Is the soul eternal

[Minimalist]

As far as I can tell,the Christian notion of an eternal hell is a Pauline invention.

Stolen from the Zoroastrians.

http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroast.../index.htm

While on this earth, the soul had the freedom and opportunity to chose the nature of its spirit and a person's every thought, word and deed. In other words, it had control over its destiny in the after-life through its body's ability to think, speak and act. When separated from the body after death, the soul no longer has the opportunity to influence its destiny. That fate will be decided when it reaches the bridge of the requiter - the chinvat bridge. To use an old metaphor, when in the world of the living, the soul makes its bed upon which it will sleep in the afterlife.

In between these two ends, the width of the bridge will be determined by the balance of the soul's goodness over badness as determined by Rashnu's scales of justice.

Oddly, reminds me of The Bridge of Death scene in Holy Grail.







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