I grew up attending catholic schools, going to mass twice a week, and serving mass as an “alter-boy” as we were called then. The idea that if you believe in God, adhere to the Ten Commandments, attend church, and confess your sins you would be rewarded with an eternal life in heaven after you die. Like some kind of paradise.
When I got a little older, I saw things firsthand outside of my veiled, upper midwestern United States existence. Bad things, horrible, nightmarish ordeals. People often say; “How could God allow so much suffering” or “I don’t believe in God, because if He did exist, He wouldn’t allow so much death and destruction in the world”. That type of reasoning did not sit well with me, but still, there had to be more to it, right?
In an attempt to try and conciliate myself, I ended up questioning my beliefs. Think about this illustration. You have someone who grows up in a nice home, attending catholic schools, going to church, ect, living a full life with everything they could ever want in abundance. Then take someone say a 12-year-old boy who lives in poverty & lawlessness, no churches anywhere, has no idea who or what God exists, then ends up dying after his home is blown up. Is he denied the “eternal paradise in heaven”? I mean, it doesn’t have to be that radical, but I ask myself: HOW DOES THIS ALL EVEN OUT? HOW COULD THERE BE SUCH DISPARITY? IT ISN’T FAIR, ETC…What if, when we die, our soul goes on to within another living being?
“JOURNEY OF SOULS” is a book written by Michael Newton, PH.D. He has case studies of people who have seen the other side and offers another explanation of the immortality of the human Soul.