BLOG 1...: 2 Universal Questions

This week going through some of my papers I thought of writing this paragraph on 2 questions that are considered universal. One of them is: Will war and suffering ever end? What happens to us when we die? So, many people have wondered why the question arises. Well, as war continues to claim untold numbers of human lives. All of us have been touched by human suffering. In the bible, God foretells a time when he will establish peace earth wide. Under his kingdom, a heavenly government, people will not “learn war any more.” Instead, they will “bear their swords into plowshares.” (Isaiah 2:4) God will bring an end to all injustice and suffering. The Bible: “[God] will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things [including today’s injustices and sufferings] have passed away.”- Revelation 21:3,4. The second question arises because most of the worlds religions teach that something inside a person continues living after death. Some hold that the dead can harm the living or that God punishes the wicked by condemning them to eternal torment in a fiery hell. The Bible teaches that at death, humans cease to exist. “The dead… are conscious of nothing at all,” states Ecclesiastes 9:5. Since the dead cannot know, feel, or experience anything, they cannot harm- or help- the living.- Psalms 146:3’4.