Do you believe in reincarnation?
Yes or No, do give your reasons to arrive at that conclusion.
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SW-User
It would make sense. The uni/multiverse seems to be a closed system; everything turns into something else at some point. It would make sense for consciousness to work the same way; historically speaking every time humans have thought themselves to be exempt from/an exception to the natural order of the universe we have been proven to be wrong.
And in regard to simulation theory, a computer has a pool of processing power/memory that it uses to run/store programs/applications. Once a program is deleted the processing power/memory that was being used to run/store it is then added back to that pool and is able to be repurposed to run/store other programs.
Perhaps we are all programs in the machine 🤷🏽♂️.
And in regard to simulation theory, a computer has a pool of processing power/memory that it uses to run/store programs/applications. Once a program is deleted the processing power/memory that was being used to run/store it is then added back to that pool and is able to be repurposed to run/store other programs.
Perhaps we are all programs in the machine 🤷🏽♂️.
SW-User
@SW-User also, I will add this:
Before you were born what were you? Nonexistent; in a state of nothingness or at the very least in some lower state of being that we cannot comprehend.
And yet now you are alive and conscious.
This proves beyond any doubt that it is possible for consciousness to spring forth out of nothingness at least once.
When you die what are you? In the same state of nothingness that you were in before you were born, right?
So if out of that nothingess conscious life can arise once, is it really so far fetched to posit that it could happen again?
Before you were born what were you? Nonexistent; in a state of nothingness or at the very least in some lower state of being that we cannot comprehend.
And yet now you are alive and conscious.
This proves beyond any doubt that it is possible for consciousness to spring forth out of nothingness at least once.
When you die what are you? In the same state of nothingness that you were in before you were born, right?
So if out of that nothingess conscious life can arise once, is it really so far fetched to posit that it could happen again?
@SW-User Lower state of being? How would you know? We weren't "nothing" or "non-existent" before our birth. Jeremiah 1:5
We are not in a state of nothingness when we die. God didn't leave us to guess. The body of those past and present, who have died, are still in the grave, but their soul is either in heaven or hades. They'll be there until the resurrection, where body and soul shall join.
Paradise and heaven are the same place according to the Bible. Every believer who dies today is immediately in this paradise or heaven. Jesus promised the thief on the cross "today" he would be with Him in paradise. In Philippians 1:21 Paul notes that to live is Christ and to die is gain. Why would it be gain? Because Paul would be with the Lord in heaven.
The apostle Paul also taught believers as "at home with the Lord" after death (2 Corinthians 5:6-9). There was no waiting period, but rather an immediate transition from final breath to eternal life.
Previous saints now live in heaven. Abraham is already in God's presence (Luke 16:22). Jesus refuted the Sadducees by teaching Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are already alive in God's presence (Matthew 22:23-32).
Paradise and heaven refer to the same location in Scripture. All believers who die today immediately enter into this paradise and dwell in the presence of the Lord forever. As Paul wrote, to die is gain (Philippians 1:21).
We are not in a state of nothingness when we die. God didn't leave us to guess. The body of those past and present, who have died, are still in the grave, but their soul is either in heaven or hades. They'll be there until the resurrection, where body and soul shall join.
Paradise and heaven are the same place according to the Bible. Every believer who dies today is immediately in this paradise or heaven. Jesus promised the thief on the cross "today" he would be with Him in paradise. In Philippians 1:21 Paul notes that to live is Christ and to die is gain. Why would it be gain? Because Paul would be with the Lord in heaven.
The apostle Paul also taught believers as "at home with the Lord" after death (2 Corinthians 5:6-9). There was no waiting period, but rather an immediate transition from final breath to eternal life.
Previous saints now live in heaven. Abraham is already in God's presence (Luke 16:22). Jesus refuted the Sadducees by teaching Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are already alive in God's presence (Matthew 22:23-32).
Paradise and heaven refer to the same location in Scripture. All believers who die today immediately enter into this paradise and dwell in the presence of the Lord forever. As Paul wrote, to die is gain (Philippians 1:21).