Afterlife Punishment?
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 7 years before Jul 15, 2018
MiBeloved 7 years ago
From Pavlina's forum
revpress69 wrote:
I have read that all the pain you have caused people in this life will be felt by you in the afterlife.........what if you ask for forgiveness in this life to the people that you have hurt. If those people have passed on, or if you have forgotten names, or maybe you cannot locate for whatever reason, if you ask for forgiveness, will you still have to face your "moral crimes" in the afterlife? I have SO many questions for this topic, I wonder if this is the correct subject heading to be writing this, thanks for any and all help.....
MiBeloved's Response:
To some extent the afterlife is an inversion of this life, in the sense that many things which operate here operate in a similar way there.
So I commit a crime here against my neighbor by stealing his TV, and then while I was leaving his residence, he showed up and confronted me. I panicked and shot him to death.
Later I was arrested and taken to court. When confronted while being questioned in court, I explained that I had sincerely asked the deceased person for forgiveness and I had a priest assist me in atoning for what I did. Thus, I said that I should be released and should suffer no further for the crime.
So what do you think the judge will do?
In other words, when a crime is committed, it is foolish to think that only the victim is offended. The laws of nature might be offended as well, just as the state is offended when one commits a crime and the state might successfully prosecute a law-breaker, even if the victim refuses to press charges.
Even if a person in the afterlife forgives you, the matter might not end there and other reactions might pursue you from the supernatural level.
Getting forgiveness does not deal with my criminal or offensive tendency. After being forgiven I may continue the violence.
What about a willingness to take a just penalty?
Am I willing to do that and also willing to ask forgiveness?
