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I'd be happy to answer this question.

The main problem with your thinking here is that you can justify any crime because of this. Just because you have accepted Christ as your savior doesn't mean you are eternally saved. It is possible to stray from the path.

As for my personal belief, I can't say. I am to young even now to have studied much of what I will, although I do believe in heaven and hell. It is quite possible that other beliefs, such as reincarnation, are also true. Until one studies the different religious texts, one can not truly form an opinion.

I could go on with about 200 different beliefs of mine(I know I think on this way too much!), but I doubt any of you have a remote interest. so the one that I'm believing the most right now is this:

I believe that when you die, if you have been good in life, and your true nature and heart has been judged, you are sent to paradise. for some people, this means going through life once again. for others it means different things. for me, it probably doesn't mean going through life again, but nonetheless, I'd still consider it.

if you are bad, however, I believe you are not given this choice, but you are forced to do one of the things you aren't happy about. what this is, I have yet to discern, but It'll come to you eventually.

K

I grew up as a Christian, so for the first 19 or so years of my life, I believed in heaven and hell. The past couple of years have been marked by my religious beliefs drifting and changing a bit. I stopped believing in a literal 'Hell' quite some time ago. I'm now entertaining the possibility of there not being an afterlife. It always used to seem like something that was a 'given' before, but I am starting to think more logically and less spiritually and it seems less possible for me to have a strong opinion about it either way.

If there is an afterlife, I imagine it being somewhat like the explanation given in the movie What Dreams May Come. Yeah, I know it's kind of lame that I sound like I base my personal beliefs on a movie, but it's really more like that was the explanation that had always resonated best to me. For those of you unfamiliar with the movie, heaven and hell are presented as kind of... just another place. The people in hell are there because they will not forgive themselves for terrible things they had done in life, not because they were being punished. Souls could be reincarnated if they chose, but were not forced to.

i radom intergection if i may......considering i was reported "dead" twicw already, with a TOD written on my medical files, i will say that when i was "dead" there was nothing, i remember waking up in the hospital 2 hours after i flat lined...thats it, so i believe then when your dead, your dead, your soul waits for another body to inhabit, and takes it, if a body is nbot found, you return to yours...it was not yet my tim,e, so i arose....this is however my belief, i gave you some facts in the mix, so you can conclude what you will from it all.....

sorry but death really scares me, I joke around about it but really. I'm petrified on the subject.

I would like to say this is of course speculation for obvious reasons.

I think once you die it is completely over for good, like a computer shutting down as someone has already said.

I wanted to say something else too, but now I can't remember.

do you thank my cat will live after his death