Afterlife for Non-Members of your Faith?

[URAVIP2ME]

How does our behavior change what happens after we die? And what does happen?

To me it is more like how does our behavior change after we are resurrected from the dead. - Acts 24:15
What happens depends on one's behavior.
Resurrected righteous ones need to keep on remaining righteous.
Resurrected un-righteous ones need to put forth effort to become and remain righteous.
Wicked people will simply be ' destroyed forever ' according to Psalms 92:7; Psalms 104:35

 

[URAVIP2ME]

In my religion, soteriology revolves around love.
We are all sinners, both Christians and non-Christians.
But love and comprehension will save both Christians and non-Christians.

.... and those who prove themselves to be 'wicked' (beyond reform, beyond repentance) will be destroyed.
'Destroyed forever' as per Psalms 92:7; Psalms 104:35; Proverbs 2:21-22

 

[Left Coast]

I find the thinking about 'afterlife' means to be more alive after death than before death. Not a Bible teaching.
The Bible teaches: Resurrection. A future resurrection for both righteous and unrighteous people - Acts of the Apostles 24:15.
So, what happens to us at death and after death is: sleep
Both Jesus and the OT both teach ' sleep ' in death - unconscious sleep - Ecclesiastes 9:5
See also Psalms 6:5; Psalms 13:3; Psalms 115:17; Isaiah 38:18; John 11:11-14
The dead sleep til 'Resurrection Day' meaning Jesus' coming 'Millennium-Long Day' of governing over Earth.
Then, the righteous are to keep on remaining righteous and the un-righteous to choose to become righteous.
Those who prove themselves to be 'wicked' will be 'destroyed forever ' - Psalms 92:7; Psalms 104:35; Proverbs 2:21-22

After we're all resurrected, how long do the unrighteous have to "choose to become righteous?"

 

[Estro Felino]

.... and those who prove themselves to be 'wicked' (beyond reform, beyond repentance) will be destroyed.
'Destroyed forever' as per Psalms 92:7; Psalms 104:35; Proverbs 2:21-22

I think wickedness is just a consequence of lovelessness within someone's heart.
A loveless heart is a lost soul.

 

[Left Coast]

Ask God.

I keep calling but she never picks up.

 

[Left Coast]

In my religion, soteriology revolves around love.
We are all sinners, both Christians and non-Christians.
But love and comprehension will save both Christians and non-Christians.

Will everyone be saved?

 

[Truth in love]

If you believe in an afterlife, what will it be like for people who are not part of your religion? Or for people who don't share your religious/spiritual views? Or is what happens to us after death independent of our beliefs or affiliations?

There are several options depending upon choices made and the opportunities had.

Option 1. For those who did not have much of a chance in this life they will have it in the spirit world to embrace Christ and be a joint heir with Him the same as those who followed Him here. (Glory likened unto the sun)
Option 2. For those who generally live good lives, but choose to not make Him a priority they will have a heaven, but miss out on the greater blessings and opportunities Option 1 folks have. (Glory like the moon)

Option 3 The wicked and evil who refuse to repent in this life and the next will suffer for their own sins and in time be redeemed to type of heaven. (Glory like a star from earth's perspective)

Option 4. For those who knew Christ and turned from Him and fought against Him there is an eternity of misery without relief. This is a rare thing.


Put another way we will rise as high as we are willing to go. If we don't live the law of a given kingdom we can't be there. God is loving, has great mercy and is also just.

One of the great beautiful things here is that no one missis out due to no fault of their own.

 

[JustGeorge]

I keep calling but she never picks up.

Who calls anymore? God probably thinks its a scam call... I'm sure you have to text her to get ahold of her these days.

 

[Gargovic Malkav]

I keep calling but she never picks up.

Hmm... I wonder if She's avoiding you...
She can be a bit "shy", for as far as that means anything to such Divinity.

 

[Aupmanyav]

If you believe in an afterlife, what will it be like for people who are not part of your religion? Or for people who don't share your religious/spiritual views? Or is what happens to us after death independent of our beliefs or affiliations?

I am an atheist and do not believe in after-life. But in theist Hinduism, it is absolutely clear, it all depends on your deeds (Karma, actions) irrespective of one's religion or the God or Goddess one worships. Perfectly secular.

 

[Eddi]

Interesting. I don't find it horrible or bleak. I

I find any scenario in which my consciousness is extinguished to be both horrible and bleak

 

[George-ananda]

If you believe in an afterlife, what will it be like for people who are not part of your religion? Or for people who don't share your religious/spiritual views? Or is what happens to us after death independent of our beliefs or affiliations?

My belief is that the quality of your heart and mind will matter most, not your beliefs on debatable religious matters.

 

[Eddi]

How does our behavior change what happens after we die? And what does happen?

It effects our Karma, our moral credit score. Either positively or negatively.

And reincarnation happens

In my opinion

 

[Left Coast]

Who calls anymore? God probably thinks its a scam call... I'm sure you have to text her to get ahold of her these days.

Maybe if if I matched with her on a dating profile she'd answer?

But then ghost me.

 

[Twilight Hue]

If you believe in an afterlife, what will it be like for people who are not part of your religion? Or for people who don't share your religious/spiritual views? Or is what happens to us after death independent of our beliefs or affiliations?

I view the afterlife as this life.

You were not alive before you were born after all.

 

[URAVIP2ME]

After we're all resurrected, how long do the unrighteous have to "choose to become righteous?"

Since Jesus' Millennium-Long Day is a thousand years long then people will have that millennial time frame to choose.
Satan is let loose when the thousand years end but just for a short time or short while.
Those who side with Satan (including Satan - Hebrews 2:14 B) will then be gone forever, destroyed forever.

 

[Aupmanyav]

The only exception would be those who found moksha/liberation/enlightenment... but that's not a phenomenon for people in my religion alone, but is open to any or all.

No, JustGeorge. Even Moksha is open to all. On what basis can the Lord of Death, Yama, deny anyone what he gives to others? If a person has followed his 'dharma', he/she will certainly get Moksha. There is no discrimination in God's house. Krishna says that very clearly in Gita:

"śreyān sva-dharmo viguṇaḥ, para-dharmāt sv-anuṣṭhitāt;
sva-dharme nidhanaṁ śreyaḥ, para-dharmo bhayāvahaḥ." BG 3.35
It is far better to discharge one’s duties, even though faultily, than another’s duties perfectly. Destruction in the course of performing one’s own duty is better than engaging in another’s duties, for to follow another’s path is horrendous.

 

[URAVIP2ME]

Will everyone be saved?

The 'wicked' are Not saved (delivered or rescued) but 'destroyed forever' - Psalms 92:7; Psalms 104:35; Proverbs 2:21-22
According to the Bible, Jesus' ransom covers MANY and does Not say everyone at Matthew 20:28

 

[URAVIP2ME]

I think wickedness is just a consequence of lovelessness within someone's heart. A loveless heart is a lost soul.

Since our imperfect hearts are treacherous - Jeremiah 17:9 - then our imperfect hearts are like having a traitor within us. The imperfect heart urges us to d something, and after we do it then it gives us all the reasons why we should Not have done what we did in the first place.

Could wickedness be due to a consequence of lovelessness within one's hardened conscience _______
When often ignored one's conscience can become calloused like flesh branded with a hot branding iron.

 

[stevecanuck]

It is all about sincerity.
What happens to us all, is dependent on our actions and the intention behind them.

..and Almighty God is aware of who is sincere, and who is not.

You just contradicted most of the Qur'an. Good Muslims are the ONLY ones who will go to heaven. Verse 29:68 - "Is not there a home in hell for disbelievers?"