I sometimes feel afraid that when I die I won't go anywhere. I'll just dissapear forever. And I stay up sometimes for a very long time scared that I won't go anywhere. And why were we put down here? There is no reason I can figure this out. My mom says that we were put down here for understanding of gods creations. But all that I realy see is just work and sleep. She also said that we have been put down here to enjoy gods beauty. That is my biggest fesr of all. I'm just scared, just scared.
Death is natural. As for christian beliefs on an afterlife, it is very ambiguous. Everybody has their own ideas about it. And about the creation stories, they were written by polytheistic pre-jews and the other by priests who copied the Enuma Elish, the paegan creation story. The only important things in those stories are the morals and ideas, the rest (facts) can be trashed. I am a Christian, and do believe in an afterlife, and do believe that the earth is really a side world, but the real world (heaven) is what you get after death.
I forget which people believed it, yet I recall them being some native peoples. Either American or Mexican natvies. Anyways, they believed that their god made everyone out out mud and baked them in an oven. The natives came out a nice golden brown color and were perfect, whites were not baked long enough, and blacks were left in the oven too long and burnt.
When I took a general Religion course I remember reading about this one tribe in Africa that believed long ago that these gods were hanging around earth and vomited everything into existence. The son of the higher god was sitting on the river and decided he wanted a friend so he vomited up man (Adam) and then woman (Eve).
Wow if we do just die I wonder if ull feel anything I mean when u go to sleep u can't feel anything but when u die WHAT HAPPENS ( now u got me started )
There is a reason for everything. Don't be afraid. I promise that there is a reason for your living, one more beautiful and eternal than you can comprehend. Don't be afraid, just live the best way you know how.