God and the Life Hereafter
God and the Life Hereafter
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been established. In modern science, those concepts
presented as established facts are generally
accepted only because their probability has been
established, rather than that there has been any
definite knowledge of them acquired as a result of
observing them. An example of this nature is the
acceptance of the structure of the atom.
We can, with confidence, apply this same scientific
method to belief in the world Hereafter. Indeed,
employing any other method would not in principle
be appropriate. From the scientific viewpoint, we
cannot refuse to apply to the case of the world
Hereafter a method which we hold valid in other
scientific matters. As we know, in this realm, there
are three stages of the scientific method—
hypothesis,
observation
and
verification
.
If we apply this three-point formula to the world
Hereafter, we can certainly arrive at an
understanding of its probability. And as explained
above, certainty is only another name for this
probability.
Out of all God’s creatures, man, who is unlike any
of His other creatures, is the one who has the
