The popularity of a view has no bearing on its truth. For example, if you took a poll at HEB asking about favorite salad dressings, the poll might give you an accurate prediction about sales of salad dressing.
But if you took a poll at HEB asking how online advertising affects the demand curve, vis-à-vis salad dressing, the answers would not be helpful. The average shopper is not in a position to analyze salad-dressing market trends. So what makes us think they know anything about evolution or creation or death or the afterlife?
The popularity of an opinion
is not evidence of its truth.
Instead, ask:
“BUT WHAT DOES THE SCRIPTURE SAY?” Romans 4:3.
The Bible has answers. The Bible says we were created by God. And that when we die, we will continue to exist—in one place or the other.
What we will not do is cease to exist. We will not be pushing up daisies. There is something in you, some essential essence, some YOU, that will always exist. And you know that. Somewhere inside, we know that. We know people who die are not simply going to wind up molecules disintegrating in a tomb. They remain OUT THERE. You know it. You feel it in your heart.
“And He has placed eternity in their hearts” Ecclesiastes 3:11.
But the Sadducees did not believe in an afterlife. They believed people died and ceased to exist. Jesus told them they were mistaken. There IS an afterlife.
“Even Moses endorsed the resurrection when he called the Lord ‘the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ Because God is NOT THE GOD OF THE DEAD, BUT OF THE LIVING, for to Him all are alive” Luke 20:37-38.
God, help us be curious, study, and learn more about Heaven by taking our questions to your scriptures every day.
Read Luke 20.
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