Religious Immortality and Transcendence
In efforts to collect data regarding religious groups and their views on immortality, the Pew Research Center writer, Joseph Liu, found and stated that, “No religious group in the United States has released an official statement on radical life extension” (1). In the United States, religious organizations have kept us guessing on whether immortality is healthy or unhealthy. Despite this, it is possible to draw conclusions on how religions may view immortality from their teachings and beliefs. Furthermore, some religions believe a form of transcendence is equivalent to immortality because personal immortality has been denied, a belief that your ancestry carries on your legacy and genes. Meanwhile, other …show more content…
The enlightenment process is the pathway to nirvana, or what the common man recognizes as inner peace and happiness. The true goal in reaching nirvana is that the Buddhist believers are released from their cycle of life and death, and therefore no longer have worldly desires nor pains. Despite this, it is important to note that nirvana is more than the negation of an ordinary experience. Nirvana is liberation, one is free from coming and going, duration and decay, where there is no beginning nor establishment, no result nor cause, all of which comes together resulting in the end of suffering for man (Chidester 107). The release that nirvana brings upon man is one that clears the mind where there are no wants or worries, which is what the Buddhist teachings lead you …show more content…
While each vary in how they practice their beliefs, all of their religions come back to Abraham. Abraham was a disciple of their respective God(I Am/Yahweh/Allah/Etc), or as some of religions believe, a friend of their God. As one of God’s loyal followers, “Abraham was promised an ancestral transcendence through his descendants and a cultural transcendence through the nation that established itself in the promised land” (Chidester 167). Abraham was not granted immortality, but was giving ancestral, cultural, and even spiritual transcendence when he went to heaven. Transcendence in this form is immortality.. The reason that Abraham was not given everlasting life is due to the fact that personal immortality was denied, and that biological and ancestral transcendence of death is more pertinent to the human race (Chidester 185). Through these events, we realize the Abrahamic Religions believe that immortality is possible through the biological passing down of genes and societally passing down culture, from one generation to the
In efforts to collect data regarding religious groups and their views on immortality, the Pew Research Center writer, Joseph Liu, found and stated that, “No religious group in the United States has released an official statement on radical life extension” (1). In the United States, religious organizations have kept us guessing on whether immortality is healthy or unhealthy. Despite this, it is possible to draw conclusions on how religions may view immortality from their teachings and beliefs. Furthermore, some religions believe a form of transcendence is equivalent to immortality because personal immortality has been denied, a belief that your ancestry carries on your legacy and genes. Meanwhile, other …show more content…
The enlightenment process is the pathway to nirvana, or what the common man recognizes as inner peace and happiness. The true goal in reaching nirvana is that the Buddhist believers are released from their cycle of life and death, and therefore no longer have worldly desires nor pains. Despite this, it is important to note that nirvana is more than the negation of an ordinary experience. Nirvana is liberation, one is free from coming and going, duration and decay, where there is no beginning nor establishment, no result nor cause, all of which comes together resulting in the end of suffering for man (Chidester 107). The release that nirvana brings upon man is one that clears the mind where there are no wants or worries, which is what the Buddhist teachings lead you …show more content…
While each vary in how they practice their beliefs, all of their religions come back to Abraham. Abraham was a disciple of their respective God(I Am/Yahweh/Allah/Etc), or as some of religions believe, a friend of their God. As one of God’s loyal followers, “Abraham was promised an ancestral transcendence through his descendants and a cultural transcendence through the nation that established itself in the promised land” (Chidester 167). Abraham was not granted immortality, but was giving ancestral, cultural, and even spiritual transcendence when he went to heaven. Transcendence in this form is immortality.. The reason that Abraham was not given everlasting life is due to the fact that personal immortality was denied, and that biological and ancestral transcendence of death is more pertinent to the human race (Chidester 185). Through these events, we realize the Abrahamic Religions believe that immortality is possible through the biological passing down of genes and societally passing down culture, from one generation to the