Life after death, all sorted? Terrific.

I'm not sure if I've written about this topic before, but I was asked this question twice this week which I found fairly interesting. It's not something I've found I've been asked very much - in Australia, it seems that it's just more socially acceptable to not ask anything too personal. When it comes to religion, you believe whatever makes you feel good and works for you; just don't interfere with the way I do things and the way I live my life - i.e., just don't impose your beliefs on me.

Hence it is not something I talk about often, unless I get asked directly as I have this week. I'm not going to sepend much of this post actually going into the details of my answer, that can be subject to another post, but in short, I am a Christian simply because I believe what the Bible says is true. It was after a lot of investigation on the historical and scentific claims of Christianity in an earlier stage in my life that I reached this conclusion.

Again, not going to go into details about that at the moment, but the recent discussions I have had on the topic have just reignited the thought in mind that to me, it makes logical sense to do a bit of thinking about what the different religions (including atheism) have to say, and be able to conclude for ourselves what we really think.

I see it like this. Think of how much time people (myself included) put into saving up for the future - building wealth and security, looking for companionship to grow old with, ensuring all our different insurances are setup correctly, etc.I guess to me, if we're willing to spend days and weeks labouring over our superannuation plans so that we are set up for success when we are 60, doesn't it make sense to even spend just 20 minutes thinking, and convincing ourselves, that to the best of our knowledge, we have what happens after death right?

I realize it is not an easy question and obviously millions of very thick books have been written about the topic; however, I am also in the belief that it is not as mystical and "out there" as one might think. When I started looking into different religions, I was amazed at how a lot of it made sense. Yes, I realize there is still an element of faith - but there's an element of faith in almost everything we do, and faith does not need to be blind.

60 minutes researching the best health insurance option. How about spending 20 minutes making sure eternity is sorted? Getting it wrong could be very costly.

Of course, it's also easier to just live life and not think beyond tomorrow, because it makes us (or at least me) feel comfortable =)

This is probably controversial enough so I will stop now.