What happens to us just after we die? A few people know precisely what to expect. Most others have some vague notion. Then there are those who feel it is a waste of time to speculate.
Still, after being born, death is the most important event of your life. Shouldn't you give it a lot more attention? At that moment something happens. A kind of phase transition? A different plane of existence? Do you expect a Heaven? Or, heaven forbid - a hell? Whatever, what is that going to be like?
Oh, you say, there is nothing after death. Zero! All believers otherwise would answer, Nothing is Something. Even physics tells us that a vacuum is jumping with activity. If you want there to be Nothing, then you have to create it. That is, make it so. Thereby, making nothing into something.
Relax, this narrative is not that convoluted. It does present the case for there being some form of continuation for us after dying. It turns out that the form that experience takes will be entirely up to you. K
Aurelius Augustinus - more commonly "St. Augustine of Hippo," or simply "Augustine" - was a philosopher and theologian, and one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. He framed the concepts of original sin and just war. Augustine was one of the most prolific Latin authors in terms of surviving works, and the list of his works consists of more than a hundred separate titles.
Augustine took the view that the Biblical text should not be interpreted literally if it contradicts what we know from science and our God-given reason. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of Reformation teaching on salvation and divine grace.
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