Imagine there's a heaven

Pity the failthful.

I think you are concerned for the truth.

Of course, the Catholic Church would ask us to consider the meaning of our desire for the truth. It seems that desire for truth is part of our human nature no more conscious or rational than breathing.

Insanity: When one ignores reality because one wishes it were otherwise.

If one wishes to imagine life after death, it is an interesting exercise. If you depart the reality that we each can expect a finite number of years, then you are insane.

Actually, Donald..there are plenty of people who think when we die, that's all there is...like sleeping without a dream and never waking up.

I'd like to believe there is an afterlife, or a heaven...but Not ONE person has ever come back to tell us. Maybe God has his rules.

Anyway, since it can't really be proven either way..none of us are insane to think the way we do.

I think we are HOPEFUL there is an afterlife...it makes the inevitability of dying so much more palatable:)

An assertion requires evidence. A strong assertion, such as one containing "everyone" or "eternal" requires strong evidence.

To believe a strong assertion in the absence of evidence....

"Without faith, it is impossible to please God".

"The just shall live by faith"

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."

"But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh."

"Without the shedding of blood, their is no remission."

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

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