Re: Heaven, hell, and the afterlife
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So how does this relate to the afterlife? Pretending I was the programmer -- if I knew that my programs were self-aware and concerned themselves with the thought of an afterlife (i.e. they did not want to cease to exist), I would grant them an afterlife if it was within my power.
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Interesting Matt, I like the computer/program analogy. However, don't you think there are many other things we would like, that the "programmer" does not grant us? We do not want to get frail and sickly as we age. We do not want to be murdered. We do not want to starve to death or be drowned in a tidal wave. So why would God, being benevolent, care about our not wanting to cease to exist enough to grant us an afterlife - but not care about all the other things?
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