David Bettenhausen - Hell No, Reincarnation?: with Mother, Isabella, God & Elizabeth

W hether you are a churchgoer or not and whether you have read the Bible or not, at some point we all ask ourselves: What is the purpose of our life?

If we are asking the purpose of life, we may have wondered about God as well and if God plays a large part in our life.

Who and what is God? What have we learned about God? Most of us know God is perfect, all knowing, merciful, just, loving and a creator. We know this from the Bible, churches, the Quran, the Vedas, other religious books and reading sources.

Is God ever present and the controller of our destiny or is God simply an observer? If God is a mere observer, then, who and what God is, does not matter.

Does God make mistakes? Well, if God is perfect, all knowing and merciful, how can God make mistakes?

This means God must have created us with the potential of reaching perfection. The capability of making choices must be a means of bringing us closer to perfection.

Therefore, if God made us with freedom of choice, it was the way God intended us to be. And with that freedom of choice comes the responsibility for those choices. It belongs to us and us alone. This does not preclude us from making poor choices. God is not forcing us to make those choices, we are. Thus, in Gods wisdom, God also created us with the ability to learn. We then learn lessons from poor choices.

When God created us, was there a plan? If there was no plan, then why create us?

Why were we created? God, indeed, had a plan. If God created us with intention, with free will and the ability to learn, then part of the plan must be to exercise our free will and thus learn. How long does that take?

A second? Could our fate truly be determined in one second?

An hour? Would one hour be sufficient to rule our destination?

A day? What could we achieve in only one day?

A year? A year couldnt possibly allow ample time to live all circumstances.

A lifetime? We can certainly know one side of the story.

Many lives? Only in many lifetimes could we learn all other situations.

Eternity? Yes.

So, if we are not eternal or God is dead or just an observer or he doesnt care, then nothing really matters. There is no purpose to our lives. This is nothing but an accident. What becomes of you is meaningless.

If you believe that it is meaningless, then, why are you here in this time?

Our time is not as Gods time would appear. What seems a lifetime to us may be a second to God. So, does the infant who dies at birth have any chance to make choices or learn? Is that fair? The infant had no chance to learn or make good choices before returning home to God. Where does that infant go when returning to God?

In some religious circles, to not choose God is to spend eternity in Hell. Did the infant go to Hell?

Dante, the famous writer of Dantes Inferno AD 1300, was a man exiled from his homeland. Alone and on his own spiritual path, he was trying to make sense of that which he did not understand about life and death. Dante decided there must be a place called Limbo, where babies go upon death. He couldnt fathom a just God sending them to Hell. Extending Dantes thought from the innocent infant to the learning soul in regard to making choices and growing, we can draw the conclusion God gave us another option than Limbo or Hell.

Each and every soul is unique. If the soul is not unique what purpose would God have for creating it? If every soul is unique then the path that every soul must travel would be unique. Thus, every souls choices are unique and their own. Every souls circumstances are also unique and their own. Yet, the kind of circumstances the human must experience are both limited but varied. It is impossible to experience all circumstances and thus all choices in just one lifetime. If we were given more than one choice, why not be given more than one chance? We all grow at different rates. Maybe it takes some of us more than one life. Maybe we are given infinite chances along with infinite choices.