To Live or to Die?

To Live or to Die?
Philippians 1.18b-26

One of the great questions that people have asked throughout human history, and still address particularly to religious leaders, is this: where do we go when we die? Until recently, most people in what used to be the Christian Western world would reply ‘to heaven’, with some also warning that there might be other destinations as well that ought to be avoided if possible. Now, however, with the decline of Christianity in the Western world, people are turning again to folk religion to find alternative beliefs. Some think we’ll all be merged into one great sea of consciousness, or perhaps unconsciousness. Some say (and really seem to mean) that we’ll all become stars in the sky...

Taken from Paul for Everyone – The Prison Letters by Tom Wright