I have heard and read many theories on an after life. I had lots of discussions with my Buddhist employee, at a Highway Roadhouse I once Leased. After one such discussion, as I was cleaning the windscreen of a car, that he was filling with petrol. I was removing large stick insects from the car window, I asked him if they may have been people in a previous life. His reply was yes, I said perhaps that's why they flew into the car windshield because they remembered driving cars in another life. He told me that he found out after hypnosis that he had been Alexander the Great and a German officer in previous lives. Maybe it was the life he lived as a German officer that got him the less important gig as a service station attendant, after being Alexander. My question to Buddhists is can a person, who has come back as an animal or a bird or an insect know what they once were, unless they can be hypnotized. Who also judges what is good and bad Karma and determines peoples destiny. The Bible says
Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Heb 9:28 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. The Catholics and many other religions,who say that they follow the Bible, also say you go to heaven or hell after death. The Catholics introduce another place called purgatory, which is an in between realm, where if your relatives pay enough money to the Church, you can buy a passage to heaven. Where you can watch over others below. Once again the Bible says something different.
Ecc Ch 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. So if the dead don't have any awareness of the living or even that they are dead, what state are they in and what is our hope for that matter.
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep ( died) in Jesus will God bring with him.
1Th 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump (not Donald): for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. A complete metamorphosis. A spiritual version of the Monarch butterfly.
I once asked a friend who had died for a number of hours and been revived what he remembered, his reply was, it was like a deep sleep. When I myself have awoken from a deep sleep I am only aware of how long it was, when I look at the clock. It may have been 12 hours or a thousand years for all I know. If it was a thousand years I would need a new body, also if I were to be then an eternal being I would require a different body. A young employee I now have, said during one of our deep discussions, maybe death is like a dream where you, during the dream leave your body. I said but while you are dreaming your body and brain are still functioning, so when you awaken you sometimes remember the dream. In a Bible story Saul the king of Israel went to a Medium to inquire of Samuel the prophet who had died. About what was to happen in an upcoming battle, as God had stopped communicating with him. This is what the Medium saw and the message given from Samuel.
1Sa 28:13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
1Sa 28:14 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
1Sa 28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted (awoken) me, to bring me up? He then told Saul of his fate. If anyone, would come down from heaven it would be Samuel the prophet, who spent his whole life in Gods service, but he was asleep and was awakened to speak with Saul.
The book of revelation speaks of a first resurrection, which I mentioned earlier in this thread, for those who are" in Christ". It then talks of a second resurrection which is the final judgement day for all mankind. It is up to all of us to chose what we believe on these issues, but it is at the point of our death, where it all comes to a head. This perhaps is another point of view, personally I am with Jesus at his point of death. Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. This is the ultimate act of trust in what you believe.
Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Heb 9:28 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. The Catholics and many other religions,who say that they follow the Bible, also say you go to heaven or hell after death. The Catholics introduce another place called purgatory, which is an in between realm, where if your relatives pay enough money to the Church, you can buy a passage to heaven. Where you can watch over others below. Once again the Bible says something different.
Ecc Ch 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. So if the dead don't have any awareness of the living or even that they are dead, what state are they in and what is our hope for that matter.
1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep ( died) in Jesus will God bring with him.
1Th 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump (not Donald): for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. A complete metamorphosis. A spiritual version of the Monarch butterfly.
I once asked a friend who had died for a number of hours and been revived what he remembered, his reply was, it was like a deep sleep. When I myself have awoken from a deep sleep I am only aware of how long it was, when I look at the clock. It may have been 12 hours or a thousand years for all I know. If it was a thousand years I would need a new body, also if I were to be then an eternal being I would require a different body. A young employee I now have, said during one of our deep discussions, maybe death is like a dream where you, during the dream leave your body. I said but while you are dreaming your body and brain are still functioning, so when you awaken you sometimes remember the dream. In a Bible story Saul the king of Israel went to a Medium to inquire of Samuel the prophet who had died. About what was to happen in an upcoming battle, as God had stopped communicating with him. This is what the Medium saw and the message given from Samuel.
1Sa 28:13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
1Sa 28:14 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
1Sa 28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted (awoken) me, to bring me up? He then told Saul of his fate. If anyone, would come down from heaven it would be Samuel the prophet, who spent his whole life in Gods service, but he was asleep and was awakened to speak with Saul.
The book of revelation speaks of a first resurrection, which I mentioned earlier in this thread, for those who are" in Christ". It then talks of a second resurrection which is the final judgement day for all mankind. It is up to all of us to chose what we believe on these issues, but it is at the point of our death, where it all comes to a head. This perhaps is another point of view, personally I am with Jesus at his point of death. Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. This is the ultimate act of trust in what you believe.