I believe in God and that ALL go (eventually) to Heaven. Would you like that outcome?

If there's an afterlife, that'd be awesome. But I find it unlikely.

 

@Jontro

 

I’m not interested in debating it, but this is my belief as well. Recommended reading if you’re at all interested: “The Evangelical Universalist” by Gregory MacDonald

 

I grew up forced into church 3 times a week. As a young child had everyone from my Sunday school teachers, to my parents, and my pastors use fear of hell/eternal suffering as a motivator for engagement in the church.

Had I not been subjugated and manipulated for years and years I might think differently about all that. However that experience scared me, and it will be very hard for me to truly meet this notion with an open non skeptical mind.

That being said I do still occasionally pray and I do hope there is someone out there listening. I do not believe that the afterlife if there is one is anything like what the evangelical church preaches that it is. I don’t think we are capable of comprehending what inter dimensional life transfer would be like since it has never been documented and studies because it would be impossible to do that.

I guess we’ll all find out sooner or later. Lately it feel more like sooner than later. Heaven or not, it’s worth while to try to be as good of a person as we can. Be as good of a parent as we can, and never take for granted the time we are given.

 

Who knows? I don't think it really matters. If there is an afterlife, great. If there isn't, we won't be conscious to worry about it.

In the Bible Jesus only shared one prayer for his followers in all of his time. In that prayer he said to pray that it be done on earth as it is in heaven.

So the prayer is to do things on earth like you would have in heaven. So I figure if that's the focus, everyone will be better off.

I do beleive in an afterlife. But I don't think it matters if others agree or if I'm wrong as long as everyone is working to make life on earth like it would be in heaven, we'd all be a lot better off.

 

Of course there is an afterlife.... Knew it since I saw this music video as a little kid....

 

Repent and yo may be saved

 

edit: oh boo! gotta watch it on youtube. but I can't delete it now, what would i put in its place? i need to know this

 

I spent many years in the Pentacostal Church so I've had the fire and brimstone and I do believe in the afterlife, just not sure about hell......I think that good people go to Heaven, just not sure about the really bad people, I would like to think that souls are not burning for eternity, they simply don't get to go to heaven..........but what do I know, I would hate to get to the afterlife and had picked the wrong team..............like getting there and go oh no, "X" was the way to worship

 

I believe religion to be 100% bullshit.

DD

 

I find it incongruous to believe that a loving God would also doom his wayward children to eternal punishment for not believing in Him or centuries of imperfect messengers.

 

I flip-flop between this is all a simulation and we are just the universe hallucinating. It’s surreal to think of the beauty and complexity of the logic from the atomic level to consciousness.

 

Which one?

 

This gives me a bit of a pause ...

 

Expect more a Matrix or San Junipero scenario

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