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And why did this god give me the reason to require evidence and not just have blind faith or he would give me the "choice" the burn for all eternity. Should we throw out our justice system and just use feelings to judge whether someone is guilty or not?

And why did this god give me the reason to require evidence and not just have blind faith or he would give me the "choice" the burn for all eternity. Should we throw out our justice system and just use feelings to judge whether someone is guilty or not?

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I’m not scared of death, the scary part is that it is forever. How tragic it is to be born into the great life i have and to never return to it again and to see loved ones again. I wish i can restart this life over and over again.

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Ah, but this fear can only refer to prior-to-death. Think about it for a moment. If death is actually just extermination, then your regretful feelings about it can only issue during life. At the precise moment of death, there's nothing. Nothing to remember, nothing to regret, nothing to feel. It's absolutely senseless to fear extermination. If it is what you think it is, it represents an end of fear.

The true fear refers to after-death. If death is not what you think it is, then you have absolutely no concept (and without God, no possibility to gain a concept) about what follows. That's something to be afraid of.

This is what I meant by part of my last comment. Our fear of death is incoherent if death is the end. I believe you fear it because there is a part of you which you are unable to reject that is not certain it is the end. You don't fear death as terminal, you're afraid of what it means if it isn't.

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I’m not afraid of an after life unless it is hell. I am afraid of being trapped into nothingness while life goes on.

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But this is incoherent. There will be no you to be trapped. To be trapped implies you are still existing. If you're not conscious and aware that there is a life proceeding without you, then there is no life proceeding without you. If you die and you are aware that there is a life proceeding without you, this implies after-life.

Even your thoughts about death betray the fact that what you fear is not an end, but the movement into something unwanted.

It's only going to take you accepting that God is the only source of goodness in reality to see that 'working out your salvation' just means ensuring your access to love, life, and goodness in eternity.

If you're serious about what you say you're afraid of in your comment above, there's never going to be a better reason for you to start thinking about God more earnestly.