God and the Life Hereafter
God and the Life Hereafter
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THE RIGHT FRAMEWORK
This concept gives us the framework by which
everything in life and in the universe can be
satisfactorily explained. It also makes it clear what
paradise and hell are. Paradise is a resting place for
sincere and truth-loving people, while hell is a place
for the insolent and the false.
The picture we form is that of the present world
having been made by its Creator to serve as a
testing
ground
for mankind, whereas the next world has
been created as a place where we shall reap the
rewards of (or punishments for) our actions in this
world.
Man has been created as an eternal creature. Every
man and woman has been granted an eternal
personality. But although the mind is eternal, the
body is transient. The study of human physiology
shows that the human body is composed of living
cells which keep transforming themselves. In this
way the body is renewed at regular intervals. It is
regenerated just like the water in a running stream.
The body eventually dies and is resurrected, but the
