Nisiskie pastor akisema tena we all have a purpose
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Theists like @Lionheart will tell you that belief in God/afterlife gives your life purpose/meaning. Is this really true? Let’s say an afterlife does exist, how long will it be doing praise and worship in heaven 24/7 before you get tired of it? How long before you start missing movies, music, sports, videogames, traveling, sightseeing, eating meat, drinking and whoring? Yes, this will happen. Remember, even the angels who are supposedly built inherently good rebelled against God at some point and some came down to earth to know the daughters of men.
What made me to drop theism. It was extremely rigid for me, criminalized everything and discouraged personal gratifications. Dropped it and I am happier than before. Can’t be tricked that I am “sinning” when I am just indulging in my own utopia.
Let’s say the afterlife does exist, how do you know what will happen? If God exists then it logically means there are plans to keep your life busy. I’ve never said it will be praise and worship 24/7. Frankly, I don’t know, as I’m here on earth, same way I don’t know where my soul (the consciousness of things) was before birth. Visions of heaven are personal imaginings, as dead people tend to stay dead. The only thing I am convinced about is that there must be somebody or something that put together the reality of life as we know it, and that is what is called God. It simply isn’t acceptable to my mind that all what we see and experience popped out of nothing via some big bang. What caused the bang? There must be a beginning of all things which our finite minds are incapable to grasp. Man’s science answers some hard questions, but where it fails is where we must lean on belief in something greater than man. We know death will come some day. Surely it would be meaningless to transit (in the spirit, that is) to a place where all you will find are people being silly as in a nightclub–eating, drinking, dancing, and whoring. Just how much of these can you do, if you had a limitless, timeless space for them? Even here on earth, you quickly get tired of those things once the excitement is met. So there must be more to life than those simple things.
No one knows where we came from or where we are headed to. Just keep on walking.
You have to realize that when the world was made, the sin question (or the alternative of God) had never been addressed. This time around, once eternity re-starts, the concept of sin will have been dealt with conclusively.
This whole thread inanirudisha to some Buddhist book I read a while back. Inasema two things are deeply ingrained in man. Self-protection and self preservation. Self protection makes man create a god, to shelter against perceived external evils that he can’t do himself, much like a child with a parent. Self preservation makes man create a Soul - something everlasting yenye itabaki even after his physical death, just so that his existence isisahaulike. Hizo ndo maheaven etc . Buddhism dismisses both as nonsensical.