(March 23, 2016 at 1:47 pm)Amine Wrote:(March 23, 2016 at 8:47 am)Drich Wrote: What if... This life had a greater purpose than just to 'create' a soul. What if this life is a proving ground for a soul, and if one's life is cut short then the soul simply gets plugged into another host/new born.
that would mean your hack failed because a incomplete understanding of basic theology.
Where in basic theology does it tell us that lives that are cut short get plugged into new hosts?
If it were true, which I have no reason to believe, it would certainly be a bummer. This idea that life is a test reminds me of the Saw movies. I'd rather never have been born than be put up to some demented test where failure means eternal torment.
We know this life is a test, (in a manner of speaking) because we have been given choice. To serve God or to continue to live in sin.
So then if this life is to prove/determine who we want to serve for eternity, then what purpose would be served if before we have the ability to cognitively choose God or sin, we die and goto Heaven???
Granted no where in the bible does it say we simply get plugged back in 'the matrix' if we die as children (that's why church doctrine tells us we goto heaven if church law is followed correctly... and why i said 'what if..') But we do indeed have examples for people (prophets) getting plugged back 'in the matrix' found in the book of revelation. so it is possible if indeed we have been given this life to prove to ourselves where our hearts lie.
Then I would ask, how do you know you didn't ask to be born?
