(August 19, 2017 at 1:46 am)Godscreated Wrote: I thank God your opinion doesn't count for who is saved. I'm most certainly glad I do not have to live with those thoughts. I know there is God and that much of my family will be with me in heaven. We all will experience the physical death some day but the spirit of man that God created will live on without ceasing. You may never be in heaven and I personally consider that a loss.
It isn't an opinion so much as a recognition of how the human mind actually works. If your "soul" can't keep you self-aware in low-frequency deep sleep, not even to dream, what makes you think you'll have awareness when your brain is dead and producing no waveforms at all?
I believe that the soul is imaginary. I believe that death is the end of the line. I believe that life after death is only possible when the body has disintegrated and its molecules return to the ecosystem, to be recycled into some other organic form. It is precisely the finite nature of our lives that makes them precious to me. I do not consider them a dress rehearsal for an eternal life -- I see them as the life, something to be used wisely and as fully as possible. I am simply not interested in being "me" forever when I can be many different things instead.
