Originally posted by SGalisa
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Did you bother to read the part where they are talking millions of years ago, which sorta blows any credence in the young earth theory, or the notion that the bible is any kind of accurate record?
Can't have one gotcha without the other one really.
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I needed to quote some of the original *context* of this comment--
as the discussion was about what happens after a person dies...
Piecing this info together is difficult, because it's all over the place!
You just said "there is NO LIFE AFTER DEATH". So, that means regardless of your human form's living body age, your "life" in the "here and now" will be shorter than those who hope to be living out an eternal life. . . having a more Life after death, that is.
From your own perspective, once your human body dies, that's it. You ARE Gonzo. Puff. No more.
So, in that sense, "life is very short".
I needed to quote some of the original *context* of this comment--
as the discussion was about what happens after a person dies...
Piecing this info together is difficult, because it's all over the place!
You just said "there is NO LIFE AFTER DEATH". So, that means regardless of your human form's living body age, your "life" in the "here and now" will be shorter than those who hope to be living out an eternal life. . . having a more Life after death, that is.
From your own perspective, once your human body dies, that's it. You ARE Gonzo. Puff. No more.
So, in that sense, "life is very short".
Whether or not your earthly human life is 2 days or 20 years or 200 trillion years, that is "a short life" in terms of looking at eternity. As being understood from an "Eternal measurement" POV, it is less than a nanosecond, if that much. If eternity was a straight or curvy, scribbly line, or even an infinity loop--repeating within its own path over and over and over-- eternity from here forward will never end. At least with 100 years, time measurements can be easily divided. Eternal measurements cannot be measured within our limited minds, because eternity goes beyond our methods of comprehension.
Others do not think, nor believe like you.
My dad died at the age of 56.7 years. If that's all he lived, and is thus no more, that is a mighty *short* life. My mom lived 20 years longer than he did. But even with only 75 years in her human body existence, if there was/is no eternity to look forward to, then she too, had a very short lifespan.
In other words, if generic you plan on living for XYZ number of years, and then die, and then nothing happens outside of the body decaying, you ARE gone forever aftermore. That's a short life in my POV. Too short. And if you want to live watching your body shrivel up as you get older and your bones begin to creak and cartilage disintegrates and makes snap,crackle,popping sounds along the way, well, if you do wake up in an eternal world after your human body dies, what will you look like? Some new enhanced energy form? ...or Dust?
In other words, if generic you plan on living for XYZ number of years, and then die, and then nothing happens outside of the body decaying, you ARE gone forever aftermore. That's a short life in my POV. Too short. And if you want to live watching your body shrivel up as you get older and your bones begin to creak and cartilage disintegrates and makes snap,crackle,popping sounds along the way, well, if you do wake up in an eternal world after your human body dies, what will you look like? Some new enhanced energy form? ...or Dust?
Are you so afraid of death that you cannot accept it?
A song I grew up with reflects upon this *dusty* existence of ours---
". . . all we are, is DUST in the Wind..." (Lyrics sung by musical group "Kansas")
Well, that's what happens to the human part of the body after it dies. It turns to DUST and gets blown away into the wind. Physical dust particles scattered to the proverbial four corners of the universe.
". . . all we are, is DUST in the Wind..." (Lyrics sung by musical group "Kansas")
Well, that's what happens to the human part of the body after it dies. It turns to DUST and gets blown away into the wind. Physical dust particles scattered to the proverbial four corners of the universe.
What you are really afraid of, is the loss of -self-, to not be "you" as you understand "you", and that is what god offers, and it is a very seductive and powerful thing.
So, where does the former human named "Falcon Horus" or "SGalisa" or "SoulReaver" energy/soul part go?
Your beliefs do, but not everyone shares them.
Sidenote---Some Bible scholars believe the soul's *energy/breath of life-force goes back or returns to the "Spirit" from which it came from in the first place. If true, does it get morphed back into where it came out of, or stay as an individual entity, which has been given a Life/soul from the Spirit entity (the *eternal* Entity's power of existence, etc.)..?
So, how do you explain your brain's existence being capable of having a sense of individuality, plus being able to compute complex thoughts and formulas, let alone say or write the very words in the above quote?
If the brain is simply a bunch of biological ganglia and neuro-transmitters, how can all that mushy matter + electrical impulses *think*..? How is it capable of dreaming either in its awake cycle or sleep cycle? hmmm...?
Please, if anyone can answer this in easy to understand layman's terms, not scientific gobbly-gook, please do so. *thanks!!*
BTW---The Bible has a simple answer -- God designed it that way and made it possible.
If the brain is simply a bunch of biological ganglia and neuro-transmitters, how can all that mushy matter + electrical impulses *think*..? How is it capable of dreaming either in its awake cycle or sleep cycle? hmmm...?
Please, if anyone can answer this in easy to understand layman's terms, not scientific gobbly-gook, please do so. *thanks!!*
BTW---The Bible has a simple answer -- God designed it that way and made it possible.
We don't know yet, and it is as valid an answer as "god did it". In fact it is more valid because it makes no assumptions based on faith that we have the capacity to answer the question.
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