If human soul is eternal, where are the destinies?
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There are two destinations, One is reincarnation and second one after completing all ur births, u go to sweet home of all souls, its where god dwells.\n\nYou were. You will be! \nKnow this while you are. \nReincarnation is the natural \nprocess of recycling human energy through \nbirth, growth, decay and death. \nEach rebirth is a link in one's eternal chain \nof latent impressions, thoughts, desires and actions. \nThe soul in its new body is given the opportunity \nto learn from the past, to live the present and to prepare for the future. \nReincarnation: Why Believe?Once I have begun to base my sense of ‘who I am’ on perceiving myself as a soul rather than on perceiving only my temporary costume, the body, I deeply realize that, as a being of spiritual energy giving life to the body, I am immortal. I begin to understand that I change bodily costumes just as a snake sheds its skin, but I – the eternal soul – can never die.\nDeath and Rebirth\nAt the moment of physical death, the soul withdraws its energy from the organs of the body and vacates its seat in the middle of the forehead. It takes with it the impressions accumulated in that life and enters into the body of an unborn baby, while that new body is still being formed in its mother’s womb. This normally happens between the fourth and fifth month of pregnancy. A human soul only enters a human body. The type of body the soul enters and the conditions of birth are determined by the past actions of the soul in its previous life or lives, and the cumulative account of give and take that it has built up with other souls. Without proper understanding of this process, the leaving of one body and the taking of another is often an experience of great fear and anguish; but the details of the old life are soon obliterated by new experiences so that the soul is not overwhelmed and confused by past memories.\n\nWhere Have I Come From?\n\nWhere have I come from? And whence shall I return?\nBeyond this world, the stars, the sun\nThere is a land called Paramdham.\nIt is a world of peace, \nA world of light,\nA world all souls once knew as Home.\nWe journeyed here to play our parts\nWe soon forgot\nWhere we had started from.\nWeary souls now long for Home once more.
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It is not only the human soul (aka atman in Hinduism) but every soul for that purpose that retains memory and everything else after the death of a body occurs. But not in the fashion we may think. Whatever gets transferred from one manifestation to the another is in abstract form. The crux of the cosmic system is... reincarnation and rebirth of the soul (as many call it) is as factual as the air we breathe. We may or may not believe... reincarnation and rebirth is part of the cosmic life. \n\nFrom the angle of wisdom there is nothing like reincarnation or rebirth... for in every manifestation the soul chooses a new body and this new body although possessing all the residual karma of the past life... is not in the least related to the earlier life directly. Meaning thereby... a human being in the present life does not remember anything of the immediate previous life or earlier lives. Had it been a rebirth of the soul... then everything of the previous life would have been remembered by us in the present life. But the truth is not so.\n\nFrom the point of view of the soul... all is interconnected. But for the two human forms nothing is connected. And why does this happen? It happens because it is the soul which has taken the body and not vice versa. Had body taken the soul... one would have remembered all the incidents of the past lives. It is not within the capability and the capacity of the body to inherit a soul. The life cycle of a body starts and ends with... The one and only present manifestation!\n\nFor the soul atman within... the cosmic cycle of life continues forever from the first manifestation to the last... the 8.4 millionth manifestation when every human being automatically gains enlightenment and finally salvation (moksha as we call it in Hinduism).\n\nThe two lives of a human being are related but not connected. Related in terms of the soul being the same and not connected because the body in the present manifestation is not the least related with the earlier manifestation. Finally we arrive at the cosmic truth... it is the journey of the soul that is important. Changing of the body by the soul atman within is like the changing of guards at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe transfer of memory and everything connected from one life passes on to another life through karma. The residual balance of karma of every life is the opening balance of the new life. The balance sheet of life as destined by God is absolutely clear. There are no games to play. In the system of God there is no place for deceit. God never place dice as has been mentioned by Stephan Hawking in his famous book, "a brief history of time". It is beyond the capacity of every scientist to understand or enter the domain of God.\n\nIn the system of God everything is justly ordered. As we performed... so shall we get. As we sow so shall we reap... nothing less or more! God never plays dice with his children. Whatever is the balance of karma of one life... it automatically gets transferred to the next life... the new manifestation!\n\nIt is the chromosomes through which this transfer takes place. The doctrine of karma is the foremost for running the whole process of Cosmos. In the absence of karma... the Cosmos would collapse that very moment. Positive balance of karma finds us a place in heaven after the death of the body. A negative balance of karma lands the soul in hell.\n\nThe memory of a human being in the present life is a physical manifestation. It is not transferable. Suppose I am born a scientist in my present life and I commit some sins due to which I am to have birth in the house of a cobbler in next manifestation. Then would the memory of the scientist be of any use to the cobbler. No!\n\nKarma has a very broad meaning. Every action finally culminates into one getting awarded points on the scale of karma every second of life. Even while the physical action may earn -10 points... the thoughts related to the same action may earn me -1 point.
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the Bible reveals the answer.\n\nPaul said that this body is but a tent. to be absent from the body is to present with the Lord (For Believers)\n\nyour body is temporal. your soul & spirit are eternal.\n\nyour soul is your intellect, emotions, and will.\n\nyour Spirit is the Life force God himself breathed into each of us.\n\nyou are an immortal being. but the question is where will you reside after the shadow of this world is no more?\n\nHeaven....... Hell........ your decision to receive/reject the Gift Jesus secured for you will determine that eternal. address.
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>>Will we have any memory of what took place on earth? \n\nJesus taught that we will have memory of our life after death. Jesus told of a certain rich man and a beggar named Lazarus who when they died one went to hell and the other to heaven (a.k.a. Abraham's Side), respectively. In this passage Jesus alludes to the knowledge one has in the afterlife as to memory of the previous. The following is the account, notice specifically verses 25 and 28:\n\nLuke 16:19-31\n19 "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 "The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.' 25 "But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.' 27 "He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' 29 "Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.' 30 "'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.' 31 "He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"\n\nAbraham, in verse 25, told the rich man, "Son, remember that in your lifetime," alluding to the fact that the rich man could remember his former time on earth. Then in verse 28 the rich man responded with concern for his family by saying, "for I have five brothers," exposing his knowledge of his previous time and current affairs of life on earth. If Jesus is to be trusted, then it seems as if Jesus believed that people have memory of their life on earth even after they pass into the next, whether heaven or hell, and so we can conclude that they do.\n\n\n\n>>What i mean is, could u go to heaven and be happy knowing that your family is destined to spend eternity in hell being tortured? or will we simply not know our family from anyone else? what do you guys think?\n\n\nThe Bible speaks of "torment" and not "torture" in hell. Which at first glance may not seem to be a big difference but is significant when you see what each word originally meant. Torment in the greek is the word Basanos and literally means a condition of retribution, toiling in distress. Whereas torture in the greek is Tumpanizo which means to beat (like a drum or tympany) to death and is used to describe the believers of God who were beaten to death for their faith in God (Hebrews 11:35).\n\nTo be in hell is to be in eternal distress (torment), under judgment and wrath from God because of His perfect justice. Basically, receiving what has been duly earned because of our sins (breaking God's commands). If one were to go to heaven while his family went to hell, there would be no sadness, but perhaps pity, for their plight since it will be after God's perfect judgment. They will receive punishment to the degree of their works done while in the body. 2 Corinthians 5:10 says, "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, t
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in the grand scheme of existence both on the earth plane and others not present to our sense, reincarnation is that which completes the life cycle,most humans can only think in term past present and future but relevant only in their now,transcend the normal normal limits of the mind and you will experience the spheres of existence like bead on a neckless these are your past incarnations .this experience will put the limited knowledge we had in perspective and give us a true taste of eternity ,mind blowing
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To recollection of things, there is no other realm in which humans exist.  God, Jesus, the Holy Sprit and Angels exist in Heaven.  The devil and his demons roam the Earth after he was ousted from Heaven for his disobedience.  Where he still roams today.  May God Bless
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There are two possibilities.\n\n1. The reincarnation is a fact because nobody, any pastor, any catholic roman father or anybody can explain why there are so strong differences between the human beings.\n\nWe are living always in a process to have the perfection in our soul, and our soul need live many experiences because through our experiences we can learn. And one life is so short for it. We must have other chances to take good choices. Definetly, the reincarnation is VERY AND A HALF POSSIBLE, but the question is...Why Jesus did not tell us about it? MAy be we was not ready to know something like that? MAy be soon the true will be discovered.\n\n2. The other option is that we only have one life. and this life happens because there are a big Machine of souls that is sending us here to have experiences like humans giving us the chance to go to the Heaven forever or to the Hell. and this chance is for us but the world was gave to the humans like God says in Genesis. And we are the resposible about what will happen with our brothers when are borning here and are sick or poor or something. But this option is very complicated because in some places in the world we dont have control to care our brothers and gave them the life that we know all humans being could deserve. And now it is complicated. The reincarnation is simply 150% possible and a half.
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Yay, a question directed towards my beliefs! I don't have a concrete belief about why we are alive....but I think its because we want to be, and because we want to learn. Most humans seem to crave knowledge and what better way to gain it than by living? As to the after life I believe in a place called Summerland which is where spirits wait to be reincarnated.
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yes, what we refer to as our souls have always been and i believe will always be. the body goes and may come again in another form but who we are is infinite and eternal.
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As far as anyone can tell, there is no such thing as a soul.  When you die, you cease to exist.  End of story.\n\nADDENDUM:  To anyone who answers this question from the perspective that souls exist, you ought to justify your assertions with verifiable evidence or valid argument, not just make unsupported claims, otherwise your response is essentially worthless.  Oh, and quoting from the Bible or the Qur'an constitutes neither evidence nor argument...  :-)\n\nIt is a fundamental principle of rational thought that if you claim something exists, and you want people to believe you, then the onus is on you to provide argument or evidence to support your claim, not on other people to refute it.  The default position is non-belief, in other words.
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The soul never dies.  The Greek word translated into "souls" below actually stands for "persons."  The soul is not a proven body part.  It is spiritual belief.\n\nNow the answer:  With God time is irrelevant.  The dead body lies in the grave.  The soul is in limbo, waiting for Judgment Day.  Someday there will be a resurrection into new bodies, needing no raiment nor sustenance.  Souls will enter Heaven or  Hell according to judgment of deeds while the body was alive.
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The body dies but the soul's immortal.  And on the last day every body will be raised back to life, judged and sent to either eternal Hell or eternal Heaven.  "Time ends and eternity begins."
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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?
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Just scary to think WHERE our afterlife will be. Looking at all of my friends, I'm thinking we are going to be a tad on the "warm" side come judgement day. You guys wanna meet over by the second fire from the left? You know.....where they store the brimstone. :)
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An “Immortal Soul”?\n\nThe movement teaches non-Biblical doctrines that long have been taught by sects of Christendom. One is the idea that man has an “immortal soul” that will suffer in “hellfire” if man is not saved. But the Bible does not say that an “immortal soul” lives on to receive rewards or punishments. Rather, it says just the opposite. It says the soul dies.\n\nOpen your Bible to Ezekiel 18:4. There, according to the King James Version, you will not read that the sinning soul goes into “hellfire.” Instead, it says: “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” See also verse 20.\n\nAccording to the Bible, the dead could not be suffering in “hellfire.” The Bible specifically says, at Ecclesiastes 9:5: “The dead know not any thing.” Verse 10 of the same chapter adds: “There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” Psalm 146:4 says of the day a man dies: “In that very day his thoughts perish.”\n\nIf the dead know nothing, and have no thoughts or knowledge, they obviously could not be suffering torments or pain, as the “Jesus people” believe.\n\n“Then what about the word ‘hell’?” you may ask, adding: “It certainly appears in the Bible!”\n\nBible writers used the Hebrew word “sheol” and the Greek word “hades,” which some Bibles translate as “hell.” But sheol and hades did not mean a place of torture at all. Instead, they simply meant the common grave of mankind—including men like Jesus who obeyed God. Yes, the apostle Peter applied Psalm 16:10 to Jesus, saying: “David speaketh concerning him [Jesus] . . . thou wilt not leave my soul in hell [Hebrew, sheol; Greek, hades], neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” (Acts 2:25-27) Surely none of the “Jesus people” will argue that Jesus went to hellfire when he died!\n\nIn several instances Jesus used the valley of Hinnom (Greek, Gehenna), Jerusalem’s community garbage dump, to symbolize the complete destruction of those who willfully disbelieve. No resurrection hope is held out for those “pitched into Gehenna” in contrast to those in the common grave of mankind.\n\nJesus was in Hades, which is mankind’s common grave. And the Bible says that there is “no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, Hades.” So he was out of existence in Hades, as was the evildoer.—Eccl. 9:5, 10.\n\nThen, on the third day from his death, God raised Jesus from the dead as a mighty spirit creature. But the evildoer was not raised; he stayed in the grave.—1 Pet. 3:18.
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Some religious traditions see only a human as having a soul.  Others see animals (being completely innocent and unfallen) as also having souls. Animistic religions see EVERYTHING as having a soul, from humans to rocks.\n\nThe answer to this question totally depends upon your definition of the word Soul.  Some define soul as some kind of invisible force moving and propelling the body that exits us upon death.  Others define soul as being related to the function of breathing.  Others define soul as being an interplay between kinetic and potential energy.\n\nNobody really knows about any of these things.  It's all just speculation.  \n\nMy personal belief, as of this minute, is that sentience is really the indicator for spirit.  This can be interpreted very broadly to say that phototropism in plants is a sign of sentience.  I can live with that.  \n\nDoes this mean that the soul lives on beyond the body?  Absolutely not.  Once dead, that which was sentient is gone.  Forever.
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Considering the fact that the Bible tells us that we ARE souls, and not that we HAVE them, once you die, the soul dies. There is no other part within you that goes off somewhere at death.