There is heaven.

And there is hell.

And we need to be ready.
It is very important.
We need to repent.

Don't agree. End of.

jingl that is what I mean. Anything of me that might live on after my life is over will be in the impact I may have had on others..but I will never know!

I am happy for others to have a different view as long as they do not use their views to try to impact on my life /opinion/belief.

Repent of what for God's sake?!

Well that depends on what you have been up to?

If I am bring entirely serious and a bit maudlin, I hope a little of me will live on in DDs and maybe even in DGCs. That would be an achievement to be proud of,

Christians believe the message of Jesus, that all who believe in him will not perish, but will have everlasting life in Heaven.
If that's not true, then Jesus was either the biggest liar that ever lived, or he was insane and deluded, or he didn't exist at all. So,if you don't believe there is an afterlife, which of these statements do you think is true?
Just asking!

I only have had one experience making me wonder. During radiotherapy, my lung was damaged causing me real problems with breathing. One afternoon it got so bad I had to go to bed. I was exhausted trying to breathe and wondered if it was worth the effort. At that point, I remember seeing both my parents (long dead) coming towards me holding out their arms towards me encouraging me to join them. I don't remember any bright light or music at all but it was very vivid. I nearly went to them but decided there were still things here I needed to do, and they left.

A medical friend suggested that this was hallucination caused by severe lack of oxygen getting to my brain, which makes sense.

Make of that what you will.

My DD works in an ICU with obviously very sick people and finds a lot of the patients get an ICU "psychosis".

Given that, and the sort of stories and culture of Christianity most of us will have been raised in will be present in the minds of most of patients.

I wonder what sort of delusional thoughts, ideas, etc cultures other than the Judeo/Christian/Islamic traditions, (which all have the same roots), might be like.

I'm sure there is an afterlife. I have always believed so. This belief was strengthened when I saw a ghost in my bedroom in the middle of the night about 15 years ago. I was asleep and I suddenly woke up and saw an old lady standing by the side of the bed, fortunately the side furthest away from me! I propped myself up on my elbows and looked at her. I was very scared and my heart was beating very fast and I thought I wouldn't be surprised if I have a heart attack. She was looking at me with an angry face as if to say what are you doing in my house? I can remember exactly what she looked like and what she was wearing. I was staring at her face so was not aware of what she might have been wearing below her waist, but I remember she had a dress/top of navy and white small print, and grey hair and very baggy eyes. After a few seconds that seemed like ages, she gradually faded and disappeared. If anyone had told me this had happened to them I would have said I would have got up and run out of the room, but I could not move. I felt like I was frozen to the bed. I laid there until it got light and then I got up and went downstairs. I have never slept alone in that room again since that day. I believe it must have been the old lady who lived in my house before I bought it. Maybe she died in that room. I have always been scared of the dark and sleep with a dim light on. I'm not sure what would have happened if the room had been in total darkness. I had a touchlight on the bedside cabinet and as soon as she had disappeared I put it on the brightest setting until daylight came. I did not sleep any more that night after I had seen her.

mrsmopp I don't think Jesus was a liar but the people who wrote it all down later, might have been.

Jesus, if mistaken, need not have been any more of a liar or lunatic than people who nowadays believe in an afterlife.

Death is mysterious. The miracle of birth, and consciousness is also mysterious. We don't really know what goes on, do we?

I believe in an afterlife. I believe Jesus is the Son of God and through his death and resurrection it gives all people the chance to be redeemed and made right with God . As Mrsmopp said either Jesus's claims are true, or he was a liar or he was deluded and mentally ill. The gospel writers I believe add to the authenticity of Jesus's claims by the slightly different reports of the same event. Over the years millions of people have believed in the good news of Jesus. I don't think they can all be wrong.

I choose not to be deluded others may make a different choice we should agree to differ and respect the choices made.

Fippen 'eck! coping with this life is enough without worrying about an afterlife!!

The hospital had told us that my dear husband had weeks to live. I was at his bedside with two of my sons. The eldest son has small children so I suggested he go home as my husband was asleep and looked OK.

My son stood up and immediately fell back in the chair. It was as if some force had pushed down on his shoulders. He looked so surprised and said. "I can't leave."

I then stood up and the same thing happened to me.

My dear husband died (unexpectedly) a few hours later.

Maybe it could be explained by us having a human intuition but it was the force of whatever it was that made us sit down again that really can't be explained.

My son is a non believer but I will never forget the look on his face when he was pushed back into his chair.

I'd love to think there was,but there isn't,your dead all yer clothes washed,and your memory held in your loved ones hearts.
I know this because my dear B I Law knew he was dying of a brain tumour,before he got too poorly,he told my nephew( his son) if he could,he would come back to him. Well he never has,so!

Also my dear sister who died sudden of a brain hemorage,would never be able to hold herself back,she was such a nosey chatterbox.Love her dearly,
Scuse spelling please.

Imo, our afterlife lives on in the memories of others. How I would love to be a writer, composer, lyricist, artist etc, where ones life lives on for ever.
My life may be remembered for a generation or two, then it will fall into the realms of genealogy, nothing of me will remain for all time.

Mumofmadboys, I agree with you and I believe without a shadow of doubt that it's all true. He proved himself by his compassion, his miracles, his love, his humbleness and by his resurrection. He did what he came to earth for, I have no doubts whatsoever.
So the answer to the OP is, yes, there is an afterlife for all who believe in Him.

MrsMopp, ae you saying He is selective, only those that believe get it, seems rather uncharitable.

My eldest DS a Uniting Church minister has sat with many people as they died. She said many times she has been called to nursing homes to sit with someone because their families have not bothered to be at their elderly relative's bedside.

When my DF was dying at a hospice he was reaching out and smiling at something we couldn't see. At first I thought he wanted me to hug him but it wasn't me he was smiling at. He kept looking over to something and smiling. My sister said she has seen this often with people who were dying.

Through the night and day that my siblings and step mother and I spent at the hospice I sometimes chatted to a woman who was in her seventies when we went to the kitchen to get a drink, her brother was in the hospice. She said he had been there for three weeks and was doing it tough. My father died the next afternoon and I spoke to this woman and she said her brother had just died too, she mentioned that he had also been reaching out to someone they couldn't see.

I will add that I am not religious at all.

Grand tea, how can you go to heaven to a God you don't believe in?

Christ is not selective i