Good point Paulm. I never thought of that.I am not happy that I learned about my past life. Well one of them. It wasnt until about four years ago that I really considered it and then once the coincidences started happening It made sense why my life is the way it is and the people that have come and gone.
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Debi your first paragraph was EXACTLY what I was about to write. I have spent my entire life in pursuit of the “right” faith. I got very new age for a while, studied many diff religions and in the end I’ve come right back to the core beliefs of the Bible. Yes I believe we exist in a spirit body after death and faith in Jesus saves us from the conviction of our sins. I believe we are here to learn love and to love God. I totally believe we will be ourselves in the afterlife and we will one day have a glorified body like Christ. There are many mystries here but it does not negate their truth. I don’t know how electricity exists and works but I can flip a switch. I don’t often get religious here but you asked what I believe. There you have it. I’m a 100 percent bible believer and I base it on the results I personally have experienced by living that faith.Not a simple question at all...it is the question that drives all humans to learn, explore and discover. It is the answer that everyone seeks.
My own beliefs have changed over the years as I've done that learning, exploring and discovering. Funny thing is, the more I've learned, the more I've revisited to the beginning.
In answer to the question itself, is there life after death, yes, I now believe it to be so. What form does that take is the question that can only be taken on one's own faith. In mine, I believe that the many religious texts are meant to teach us what we cannot fully comprehend....yet. It's bigger than the simple words. We are just beginning to understand the quantum level of things, and believe that's all there in the texts as well.
My current belief is that as part of a greater consciousness which is the Universal Divine, we are intact in what we call our "soul". The soul is, in simple terms, the packet of who we are in conscious form out there in the universe as part of that Whole. We simply live in the bodies here like a radio receiving the transmission of conscious waves. When the soul leaves this body due to death of the receiver, we then cross back to that state of being in the dimension some may call Heaven, as who we are. I believe my core self will remain "me", but not necessarily just as the named person "Debi." I may be "more" than just this lifetime.
Hell? We put ourselves there with our own actions. It's not a place as much as it is a state of being, no matter what dimension we're in.
I could go on, but then I'd being doing a "Tex Dan" post!
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A good article.Blackpool medium who 'passed away twice' says there is life after death
Jeanette Greenough first discovered that she had a gift when she was a teenager
I've been a hardcore atheist in the past and I was still far more than the sum of my parts. I think that there is something amazing and hard to comprehend in us and our existence and that the various religions which are and have been offer different perspectives on that, but from experience, it still exists without that measuring stick. Personally, I'd love there to be a heaven, but my goal is to be happy and to make other people happy and to understand as much as I can. I don't think too much about a reward or punishment, as in my philosophy I do what I do the best I can in pursuit of those goals and if I'm judged at the end and win a prize then, really it would just be a (really great) bonus. I don't count on it though and it's no motivation to me. A smile from somebody is reason enough to be.
Ben you are living the golden rule, treat others as you would want to be treated. To love freely is to be on the right side of things. I think if you’re open to it God reveals himself to you in many ways... sometimes it’s an unexpected smile from a stranger.
