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Anonymous No.941248231 [Report] >>941248415 >>941248469 >>941248571 >>941249883 >>941250518 >>941253130 >>941256303
What do you believe your eternal fate is?
Anonymous No.941248408 [Report]
To go to heaven where I will have a harem of teenagers
Anonymous No.941248415 [Report]
>>941248231 (OP)
To eat shit
Anonymous No.941248469 [Report]
>>941248231 (OP)
Heaven just like Hitler
Anonymous No.941248571 [Report]
>>941248231 (OP)
I will expire into nothingness.
Anonymous No.941249883 [Report]
>>941248231 (OP)
I am a being who exists to suffer and I will continue to do so until I am either annihilated or I am so broken and so defeated that I cannot continue to suffer anymore.
Anonymous No.941250518 [Report]
>>941248231 (OP)
it's happening right now
it's always been happening
do you think they would tell us about it if there was the slightest possibility we could still stop it?
Anonymous No.941253130 [Report]
>>941248231 (OP)
i don't know
in the Hebrew scriptures, there is no concept of the afterlife as it later developed in Christianity; except for a few figures like Enoch and Elijah who were taken up to God directly, the common fate for all men was believed to be sheol, the grave, basically a gloomy sort of shadow existence similar to the Greek conception of Hades
between the time most of the Hebrew scriptures were written and the time of Jesus (the Second Temple period of Judaism), Jews developed the idea of an immortal soul and dualism, thanks to the influence of Hellenism and Zoroastrianism, respectively
the New Testament isn't univocal about the afterlife, as Paul clearly believed that during his lifetime, or the lifetimes of the people he was writing to, Jesus would return, dead Christians would rise from their graves, and living Christians would meet Jesus in the clouds and be given new, incorruptable bodies
Islam developed its idea of the afterlife from Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian ideas
the dharmic religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) generally believe in a cycle of rebirth, with the possibility of escape by following various meditation or tantric practices
most materialists reject mind-body dualism and posit that the cessation of brain function more or less coincides with the cessation of consciousness, and that there is no afterlife, just life, then nothing
then again, we would be existing in a simulation run by the far-future descendents of people living today or by aliens, in which case whatever the entities running the simulation want to happen will happen
so nobody knows, but lots of people say they do
Anonymous No.941256303 [Report] >>941257092
>>941248231 (OP)
Following Jesus leads to Heaven.
Anonymous No.941256314 [Report]
Do I have your attention, or are you playing hard to get?
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Anonymous No.941257092 [Report] >>941257433
>>941256303
how does one follow Jesus?
what is heaven?
Anonymous No.941257433 [Report] >>941258590
>>941257092
Believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God the Father and believe in his Holy Spirit, repent of your sins with a sincere heart, get baptized, and take the bread and wine of the Eucharist/Lord's Supper, to start with. Continue following Christ by studying the Bible, attending a traditional church, and living a Holy Spirit-filled life to go on the path to eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, as it will be brought to Earth when Christ returns physically.
Anonymous No.941258590 [Report]
>>941257433
>Believe in Jesus Christ
first you said follow Jesus, now you're saying believe in Jesus Christ
did Jesus believe in Jesus Christ?
>as the Son of God the Father and believe in his Holy Spirit,
the Trinity isn't Biblical
that was an invention of the later church under the influence of Neoplatonism
>repent of your sins with a sincere heart, get baptized,
Jesus did appear to believe in that, since he was baptized by John in the Jordan and preached repentence
>and take the bread and wine of the Eucharist/Lord's Supper, to start with.
hmm
did you know that various Dionysian and other pagan traditions had very similar rituals before the time of Jesus?
>Continue following Christ by studying the Bible,
the Bible as we have it now wasn't finished until 100 years after Jesus died, so how are we following Jesus by studying the Bible? Jesus had access to *none* of the books of the New Testament, the earliest of which was written ~25-30 years after he died
>attending a traditional church,
in other words Eastern Orthodox?
>and living a Holy Spirit-filled life to go on the path to eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, as it will be brought to Earth when Christ returns physically.
Paul thought that was going to happen either when he was alive or when some of the people he was writing to were alive, but it obviously didn't happen
if Paul was wrong (he was) how can we trust anything else he wrote? what else was he wrong about?