Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Accountibility in the Afterlife

Bernard Haisch wrote in his book "The God Theory" that the ultimate purpose of human existence is to transform potential into experience, for the benefit of God. (Those who subscribe to the traditional Judeo-Christian model of God would likely have a big problem with this idea.) That is to say, whatever experience each human life has acquired would be added to God's existence since each soul would merge with God upon death.
This offers an insight into a little problem I have with living in heaven. What about walking aside someone who harmed you or harmed a loved one? Would a parent really be capable of fully loving someone who raped and murdered her child? There are multiple religious philosophies regarding this issue. It could be, though, that once a person dies, all the experiences from his or her lifetime become divorced from the soul and those experiences become the property of God. All souls would basically be the same at that point, innocent as babes, living together in harmony.
What do you think?