Doesn't have to involve religion. Perhaps our thoughts are being backed up by aliens just like computer processes are backed up by humans. When our computers (bodies) die a new one is created and the tape backup is restored into our new bodies.
Or perhaps this is just one elaborate video game where our thoughts reside somewhere else and our real bodies are stimulated by the events in this video game. We could be tricked into thinking we are in a video game body. When we die, the game ends and we end up back where are real bodies are.
Electrical stimulation of our brains can trick us into thinking we are seeing or hearing or feeling something that we really aren't. Perhaps when an object in our video game touches part of our body in the video game, the video game computer stimulates our real brains into thinking that a real object touched us.
Or perhaps this is just one elaborate video game where our thoughts reside somewhere else and our real bodies are stimulated by the events in this video game. We could be tricked into thinking we are in a video game body. When we die, the game ends and we end up back where are real bodies are.
Electrical stimulation of our brains can trick us into thinking we are seeing or hearing or feeling something that we really aren't. Perhaps when an object in our video game touches part of our body in the video game, the video game computer stimulates our real brains into thinking that a real object touched us.
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I don't buy in to that whole thing about being born into sin and having to bow down to God to go to heaven. That's like God saying "ok, even though you did nothing to be born into sin, since you are short of the glory of God by being a sinner you have to bow down to me or else I'll punish you throughout eternity...even though it's not your doing to be in your situation in the first place."
I prefer to believe we have placed our own selves here. Life is a way of showing who we truly are. By living our lives and making mistakes and learning from them do we really know how we can improve ourselves and that is how we prove who we really are.
We could be given all riches and a perfect life at birth. But those would all be gifts from God and none of that would reflect who we are. Only by learning in this life and helping others to learn can we really say we have earned something.
I believe Jesus when he says the only way to God is through him but I believe that means he can show us the way. We have to do the believing and we do that through our daily things we learn. After all Jesus said we are gods as well. He is just showing us the way and we have to work out our own salvation. Buddha and Moses and Mohammed also show us helpful lessons on living on how we can improve our lives.
I prefer to believe we have placed our own selves here. Life is a way of showing who we truly are. By living our lives and making mistakes and learning from them do we really know how we can improve ourselves and that is how we prove who we really are.
We could be given all riches and a perfect life at birth. But those would all be gifts from God and none of that would reflect who we are. Only by learning in this life and helping others to learn can we really say we have earned something.
I believe Jesus when he says the only way to God is through him but I believe that means he can show us the way. We have to do the believing and we do that through our daily things we learn. After all Jesus said we are gods as well. He is just showing us the way and we have to work out our own salvation. Buddha and Moses and Mohammed also show us helpful lessons on living on how we can improve our lives.
