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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?: A CHRISTIAN CONFRONTS THE MYSTERIES OF DEATH--AND LIFE AFTER DEATH
Put away all those books that tell you what heaven is really like. You know the
kind. A man or a woman or sometimes a child has a near-death experience and comes back to give a graphic account of his or her visit to the heavenly kingdom–perhaps even a little one-on-one with God.
Where Do We Go From Here? isn’t that kind of book. When it comes to knowledge of the afterlife, there are two kinds of people: Those who have gone there and know whatever there is to know–if anything. And those of us who haven’t gone there yet. The best we can do is look to the scriptures, to science and to our own common sense to make some educated guesses about what happens after we die.
In looking for answers, theologians are not much help: First because none of them has made a round trip and is thus qualified to tell us what if is really like over there. And second, because they aren’t even remotely in agreement on where we go–if anywhere–after death and what it is like.
One theologian thinks seriously that, when we die, we might end up on another planet, perhaps kind of like Adam and Eve. But then he worries that, if we set up shop on other planets and we have sex and reproduce, we will eventually over-populate the whole universe.
Another, not very helpfully, postulates that we might survive as a “viridical hallucination.“ Whatever that is, it doesn’t sound like a very desirable way to spend eternity.
Seeking answers about what happens after we die forces one to consider some very basic questions; Do we have a soul that can exist separate from the body? And, if so, how does it think without a physical brain, communicate without vocal cords or find a place to attach its wings?
Is there a heaven, a hell or perhaps also a purgatory? Probably the best picture most of us have of what heaven and hell are like is that drawn by Dante and Milton and of course they were writing poetic fiction.
Where Do We Go From Here? grapples with all these difficult questions. Answers are elusive but the reader will finish this book better prepared to seek his or her own answers.
kind. A man or a woman or sometimes a child has a near-death experience and comes back to give a graphic account of his or her visit to the heavenly kingdom–perhaps even a little one-on-one with God.
Where Do We Go From Here? isn’t that kind of book. When it comes to knowledge of the afterlife, there are two kinds of people: Those who have gone there and know whatever there is to know–if anything. And those of us who haven’t gone there yet. The best we can do is look to the scriptures, to science and to our own common sense to make some educated guesses about what happens after we die.
In looking for answers, theologians are not much help: First because none of them has made a round trip and is thus qualified to tell us what if is really like over there. And second, because they aren’t even remotely in agreement on where we go–if anywhere–after death and what it is like.
One theologian thinks seriously that, when we die, we might end up on another planet, perhaps kind of like Adam and Eve. But then he worries that, if we set up shop on other planets and we have sex and reproduce, we will eventually over-populate the whole universe.
Another, not very helpfully, postulates that we might survive as a “viridical hallucination.“ Whatever that is, it doesn’t sound like a very desirable way to spend eternity.
Seeking answers about what happens after we die forces one to consider some very basic questions; Do we have a soul that can exist separate from the body? And, if so, how does it think without a physical brain, communicate without vocal cords or find a place to attach its wings?
Is there a heaven, a hell or perhaps also a purgatory? Probably the best picture most of us have of what heaven and hell are like is that drawn by Dante and Milton and of course they were writing poetic fiction.
Where Do We Go From Here? grapples with all these difficult questions. Answers are elusive but the reader will finish this book better prepared to seek his or her own answers.
71 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 20, 2010
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