Why can't I choose nonexistence when this life is over? Why does it HAVE to be Heaven or Hell?

Question

I don't want a relationship with God. I just simply want to live my own life on Earth and then vanish from existence.

Answer 1

Dear it is certain you are going somewhere and that is one of two places. Heaven or Hell, it is in this life that you (YOU) make the choice. No choice is a choice. You learned how to walk, talk and eat. It doesn't make sense living an eternity wishing you had sought out the truth. Holy Bible start with the New Testament. Hope to meet you on the right side. You are all alone on the other. Ugh. Google Dr. Victor Azecof.

Answer 2

Nonexistence would serve to circumvent divine justice, since neither eternal reward or punishment would be possible.

Answer 3

Well we need to have a proper definition of heaven and hell here. Heaven and hell are not literal or physical places. When the Bible uses imagery like "the lake of fire" or "the fiery furnace" or even "darkness" this is symbolic imagery and metaphor. Most people in popular culture think of heaven as a place in the clouds and hell as a spiritual concentration camp beneath the surface of the earth where God acts like a Divine Soviet commissar or Nazi prison guard. That is due to a literalization of metaphor combined with the importation of Pagan concepts of the afterlife.

Hell is the spiritual and psychological condition of the human heart. To your point about not wanting to be with God the Catechism of the Catholic Church defines hell precisely like that stating "this state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell""(Paragraph 103 Catechism of Catholic Church). C.S Lewis says that the doors to hell are "locked from the inside".

So if you don't want to be united with God, God doesn't force you to do that. As Lewis further explains in the Great Divorce 'there are two types of people. Those who say to God thy will be done, and those who God says to them thy will be done'. That choice would be tragic though because it means to live a life in alienation from Love, because God is love(1 John 4). And alienation is one of the route causes of pain and suffering in the world for human beings.

Answer 4

The wording Christ Himself chose to use suggests the result of the lake of fire for human souls (unlike for immortal angel souls) is to "perish", that it will "destroy" human souls, and that those there, not having been given eternal life, will go into the "second death", which is eternal (irreversible). It's in short much like what atheists think the first death is like. It's the real one though. Before that terrible moment, there will be for those that rejected love itself, the worst regret and despair, weeping and gnashing of teeth.

It's not so good a choice, to reject hope, love, trust, all that is good. Instead, God offers an amazing redemption (from all our wrongs!) and rescue to us(!) -- God loves all the world so that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. -- God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Answer 5

Even Heaven and Hell are not really your choice.
You can attempt to live according to the Christian Covenant
but God is the judge. God is the one who decides where you spend eternity. Not you.

Answer 6

Because that is the way God planned it.

Answer 7

There is no afterlife. You can not chose reality.

Answer 8

Congratulations, there's a roughly 99.9999% chance that we all do just that.

Answer 9

You don't get to choose anything, everyone ceases to exist. Heaven ad Hell are made up places.

Answer 10

DO NOT WORRY...THOSE WHO go to hell will burn up quickly=2nd death which Ive said 99 times.