Can afterlife be proved

Answer 1

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Dr. Zakir Naik in his book 'Answers to non-Muslims common questions' reply to this question as; 1. Belief in the hereafter is not based on blind faith? Many people wonder as to how a person with a scientific and logical temperament, can lend any credence to the belief of life after death. People assume that anyone believing in the hereafter is doing so on the basis of blind belief. My belief in the hereafter is based on a logical argument. 11. No concept of human values or good and bad without concept of hereafter It is clear that without convincing a person about the hereafter, i.e. life after death, the concept of human values and the good or evil nature of acts is impossible to prove to any person who is doing injustice especially when he is influential and powerful.

Answer 2

There is absolutely no proof of life after death. Medical science can resuscitate people at the brink of death, but when they do so, the patient is not yet irrevocably dead. No one has ever come back from "the other side" to report on heaven or nirvana. Near-death experiences are sometimes cited as evidence of an afterlife, but there has been no report of a person who has actually died (brain death) communicating with the "other side". The experiences reported by those who have suffered near-death are inevitably coloured by the sociocultural context of the patient (Experiences Near Death: Beyond Medicine and Religion, by Allan Kellehear). This suggests that the Christian afterlife is experienced by Christians, but the Hindu afterlife is experienced by Hindus. Mediums claim to be able to communicate with the dead, but this ability has never been proven scientifically. In fact, many mediums have been exposed as frauds.

Answer 3

It is this simple, you cannot both (E) exist and (-E) not exist.

E implies not -E

and

-E implies not E

Rather than try to prove you exist, (A) attempt to prove you do not exist.

Ask yourself the question, "can something that does not exist (A) attempt to prove it does not exist?"

Your attempt to prove you do not exist, demonstrates that you DO NOT not exist (or

not -E which is equivalent to E. So You Do Exist!

If E, then not -E,

If A, then not -E,

If not -E, then E,

so, If A, then E.

Answer 4

Yes, there is something called Near Death Experience. That is the Afterlife.

Yes, there are people that have been legally dead, have gone to the other side, and have been brought back before their brains have run completely out of oxygen, and have told the tale of what it is like on the other side.

Answer 5

Aye, that's a good question. There is nothing like that of which I have heard, but there was a scientist experimenting around the beginnning of Darwinism. He weighed people as they died, and concluded that something was lost immediately after death. He knew it wasn't a last rush of air out of the lungs because he tried himself; he lay on his home-made bed scale and exhaled with no results. After 4 patients, he was denied further research.

He didn't get the same results when he tried it with a dog.

Could the weight loss be the human soul?

Answer 6

Just as it is not possible to prove the existence of God, or of any other gods, it is not possible to prove the existence of life after death. Christians and Muslims believe in the existence of hell, but modern Judaism does not - so anecdotal evidence about a variety of beliefs is not sufficient.

Answer 7

1) Human emotions and intellectual capacity are much more than is needed for living a purely physical life. That's because we possess a non-finite, God-given soul. The soul is not completely limited by the body.

2) Belief in the afterlife is a universal tradition. Over the face of the Earth, no ancient society ever existed that did not believe in the afterlife. This is confirmed by archaeologists.

One of the central beliefs of Judaism, as stated in the Talmud (Mishna, Sanhedrin 11:1) and codified by Maimonides (1135-1204), is that the soul continues to exist and is treated in accordance with the person's actions while he or she was alive. This applies to all people, whatever their religion.
The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) doesn't dwell at length on the afterlife. However, that is not meant to diminish from its importance. Rather, the Torah implies that we are to use the bulk of our energies in keeping God's ways in this world, with our feet firmly planted on Earth, while nonetheless not losing awareness of our beliefs.
Our ancient sages stated the importance of being aware of the next world: "This world is a mere entrance-hall before the afterlife" (Mishna, Avot ch.4).

All outstanding accounts are settled after this life. Some cases illustrate this point, since this entire world wouldn't be enough to reward a Moses or punish a Hitler. And while we're alive, knowledge of the future world serves as one of the motivations to keeping God's will.

The Tanakh does not delve into detail of the rewards of the righteous because religions could compete with more and more poetic promises. Also because belief in the afterlife was shared by all ancient societies and needed little reiteration. Besides, it would be like describing the colors of a sunrise to someone who was blind from birth.
It is, however, referred to briefly in Torah verses such as Genesis 15:15, which states that "You (Abraham) will come to your fathers in peace and will be buried in good old age." Coming to his fathers does not mean simply to be buried with them, since Abraham was not buried with his ancestors. Such verses are stated many times.
The prophets are more explicit with such references (see Isaiah 26:19 and 66:24, Daniel 12:13, Zechariah 3:7, 1 Kings 8:30, 2 Kings ch.2, Ecclesiastes 12:7). The afterlife is spoken of at length in the Talmud. More than 20 pages of Talmud (Sanhedrin 90-110, Rosh Hashanah 16-18, and other passages) are given to this subject.

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