1. What Happens When We Die?

Have you ever thought about the afterlife?

What happens when you die? Will I ever see my loved ones again? Will we all be in the same place? Or will our choice in this life help determine where we might go? How can we know?

What do you think happens when we die?

Do we just disappear? I mean, if we did evolve by random happenstance and from nothing, then back to random nothingness we shall go, right?

Do we disperse like a bolt of lightning? I mean, if we are just a ball of energy, as I remember someone explaining to me many years ago, then we either disperse into other forms of energy and are gone forever as we know ourselves now or the part of energy that is unusable in every energy transfer is that part that makes us who we are now; therefore, again, no matter what we might transfer into means nothing because there is no afterlife for the us who are now and we are lost for eternity, never to be, know, or exist again—we are no more.

Do we live forever? I mean, if we are spirits living in a physical body, then after the physical has passed, our spirit will live forever.

This is the one that intrigues me, and it’s the one that I believe. But if this is true, then that would also mean that our spirits will not all go to the same place, right? Because if they did, then what would it matter how we chose to live? What would morality be except just another form of control over the weak-minded and weak-willed? What would good mean if evil also lives in the same place for all eternity alongside the so-called good?

But no matter what happens, billions of people will be lost for eternity.

Did you know that according to professional studies about how many humans have existed on this earth since humans first appeared, there have been an estimated 117 billion people in all of Earth’s history? And that nearly 70% could very well be lost, according to the idea that we are a spirit (as you will better understand as we continue). This includes all of human history. And this is a very, very liberal estimate. It's most likely higher than that. But even if one of the other theories happened to be proven true, then that would mean that 100% of all humans who have ever existed would be lost for eternity.

Again, if this is all there is, or if all people go to the same place regardless, then why not live it up with this one life that you have? Do what you want. Take what you want. Gain what you want. Use who you want. There would be no logical or philosophical reason for any concept of good or evil, moral or immoral, ethical or unethical, right or wrong, outside of the individual’s own judgment and choice of such, or a powerful organization's attempt at power and control over the weak and feeble-minded.

But, out of 117 billion people that have existed, does this mean that all are lost for eternity?

Absolutely not! That’s why I can say there is good news.

If you are not a believer, please stay with this; the numbers are still worth learning. If you are a believer, then you need to keep with this because the numbers are heartbreaking.

So, here we go.

Why would I speak of this at all? Because of what I know and what I believe. Like everyone, I can write what I’ve learned, what I’ve experienced, and what I know.

I'm sure we've been told and some of us agreed that the Gospel is important and that our commission is to go preach the Gospel, but when you give it a numerical number, especially if you can put some faces with those numbers, you begin to see why this is so important and urgent—the teaching of the Gospel. Humanity needs it.

That’s true. And unfortunately, there is both good and evil in this world, and they both cannot exist in the same place in the afterlife, or what would the afterlife be but just a duplicate of this life.

117 billion people gone forever like a puff of smoke; no existence; no peace; no joy; no meaning. Or a very rough estimate of nearly 80 billion people lost for eternity.

Will I ever see my loved ones again?

Have you ever thought about the afterlife?