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What do you think of this passage?
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Quote:All the major world religions hold the belief that how a person has conducted himself or herself while living on Earth will greatly influence his or her soul's ultimate destiny after physical death. In fact, many teachings state that the only reason for birth into the material world is the opportunity to prepare for the soul's destiny in the immaterial worlds. And what is more, how one meets the challenges of life on Earth, whether or not one chooses to walk a path of good or evil, determines how that soul will be treated after death. All the seeds that one has sown throughout his or her lifetime, good or bad, will be harvested in the afterlife.

When an individual dies, according to many world religions, the soul is judged or evaluated, then sent to what is perceived as an eternal place—heaven or hell. The Hindu or Buddhist expects to encounter Yama, the god of the dead. In the Hindu scriptures, Yama holds dominion over the bright realms and can be influenced in determining a soul's admission by offerings made for the benefit of the deceased by relatives and friends. In the Buddhist tradition, Yama is the lord of hell who administers punishment according to each individual's karma, the cause and effect of his or her actions on Earth. In neither religious expression is Yama at all comparable to Satan, who in Christian belief is both the creator of evil and the accuser of human weaknesses.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3406300012.html

Buddhist Hell http://yomadic.com/buddhist-hell/

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Hindu Samsara (repeating existence is the undesirable 'hell')

Wikipedia Wrote:Saṃsāra (Sanskrit संसार) is the repeating cycle of birth, life and death (reincarnation) as well as one's actions and consequences in the past, present, and future in Hinduism, Buddhism, Bon, Jainism, Taoism,[1] and Sikhism.[citation needed]

According to these religions, a person's current life is only one of many lives that will be lived—stretching back before birth into past existences and reaching forward beyond death into future incarnations. During the course of each life, the quality of the actions (karma) performed determine the future destiny of each person. The Buddha taught that there is no beginning to this cycle but that it can be ended through perceiving reality. The goal of these religions is to realize this truth, the achievement of which (like ripening of a fruit) is moksha or nirvana (liberation).

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What do you think of this passage? - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 5:41 pm
RE: What do you think of this passage? - by The Valkyrie - March 14, 2016 at 5:43 pm
RE: What do you think of this passage? - by KevinM1 - March 14, 2016 at 5:47 pm
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RE: What do you think of this passage? - by KevinM1 - March 14, 2016 at 6:16 pm
RE: What do you think of this passage? - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 6:18 pm
RE: What do you think of this passage? - by KevinM1 - March 14, 2016 at 6:19 pm
RE: What do you think of this passage? - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 6:31 pm
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RE: What do you think of this passage? - by Minimalist - March 14, 2016 at 6:19 pm
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RE: What do you think of this passage? - by truth_seeker - March 14, 2016 at 6:56 pm
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RE: What do you think of this passage? - by The Valkyrie - March 14, 2016 at 7:30 pm
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RE: What do you think of this passage? - by robvalue - March 15, 2016 at 11:51 am
RE: What do you think of this passage? - by truth_seeker - March 15, 2016 at 12:16 pm
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