What do you think happens in the afterlife?

[ZombieDude]

It's exactly the same as how your life was before you were born.

wait what the forget

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[Ravencroft·]

Have you ever undergone general anaesthetic, and you just can't recall anything at all? There's a complete blank space in your memory and consciousness.

I imagine it's like that, but you don't wake up afterwards in a hospital bed.

And then before you know it(or not know it because you're dead) billions of years have passed.

[Georges]

I don't mean to cause an argument, but I am curious about how you feel about your non-christian friends/loved ones not joining you in heaven.

I honestly struggle with this concept a little. I of course want them all to follow God and go to heaven. There's no doubt about that. But the Bible essentially says that since there's no pain or sorrow in heaven, we won't feel the sadness of them missing out.

So I do my part on earth to tell them about God and remind them that it's essentially the most important decision they can make in their life. Recently in my Bible study, we went through Revelation and talked about this kind of thing. IDK if anyone's noticed by I've been a bit more open to talking about this kind of thing over the past few months for exactly that reason. I don't want to see any of you separated from God eternally. And it of course makes me sad when people reject God.

[Rally]

It shouldn't be their fault that in 2016 they don't want to believe in the magic man in the sky. Especially when we've removed it from schools to the point where kids actually get punished for talking about it. I don't disagree with the separation of church and state but the fact that God isn't going to have any mercy on my friends because I failed to convert them is bullstuff. If it's on anyone it should be on me.

Maybe it was easier back in like 6 trillion BC or whatever but nowadays you can't expect people to dedicate themselves to a religion when they spent their lives listening to people call it a crock of stuff. That's just the way it is.

[Foxscotch]

on a related note, if god was omniscient or omnipotent he'd know what to say/do to make everyone believe in him, or he'd just straight up make us, respectively
so if there really is an omniscient or omnipotent power who punishes people for not believing in him, then either... he is not actually omniscient or omnipotent, or he doesn't care what we believe
what we know* about the christian god says that he is both, but he clearly isn't. I'd personally rather believe that he doesn't care, and that the stuff about non-believers going to hell (and certainly among other things) were just added by the fallible humans who actually wrote the bible, for their own personal reasons

*like, not literally know for fact
also I'm not christian. I'm just saying

[Merp]

You get your own sort of paradise regardless of religion

[Daswiruch]

you guys could spend the rest of your life worrying about an invisible, giant, floating, bearded man in the sky that is said to be omniscient and omnipotent yet apparently falls short in both of the categories that is apparently going to hate you if you don't do as it says...
...or you could just enjoy life and not go through it wondering if you did good or not or if you're going to get sucked through the earth's crust to a fiery land or float up to a cloud kingdom.
preaching god would be a waste of time at this point because the believers are slowly slipping through and becoming atheist and non-religious.
it's time to give up, boys.

i feel sorry for people like priests and the pope who dedicate their life to their religion because they are literally wasting their life.

the concept of 'god' defies most of our science and almost all of our logic

[Tezuni 2.0]

There could easily be an afterlife, because we're almost certainly living in a simulation.

For example, consider Schrodinger's Cat.  It says until you look into the box, the cat is both alive and dead.  Only the act of looking into the box causes the waveforms to collapse and produce a single outcome.  Just looking into the box does this.   this guy explains it well

What else does that?  Computer games.  Think about it, the computer doesn't render everything around you, it just renders what you look at.  I know of two movies whose entire plot is based off simulations:  The Matrix and The Thirteenth Floor.  The latter of which actually takes the idea several steps further, simulations within simulations within... (an episode of Rick and Morty uses this plot too)

We're within decades or centuries of creating matrix level simulations ourselves, which could in theory develop enough to create their own simulations and so on.  The take away here is that we could just be a rung on the ladder of simulations which may or may not have programmed afterlives.  Or, against all odds, we could be the "top" reality.  In which case, no afterlife.

[Glass Joe]

this was probably said before, but when you die I like to believe your vision fades to black and you see the real life equivalent of a "credits" screen

[Steve5451²]

There could easily be an afterlife, because we're almost certainly living in a simulation.

[Nonnel]

nothing is not a legit poll result, as it still implies there is an afterlife.

If you think that there is nothing after life, then you think the afterlife is nothing

[Georges]

It shouldn't be their fault that in 2016 they don't want to believe

Lemme stop you right there. God gave humans free will. The Bible says that we were made in his image (his being God). The most prominent aspect of this is that we were given free will. God absolutely could force us to do whatever he wanted us too, but he doesn't. The Bible also specifically says that the world we live in will be a challenge to live as the Bible says. So it's completely their choice to reject the Bible or not. And IF you do believe it, then you understand that 100 years on this earth is literally nothing compared to eternity, so how comfortably we live our lives here doesn't really matter.

on a related note, if god was omniscient or omnipotent he'd know what to say/do to make everyone believe in him, or he'd just straight up make us, respectively
so if there really is an omniscient or omnipotent power who punishes people for not believing in him, then either... he is not actually omniscient or omnipotent, or he doesn't care what we believe
what we know* about the christian god says that he is both, but he clearly isn't. I'd personally rather believe that he doesn't care, and that the stuff about non-believers going to hell (and certainly among other things) were just added by the fallible humans who actually wrote the bible, for their own personal reasons

*like, not literally know for fact
also I'm not christian. I'm just saying

Ok, so let's say you have a son. You love him. You (somehow) have the option of making him obey you to a T, or you have the option of giving him the ability to make his own decisions. So if you choose the second option, you can guide him to be the person you want him to be. God loves us, he created us, and he wants to be reunited with us. But he gave us free will, and he's not going to revoke that now.

Now imagine that some famous person is holding a contest for a fan to get to hang out with him for a day. But in that contest, he wants the fan to prove that he truly likes the celebrity, and whoever does that the best wins. It's far from perfect brown townogy (I also don't understand all of God's motives and reasons) but I think you get the point I'm trying to make.

[Tezuni 2.0]

The Bible says

And you believe it?

Have you ever read the bible?  Not verses here and there, the whole thing?  I have.
It's what made me agnostic after being raised in a Christian home.  Do it.

[Foxscotch]

There could easily be an afterlife, because we're almost certainly living in a simulation.

you can't just say something like that without explaining your reasoning dog

Ok, so let's say you have a son. You love him. You (somehow) have the option of making him obey you to a T, or you have the option of giving him the ability to make his own decisions. So if you choose the second option, you can guide him to be the person you want him to be. God loves us, he created us, and he wants to be reunited with us. But he gave us free will, and he's not going to revoke that now.

if I was going to torture him for the rest of his life after he turned 18 if he didn't follow my rules, then I would make him obey me
god is directly responsible for anyone who goes to hell, and he certainly knows he is. that's a loose definition of "love"

[Daswiruch]

Now imagine that some famous person is holding a contest for a fan to get to hang out with him for a day. But in that contest, he wants the fan to prove that he truly likes the celebrity, and whoever does that the best wins. It's far from perfect brown townogy (I also don't understand all of God's motives and reasons) but I think you get the point I'm trying to make.

but this famous celebrity has not been proven to exist beyond a book from a few thousand years ago saying that he does.
you know how the game telephone works, right? people are passing on other people's word over the course of a few thousand years saying that this celebrity is holding the contest in the first place.