At the time; I had no answer...
Well .. having been born into a nominally Catholic home (the only kind I knew ) I "knew" Heaven, Hell and Purgatory ... which meant my father had a 33.33% chance of being in Heaven but a 66.66% chance he wasn't ... which didn't seem like very loving odds to me.
(leaving a lot out at this point ..)
A conversation with a contemporary Jesuit priest ended with him sayig (about my father's place of residence) .. "I don't know and no one CAN know 'cuz no one's come back from the dead to tell us
.. which I bought for a while
Fast forward a few months and a Messianic Jew told me about Jesus and His redemptive work and that Jesus desire for me was to make a better man out of me and take me to Heaven when I died.
Click.
Born again at 7:30 PM, Aug.15, 1981 up Fallen Timber Rd, off the beaten path a few miles at Eddy Klein's kitchen table
Thank you, Jesus.