Is there an afterlife? Life after this life ends?

There probably isn't a human being who hasn't asked this question at one time or another.

And here's the answer. If there is a God, there is an afterlife.

It's that simple. And here's why, first, this life is filled with an immeasurable amount of

injustice and suffering. The only way there can be some ultimate justice for victims of evil

is if there is an afterlife. And the only way comfort is available to those who suffer unjustly

from painful disease and premature death to the death of a child is if there is an afterlife.

But such an afterlife exists only if there is a good and just God. A good and just God provides

a way to compensate for all the unjust suffering in this world. Second, since God is not physical,

the physical world is not the only reality. There is also a non-physical reality.

And we humans have a part of us which being non-physical survives the death of our body.

We call it the soul. But if there is no God, this physical life is all there is. So no God,

no soul, no soul, no afterlife. Now, of course, those who doubt God's existence have every reason to

doubt an afterlife. But if you believe in a good God, then you have to believe there's an afterlife.

If you say you believe in God but not in an afterlife, the God you believe in is not only not good.

That God is cruel. That God made a world filled with unjust suffering and just left it at that.

Now, some people who don't believe in an afterlife offer their own version of immortality.

I once attended a funeral where the man officiating said, while there is no afterlife, we do live on,

through our good works and in the memories of loved ones. That's what a lot of people who reject

an afterlife want to believe. But the idea that human beings live on through their good works

or through the memories of loved ones, which generally means a person's children or grandchildren,

is simply meaningless. If people live on through their good works, then children who die don't live on.

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