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Steve asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 9 years ago

Where does God go when he dies?

God can do anything, therefore he can die. But without God, is there a heaven? If he cannot go to heaven because it does not exist, then he would surely go to hell. But hell surely would not take such a holy being.

Would he be stuck in purgatory for the rest of eternity?

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  • 9 years ago
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    Death is the deliverance of the soul from its vessel. This question assumes that God is physical and part of the material world we exist in. Therefore, only the physical form of God can decay, whither and ultimately die. However in relation to the immortal soul, that form of God cannot die, as it would be a clear violation of logic.

    Although, it can be supposed that the soul is not immortal. And if this, then since death elevates the core properties of a forms composition (i.e the human soul is the core property of the body) to a higher level of existence(i.e the soul migrates to heaven), than if God's soul were to die the core properties of that soul would be elevated into a higher form of consciousness. This is of course only if the standing pattern of death, as we understand it theologically, follows.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    God can do anything, but that doesn't mean that he will do anything. He decides what he does, therefor he must decide to die to do so.

    Now, if he were to decided to die, that's a different matter. I'd imagine that everything would cease to exist, and that would be it. If he went to Hell, a place he created and cast Saint Lucifer (Satan) and his commanders (demons) to for eternity, it wouldn't be very different from him going back to Heaven, as they are, as I understand it, technically on the same plane. The same goes for purgatory.

    Also, perhaps what will happen is beyond our comprehension? I mean, God is omniscient and omnipotent, so we cannot even hope to begin to understand how he does what he does.

    Our theories could be shots in the dark that happen to be wildly off target and we might not even have powerful enough guns to hit the target if we knew where to aim.

  • 9 years ago

    If our hand were not tied technologically we would have already discovered how to live as long as we wish. I a inclined to believe anyone with the rank of God already knows how to do this.

    In the event god did die I speculate he enjoy a similar fate to ours.

    One of the Greek philosophers once quoted and i am paraphrasing. The gods are not gods they just live better than we do. I first heard that statement decades ago.

    Moments ago that statement floated though my mind as i was contemplating your question. It occurred to me at that moment. That statement he made strikes me not as something inspired by philosophy and in particular a philosopher with his horse power. No not at all. It strikes me as the statement a rational and thoughtful man might make based on observation.

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    Source(s): thinking for myself and life experiences
  • I AM
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    God (infinite potential) is eternally Here-Now.

    God bubbles and bursts as a continuous flow of "things/events."

    So where does the moment go when it dies?

    For it always goes nowhere.

    And forever remains Now Here.

  • Keith
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    This is all based on a hypothetical, so at this point you and I can go on all day about unfalsifiable situations and not get anywhere. Until you can prove one exists, the rest is just personal speculation and doesn't really matter.

  • 9 years ago

    God IS all of the above. He is the light and the beginning and end and doesn't die. Where ever or whoever you imagine, he is within that and surrounding that.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    He wouldn't be a God if he died. People don't think God wants to die.

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