I enjoy reading the comics in the local paper. In one of the comics in yesterday's paper a husband and wife were talking about, of all things, death. The wife asks her husband what he's going to ask God after he dies. He tells her that he's going to ask what happened to all of the socks he's lost over the years. Then she asks if that is the only question he is going to ask God. Her husband say, no, he'll also ask him about the meaning of life.
OK, I laughed. It was a comic. And it was funny. But there is some deep theology in this short comic strip. The idea is being conveyed that when we die, we are going to be able to "sit down with God" and have him answer all of our burning questions. All of our "Whys," so to speak. But the Bible gives a much different view of what will happen after we die.
Hebrews 9:27 says: "As it is appointed unto man once to die, and after that the judgement."
Romans 3:19 says: "Now we know that what things so ever the law sayeth, it sayeth unto them that are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God."
Revelation 20:15 says: "Whosoever was not written in the Lamb's Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire."
Strongly recommended listening:
When Government Tries to Be God, by Dr. David P. Murray
Please Search the Book Again, Mckenzie George and Bruce Willey
