After death

Everhopefull I can only wish you flowers, rainbows, stars and flights of angels to guide you. ??? ?⭐️??✨?

Sorry
That should have read ' sharks had written'

As there are many parallel universes (according to the physicists), I rather hope I shill end up in one of those!

Big hugs Everhopefull

From me too Everhopeful xxx

I believe that you will come back as another person, if I did I just wish I came back with all the knowledge I have now.

All I want to know is if I die will I see my son again.

The truth is that we do not know.

I believe our atoms (which cannot be destroyed) simply return to the cosmic star dust; but our actions and love continue in those around us whom we have cared about or influenced in some way.

I believe that it will be as it was before we were born; but that we have left behind others who came under our influence, and who are each changed in some way (good or bad!).

Thank you Eglantine! I have come to accept there are many things I don't understand, and I know I have 'known' things that later turned out not to be so. So, now I do 'church' etc as 'perhaps it is all true' - man has been doing these things to help us cope with the things we simply cannot cope with (I started when I had to 'hold up' DH through cancer treatment) for aeons. My only caveat is to always remember - religion is to help us be better people - if its not doing that its not religion.

My Dad taught me we make our own heaven on earth.

I would really like to believe in some kind of life after death but logic won’t allow me to. For instance, say your husband died in his forties and you died in your eighties you would be so utterly different if you were reconciled in some afterlife as to be strangers to one another

I do not believe that there is any form of afterlife or reincarnation. I believe I have my time here to live my life doing as much good as I can and as little harm as possible.

Wow, what a great question, Miss Adventure!

When we die (take our last earthly breath), we have a choice, just as we have free choice while here on earth.
We say, yes to Jesus and the promise of Heaven, or reject Him and go to Hell. (Yes, Hell does exist)

Jesus loves us.....each and everyone of us and you cannot begin to imagine or conceive just how great that LOVE is. It is a pure love, resonating every fibre of your body.
Please think and meditate on the words......'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.'
Everyone is free to choose/believe in what they want.
I cannot give you faith in Christ, that is something each person has to find for his/herself, but boy, will it change your life!
Many people find Jesus when they reach a 'desperation' point in their lives. God's presence changes us. The Holy Spirit is just waiting to come into the lives of those who invite Him.
God doesn't see you for any past mistakes you have made, He sees you for what you were created for.
Ask yourself, 'What is my purpose, my destiny?' Do you know?
Every promise in the Bible is for 'you.'

So many people have had 'life after death' experiences and close encounters with Jesus.
I have just finished a book which I would recommend....Face to Face with Jesus ( Samaa Habib)
It begins as a story ripped from the headlines of the war-torn Middle East......
A taster........
"I was thrown ten feet into the air and smashed against the opposite wall. All the air was knocked out of me. I was deafened and blinded, yet at the same moment my entire body felt like it was on fire—like I had an electric shock coursing over me and through me......
I could not speak, but my heart cried out, Jesus! Jesus, help me! Jesus, save me! I gasped, and then I breathed my last.
Then all went black as my spirit left my body".
Samaa was not a Christian, but became one after her encounter with Jesus and her miraculous healing. Now, when she meets people she tells them...."Jesus love you

Glammagran You made a good point. How can we know that we enter our next life as an elderly or young spirit we could enter as a newborn to a new world. No one can say and prove any of our ideas easily.

I think it is deeply personal. What I believe in doesn't matter to you or anyone else - besides, we'll find out one way or the other only once dead, and then there is no way of telling the ones left behind!
As I remind people, life after death might be a great big con, but it comforts me to beleive in it - but I certainly won't inflict my beliefs on other people. Let them think what they will.

My early upbringing was as a Catholic at a Catholic school and we were regaled by lovely nuns with tales of everlasting
hell and torment. Good behaviour and confessions were no guarantee that we wouldn’t meet the fiery fate.

I was terrified.

When we moved, my mother was not so able to enforce contact with her church and, without the constant reinforcement, I started to think about the contradiction of a loving and merciful God and the demonic threats of the church.

Faced with rationality the belief gradually dropped away and now I think that when you are dead you are dead.

At least I hope so - or boy am I in trouble!

NannyC2 It is a poor sort of deity that consigns people to hell (which in my book does not exist anyway) when they have led good lives but just not within the christian faith. Not a deity that any christian might recognise I feel.

Lucky, As I reminded a "Christian" friend recently - what about someone like the Dalai Lama???

You don't have to be religious to live a good life and care for others, and I don't understand if God exists why he/she picks and chooses who to save, when you consider some of the dreadful atrocities that are happening throughout our world. As far as I am aware we haven't heard from God for over 2,000 years! Where is he/she?

More than twenty years ago, I was on a family holiday in Malta. My sister and I were standing waist deep in the sea, enjoying a chat with a couple of other ladies - mostly about places to visit etc. From nowhere, a very nondescript lady approached us and said to my sister, “I don’t want you to be upset, but I’ve got a message for you from Geoffrey. He wants to thank you for all you did for him and he wants you to know that he is at peace and happy.” My sister’s knees buckled and we had to hold her up. I had never heard her mention anyone by that name, but she said it was the Christian name of Dr X, for whom she had worked and later helped to look after when he was dying. In all the years she had known him and talked of him, he was Dr X. He had died just two months before. Neither of us had spoken to the lady in question; nor had we spoken at all about Dr X. How could she possibly have known any of this? It is a mystery to this day.

I hope it brings you some comfort, Everhopeful and I’m sending you a hug x

Nanny C2, you say ‘ Jesus loves us all’ and yet you also say he is willing to send some of us to hell. Many do not accept ‘God’ but live their lives well doing good and no harm to anyone. I’m interested in how you can reconcile the two.

If , as some believe that we will see our loved ones again when we die, I wonder what will we see, will they be like they were on the day they died or as a younger person , Of course no one has ever been able to tell us this but I would love to think I would see my parents again as they were so young when they died , It,s too deep for us to understand but I think those with a strong faith hope it will happen ,

I agree with ginny.

That's all folks!

I am of the same opinion as sodapop I hope there is something more to look forward to, it's has got to be better than the alternative !

Hi Ginny

Yes, I said Jesus loves us all. He doesn't want us to go to hell, just the opposite....we only go to hell if we reject Him.
I agree many live good lives, but their lives would be so much more enriched if they knew Jesus.
It is never too late .....even at deaths door we have the opportunity to choose Jesus.