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Originally Posted by RetiredGySgt  Well since Jesus can be shown to have existed and we have an account of him returning from the dead as well as several people he raised before he died. It comes down to, do you believe those stories.
If you do not, then there is no evidence to prove an after life.
But it doesn't matter because actually when you die, you do not go to heaven or hell or limbo or anywhere else. You are DEAD and as the bible refers to it " asleep" until the Judgement day.
If Satan rules Hell then we are living in Hell now. He rules the Earth until Jesus returns and destroys him and his armies.
All that have lived up till the end of days will be called forth from the grave, "awakened" restored to life unless they are judged to be part of Satan's forces or to have willfully denied God and Jesus after being taught about them. Those people will not be raised, they will remain in the grave and any alive at the judgement will be destroyed.
As to heaven only 144,000 chosen people will ascend to heaven, the rest will live on Earth with Jesus as King, no death, no sickness no misery. The 144,000 will help run God's Kingdom on Earth from heaven.
No where in the Bible, except Jesus will you find any passage that has any person ascending to Heaven before the Judgement day. |
Holy shit! I never thought of that before. So in reality, there is absolutely no difference between the 'atheist' after life and the christian one until the Judgement Day? You know like 'nothingsness blackness, we're here, then we die' sort of type of thing?
Jeeeeez, we're gonna have to be REAL patient then. = \
That's kinda neat though... you really do learn something every day.