If I spend my whole life believing in God and I die and I find out there is no heaven or hell what have I lost
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If God exists he/she/it is all knowing & is so not going to care if in your life you picked the wrong religion.  If you are a good person & do your best in your life any God worth believing in would understand.\n\nBelief in God gives me a sense of peace & helps me deal with the pending death of my family as well as my own mortality without fear.  Either way it's a winning situation.\n\nWhat would be sad is if you lived your life being a total jerk & then discovered God in the afterlife... something to think about :)
456648
lol. U go to heaven or hell.
938354
It's interesting...you say you have come to the conclusion that there is no God... but it seems you are still searching.  Maybe you want to believe in something bigger than yourself, but with all of life's tragedy it seems that the world is empty and devoid of a higher power.\n\nOrganized religion often paints God as an all-powerful male ruler.  But maybe God is something different.  The universe and all its beings are made up of energy, particles vibrating at different speeds.  Maybe God is really a culmination of all this energy-- both positive and negative.  Many people believe that the universe is like a boomerang... you get back what you put in.  This means if you project fear or anger out to the universe, the universe will return the same negative energy to you.  On the contrary, if you truly feel love and security, you will transmit that energy outwardly and will receive the same energy in return, which will eventually manifest itself in real life events.\n\nIf you think of God as collective energy that includes all things, that would mean we're all little parts of God; more powerful as a whole than as individuals.  This would also mean that to hear God, we need only to listen to our own inner voices, however they may sound.  You might try focusing on changing your own energy, then joining with others to make small positive impacts on the world.  Maybe then you will make peace with your own version of God.
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I can see that you are not having all the fun that you can stand.\nWhen or if you decide to recieve Christ as your Saviour then life will take on some meaning and you will begin to understand what is going on here on planet earth.  When you die, it either gets very very good or very very bad.
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Well.. you sure noticed that things around you are always changing, developing, transforming and sometimes it even seems like some things return and happen all over and over again.\nAs you try to determine where your own path will be leading you you might want to have something like a roadmap, or a handbook on survival.\nYou might even get to a point of questioning yourself, where you would like confirmation that you are still doing the "right" thing.\nThats where religion helps. \nYou arent on your own anymore. \nYour life gets a purpose, you know you will be mastering even the greatest challenge and you dont have to be scared of anything because you cant lose, no matter how things turn out.\nPretty cool thing, if you want my opinion.\n\nThen theres something else... the fact of life itself is that you are going to die, no escape from that.\n\nNow I asked myself..if the chances are like 50/50 for a "heaven and hell" \nor "just being born all over again" and what not...\nwhat do I have to lose????\n\nSeriously, Im on the save side with religion. \nIf in the end there was no god ...then I didnt lose anything by being religious, on the contrary, life was easier at times because of having something to rely on.\n\nBut if in the end ..there is a god and I ignored him...\nnah...I wouldnt take that chance in a lifetime!
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You are Not seperate from god. Do not think of god as guy or girl or someone, it is just all that is together, connected. You are part of it ( ie, "God"). Hell is what you feel when you do nasty shit. Heaven is the opposite. even if you do not feel bad about doing bad things, you will just make the world that you live in suck and you will always be weary of others doing bad things to you ( ie, hell)...etc
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You die, you hurt all the people who love you, all the people who have ever known you.  You leave a much deeper hurt  than you can ever imagine.  If you are religious then you will know that it is a sin to commit suicide, so you go to hell or purgatory.
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Hell will be darkness and the knowledge that you are separated from God forever and that you screwed up big time.  It isn't a big party where you will plenty of company to complain about how unfair God was.  You will be totally alone for eternity.
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eh, i'd prolly just live it like i did before. Whats the point in living life if your not gonna enjoy it. I highly doubt i'd enjoy being all godly. Plus hell has to have all the drugs cause i doubt heaven gets them.
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I think I would be scared to death. Knowing the truth and that I had the oportunity to be saved and yet for reasons that are dumb and not worth it to have lost my salvation. I would be devestated going crazy.  I don't know what I would do.
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if you believe that there is no God but One to be worshiped you will go to paradise. \n\nbut if you condemend adultry and die without repent. then you will be tortured in Hell (or God forgive you) for a period of time. then you will be taking out from the Hell to paradise. it's like a punishment for a limited time, but do you have any idea how long will you stay in Hell, it could be thousands of years.\n\ncan't remember the hadith but Muhammad (P) mentioned that God forgave a prostituded who saw a thirsty dog and helped the dog to drink. and God said MY Mercy Comes Before My Anger. \n\nand if you just know the mercy of God. you wouldn't ever give up his forgiviness.
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Yes Sweety there is a Heaven and a Hell. If your soul is right with God you will go to Heaven and if its not then you go to Hell.
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God has no beginning and he has no end if you think about this to long you will get a huge headache so just accept it for how it is.
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I would rather live my life as though there IS a God and maybe find out there isn't one, than to live my life as though there isn't a God, only to find out there IS!!
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Because there is no evidence of an afterlife I try to enjoy this one life as much as possible. Religion does not provide all the answers for me. Atheism does. So with that core belief in place I must live this life to the fullest. I've traveled to almost every Continent. I've skydove, hanglided, bungeed and hot air ballooned. I've driven a Ferrari 155 m.p.h. I've gambled lots of money. I've done drugs. I've frequented strip clubs and enjoyed pornography. I've volunteered at a soup kitchen and a homeless shelter. I've read the bible, the koran, the torah and budhist philosophies. I've been to China! I learned to juggle 5 objects at the same time(very difficult). I've sat by a swimming pool every day for six months and drank myself silly. I've gone to chuch, prayed to "God". I've watched TV for hours. I played basketball on the collegiate level. I played bass guitar in a rock n roll band. There is much more to come....\n\nIt fills the void. I wish that I could just close my eyes and have religious faith, but my experiences won't let me. My experiences tell me that when you die, you die. That's it. It's over. No one ever comes back. Not Huidini, not Elvis, not Jesus. So when I'm on my death bed I only want the knowledge that I did as much as I could with my one life. And just like everyone else when I die, my existence ends forever. Pretty scary thought, but religeon deals with that thought by saying "No it's not over, don't worry. Uhm follow us and you'll uhhh live forever! Yeah that's it, you never have to really die! Yea. you'll live forever! In the clouds!...That's why it's so popular. \n\nSo first, come to terms with the FACT that you're going to die and never live or see, or feel or taste that succulent Lobster dipped in butter again. Then go out and enjoy life and don't let the people who are in denial get in your way!\n\nEnjoy!
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it depends on what you believe.\n\nif you're like me and may others, you go to Heaven or Hell.
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we dont have to believe in god. you may believe in anything that you desire to believe in. not everybody believes in heaven, we all go to the same place, we're all human! nobody REALLY knows for ABSOULUTE sure how we got here and where we go after we "kick the bucket."\neveryone will go wherever they believe they will go, because nothing can be proved.