Hello,   
      I want to know, Will there be a life after death?
      Or just it is a subject related to superstition and nothing?
                                            I am just in a state of confusion!

If there is death before life, there is life after death.
If you want to be immortal , make babies.
Like Spock said: Live long and prosper.

Read the book"Same Soul,Many Bodies"by Brian L. Weiss,M.D.
In this case a patient has lived 86 tilmes.
Do it till you get it right.

Quantum theory states that information cannot be destroyed, only diluted.  Consequently, immortality cannot be ruled out.  Perhaps some future civilization will dig out our thoughts from the surrounding chaos the way we extract the DNA of woolly mammoths

Life after death is easier imagined today than ever.  If our existence is imagined being as an analog to a computer, we consist basically of three parts:

Hardware - the body
Program - why we live
Data - our sense impressions and memories.

Hardware can be rebuilt, duplicated and improved:  we can be resurrected in incorruptible bodies.  Programs and data can be recorded on countless memory devices, preserved, edited, and transferred into new hardware.  Thre is no reason why a higher power, an enormously advanced technological culture, or even highly evolved humans couldn’t achieve immortality.  The resurrection of the dead via some kind of time travel is not out of the question.

Yes, I definitely believe in life after death.

Who is to say how many times we’ve lived before?

Who can tell us if we are newbies, or old souls?  Whether we look at it using the computer analogy of Spectator, use the quantum physics perspective of Seskis, or take an old fashioned biblical or spiritual approach, we might agree that there is more to life than what we now perceive.

I have been interested in this subject for many years, and have had my own “haunting” visit from a grandmother who had been buried some time back.  I also have had enough experiences that cannot be explained without a belief in a hereafter.

Whether they are looking down on us, or whether we co-exist in some space/time continuum currently unidentified, these mysteries DO have meaning for me and countless others.

I will say I am not in a terrible hurry, though, to get to the other side and find out more, but rest content to let my life unfold safe in my absolutely unshakable belief that I WILL KNOW MORE ONE DAY.

I would amend Spectator’s list to say that the program/software is how we live, the soul/spirituality is why we live. This latter component appears only in humans (well, most of us anyway :-), and separates man from machine, so far.

I would suggest a book by Ray Kurzweil called The Age of Spiritual Machines, which looks at man’s “immortality” in a bio-technical sense.

Pierre

A recent trend in psychology is the postulate that the mind is inseparable from the brain.  The reason given is that the states of the neurons determuines the information content of the mind.  I maintain that it could easily be the other way areound: the mind records its information as a state of the neuron in the brain for storage and for output.  The mind needs the brain to operate, for example, the vocal cords of the body to communicate.

Good point, Spectator. 
And where is the soul in this hypothesis?  Not filtered into the equation?

A very good question, Alana!  If someone transfers his or her mind to an information storage device for later retrieval, where would the soul go?  Would it be stored along with the mind?  Or is the structure of self-conscious intelligent life more complicated than we can understand or imagine?

The question, “Will there be life after death” by Ajay.

The AFFIRMATIVE answer is certainly not one of superstition.

Associated with this question is the questions: What is our origin and what is the purpose of life?

There is only ONE answer to these questions, so there is hope for us all.

The Bible is the record of human history from beginning to the end.

To briefly answer your question Ajaz, I will quote a passage from the bible(of which there are many) which confirms beyond doubt that yes indeed life continues beyond the grave. In Matthew chapter 22 verses 24 to 33 we are given an account of the Sadducee’s A religious group in Jesus day who claimed there was no resurrection from the dead) and their attempt to discredit the Lord Jesus   ( Jesus declared in answer to their questioning in verse 32 that God was the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob”? He is not the God of the dead but of the living. ( These ones having died hundreds of years earlier). All will be resurrected from their graves to give account concerning their lives,
This is very clear from Thessalonians chapter 4:13 through 5:11. and many other places.

The bible is very clear regarding mankind’s origin and the purpose of man’s creation.

Most religious traditions of which I am aware believe in life after death.

So does science, if energy cannot be created nor destroyed.

Don’t worry, be happy and fer petes sake,
procreate…...............

Hello,
I want to know, Will there be a life after death?
Or just it is a subject related to superstition and nothing?
I am just in a state of confusion!

Ajay doesn’t seem to have returned to his post.
But of course there is lfe after death. If you want the answers Ajay, study the Bible. I mean really study it. You will then understand and no longer be confused.

The most rewarding way to know that life exists beyond the grave Ajay, is to experience “Eternal Life”.

The Bible, which is the Word of God to His creation, clearly enunciates the means to obtain Eternal Life right here and now in this life.

First we need to settle the issue of our origin. “In the beginning God created…”  The purpose of creation was that man, who was created in the IMAGE and LIKENESS of God, would feast on the TREE OF LIFE, and become constituted with the life and nature of God. God desired children just like Himself in life and nature, image and likeness.

The man God created chose to eat from the tree of knowledge, rather than the tree of life. Consequently, his single act of rebellion separated him from his Maker. But God, intent to obtain His heart’s desire immediately implemented the means to accomplish His original thwarted Plan. Hence the redemption and restoration of man.

How then can we experience Eternal Life you may ask? Again the Bible comes to our rescue, Repent and “Believe into the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will receive Eternal LIfe. What is eternal life? It is the very life of God.
When we receive Christ we receive Eternal Life as He is Eternal Life. From the very moment a man receives Eternal Life, God enters into man and commences the process of complete transformation of that man, so that he not only is redeemed but also regenerated, sanctified, renewed, transformed, conformed back to the Image and Likeness of God, and finally Glorified.

This is the short appraisal of what God desires to accomplish in the life of everyone who simply believes into Christ,  is the incarnated triune God. (Just taste and see, it is the absolute answer to your question).

I came across some Internet information relevant to the ‘life after death’  discussion, but first about one such experience ‘nearer home’.

The girlfriend of a close relative had a riding accident. The horse fell, her rib cage was crushed, and a number of ribs broken. She had major surgery, and her chances of survival were rated only 50-50.

In the course of the oparation, she felt detached from her body, saw the operation being performed from a vantage point near the ceiling, and overheard the conversation between the medical staff. Apparently such experiences are not unusual, but the persons undergoing them are reluctant to talk about it, fearing that they will not be believed. The positions of where the medical staff had been standing she had recalled accurately, also the converation.

Anyway, a scientific investigation into the subject, lasting three years, has now been started, coordinated by Southampton University in England. 25 hospitals in North America, England, and Europe are taking part, and some 1500 cases will be studied. To check the (not unusual) claim of observing it all from a point near the ceiling, in the resuscitation areas there will be a number of high shelves containing various objects and visible only from near the ceiling. Clearly, should the claim be verified, than a major revision of our present understanding will follow.

A number of articles on the subject can be found by search engines under the phrase ‘Research into near-death experiences at Southampton University’.

Gunars