Thoughts on the Afterlife part 1
	This life must be a preparation for a life to come. In this life, it is often so hard to do what's right, so easy and tempting to do what's wrong.  Good is not necessarily rewarded, and evil often goes unpunished. If there's any justice in the universe, then there must be life after death. And if there is no justice in the universe... the implications are unfathomable. I have to believe in God, because in spite of modern science, I don't see how life could have arisen from non-life. I believe there are too many inexplicable occurrences, too many answers to prayer, for God not to exist. There's enough evidence of miracles, of an afterlife, of a spiritual plane to convince me that the physical world is not the only reality. And God must be just -- if God were unjust, then this world would be unspeakably more horrible than it is; existence would truly be meaningless.    No, I can't prove it... but I think that it takes a greater leap of faith to say that God doesn't exist than it takes to say that God does exist. The probability, as I see it, is that God does exist, and that God is just, and that God takes an interest in the lives of individual people. I furthermore believe that God knows the exact rightness or wrongness of each action we commit. I believe the same act can be right or wrong, depending on circumstances and motivations. But I think God fully comprehends all circumstances and all motivations. If there is a number line marked from -100 to 100, -100 being absolute evil, 100 being absolute good, then I believe that God knows precisely where each action we commit belongs on that number line. God knows all extenuating circumstances, all mitigating factors, all underlying motives. He knows right where to place each of our actions on that line, and there is no second-guessing His judgment.
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