The Solid Rock Church

So you have prayed the prayer at the end of the last blog post titled “Chocolate or Vanilla, Warm or Cold Climate”. Now what? By way of reminder, this is the prayer you prayed, or you prayed one very much like it: Dear Lord Jesus, thank You for loving me and coming for me. Thank You for your gift of love to me that You offered when You died on the cross. I can’t thank You enough for that, and I believe You did that for ME. I now receive Your gift – the gift of Your presence in my life, in my body, soul and spirit, and I ask You to forgive me of my sin. Cleanse me from all that separates me from God the Father. I ask You to give me Your Holy Spirit and take my life and turn it into something that honors You and glorifies You as well as fulfills my greatest need. I thank You for all You have done for me. And now Jesus, teach me Your way to live life. I thank You again Jesus, and I pray this in Your Name. Amen. Let’s take a look at what you did by praying that (or similar) prayer.

So… what do you prefer? Chocolate or vanilla? The warmer or the cooler climates? Did you answer the question re the level of importance knowing what happens after we die? Is it along the lines of personal preference, or is it along the lines of what is often called the “first order questions of life”? Enough of the luring. There are definite answers to these questions, and they do belong to the category of “first order questions of life.” To know truth about life after death, if there is any and if so what is it like, we must have evidence that is not dependent on our experience; the evidence is not based on subjective experiences or feelings or best guesses. The evidence must be  objective . That is, it must be evidence that points to and “reveals” truth that is true for all people regardless of virtually all life circumstances. I say “virtually all” because there do exist in some of the more extreme cases circumstances that would change the outcome if absolute strictness to re