Would immortality destroy religion?

[Ben Kenobi]

Perhaps religion, faith, and worship is unconsciously some sort of self-praise.

Just read Romans than. No one is worthy, not one. Before you can be a Christian you have to admit that you are a sinful person, that you must rely on God, rather than on your own capacities.

Would meeting God on a consistent basis ruin religion? I would say yes.

If we were to meet God on a regular basis, some would appreciate God, others would simply get used to the situation. Take a look at the OT where the presence of God was manifest among the people of Israel, and see how the people responded.

I'm not sure how immortality would work, though I would think that it would have negative benefits, for religious faith. Why rely on God if you are immortal? Why would you be subject to God's judgment?

[Elok]

To quote the annoying Queen song, who wants to live forever?
I foresee extremely long-term mortgage payments that have me forking over 30,000 times the original value of my house in interest, for starters. Not to mention "New Immortality Vanilla," no hope of a Castro-free Cuba, wealth stagnating due to the lack of estate taxes, ten thousand years of Eminem...we can make our lives suck no matter how long they last. Nuts to immortality, I want contentment and a nice wife.

[aneeshm]

If we were immortal , the debates on history in the Apolyton OT after five hundred years would be interesting , no ?

[Ben Kenobi]

the debates on history in the Apolyton OT after five hundred years would be interesting , no ?

Would we ever hear any innovative arguments?

[Jack_www]

Humans would still die, sooner or latter we would get into a fatal car crash, victom of a crime, ect. Or we would over populate the earth and we would not have the resources to support our numbers and would slowly die off untill balance was reached. As long as human are imperfect and do evil things, we will still die.

[Jack_www]

Also if you scenario played out humans would not be immortal, we would still be mortal. Immortality mean that you cant die by any means, or that you cant die at all.

[Sandman]

I wish people wouldn't say that you'd get bored being immortal. Maybe after one hundred thousand years I'll end it all, maybe not, but I think it's absurd to deny it on the basis that it might be boring.

Anyway, how does Heaven stop from becoming dull?

[Jack_www]

Why would living forever be boring? Life is never borring. That is such a stupid thing to say. You are saying you would rather die then be borred? Then why not kill yourself the next time your borred?

[Sandman]

I agree with you. Either my wording was bad, or you did not read my post properly.

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by Sandman
I agree with you. Either my wording was bad, or you did not read my post properly.

I was posting that in agreement with you.

[Ben Kenobi]

Anyway, how does Heaven stop from becoming dull?

I think that those who go, would never feel bored by heaven. We hear some ideas of what heaven is like, but we won't really know until we get there.

[Jack_www]

sorry I posted this in wrong thread. some bug or somthing.

[Elok]

As to heaven and boredom, there is no real answer because nobody except Christ and the angels has ever been there and come back. The best explanation I've heard is that heaven is outside space and time as we currently understand them, being an eternal kingdom, and therefore boredom cannot occur because the existence of boredom implies the possibility of change.

[Jack_www]

I am talking about just living forever not going to heaven. Just think about your life. When you are borred it never last that long and people always finding fun stuff to do.

[Elok]

I was responding specifically to the last line of Sandman's first p2 post. The server balked at quoting and I'm too lazy to add the tags manually.
I agree that eternal life would only be boring insofar as our own faults make it boring. There are probably lots of people out there who would go crazy if they ran out of things to want. Maybe I'm one of them. Maybe we all are. Who knows, right?