Ghosts: If God gives you choices on Earth, wouldn't he give you choices in Heaven so you could come back?
598350
Think about the "ghosts" of family relatives who say goodbye to us as they are leaving for heaven or come back to comfort us...
213522
Not past lives, but everyone will have a future life, but only one. When everyone dies, they will either go to heaven or hell, depending if they live for jesus or not. Heaven and hell is just as real as earth, so make sure to surrender your heart and soul to jesus and serve him the rest of your life, and then you WILL go to heaven when you die.\nP.S. Each place if forever, so once your there, there is no turning back... So I pray that you make the right choice... which is to believe in Jesus and live for him for the rest of your life.
725527
Hey "I LOVE JESUS", yeah, there are "choices", and the CONSEQUENCES of making the WRONG choice are being sent to Hell and suffering forever.\n\nThat IS a punishment.\n\nAnd if I were a deity I would NOT be so pompous as to think that my creations, with all their intelligence and complex reasoning skills and ability to look beyond their primative fears and live life without needing my help, would NEED to worship me.\n\nIn fact, I'd be proud of those who didn't feel the need to cling to my leg like a quivering 4 year old.  I'd be extra fond of the independent ones, the strong ones who could survive and flourish unassisted.
96119
Our bodies are running down and dieing as we speak, but our souls are eternal.\nI believe, When you die you go to one of two places. If you are saved (by excepting the precious gift God gave through his son Jesus Christ's death and resurection) you go to heaven (read the books of John and Romans in the Bible to understand what I mean) if you are not saved you go to a bad place (hell).  Alot of people will not agree with me and that is fine, but this may be the answer you're searching for, you should atleast check it out.
464514
I will go to anyone of them and ask the question given below:\n"Hello, excuse me, if I go and ask your brother/sister 'which door will lead me to heaven, which door will he tell?'"\n\nThis person will show me a door.\nI will walk into the other door  and go to heaven.\n\nExplaination: There are two cases\nCase 1) I go to the twin who always speaks truth. In this case, the other twin  will send me to hell, as he always lies. The former twin will answer his respone without modifying.\nCase 2) I go to twin who always lies. In this case the other twin will send me to heaven. But the former will change his answer.\nIn both cases, I will go through the other door, not the door indicated.
1054398
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.
1023962
Heaven is not a place or a thing.  It cannot be found in anything of this earth.  There is no place on earth where we can go, and no thing of this earth that we can have that is heaven and will satisfy our heart’s deepest longing.  Why then do people seek their happiness in the things of this earth?  Although heaven is nothing of this earth, we can begin to have heaven while we are on this earth.  In fact, in order to enter heaven after we die, we must begin to enter it here on this earth before we die.  Heaven and Hell begin here and now in the present life that we live.  After we die, we simply continue to live in the state in which we died.  \n\nWhat then is Heaven?  \n\nSimply stated, Heaven is essentially God!  For human beings and angels as well, heaven is being in a loving relationship with God.  Heaven is not place or thing, but persons; the three persons in the Holy Trinity who are the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  Only in God will we find true happiness and true joy!  Only in God will our souls find rest!  God placed in our hearts a longing and deep desire for Him that He alone can satisfy.   \n\n            God invites us into a loving relationship with Him here and now!  This is why Heaven begins here on earth.  In fact, we could say that the meaning of our life here on earth is to enter into a loving relationship with God.  God created us to be in a loving relationship with Him for all eternity.  He gives us the life we now live to come to know Him and love Him.  But we must freely choose to love God, since love is always free.  God cannot, and will not force us to love Him.  If He did, it wouldn’t be true love.  The meaning of the life we now live on this earth is also to make a choice to either love God or reject Him.  The state of our choice at the moment of our death will be the choice we will have made for all eternity.  It is not possible to die in a state of definitive rejection of God and then, after death to choose Him.  This is why it is important to die in the State of Grace.  It is important to die in a state where we have fundamentally chosen God. \n\n\nIf we do enter into a loving relationship with God, then God will dwell in our hearts.  The human heart is the dwelling place of God made by His own hands.  This is why the Kingdom of Heaven is within; it is within the human heart.  Heaven is not being in a physical place but it is being in the presence of God; it is not having a physical thing, but having the presence of God in our hearts.\n\n\nIf this is what Heaven is, then the opposite of this is what Hell is.  Heaven is the state of loving and being loved by God, and having His presence in our hearts.  Hell is the state of not loving God, not having His presence in our hearts.  Souls that go to hell are rejected by God because they themselves have rejected God.  Heaven and Hell are not essentially places we go to, but states of being we enter into and exist.  \n\n            Although it is true that heaven is essentially the state of being in love with God, and therefore essentially within the human being or angel, a place of heaven must also exist also.  The reason I say this is that Jesus Christ, Mary have physical bodies.  Jesus and Mary must be somewhere.  There must be a place where their bodies are.  It also stands to reason that this place must also be beautiful.  The outside kingdom of heaven is connected to the inside kingdom of heaven in human and angelic hearts.  In other words, God will set those He loves in a place of serenity and beauty.  The beauty of the earth that we see now is an example of how God provides for us and the beauty of the created universe.  Scripture says that “eye has not seen, ears have not heard, nor has it so much as dawned on man what God has prepared for those who love Him.”\n\nSo heaven must be a place too, but it can’t be essentially what heaven is.  To understand this point, imagine the soul of a damned person present in the place of heav
163357
Heaven, who would pick differently
696556
You can "what if" till the cows come home, and that wouldn't change a thing.  What we have is God's Word on how to get to Heaven.  It is only through Jesus Christ.  Not how "good" we can be, or how "nice" we are, but by following Christ.\n\n"Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."  (John 14:6)\n\nNo wishful thinking, no "what if;" nothing we do can change what is.\n\nUPDATE:  I give folks a "bad name" because I quoted biblical truth?  Gee, that was tolerant!  Besides, it is not "magic words" that get you into heaven, but faith in Christ.  Someone can say Jesus is Lord, and not believe that in his heart, and would still end up lost.
552108
The case of free will vs. predestination has everything to do with whose eyes you look through. Yes, because God dwell in eternity and sees the end from the beginning, He already knows the outcome of your decision. He looks at the earth's timeline, then chooses those who choose Him. However, to have true children and not robots, God gave us a free will to choose. We can choose to love God, we can choose to hate Him, or we can choose to exchange the concept of God for only what we can see within our puny science. If free will truly did not exist, God would provide a world with only one choice and provide tons of evidence to MAKE you believe. But He does not do that. He provides just enough evidence to allow you to think beyond the physical and into the eternal. But you must decide for yourself. But do not be surprised if God knows your decision the moment you make it.\n\nYes, God sees our life as a done deal. Yet, we ourselves do have free will to choose. It would be like I could go back in time, meet with George Lucas while attending USC film class. I would know everything about what he would write and the companies he would start. Does he have freewill to write Star Wars? Yes. Would my knowledge change the fact that Darth Vader will be Luke Skywalker's dad? No. It's a done deal because I am not bound by time.\n\nSo what is the big deal about free will? Well, those of us with children understand that there is a big difference between programming our computers to wake you up in the morning with "good-morning father-I-love-you" and having your little son or daughter jump on your bed at the crack of dawn yelling "Good morning daddy! I love you!" The Almighty God has a myriad of angels proclaiming "Holy, holy, holy"--but they have seen Him, so it is easy. Think what it means to God, having NOT seen Him, yet lifting your arms and proclaim, "Good morning Lord! I love you!"\n\nBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. Ephesians 1
149065
My name in Kim, and I am an unemployed part-time community college student. I am Wiccan, in case you'd like to know that, too. If you would like any further detail on anything, please feel free to contact me via my bio page.\n\n1. I worship a Father God and a Mother Goddess, but all deities of all religions exist.\n2. Nature is both spiritual and reality, and at the moment is stable, but if an imbalance were to occur, however, it could become chaotic.\n3. Humanity is biology in the physical sense, but the spirit, or soul, is what actually "lives."\n4. Whatever you believe comes after death is what will come after death for you. If Mary believes that she will go to Heaven when she dies, she will go to Heaven when she dies; if Joe believes in reincarnation, he will be reincarnated; if Lucy does not believe in an afterlife, than her body will decompose and she will cease to exist. Ghosts are the souls of people who have died and were/are unsure of what happens after death, and ghosts they will remain until they figure it out. Someone may also become a ghost if he/she dies before his/her ultimate goal (predetermined by fate) is completed, and a ghost he/she will remain until it is completed. Someone might also become a ghost if someone they leave behind is unable to let go, and ultimately holds him/her back from moving on to the afterlife. Personally, I believe I will be reincarnated, and have been before.\n5. Sometimes we THINK we know things that we really don't. Anything supernatural, including religion, cannot be proved nor disproved. No one can really KNOW whether any deity exists or not, or what happens to someone after they die, or how we all got here in the first place, etc. All that is determined by one’s faith.\n6. We decide for ourselves what is right and wrong; many take guidance from law or religion to help them decide; some are incapable of deciding for themselves and live directly under someone else's idea of morals.\n7. Everyone has a predetermined ultimate goal. Everyone is here to learn, and we do not have a set path, but set milestones. There are certain lessons that need to be learned, and certain goals that need to be fulfilled, which are different for every person. HOW we learn them or fulfill them is not set for us, because we create our own paths.\n\nI hope this helps you. :)
1100096
Depends on what you believe.  Under christianity, NO.\n\nBUT nothing says they have the answer.  I'd say you can get into heaven by doing that  - YES.\n(there's just no guarantee it's the same one they are thinking of - we'll all find out one day - one way or another.)
518997
The dead do not come back and visit us.  They may be feeling spirits, but it's not their departed relatives.  It is demonic and is meant to lure you into false teaching.  Don't believe it.\n\nLuke 16:19-31 tells it well.  When Jesus used parables, He did not use names for the people in the story.  This is a true account and not a parable.  The man wanted to come back and couldn't.  If people could come back, they would only be declaring the Gospel I believe.
748723
Everyone has a choice, God does not "make" Muslims, etc. He may know someone will make choices that turns them into a Muslim, but God values our choices. Look, if God wanted to just let everyone into heaven that loved him, and cast away the rest into hell, he can do so WITHOUT putting us on earth first. But why would he let us be on earth when he knows we wont serve him anyway? Well imagine if you were created straight in hell... You could easily argue, "God I never had a choice to follow you!", but since you were on earth you DID have choices, and so you get to understand why you go to heaven or hell. Remember though, no one goes to hell if they doesn't deserve to be there according to God's judgement. So why didn't God create just Christians? Well, firstly that would be a form of force since we'd all be destined to go to heaven. Secondly, God might use the life of a non-believer to somehow affect another person into believing. If no one was criticising the Bible, for instance, you probably wouln't have historians and archeologists who back up the Biblical claims with as much evidence as possible. If you didn't have those scholars defending the Bible from skeptics, you might not have as many people who believe in the Bible. At the last, remember that God's knowledge and foresight exceeds are own, and what we may not think is "woth it" he does. Plus think about it, do you think us mere humans are worth the sufferings Jesus undertook? I don't want anyone suffering for me, but it just goes to show how sometimes God might do something we think is wrong, but to him it is extreme mercy and love.
466489
Not on this earth, no thank you.  However, because I have Jesus in my heart, once my body dies my soul will live forever in heaven.  Now that is something to look forward to.
1057624
Because if he kept us all up in heaven it would get a little crowded.  And how can we learn in anything in an enviroment that does not challenge us.  How do you learn forgiveness if there is nothing to forgive.  If all were good and right with the world then we wouldn't call it earth we'd call it heaven.
294439
No, not heaven. But I do believe that everyone goes to God, at which point it will be determined whether one will go to heaven or not. It will be at that point that all things will be revealed.