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How is it possible to find out there is no God? Can you ever be certain something does not exist? By contrast, if God does exist, it must be possible for us to know that. Heaven is not irrational, based on faith or unexplainable. It is a real place, with real people and it can be experienced...

I know what you mean, but what you refer to as heaven is not heaven but material pleasure. Heaven is where God is, it is his abode and this defines heaven. Where God is, that is heaven. Suffering only happens in hell. No one likes suffering and no one would consider it heaven to be...

Heaven is God's abode. It is the spiritual world. Everything there is conscious. In the Vedic literature, spirit is described as composed of sat, chit, ananda. Sat is existence - which is eternal, chit is consciousness and ananda is bliss. So Heaven is eternal, blissful and full of...

The earth has an end, but not heaven. Heaven is eternal, never changing, with no beginning and no end. Jesus's word's or my words are both temporary, although the ideas and the spiritual reality the words describe are eternal. The spiritual truth is eternal and unchanging, but it is...

Happiness and the removal of suffering is an innate goal of living beings. There is nothing wrong with such an ideal, but what attitude do you take towards death? The happier you are in life, the less you will want it to end. Do spiritual naturalists think that life is a physical phenomena...

Eternity is not a long long time, it's the absence of time. Temporary is the opposite of eternal, it means temporal or existing for a time only. In this temporal world everything has a beginning, a middle and an end. The spiritual world is eternal. No one is born, no-one dies. Physical...

I don't think it's wrong because I don't understand it, but because it's contradictory and illogical. How can God be merciful if he condemns people to 'eternal' suffering? There is no element of mercy whatsoever in never ending punishment. Whether you consider mercy objective or subjective...

Hello Silmoon, It sounds to me when you talk about this feeling you have, that you are describing faith. Many people think faith is just a belief, an intellectual position we have, or a hope or wishful thinking. But for me, faith is a feeling, an experience. It's something within you that...

In the Hari Krishna religion (Gaudiya Vaishnava) hell is considered to be this material world. As such, it isn't eternal but temporary. Hell is also understood to be a state of consciousness and not a geographical location in space and time. Heaven is the positive spiritual reality and hell...