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You raised a very good question. As a Christian, one time or another, we ask ourselves this question. So this is nothing new. Here's what keeps us going:
1. The resurrection of Christ changed everything. Think about the disciples right after Jesus died. They were absolutely terrified, hiding in locked rooms, convinced they were next on the hit list. Then, suddenly, a few days later, these same scared, ordinary guys walk out into the streets and start boldly claiming they saw Jesus alive.
2. Christianity didn't start in some faraway land years later, it started right in Jerusalem, the exact city where Jesus was buried. If the authorities wanted to crush this hoax, all they had to do was produce the body from the tomb. They couldn't.
3. Let us talk about highly intelligent men, Saul of Tarsus is one of them. Saul didn't love Jesus. He was a brilliant, highly educated, powerful Pharisee who actively hated Christians. He was the chief whistle-blower trying to stomp out the scam. Then, overnight, he completely flipped. He gave up his status, his wealth, his powerful career, and ended up being whipped, shipwrecked, and ultimately beheaded by Rome for preaching the exact message he was trying to destroy. What turns a radical, violent persecutor into the movement's greatest champion? Con artists don't convert their fiercest, most powerful enemies by accident. Paul claimed he saw the risen Christ, and nothing else in history explains his sudden, radical transformation.
4. C.S Lewis said something cool and I agree with him: "Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world"
5. Physics shows us that reality is vast, multi-layered, and largely invisible to the human eye. Believing in a higher dimension of existence like heaven isn't anti-scientific. It aligns perfectly with the multi-dimensional framework of modern physics.
6. As a musician, sometimes you hear a specific chord progression in a song that makes you want to cry, but you don't know why. You finally achieve your lifelong dream (the money, the relationship, the career) and, within a few weeks, a strange emptiness creeps back in. You realize, “Wait, is this it?”
7. If this world is a closed loop, and we are just animals, we should be perfectly satisfied with food, sex, shelter, and survival. But humans are chronically homesick for a place we have never been. We try to fill that ache with money, drugs, relationships, or achievements, but the hunger remains. This universal glitch in the human mind makes perfect sense that heaven is real. It is reminding us that we are exiles here.
I can go on and on. Lemme stop here.
Ozedikus Nwanne@Ozedikus
If a company told you to work exclusively for them and promised you $10 billion and 10 mansions, but you’ll only receive them after you die, you’d call it a scam. So why do you believe that other one?
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