Do you belive in life after death? In paradise or hell?
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Yes. Both exist, BUT many MANY MANY people have a misconception about what heaven and hell are.  \n\nIf you look at the literal translation from the greek of the word heaven, you will see that it means spending eternity in relationship with God.  We paint the picture of "paradise" because it's the best we can come with to describe spending eternity in relationship wtih Him.  \n\nIf you look at the literal translation from the greek of the word hell, you will see that it means eternal separation from God.  We get the imagery of burning and gnashing of teeth from the Bible which is used to paint the picture of something as bad as spending our eternity separated from God.\n\nNote in both explinations here that I used the word RELATIONSHIP. That is what Christianity is all about.  Where you spend eternity is not about works (what you do or what you don't do) it's about building relationship with Him.
1110799
Good question,one i often think of too.....also where do you go and what are you doing straight after death.?...surely life cannot just be snuffed out...their has to be something else..
32478
First of all, MAN wrote the bible based on his interpretation - not God.  So how do we really know what the truth is??  Everyone can have their own opinion on where you go after you die, but bottom line is, you'll never know until you die.\n\nI personally believe in reincarnation to some extent.  I also believe that we create our own heaven or hell here in this existence, by being as good as we can - otherwise known as KARMA.
976584
yes. But only those who live will "spend" eternity anywhere. If you go to Hell, you will be dead, and not actually "spend" time anywhere, because you will be dead. If you go to Heaven, you will "spend" a lot of time there. Like forever.
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I beleive in reincarnation, therefore afterlife and before life are the same time, it's really just between lives.  I also beleive that you choose your own life(you want to learn from your life).  That  could be a major part of before life.
1110040
i don't believe in a hell .. i do however believe in many levels of spirit world ( heaven if you wish )\nwhat we learn here determines in a sense which level we achieve\ni don't believe in damnation as our spirit is ever growing and learning so even bad actions in this life may have been a great lesson for the next\nthere is proof of spirit ... if you read the right things ... or see a reputable medium ( and i mean reputable as so many fakes out there or ones not knowledgeable enough in what they do )\nand if you get that proof of spirit then you can take that a step further by reading about spirit teachings .. such as silver birch or white feather \none book i found fascinating on the subject was " life beyond the veil " which is a very old book and hard to get a hold of .. but if you manage to .. its well worth the read
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That depends on what you choose to believe.  If you're talking about the pieces of absolute proof the human race has gathered up to establish credibly that our existence continues on in some form after we die, there are none.\n\nThere really aren't.  \n\nHumanity has yet to prove scientifically that our consciousness doesn't just cease existing when we drop dead.\n\nThere are many things which suggest our existence continues in some form, but which you believe is a personal matter.  \n\nFor instance, do you believe the ghost stories?  What about the voices heard in white noise, and "spectral photography"?  Do you accept those as proof of human spirits, or is it all the impact of radio waves leaving a weak residual sound in your static and a trick of the light on the lens?\n\nWhat about the Bible?  Is that proof to you that there is an afterlife because you are willing to accept on faith what it says is truthful?\n\nThe Buddhists seem to be able to pull off some pretty spiritually amazing feats.  Do you suppose they're correct about the nature of the Universe?\n\nHow about that white light?  Is that Heaven, where all of our loved ones who have passed on are waiting to greet us, or is it our dying equivalent of REM Intrusion, as modern medicine has recently suggested... nothing more than a fanciful dream of our brains which has found its way into our final waking moments?\n\nWhat about people who have needed exorcisms?  Do you figure it is really demons possessing their bodies and tormenting them, or is it a mental illness ravaging their minds?\n\nIS John Edwards crossing over, or is he just a very clever con artist well practiced at his cold readings?  Are the messages he delivers to people really from dead relatives, or is he just telling them the things all people want to hear about loved ones gone on because it hurts too much to think they're simply lost?\n\nThese are all very personal questions, at this point answered much more in the heart than they are in the mind.  Maybe one day we'll finally be able to say once and for all what happens after we die, but as of today, no one really knows, even if they truly believe.
1139424
it is death after life
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Yes, I absolutely believe there is a heaven and a hell. I know there is because when my son was born I looked at his face and saw that there was no way that he could turn out so perfect without divine intervention. With God comes heaven and hell. If you believe in God you have to believe in the devil and all of the havoc he makes. It is the devils mission to make you believe that he does not exist because that makes it easier for him to work his evil
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After you die the brain live for about 7 minutes. \n\nI have heard that these 7 minutes hold the answer to the question, "what is heaven". I believe in this 7 minute unconscious stupor, you dream. And as everyone knows, time passes at a different rate when you dream. So in these 7 minutes you could be in a dream which is perceived as endless. And in this endless dream you re-live your life and dream of a heavenly place. The body can not perceive the difference between dream states and conscious states, and basically reacts the same to both. So in reality you really do go to heaven, and never wake up. But this is conditional of course on how you lived your life. If you die with a guilty conscious, your last dream will be a direct result of the way you lived. For instance you may have a nightmare after you eat late at night, just as you may go to hell in your last eternal dream if you let a miserable existence. I think religious figureheads caught onto this concept early on and have capitalized on it since.\n\nPlease e-mail me to discuss jodiamon@syr.edu or visit my blog which discusses this subject to death at http://krunkbox.blogspot.com/
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I believe in God and without him in my life I would be lost..he has plans for each and one of us..and yes there is a heaven and I believe I will meet him in the end and be in heaven...with HIM and my loved ones...  :)
414139
I had always believed in God because I was taught this through the religion my family raised me with. Yet as I got older I started to find other philosophical answers and I am more of a spiritualist now rather that say follow a religion.  Yet I had a near death experience in 2001 and saw a place that my ethereal body was heading for which gave me complete understanding that there is life after death and God is that maker of life and light/love. Without believing in God in this life creates a lesser understanding of the next one.
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you do exist forever. your body is only a house for your soul. when you die, the soul/ you, lives on. If you have not accepted christ as your savior, you will go to hell. if you are his child and have accepted him you will go to heaven. it's that simple. question is, where do you want to exist forever?
709987
Temporary life on a corrupt world vs eternity in paradise? I'll take eternal life thanks.
490893
there is a lot of researches going on about this topic "life after death".people have different beliefs but one can know what really happens only if one dies!its a mystery again and no one can tell exactly what happens.biologically,death happens when the body functions stops due to any reason for that matter and then there is no life in the person who is dead.just gone forever.it need not be necessary that he/she has to go somewhere (hell or heaven) after dead.people create myths like these:if u do good deed during the course of your life,u will reach the heaven(the place of God) and would be treated well,and if u do evil things , u will reach the hell where the devil would torture u etc.....all these myths are created only to make people do good things and be good.but i think there is no such thing as life after death.i believe in science so lets see what science has to say about this in the coming future...........
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Some believe in heaven or hell, some it's reincarnation, some stick around on earth for various reasons.  My opinion is when you die you are gone.
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I think I have always been since God has always been. I see myself as a piece of God. After this life I will go and evaluate what I have learned and what I still need to learn for my own enlightenment. Then when I am ready I will choose to be born again or maybe I will choose to help other souls that are in human bodies. I don't believe in heaven and hell either. I don't go in for the whole sin concept. Just learning lessons.