by Insanity test on Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:34 am
I am religious and believe in an afterlife, but also that I can't currently comprehend what it will be like.
I think the concepts of Heaven and Hell are too straightforward. We categorise them because in this life, you can't be both free for doing good things and incarcerated for doing bad, there has to be a cutoff. But in the afterlife, whose to say this will be that case?
I believe you will be accountable for what you do in this life, but I have no idea how you will be judged. How can we possibly know the criteria?
Therefore I believe that if you lead your life as you honestly believe it should be led, you will be judged accordingly.
I realise that doesn't in fact say much, but then again, how can I know what god will decide?
I have also wondered if God is, infact, everything. The total sum of all that exists. If heaven is, infact, the process of becoming aware of this.
Looked at like that, reincarnation could be the answer.
But If that is true, I don't think you'd be linked as you are now in any way to your new self, therefore it wouldn't be you, but a part of the whole of which you are also a part.
In short, I believe in continued existence - I'm just not sure what it will be like!
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Please shutdown Universe and reboot from Start.