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Love for God. I love God very much even if their is no afterlife or if im going to hellWhat would be the purpose?
Most of the attraction of religions is the promise that there is something better than the wretched life humans must endure for a comparatively short period of time (or a series of comparatively short periods of time) before the big guy in the sky finally lets you in for ever.
On the flip side, if you're naughty you get a lump of coal in your stocking and forever in a really horrible place.
Do some people on this forum believe in God/a higher power but not in a afterlife?
I happen to believe in an afterlife not because of theological beliefs but because of the Afterlife Evidence.Do some people on this forum believe in God/a higher power but not in a afterlife?
I disagree. From a Christian POV, it’s really about the here and now. Jesus’ gospel message was: “Turn your lives around. God’s imperial rule has come near.”Most of the attraction of religions is the promise that there is something better than the wretched life humans must endure for a comparatively short period of time
The Celtic cyclical nature of the world.Yes. I'm one of them (assuming you allow "higher powers" plural to count - I'm not a monotheist). I view existence as a continuity. There isn't a "before" and "after" to it - or rather the "before" and "after" is a matter of perspective.
I disagree. From a Christian POV, it’s really about the here and now. Jesus’ gospel message was: “Turn your lives around. God’s imperial rule has come near.”
Baptist/evangelical? That’s hardly an orthodox stance.Really? When I was a christian, the emphasis I noticed was in forever after, and that this life was a drop in the bucket compared to the kingdom of heaven.
Baptist/evangelical? That’s hardly an orthodox stance.
The Celtic cyclical nature of the world.
Do some people on this forum believe in God/a higher power but not in a afterlife?
I DODo some people on this forum believe in God/a higher power but not in a afterlife?
Thank you for that.Yeah, there are themes of cyclicality in what is known of that lore. But in truth, my Druidry is far more inspired by the sciences than it is by the old lore. Cyclicality is everywhere when you study the sciences in the sense that creation ex nihilo isn't a thing. Matter and energy change shape and form, cycling from one thing to another; perpetually as far as human lifetimes are concerned.
I do also acknowledge the reality of the otherworlds and that can get into something vaguely resembling an "afterlife" but not in the sense that the OP probably means. The otherworlds collectively are too wibbly - concepts of time and space don't meaningfully apply even if one is journeying to established territories that some lore calls an "afterlife." At least in my experience.
With respect, no wonder you’ve come away with that as the take-away. But those sects are not a representative majority of the religion.Yup! Both. And legalist/fundamentalist.
With respect, no wonder you’ve come away with that as the take-away. But those sects are not a representative majority of the religion.
Do some people on this forum believe in God/a higher power but not in a afterlife?
Love for God. I love God very much even if their is no afterlife or if im going to hell