Why do Christians believe that they will never die, but go to heaven, where it's peace love and happiness?

Question

Could they have a vested interest in this belief. Is it insider trading?

Answer 1

Hell no, no time soon, I love my life of acute and chronic pain. Tried that dying thing. In a coma for ten days, after an auto accident. No bright lights at the end of any tunnel or harps and clouds, just peaceful boredom. Waking up however, was a real live pain in the azz rush, followed by bolts of white blinding pain. Don't wanna do that again. Nope, no death (too boring) or dying (too painful) for me. Pass the morphine please. There are a few good Christians and Muslims in the world, just too few to make up for the bad ones. RScott

Answer 2

If there was a vested interest in this belief many people would just lie to themselves, no?

Whom do you think will benefit from this?

If Christians gave their life for their beliefs, wouldn't that be a real waste of human life, if per say it was only the "interest" they were after?

Do you see Christians as rich people or as poor people?

Shock, shock! They come from all walks of life, poor, rich, educated, and not, scientists, and simple janitors, if you wish... for the lack of a shepherd here today.

Why do you believe it's appealing to such a large variety of people?

Consider this: the Bible was actually not written for the Christians. It is the Word of God for every human being, out there. Whether you chose to believe it or not, it's a personal affair. I think, materialistically speaking, in this life you have more to lose if you choose to believe.

I am not saying that some haven't abused the privileges, or that every Christian has lived "by the book" but ultimately the relationship that you have with God is the pivotal issue here.

If God were in hell I would go there. That kind of thing. Can you love anyone like that? Can anyone love you like that on the face of the earth?

Say the whole Christian belief was wrong, and it was a lie. Did you lose something? Don't worry about the Christians, did you lose anything? No.

But if it's true, what did you lose? the best chance of your life.

Everyone has something they live for, something that floats their boat. What floats your boat determines how far you get with it. So far, Christians have been able to make it all the way. How about you?

If you so not like the Christian and the religion, and God, ans all that, why bother throwing darts? Why not live and let live?

I think deep down you're looking for something. Either for validation or assurance. The thing is, it's your choice. The good thing is you can make that choice. The choice is yours, why are you concerned with other people's choice of what they want to do in their life? Could it be you're not sure of your life? Think and act accordingly.

The Bible was not written for the holy ones. It was written so that everyone can come to Jesus. And it's there to show the way. That's all, take it or leave it. Up to you. Are you okay with that? Are you afraid you're not going to get your cut from what you invested into it? Are you afraid you're going to lose your stock? Or is it that your soul is really seeking and crying after God and you keep shutting it up? You have one shot at this, in your lifetime, do you want to bet your life on the Bible?

Answer 3

Someone asked what the concern is with other people's beliefs anyway. (In other words, why not mind your own business.) It's a fair question and the best answer I can give is that, unless they're insane (what's the point of telling someone in an insane asylum that they're NOT Napoleon), it should be pointed out to grown people that their beliefs are fallacious and have affected the world in many bad ways. Rampant overpopulation (thanks to the Church's stand on birth control) is one of the biggest evils such a belief system perpetrates on other humans, and may indeed be ultimately responsible for killing the planet. Those believers may think they're going to a better place, but guess what, we'll all just be dead. No harm in pointing that out. The emperor has no clothes.

Answer 4

Christians believe they will die. It's their souls that will go to heaven. They don't know what it'll be like, just that it's supposed to be eternal. There could be vested interests in a religion beyond just the reward. Some may seek power, influence, and money, but that can happen in any religion, especially when it is the dominant religion in a country. I think it's best to base your opinion of a religion based on how the people who really follow its tenant act, not on how the mainstream aspect of it act.

Answer 5

This belief is founded in writings from many books in the bible. The belief in an afterlife goes well beyond the original writers of the bible back to our earliest written records of history. The pyramids were built to house kings and provide them a launching point to the next life where they would be gods and live forever. Thinking of lying in a box and rotting after death is pretty horrible so it's only natural that mankind has developed complex beliefs regarding the afterlife.

Answer 6

The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from

available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light

of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun

shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives

from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition

seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun,

or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one

ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore

that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The

radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat

lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation,

i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation.

Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation,



(H/E)^4 = 50



where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as

798K (525C).



The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less

than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes

from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says "But the fearful, and

unbelieving...shall have their part in the lake which burneth with

fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means that its

temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above

this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.)



We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.



[From "Applied Optics" vol. 11, A14, 1972]

Answer 7

We DON'T believe that we will never die.



We will all die someday.



Insider trading?



I guess so, & here is our secret:

1 John 5:13 (New International Version)

New International Version (NIV)

Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society







Concluding Remarks

13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Answer 8

Because they were told! And it feeds into the belief that there MUST be something after death. Humans find it extremely hard to accept that they live, then die and that's the end of it! I am an atheist, but when I think of dying, I still find it hard to believe that all my accumulated experiences, knowledge, insights, loves and hates, will all, in the end, be for nothing! I tell myself that I will leave something of myself in my children and grandchildren, but somehow that does not seem to be enough! But I do know that death will bring oblivion, in every sense of the word.

Answer 9

This is one thing that they might be right about. Although I think that they may be surprised when they see who else is there with them.



Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.



While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.



Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.



I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.

During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.



I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.



I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.



Your brother don

Answer 10

I believe it because it is in the bible. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only son...that whosoever believe in him will not parish (die), but have everlasting life." John 3:16- that's why. Where are you going? I would really like to know.

Answer 11

No true. I will die and I will go to heaven. I will be changed in a twinkling of an eye. AMEN!





Jesus is Lord

Answer 12

well, I am a Christian and I believe that I will die, but my soul will go to heaven and live for eternity in a new body. My physical body will not go to heaven only the soul goes there.

Answer 13

Death is the last enemy and it's been conquered. There aren't any secret teachings of Christianity; it's all out in the open, so i don't understand your latter questions.

Answer 14

They know that heaven is just at the top of that incredibly long winded , sorry "in depth" answer they just gave.

Answer 15

o no, we die thats a part of life we kno that but your body dies, not ur sole and ur solr gos 2 heaven, that is a truth

Answer 16

You assume wrong, Christians know they die but then we go "home"...

Answer 17

uh... cuz they feel like it. What's your concern with other people's belief anyway?

Answer 18

It is Biblical doctrine, straight from the Bible.

Answer 19

Bad education system.

Answer 20

i think only with god it would be insider trading.

Answer 21

We are Christian because we believe what God says. And we believe what he did. And God sent His Son.



No one else has to believe it.

Answer 22

The Bible tells me so.

Answer 23

Not so. we have work to do in Heaven.

Answer 24

i dont know

Answer 25

they were deceived