[QUOTE]Originally posted by Chitah831
I'm Christian too...

In some ways I feel that after we die it is just a state of not knowing, so I suppose it really doesn't matter. But that would really kind of suck if you think about it. All that you have done is in life is all of a sudden wiped out. We may return to the same state we were before we were born.. a state of not knowing and no existence. I really hope there is something like that and can trust in the teachings that have been placed upon me.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by magician

 

This may sound stupid but you know at night when you are watching TV in your room and shut it off. The TV has like a residual effect and looks white and trippy. Yeah well what if when you die your eyes do the same thing?!
So many theories...
Another one would be that we are placed on this earth to do Gods task, what ever that task may be. But we will not enter heaven untill that tast is complete. So you would have to come back X amount of times untill you complete that task.
Many nights of pondering...

 

. . . it is appointed unto men once to die . . . . (Heb. 9:27 [KJV]) (Emphasis mine.)

Jahweh (Jehovah) does not have men come back. Period.

 

SiDriver,
Im totally playing the other side here but you talk about people not being able to support anything that they do not believe in.

I was raised under a Catholic house hold, and raised to believe and respect the Lord. Over time I lost my faith. It was a very scarry time in my life. I do not think that I have found God or that "higher being" but whoever it is has made his presence known.
That still does not answer if there is a life after this one ends.
To think all these thoughts happend due to my study of Philosophy...

 

Magician,
Can you type out that whole passage. I would like to know the context of it.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by EvoVII

 

I posted in another thread dealing with the newfound planet with oxygen...

The bible states that the entire universe was made for US. How on earth are we suppose to get from here to millions of light years away? And that is LIGHT years..

No matter how I think about that it just can't seem to make much sense for me.

I came up with a theory that after we die, we become transferred to a planet elsewhere in the universe to live a new life. Sounds pretty good to me

Thus the statement, 'the universe was made entirely for us' makes much more sense

 

That would be cool.. I mean there are planets we may not even know about.. how is earth, out of the entire universe, the only source of human life..

 

Gladly. (I went a bit overboard to try to ensure that the references were understandable.)

24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he shuld offer himself often, as the high pliest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

In short - confining this to the subject at hand - you die once, you are judged righteous or not, sent up or down, and that's it. No more dying; hence, no more living; hence, no reincarnation.