Above and Beyond

The afterlife is interesting. Don't you think? Have you ever wondered what happens after we die?

Do we end, just like that? Regardless of the question whether God exists. For this theory, we shall assume God exists, because it is necessary for us to be created for us to die. And we must come from somewhere.

But does having a beginning guarantee us an ending, whether in heaven or hell? Do we believe that because God created us, therefore he is obliged to extend our existence into immortality?

Just as it is necessary for us to have been created, it is necessary also for us to believe that there is something beyond this earth if we are to believe in God.

A basic instinct, to believe that there is a greater force at work, just like ages ago, when they worshipped the sun, the rocks, the trees.
Belief is a necessity. Have we created our ending in the image that we would prefer; the righteous rewarded and the sinners doomed?

There are two questions here.

1. Does God exist?
2. What is the afterlife?

Obviously I can answer neither, but the first can be surmised by simple logic.

1. Evolution denotes a plan to our existence.
2. A plan requires a mind/ a purpose.
3. The mind/ purpose is what we know as God.

So there is a God, or an approximation of God. Is this God nice? Is this God compassionate? I don't know. Not having spoken to God directly, I cannot judge God's intentions, if God has any.

Now death is harder. A simple logic would be:

1. We are mass and energy.
2. Energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred or displaced.
3. The earth has not exploded from the energy of all the dead people, so it must go 'somewhere'.

Unfortunately, that is a simplistic way of trying to explain an afterlife. Our energy, after all, moves down the food chain as we are devoured by scavengers and microorganisms.

Therefore, there must be another energy, which I will call the soul. It is the hopes of those who believe in God that this soul doesn't just die with us, or become raccoon decaf.

But where does it go then, if not into the belly of the earth? Perhaps it goes into space? Do our souls add to the edges of the galaxy, making the universe bigger, becoming the threads of creation? Are some of us destined to be new stars and planets, to bear light and life?
Or are our souls taken to another dimension, the dimension of heaven?

(I am treating the idea of hell as emotional blackmail, and therefore irrelevant. If you have to be threatened with fear before you willingly do good, then it defeats the purpose of religion, and of humanity).

There is no answer to what is the afterlife. No one has come back and told us the joys of a host of angels, or the sound of the sky over some unknown planet.
Space, another dimension, an alternate reality.
Interesting isn't it?