Reply #137: As for my church, I belong to a UCC chruch, which has no dogma [View All]

[Kat45]

Except for the very basic Christian belief in God and Jesus, we are not "required" to believe particular things. So I would say my church has no 'official' belief about that.

As for myself, I'm still not sure what I believe regarding the afterlife. I don't believe in hell, with fire and pitchforks and all that shit. I think that if there is a hell, it is eternal separation from God. I heard an interesting hypothesis the other day (I forget from whom but it was someone Christian) that perhaps people can still redeem themselves and come back to God after death. I thought that was interesting food for thought. As I said, I'm not sure what I believe but I do believe God is spirit and I'm leaning toward thinking that the essence of each of us is a piece of spirit derived from God, that we are all part of one, that we are all each other in a sense, and that we will all somehow end up back together again. :shrug: