, and the only ones that don't go to hell are the ones that accept Jesus, then life and the
afterlife are tilted in favor of the people that can more easily experience God.
If I choose to life a life of mostly sin and for myself as if there was not
afterlife and I'm wrong, well I don't really want to think about that.
This could be a referance to that belief and God could be simply saying «I know all and therefore I know that Pharaoh will not let my people go unless I
do these things, but because he is against me I will (in a sense) harden his heart on my scale and he will not be in my
afterlife.
If one believes in man's free will than what purpose
does god serve (expect if there is an
afterlife which is a whole other can of worms).
And while I realize you
do not «buy into» that concept (since you
do not «buy into» an
afterlife), it is nevertheless «internally consistent» with the concept of God, and even the «goodness» of God.