<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div>On Apr 8, 2014, at 12:21 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">The notion of eternal suffering of an immortal being was invented centuries after the last word of the NT was written.</span></blockquote></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>I'm working on an Urban Fantasy / Military Fantasy series in which I decided to take as my working premise that: </div><div><br></div><div>(a) New souls are born on Earth (i.e. these souls are not eternal, but finite at least at one terminal, the "beginning" of life</div><div>(b) Souls are either immortal or so extremely long lived after that as to be indistinguishable from immortal</div><div>(c ) There are other realms/dimensions to which these immortal souls travel after the physical shell ceases functioning</div><div>(d) Moral behavior determines the destination</div><div>(e ) Souls who have already traveled to other destinations can continue to watch and interact with humans on earth, therefore travel between these realms is possible, if difficult</div><div><br></div><div>Perfectly standard mythology based on the tenants of some well known religions. But I found that when I actually took this literally and thought about it for a while, some things jumped out at me:</div><div><br></div><div>(a ) Any human ever born is still alive as a soul somewhere, but they are not all the same age; some mere decades old, some are thousands of years old, some are tens of thousands</div><div>(b ) Even the longest lived human on this earth (about 100 years old) is a mere infant compared to how old souls can become and many souls already are</div><div>(c ) To expect infants to live the rest of their immortal lives because of decisions made in ignorance of what comes after life on earth is silly</div><div>(d ) There's no logical reason that souls who have already left earth for other dimensions shouldn't continue to make moral choices and change their behavior and travel to a destination</div><div><br></div><div>Logically, no one should make up their minds about what the afterlife holds before living and learning at least a 1000 years… :)</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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