A scientist told God that with just a handful of dirt, some water, and electricity; he could create life. God said “Okay, show me.”
The scientist picked up a handful of dirt.
“Oh hey now - get your OWN dirt!” God exclaimed.
Bringing up that eternal question: Where did God come from? Philosophies cover the spectrum from ‘nothing’, ‘the before’, the ‘alternate’, the negative/dark matter, the ‘ever/Moebus strip’ and the unknowable - which pretty much covers most other remaining possibilities.
That we can be real as what we are and ponder all that, going far from meeting our daily concerns for personal needs, definitely sets us above most creatures far more confined by the restraints imposed upon them by the demands of their continuing survival.
Mankind/humanity’s most positive quality may be how it continues to free itself from base requirements and devote itself to higher pursuits in a reality where converting foes into allies requires much more from ourselves than reverting to traditional patterns of defensive behavior.
God is all yet to be known...if you aren’t just a part to be consumed as a tiny piece contributing to the eventual fulfillment of the greater whole. I THINK I’d like an after-life as a lone explorer feeding on discovered knowledge but would consign myself to a self-made Hell away from a better outcome (as One with God??) if wrong.
But I don’t worry over what I can’t know or affect - helping to make this real life better as it’s lived.
However it ends up, it behooves us to be the best we can WHILE we can to ensure that our future reflects the best of humankind’s qualities over it’s detrimental tendencies.
Meanwhile don’t waste time and energy fearing the reaper - use it’s inevitability to enrich the experiences you have, knowing nothing is for granted.