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Most Religions Believe In An Afterlife
- Thread starter Jimmy
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In all honesty, what it tells me is that there are people that want real hard to believe in an afterlife.
Not that I necessarily accept the premise, mind you. It may or may not be true; I don't really know.
In any case, I definitely do not think that having afterlife beliefs is necessary or helpful for a proper religion. It will be an uphill battle to convince me that it is even healthy.
Not that I necessarily accept the premise, mind you. It may or may not be true; I don't really know.
In any case, I definitely do not think that having afterlife beliefs is necessary or helpful for a proper religion. It will be an uphill battle to convince me that it is even healthy.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
Real hard huh? Haha. Convince you that it’s even healthy? No thanks.
Heyo
Veteran Member
Most religions believe in an afterlife - but they can't agree how that afterlife looks. So, most religions must be necessarily wrong, they can't all be right - but they can all be wrong.
That tells me that they probably are - and that people are superstitious.
It tells ya that the continuity of life after the death of one particular biological organism is readily observed by everyone. It tells ya that humanity in general understands cycles of life and death for biological organisms with or without the detailed information about the process the sciences delivers.
firedragon
Veteran Member
There's evidence that even Neanderthals believed in an afterlife.
Not necessarily as ancients probably did not believe in man's evolution or even that the earth was round. I do believe in the afterlife from modern Afterlife Evidence.
Bharat Jhunjhunwala
TruthPrevails
If there is no afterlife, then we have to answer how do souls come into being and where do they go after death? I am a Hindu and I believe in reincarnation. So, there is afterlife but the afterlife is psychical. The question that Abrahamic religions have to answer is that where from do souls arise? and What happens to them after death? If they are condemned to hell permanently Then does it mean that they exist permanently?
Heyo
Veteran Member
Do we? Should we not first answer whether souls exit?
cataway
Well-Known Member
you are a soul
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
It's certainly plausible with some supporting evidence by sheer virtue of being here as living beings.
PureX
Veteran Member
It tells me that we aren't finding the answers we seek in this one.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Not necessarily. That is one explanation. Another might be that human beings simply have a hard time facing the idea of being worm food.
Jimmy
King Phenomenon
They are worm food. Until they’re resurrected on the last day. There’s only one who isn’t worm food.
Bharat Jhunjhunwala
TruthPrevails
We can see in our daily lives that a mother conceives and the child becomes a living being. We also see that at a certain point, the body becomes dead. So, there is something that comes into the fetus and something that goes out of the body. This is this something I call the soul.
Bharat Jhunjhunwala
TruthPrevails
Yes, I agree, I am a soul.
Bharat Jhunjhunwala
TruthPrevails
It is not just plausible. It is most likely true that the soul comes into the fetus and goes out of the body at its point of death. How else would the bodies start and stop living? We may call it soul or not but there is something that enters and something that leaves.
I recall a hypothesis discussed by anthropologists that at least one stimulus towards belief in an afterlife is the living having dreams about the dead.
And if I recall correctly, the people of Çatalhöyük had the practice of burying the dead under the floor of the bedroom, perhaps for facilitating such dreams.
I'm reminded of the way our family dog, after she died, took a fortnight or so to finally disappear from the corner of your eye around the house.
Of course the only credible view is that the place the dead go after death is into the past.
Not to me it doesn't, but it says more about one of the top fears and hopes for us as humans - that of having some kind of existence after we die and not simply death being an end to life. Hence why so many religious beliefs tend to have this as their dogma, even if such might vary between beliefs, and especially as to behaviour and/or beliefs supposedly determining what might happen at death. So the beliefs fulfil two things - as to allaying our fears and giving us hope whilst also being the carrot (as to what we do in life) being tied to some particular destination, or not, as in naughty or nice. Why wouldn't a religious belief concentrate on (and provide answers for) one of our top fears, given that most people would rather not die or see their loved ones die?
cataway
Well-Known Member
yes ,for now you are a living soul , some day you should expect to die ,which would make you a dead soul . comparing life of a body as if it were a lit candle, when the flame is snuffed out where did the flame go ?? no were ,its just gone .