Response to “What happens after death?”

As Jake talks about in his blog http://jakeslitblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-happens-after-death.html what happens after death is on everyone’s mind.  Death is an inevitability that everyone must face.  Some people spend a lot of time thinking about it, while others try to avoid thinking about it.  But any way you look at it death is important.  And the reason people think about it because of the afterlife.  There are as many different beliefs about the afterlife as there are different groups of people

Jake talks about the Christian views on the afterlife.  Being that one must turn their life to Christ to be saved, and if you don’t you will be sent to hell.  As he says “men only die once” and that “eternity is a long time to spend in hell” that is true.  That is a very powerful statement.  Hell is a power deterrent in Christianity.  If you mess up you go to hell.  If you warship the wrong deity you also go to hell.

There is much to learn from the christen views.  I personally do not follow them but I can respect them and learn from them.  The idea of being a good person is an important one.  People need to live their life to the best of their ability’s.  That is a cove value that everyone can learn from.  I may not follow the same set of rules as Jake but as long as everyone try’s their best to be good people it does not matter what religion you follow.