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What do you say? Yes or no? Why? I hope you love music and good stories... 
What makes you think you have a choice?Waterfall wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:38 am Namaskaram...
I think eternal life is something we can say yes or no to. It has nothing to do with Jesus dying on a cross. That is not why I say yes to eternal life. I say yes to eternal life because I want to live forever. Where do I want to live forever? In Heaven - together with God and all my brothers and sisters
But he loves music and that is why I come with this...Your friend foreverGod’s children who sprang from His Fatherly bosom — the Eldest, the Youngest and the human spirits — have all received the gift of eternal life; but since God never compels anyone to receive His gifts, He has also endowed every created spirit with a free will, with the right of self-determination; but He has thereby limited His own Will and His own Knowledge. On reaching a certain level of maturity all God’s children can by the right of self-determination themselves decide whether they wish to receive the gift of eternal life or whether they choose to sink back into God’s Fatherly bosom.
This truth has been applied in an erroneous manner in Buddhist doctrine, in which according to some interpretations the human spirit, upon attaining the highest perfection, sinks back into „Nirvana“ — into the Divinity. Buddha himself originally taught that when the human spirit through numerous rebirths had attained perfect freedom from all earthly influence and all earthly desire, it then returned to the source — to the Divinity — from which it sprang. This absorption, or reversion, was not considered by Buddha as the annihilation of the individuality but as an indissoluble bond with the divine, whereby the reverted self could follow the earthly drama in serenity and contemplation. This absorption into the Divinity could sometimes be recognized in fleeting moments by certain highly advanced spirits in their human existence, and was then an indication that the spirit was living through its final incarnation.
When you say "I think eternal life is something we can say yes or no to." or "A gift we can say yes or no to." your implying one can choose (has a choice) between accepting an eternal life or not. And I'm simply asking you where you get the idea that anyone has such a choice.
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