What is the purpose of life after death ?

Sorry if this point has been raised before....

If God has our best interests at heart, why don't we get born into paradise straight away without the painful and stressful business of living on earth first? OK I know about Adam and Eve - but a God who would deny billions of people the chance of paradise due to mistakes made by two people is not a God I wish to know.

So - the question should be - not why is there an afterlife - but why is there a life?

aussie mark: There is life after death for the same reason there is life before life. "Evolution of spirit". A better question would be which life is the more significant, life here on earth, or life in other realms? I personal believe that all our spirits have lived in many forms, along the long and winding road of evoluting being.

I do not believe one can exist in a heaven like realm unless they are a purely emanating spirits. Only a spirit that lives for giving to others, can live in a realm (heaven) of bliss. As long as your spirit has cravings for this earthly existence, one must come back here, to hopefully evolve beyond an absorbing spirit, to an emanating spirit.

Those spirits that became absorbed in there own "pain/regret", end up in a hell realm. We all know the horror of regret, don't we?

Yeah this sounds all fairy tale-ish but what about one other aspect you neglect to realize as a possibility? What if you want neither earthly existence nor a heaven existence?

I think it is funny that peoples motivation for heaven is that it is some pure bliss state when clearly they would never accept such a thing to begin with. Not to mention you would be bored to death of it, in less than an hour. It is the conflict of nature that people strive to submerse themselves into. So if that heaven does not have this aspect then it would be rejected at some point.

I am not surprised that some strive for it regardless of that fact. I think they are motivated by another force, an emotional force of fear. They simply can not fathom that one day they will not be. They can't or refuse to accept that death is an end to experience. That they will never feel, think or do anything ever again. That scares them so they invent these ideas of blissful heavens and reliving lives for perfection.

So if the purpose is for perfection, what happens when you achieve perfection? Just hang out and wait for the others? Absurd.

:confused: Can any one explain to the forum why there is supposed to be a life after death and what would the purpose of that life be ,

Thank you

They tried to create this blissful perfect world in the Matrix movie. Apparently it didnt work to well for the machines either. Entire crops were lost.

Just because the majority of people cannot accept death as the end to experience, and buy into this Heaven BS. Does not mean that death is the end of experience. Its hard to believe that every single ghost documentation is fake, so life could possibly exist in some form after death.

Sorry if this point has been raised before....

If God has our best interests at heart, why don't we get born into paradise straight away without the painful and stressful business of living on earth first? OK I know about Adam and Eve - but a God who would deny billions of people the chance of paradise due to mistakes made by two people is not a God I wish to know.

So - the question should be - not why is there an afterlife - but why is there a life?

Being a rationalist I find no reason to believe in either. I'm just hypothesising taking as an axiom that the Judeo/Christian/Muslim God exists, and created human beings, and exiled them from paradise thus forcing them to live in the world we live in today, suffering death at the end of such lives, but on certain conditions allowing them to live for ever in the said paradise.

The purpose of the life after death is completion. And a fullness. A becoming one with God. A revelation of truth, of love, of knowledge, of understanding.

I also agree with Fil. Albuquerque when he asks, what is the purpose of life before death?

Life and life after death(should it exist) have the same purpose, knowledge of God. Bringing our spirit into oneness with the spirit of God. To love God. We can spend our lives and all eternity exploring God and the ways of God and still not reach that. But the journey is not wasted. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

I reject the claim that the purpose of life is to discover god.

In any case, what purpose does discovering god serve?

All this talk about god, and nobody knows what it is. Might as well be talking about dark matter/energy. Nobody knows what that is either. God is just some delusional fantasy, or fairy tale. Like a kid believing in the tooth fairy. Until there is some sort of theoretical scientific explanation as to what the nature of this so-called god might be.

And this talk about god being loving, caring, etc. Thats a bunch of bull crap. I see evil in the world, and if god created it. Then its nature is much more complex than the pleasing human-like attributes we assign to it.

I dont see why life after death should be dependent on something that there is no proof of, or decent explanation of. But it seems to me that if there is a purpose to life, or life after death. Then that would imply a creator that had the purpose in mind.

I believe that the purpose of life after death is too put the human mind at ease. It is a product of the undying hopefulness of humanity. Humans for the most part are much too selfish to believe their lives are nothing more. I must say that I too, have an ingrained feeling that I will spiritually move on to experience something more than life on earth.