I had a strange idea, an opposite universe. Then, I went further into my theories. I, being agnostic, started considering ways to disprove ideas by Christianity using this idea. Well, it's said that Heaven and Hell are completely opposite from eachother, but, if they're opposite, that means everything must be opposite. It's also said that they both exist, but then... What's the opposite of existant? Nonexistant, so which one exists?
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Non-existence can never be proven.  Until evidence is presented for a things existence it's simply irrational to believe in it.
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Note: This is a partial answer to another question relating to the existence of God. There is more to what I have partially revealed that is far more extensive and would require a book-length treatise to fully connect the dots to the nature of God and man's connection to Him.\n\nThe human spirit dwells within the soul. The soul is a composite of both the spirit and the body. The soul dwells in the brain and controls the body through the brain. Which is why you are not dead until you are brain dead (without the aid of any machine).\n\nGod physically exists. He is just physically different. The breath of life that came from God's physical existence is the spirit of life you speak of. The human spirit itself is literally restored to God; while the soul's destination is determined by its state of existence upon separation (which takes about 1/10th of a second).\n\nIt's a bit technical, but to simplify it, think of the soul as consisting in either one of two states: in harmony with God's existence or opposite of God's existence (or the inverse).\n\nS.I.N is Spirit Inverse Nature. God is Spirit. Anything opposite of God's Nature is SIN. Spirits created from God's physical existence is made from the stuff God is made of and is naturally in harmony with God's state of perfection. When a spirit does something opposite of God's nature, or SIN, they become inverted (their physical existence is literally opposite of God's nature).\n\nBecause God is eternal and cannot cease to exist, that which is created from Him is eternal and cannot cease to exist. Thus God created a place of separation for those who are permanently inverted. This place of separation is opposite of the place where God dwells. \n\nGod is Light. Where God dwells is a place of light. The place of separation is darkness; where God does not dwell. The place where God dwells is a place of perpetual peace. The place of separation is a place of perpetual pain caused by unquenchable fire.\n\nWhen I say "spirits" I am speaking of beings referred to as angels and demons (inverted angels). Human spirits are made of the stuff like that of angels, but consists as the raw material from which the human soul is created (and then co-exists interdependently within the human soul). The human soul is YOU - the individual who is expressing thought, emotion, and actions through the physical body.\n\nGod Himself is The Book of Life. Every soul created from God (be it angel or human), are written in The Book of Life (which means are in harmony with God's state of existence from conception). If an angel inverts, it is permanent because angels are made of the same stuff that God is made of: ENERGY.\n\nWhen energy changes form, it cannot change back to its original state. A raw egg when cooked can't be restored to its raw state. Thus, when an angel inverts, because it consists as conscious energy, it is permanent. Inverted angels are demons. When a spirit being inverts, they are no longer in harmony with God, and are thus removed from the Book of Life.\n\nExodus 32.31-33\nAnd Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. \n\nRevelation 20.11,12,15\n11. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 15. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.\n\nThe human race are descendant
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Let´s contemplate no God:\nGod does not exist, so the universe is only a random and everlasting energy and matter transforming process, we are a tiny piece of matter which exist only because of a random event and we are only waiting for another random event to stop existing ( I meant: to transform into another thing ), then the universe and us have no goal or reason to exist.\n\nI don't like it.......God forbid!
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I'm so hoping you've seen this, I had it hanging in my office for close to 8 years.  It still cracks me up.\n\n    "First, We postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave.\n\n    Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, then you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and souls go to hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.\n\n    Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant. Two options exist:\n\n       1. If hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose.\n       2. If hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over. \n\n    So which is it? If we accept the quote given to me by Theresa Manyan during Freshman year, "that it will be a cold night in hell before I sleep with you" and take into account the fact that I still have NOT succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then Option 2 cannot be true...Thus, hell is exothermic."
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It's an interesting story. Although, I believe that heaven and hell is much different. I believe that to get to either one or the other, we choose. Now this is where people get lost. Obviously no one chooses to go to hell (not that they know of). I believe that hell is a place where we are separated from God. Therefore our soul burns with grief and we gnash our teeth. Heaven is a place where we are connected with God. We are designed to be with God and that is why it burns to be separated. You see, people choose all their lives to live without God. God simply gives them what they have always wanted. Separation.
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The thing is ... a parrallel universe may exist. We cannot prove it one way or another ......YET! :) How do we know that another universe and our universe and many other universes .... do not exist in a metaverse? And if so .... maybe something like distance etc. exists in that metaverse ... which imparts some of it's qualities to our own universe and indeed to any other universe within that metaverse. Hence ..... we may not even have a void outside our universe at all.
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I am sorry you have received some really harsh answers to this question.  I believe your answer can be found in the definition of agnosticism.  \n\nThe doctrine that certainty about first principles or absolute truth is unattainable and that only perceptual phenomena are objects of exact knowledge. \n\nThe belief that there can be no proof either that God exists or that God does not exist.\n\nAsk yourself one more question, especially in regards to the root of all churches, the Catholic Church.  What is it they claim their Holy Trinity to be?  He or They are the answer to all questions.  The beginning to understanding and the end to suffering.  This to me is a wonderful belief to hold.  It gives some a sense of comfort.  However, this belief for many is difficult to understand given scientific reasoning, current global situations, and the reputation of the Christian faith.\n\nAgnostics are easy to equate in this manner.  Say you had been blind your entire life, and all your life everyone told you the sky was blue.  You would form this idea of an unidentified "blue."  Then one-day science comes along with a cure for your ailment.  The first thing you want to see is the sky.  When you look at it, it looks nothing like your idea of "blue."  Had you been wrong your entire life?  No.  Your concept of the idea of "blue" has no shifted from an idea to a reality.  Same thing with agnostics.  They have an idea of a higher power.  Yet since they have not physical proof of this power, it remains an idea.  Nothing more than that.\n\nI hope this helps.
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It doesn't have a label. I have thought like that in the past. It's an interesting theory - that the Earth is a just place. Anyway you wouldn't want to call it atheist or agnostic, and you would probably have to explain yourself every time! If only more people could be open-minded and creative like you! Most people think they have to stick to either exactly what the Christian Bible says, or they are atheist. There is nothing wrong with coming up with your own theory, such as maybe we go to another planet when we die! Who knows? AND WHO CARES. We should be focusing more on this life and doing good things whether or not we get REWARDED! Christians are only selfish people looking for rewards such as Heaven and claim to be "moral." They act morally, but aren't truly moral. They do it for themselves and their own satisfaction, not as a human being who thinks everyone SHOULD do it. Don't call yourself atheist - because you have a strong defined belief. And don't say agnostic because YES, you do know what you believe. Just explain it. You are not Pagan (polytheistic), or wiccan (witches) either. By the way, YOU DON'T NEED BELONGINGNESS like others think. It's nice to believe in something that you really believe in, not something others do. As long as you don't take it too far and start a cult with human or animal sacrifices and holy wars and stuff, JK. Just tell everyone you have beliefs, so are not atheist like me, but they are different than established religions, or are some sort of combination. Either way the Christians have condemned you to "Hell" in their corrupt, hypocritical, contradictory world. Good luck!
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In accordance with the physical laws of this universe, it is impossible for the matter in the big bang theory to have come out of nothing or to have just always existed.  It is impossible for something to come out of nothing... I'm sure you agree with this.  Also, the universe is expanding, which indicates that it had a beginning point in time.  So you're question appears to be, "If it is impossible for the earth to have always been in existance, how is it logical to believe that God has always been in existance?"\n\nThe thing is, we know that the earth had a beginning and that it is impossible for it to have just come about on its own by the physical laws of this world.  But if God created everything (which I believe He did), then He is not bound by the laws He created.  He made up the laws of physics.  How could He be limited to those laws?  \n\nWe cannot think of God in terms of our physical world.  God made up the rules, therefore God is not under the rules.  He is eternal.  The world which He created is not. \n\nHere's another thought I'm just going to throw out here, even though it does not go right along with your original question.  If you believe that you have a soul or a spirit, or if you believe in any type of spirit beings, how could these have come about by purely by physical means?  Can spiritual things come from physical things?  If this world only came about by matter and not by God, how could matter produce spiritual things?  \n\n\n"For by Him [Jesus] all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisble, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him.  He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together."  Colossians 1:16-17 ([Jesus] was added by me for clarification of the pronoun Him.)
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"hell" does not exist, the idea for "hell" was made up from christianity and copied from the pagan greek/roman religions of the time.\nBuddhists will not go to hell.\nLook in the torah and the tanakh and you will not find a single reference to "hell"... perhaps in the re-written christian "old testiment" you will but that is changed and meaningless
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There is no evil in basic terms.You speak of it as if it were the opposite of good,yet, they are both moral value judgments that are understood from the perspective of "opposites are absolute", and you ignore the unity that exists. Creation and Destruction are two sides of the same coin. In your terms, Evil is the desire for destruction.
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You are Not seperate from god. Do not think of god as guy or girl or someone, it is just all that is together, connected. You are part of it ( ie, "God"). Hell is what you feel when you do nasty shit. Heaven is the opposite. even if you do not feel bad about doing bad things, you will just make the world that you live in suck and you will always be weary of others doing bad things to you ( ie, hell)...etc
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I think you have it backwards.  The macrocosm reflects (to a degree), the microcosm.\n\nAt present, no-one knows if there are other universes.  My suspicion (not belief, just suspicion) is that everything that is possible is in some sense actual.  My other suspicion is that nothing is actual at all, so there is nothing to prevent the existence of everything.  Yes, that's a contradiction, but we're allowed to contemplate them once we step outside the bounds of what is knowable.
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Hi Gorgeous,\n\nYou just did a straw man argument.  Hell is a Christian theological concept.  In fact, it is generally a new testament concept.  It is impossible to discuss it without referring to how it came to be defined.  I’ll do my best to minimize any references and use reason and common sense. \n\nA common religious and cultural concept is “punishment” for bad people.  I think it is a just concept.  Buddha say, if you are bad, you will have bad karma in your next life.  Bad Karma is hell.   The Greek Gods had Hades, in the underworld.  \n\nOr, Jesus says, Good = love God (faith) and love others as yourself (action).   “ON THESE 2 COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS”.  (Read Matt 22:34-40).   So Ted says, if you read something that contradicts this, then check your premises, you will find one is wrong.  Everything in the bible has to (it must) logically align with this statement.  So, what is the interpretation basis to align with this one statement?  That’s a longer answer, and not part of your question.  \n\nHowever, what is the GOOD that will be the basis of judgment?  Most people say, “got to have faith”.  What is faith?  They then start prescribing rules and beliefs.  Now can you prove that these rules and beliefs 100% align with loving God?  Not usually.  There are many main religions, and then 100’s of sects.  Carl Jung says, “The shoe that fits one person, pinches another.”  So I also am skeptical.    \n\nNow do not forget this one dynamic of human nature that exists.  A religion (versus personal belief in God), as any and all organizations, always tries to grow and sustain itself.  It is pure human nature, in fact, it is good, for without it there would not be progress.  As for all human organizations, belief is based on some dogma or “Vision Statement”, loyalty to the organization, and growth thru product sales (corporations) or people or faith (religion).  In a sense, it is survival of the fittest.  The religion with the best message and the one that meets the most human needs, or aligns with an inspiring spiritual message the best, wins.   So they are all competing and believe they are right.   But they do say a lot of different things.  From the outside, this does not sound spiritual.   From the inside, it can be very spiritual.   Religion and church is a choice, and can be a very satisfying choice, if it meets your needs.  \n\nBack to what Jesus, is said to have said, [paraphrased]:  to be good, to pass His judgement, “feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, shelter the stranger in need, clothe those who need it, help the sick, and visit those in prison.”  (Matt 25:35-36).  How else can it be known that you have loved others as you love yourself?  It is your actions.  Think about it, there is not one single word on belief, just actions.  This aligns with love others as yourself.  This is a good statement.     \n\nDo not forget, that in a solely materialist universe, which is cause and effect only, this leads to nihilism on a grand scale.  That is why philosophy and politics and much more is so nihilistic today.  If we are random quirks of nature, then in the grand scheme of nature, neither purpose, nor the sanctity of life can be justified.  This has and will have increasingly terrible implications to civilization.  Inherently, most people are not nihilistic, they are good people, with or without religion.  But if you are brilliant person without a conscience, heaven help us. \n\nRead the parable of the talents (Matt 25:14-30).  If you do not work to reach your human potential, and thus contribute your potential to mankind, then “cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness”.   This seems to align with loving others as yourself, and proving it by action, and being judged specifically on this aspect of your life.   What is the outer darkness?  It is not explained.  \n\nTo me it seems that religions try to make having faith the critical issue, in their
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Are there any universe besides whats in here?\nWe don't need eternal death, you can choose eternal life if you want (John 3:16, John 14:6).\nIf someone loves you what do you feel? Now when someone hates you, how you feel?
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h ah ah a.. the first answer really made me laff alot...i mean what when jesus christ was not around(no offences meant here for the lord) and what abt the animals and other living beings...what a stupidest of ideas ...anyways to answer ur question let's think abt it objectivley... my answer would be yes...b'coz this whole universe is a cycle...it's about changing forms....so ur physical part is definitely going to take some other form and i hope u don't doubt it since matter cannot be created nor destroyed unless of course u take into consideration the concept of antimatter .... which if comes into scenario(as it will at the end of this yuga or kalpa( see for further reference at wikipedia)) is going to "again" reduce everything to "0" well as for ur spiritual being i.e. ur soul(if u believe in it...if u don't then how do u explain the difference in thoughts and behaviour of ppl) if it's liberated and not bound by limits which ur mind puts up then u'll attain "nirvana" or "moksha"(or a state of no change or maybe total power or total annihilation of self in which u cease to exist anymore....or maybe total freedom :)) which is not too easy....\nin case u desire or are bound by desires then yes u will be reborn...according to aryan philosophy(u must go thru the philosophy part sometime) there are 8400000 species of living forms on earth in which the human life is only capable of performing action or "karma" and through this action it may liberate the self from the "cycle"(of birth and rebirth or change) ....pretty complex to understand at first but u'll feel it if u try everyday....so yes life after death does exist ...as death is nothing but a change bound to happen; a door to another realm of existence....\n\never wondered what's the source of ur thoughts and why ur dog can't really think up things as good as u ...or why the cockroach does not stop eating the soap bar and may be go on a sail????\n\n:) hope it helps... \nbye...\nregards \nvivek
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Check out Godel's theorem.  The way I read it it states that given any language you can write sentences that are true, false, or neither true nor false (i.e. "This sentence is false.").  I see God as the language which is Truth.  If you have the concept of truth, falsehood is derivitive from truth.  So if you have a true omnipotent God who is all good, you can have the false concept of his opposite, suffering, or any other sort of bad or evil thing you can imagine.  Just because you can say it in the language of God, doesn't make it true.  The material world is an example of sentences which you can construct in the language of God which are not true, i.e. illusion or relative.  As our thought becomes more spiritual or absolute, we find that the so-called evil in the world falls away from our experience, not that we ignore it, but our thought changes the world within the sphere of our consiousness.  The world is our collective shared consiousness, lots of people think that it is all that is real and filled with both good and evil, so it sure seems like God must have created all this suffering, while in fact he is of purer eyes than to behold anything but pure 100% good everywhere.  Just because you can have the concept of suffering or anything else bad, doesn't make it necessarily real.  We are God's image and likeness, we have free will, therefore, we can believe that which is not true to be true, i.e. believe that illusion is reality.  Without free will, the universe would not be infinite.