I am someone who believes that this life will serve our next state. That after out death, we won't simply stop existing. More specifically, since energy cannot be destroyed we'll simply pass into another existence, very possibly influenced by the negative or positive energy we build up during our time here. I've got plenty of other stuff that could go into it, but those are as near to certainties as anything for me now.
Anyway, I'm curious what others might think, what you all believe happens after we pass. My view is no more valid than anyone elses' so leave a post in what you believe.
Energy doesn't need to be destroyed for the personality built up in a brain to cease existence.
__________________ Recently Produced and Distributed Young but High-Ranking Political Figure of Royal Ancestry within the Modern American Town Affectionately Referred To as Bel-Air.
When you die you Go to heaven if you believed in his son Jesus.
If you did not..God will judge you on judgement day and you will be judged by Justice Iteself on what your fate will be for all eternity..its really that simple.
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I don't think so. If that's a road to get to a nirvana of some sort, well fine, but I find it hard to believe that the God of love that is described, will just as easily torch your ass by throwing you into a lake of fire for all eternity if you don't believe in him because....why again?
Even if you believe that we're essentially well polished shit that needs to be saved, wouldn't that make our God the greatest of failures?
Think about a time before you were born. The sights, the smells, really dig into your thoughts to unearth those early memories before you were even a protein chain in your father's ballsack.
It's described differently. A close inspection of most Biblical sects, and Bibles themselves for that matter, will reveal a God that ISN'T entirely about love. The "God is Love" movement is a fairly recent invention, historically.
In other interpretations, it's not God that judges you but you yourself that decides to be exiled due to being unworthy. Others will tell you that all or most end up in Heaven, but that sin is still an abomination.
The Lake of Fire is also Dante, if memory serves. What Hell actually is like is a bit ambiguous, scripturally speaking.
And the polished shit thing is attributable to free will. If God created us perfect and infallible, it would be tantamount to creating a bunch of wind up dolls. By giving us free will, evil is introduced, but it's still preferable and allows us to choose good instead of being good by default. Never mind that Christian free will is incompatible with a causal universe, but that's the justification usually.
__________________ Recently Produced and Distributed Young but High-Ranking Political Figure of Royal Ancestry within the Modern American Town Affectionately Referred To as Bel-Air.
Right, right. I do know it's not really described in the Bible. Maybe we adopted the lake from some earlier or contemporary myths. I didn't want to pin it on Dante specifically without remembering for sure, but the overall point of that paragraph stands.
A lot of conventional ideas about heaven, hell, and angels are relatively new, or Middle Ages inventions. Angels having wings is a big one. Devils looking like Pan is another. Then you have the co-opting of foreign deities and monsters as demons in the early days and true Christianity is pretty much anyone's guess.
Actually...
It might have been an interpretation of Gehenna:
Isaiah 30:33
King James Version (KJV)
33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Early versions of the Bible differentiated Gehenna with its brimstone action from Hades/Hell which was something else entirely, and those names are largely borrowed to represent She'ol, which was a kind of void or death realm that everyone went to after life.
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