| Magnific0 said: @kazadoom First of all you'd have to ask yourself , "do I have a SOUL ?" Every religious person asumes they have souls and after the physical body stops functioning (brain death) somehow this soul detaches itself from wherever it resides in you and travels to a "spiritual plane". When does this soul enters the physical body in first place? Is it when both reproduction cells unite? And where was this soul before inhabiting our earthly matter? Can we just asume it was created then and there too (at the union of the cells)? The belief of Heaven and Hell also asumes the soul is eternal. But aren't eternal things those of which we know no beginning and end, like God? Are we supposed to asume our souls have existed since forever too? About Hell. Eternal Damnation. So souls are indeed eternal, or so the Bible preaches. Isn't Hell the most sadistic invention imagined? Is that divine justice? Have anyone, the worst of the sinners of mankind history, -Adolf Hitler! comes inmediately to mind-, have anyone really been eternally evil to deserve eternal punishment? If that's the way God works, I'd rather believe there's no God. |
The first answer I can give is I don't know where a sould comes from and where it goes I take it as a matter of faith and someting I feel. As to what a soul is as a quaker I believe that God is inside everyone we call it the inner light and so therefore our souls are a part of god.
About Hell. Well depends on your take. Jesus used two words to describe hell Gehenna and Sh'eol. Gehenna in judaism is the worst place to be and is named after a place of shame. This is where the jewish people sacrificed their children to the cainite god Molech. For you WoW players if you goto Molten Core you will see a boss named Gehennas. Anywyas the jewish version of hell has different layers where demons pick at your soul for each sin you have done. If you done to many sins than your soul will eventually dissappear. Sh'eol seems to be a lesser type of hell and that along with Pauls revelation of a third heaven is the catholic churches basis for purgatory(well that and a chance to ring the coffers up in the dark ages). The Catholic church teaches Hell as the absence of God and complete alienation from others. Whose rigth or wrong I don't know.
The opposite is Gan Eden which is supposed to be heaven. However most of Jewish teaching of the afterlife is fairly minimal compared to christianity.
