Do you/ Would you view yourself as eternal?

THis is my one life on earth. I would hate to think I had to go through it again. I do believe what the Bible says about our future if we accept Christ as our Savior. I am at peace with the idea that if he doesn't come before I die that I will rest peacefully in my grave, knowing nothing. I am afraid that I would blow my possibility of a resurrection when Christ comes if I believed I had another life to change my ways. That is what Satan told Eve (thou shalt not surely die)and has kept that idea going through one religion or another.

I have been visiting here ad nauseum. I do believe that we existed before and we have billions of lives, depending on one's karma. I are not created ones, but manifested ones. I don't think we are just born and just die. there is something more than it. on the physical plane or the level of matter, everything changes and destroyed. that is the very nature of it. but what about the soul, the inner spirit? that is not affected by it. it is eternal as it is a trace of the supreme soul.

Hi Kedar,
Yes, of course I believe that the soul is eternal. What we call ‘I’ is of course just a body for the soul, it comes and goes thru the cycle of reincarnation taking different bodies in different lives. I read about some therapy or sessions where there are trained people who hypnotise you and give you a glimpse of your past life…it is said that can reach into the inner depths of the soul and make it answer queries which provide clues as to who we were in our previous lives. Even if that is not true or whatever, I am still a firm believer in the Hindu principles of the soul being immortal and going thru the cycles of life and death time and again till it achieves nirvana.
Of course I don’t know that where were these souls before life was created or from where does the soul come. Since I don’t know and science has not been able provide any answers yet, I’ll take it that the soul comes from an infinite indefinable source of cosmic energy which we call God.

I see my soul as eternal yes but not my physical being...I am a firm believer in reincarnation etc etc and though I may go through numerous bodies over the centuries or whatever my soul existed BEFORE my first birth and will continue to exist long after my final life if htat makes sense

I don't think I am eternal. Since the word "eternal" means having no beginning and no end, I don't think I am like that. I think only God is eternal. But I do think that I am immortal. And by that I mean to say that there was a point in time when I came into existence, and from then on I shall live for everlasting, in one form or the other. I don't think unless one considers oneself to be some kind of God, then considering oneself eternal is not possible. The problem with considering oneself as God is that God then ends up doing all sorts of evil thing as well since you and I continue to do evil, in spite of not willing to do evil.