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Originally Posted by SillyEvee
Hey guys,
So tell me, what's the reward for having lived well in this life, and how do I live well enough to get it?
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I strongly believe that the afterlife is unimportant. In fact, Judaism believes that the afterlife is (relatively) unimportant and that's probably why in the whole Tanakh you find very few references to the afterlife.
That being said, "how do you get to heaven"?
You get to heaven by making heaven. By doing good here. After all, why should God give anyone heaven if we keep it from those that we can give it to? So long as there are hungry mouths, oppressed human beings, and rampant misconduct of man vs man (all things which we can stop) then there is heaven for no one. There is only existence.
God:You want to go to heaven?
Human:Yes, I really do.
God:Then I suggest you start building it.
God put us
here to live
here and to make this place a better place, to bring this place closer to heaven, and to make this place a place where He dwells.
I am almost convinced that there is no heaven....after all, we certainly haven't created it yet.
What happens when one dies? I won't petend I know, and I won't theorize either because, well, it's simply unimportant. If I had to guess, I'd say that "dust goes to dust and the soul goes back to God who gave it."