DEATH-WHAT THEN?

As curious people, we often like to discuss what is going to happen when we die.  It makes for interesting and controversial discussion.  Recently, when I was selling life insurance, a woman told me she didn’t need life insurance because she was very healthy.  I stated, that was wonderful, but what about things that happen that are out of our control.  The listener was silent.  I then proceeded to put on her thinking cap.

There is a car commercial on TV, wherein the actor  portrays a family man, who looks at the camera declaring he will have a car accident in fifteen minutes.  The scene flips to a woman who goes into more detail about her unexpected tragedy.  Hats off to the marketeer because that will sell cars, or get people thinking, as did the woman I was soliciting to purchase the insurance for the family she would leave behind.  The point is, once we are gone, what happens?  Are there any known accounts of the afterlife?

What does happen when we die?  Do we digest into the ground?  Perhaps we come back as a deer? Seriously, do we give any thought to the afterlife.  It is inevitable.  Do we need to prepare? And, if there is one, are there degrees of pleasure and pain in the afterlife, correlating to the elements of heaven and hell.

So, do I believe in the afterlife? YES.  From a Christian’s point-of-view, and all clergy will deny or go around this scripture, even though they say the Bible is the whole truth, inspired by God; the book of Matthew tells all.  Before I quote the book and page, keep in mind, when Jesus came back to life, he was ghost.  If not, how did he go through the closed door after the Crucifixion, when he appeared to the disciples who were hiding from the Romans?  Why were the men frantically afraid when they saw him?  He was a ghost!  Evidently, they knew about ghosts!

There is a supreme being that is in control of our metaphysical world.  Supernatural simply means, out of the ordinary use of natural science.  But, getting back to the scripture, Matthew 27:52, it states in the King’s English, the graves were opened and the people went back into town.  First, if they were in a grave, they were dead.  Second, when they went back into town, were they physically restored or were they a ghost?  If they were alive, they resurrected just like Christ and Christians should worship them, also.  One could only conclude, their spirit went back.  This is a mystery we will never fully understand.  Hence, our living world as we know it,  houses the living, the dead and the spirits, known as ghosts.  The supernatural is alive on the planet Earth, and the dead walk among us.

We may or may not have a choice where we go when we pass from the physical to the spiritual world, but we do know we are not dead all over like Rover.  Like circle reasoning; life goes on but in another form. If not, why not?