Those who have chosen to be in community with God in their lifetimes will attain eternal community with God at the time of their deaths.
Those who have chosen not to be in community with God in their lifetimes will attain eternal separation from God and eternal lack of community at the time of their deaths. No fire and brimstone. No burning sulphur. No pushing a rock up a hill for an eternity. Just eternal aloneness.
When my dog dies, it’s A. When my hog dies, it’s A. When I dies, it’ll probably be A . (And that’s a good thing)
B
I’m going with A.
I would like it to be B, but let it not be a boring heaven.
What i’m most scared of is A. I can’t believe that after all we come through, nothing happens. I just hope it isn’'t that way
It’s my humble opinion that near death experiences can be deceptive. Of course, I base that on my belief in the Bible. I know there are many here who don’t use that as an authority. Just putting my 2 cents worth in.
When you die, you enter the Great Void.
Then someone turns on the lights and everyone and everything jump out and yell “Surprise!”
You exclaim “D’oh!” as you are instantly enlightened and realize you are One with everything and have been all along. It was just your belief in the illusion of separateness that kept you from enjoying the party of Oneness all this time.
Now here’s where it could go to C.
You can either become One with everything, or else you can say, “Wait. Wait. Wait. I can do better. I won’t be fooled again. Watch! I’ll be back here in no time.”
So you again don the veil of illusion, step back outside into separateness convinced you can do better this time, are reincarnated and try to work through the illusion to get back into the party.
Blather, rinse, repeat.
Or not… YMMV.
Dunno.
Your molecules go back to the Universe, so you become one with everything, which can be construed as heaven? Or as reincarnation?
I will say one thing, though. If you believe in heaven, and you believe that it actually will BE heaven, then it can’t be boring. Boredom wouldn’t be happiness, and everyone’s happy in heaven, right?
A. Nothing
Beautiful, peaceful, simple nothingness. Better than sleeping in, you never have to get up!
[singing]Heaven, Heaven is a place
A place where nothing, nothing EVER happens!!![/singing]
Yeah, I know it’s really a bar, but it fits…
D. No way to know
If you go by what others have told me, I’m in for B, second choice therein.
Personally, I think that you have some choice, your beleif decides your fate after death. My beleif is that I’ll get to do whatever I want, including becoming a god in my own universe.
Whatever you believe will happen. If you believe that nothing happens, well, then nothing happens. If you believe that you’ll go to Heaven or Hell, well, then you’ll go to Heaven or Hell (which are also of your own design - my Heaven will be different than your Heaven). If you believe you’ll be reincarnated as a dung beetle, due to all the shit you’ve inflicted on others during your life, you’ll be reincarnated as a dung beetle. If you believe something else eintirely, then something else entirely will happen.
I think that about covers the waterfront.
BTW, I believe “B” will take place.
So, B ? After all, separation from God is the essence of hell.
B for me too.
Chalk me up for B.
Someone (was is Lewis? I don’t feel like looking it up right now) said that Hell is God saying to you, “Thy will be done.” You have chosen during your life to live apart from Him, and he honors that choice.
True
nothing.
D. I personally believe that we are all, in some way, on at least one astral journey at a time. The one we perceive now is just one of the ones that we are in. We move from astral plane to astral plane through dreams though. When we’ve finished with one life, we are to continue on to another one, hopefully learning a lesson along the way. If we don’t learn the lesson, we have to repeat the lesson in possibly a more difficult life afterward. The trickiest thing is, we don’t always know what the lesson is.
A. Nothing.
Although i’m open to hearing arguments on the other 3 cases, i don’t see facts ever coming to light… even at the end of the tunnel…
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