Apologist Joel Furches looks at the soul, near death experiences and the resurrection of Jesus, examining their veracity and relevance

The most Googled question when it comes to matters of religion and spirituality is the simple question: “What happens when you die?” Clearly the idea of the afterlife is something which haunts many people’s minds.

As he was facing execution, the Greek philosopher Socrates comforted his disciples and admirers by making an extensive argument for why souls go on living beyond death. The idea that one’s family members and friends are not lost forever when they pass away has significant power to comfort, as does the idea that you, yourself, will continue to live on.

What people believe

In the ambitious study titled ‘Humans “predisposed” to believe in gods and the afterlife’, researchers found that across a wide variety of cultures, people are not only instinctively prone to a belief in gods, but also in a dualistic nature – meaning humans are both physical and non-physical in nature. 

The researchers point out: “The project was not setting out to prove the existence of god or otherwise, but sought to find out whether concepts, such as gods and an afterlife, appear to be entirely taught or basic expressions of human nature.” 

The study found that, no matter the culture, human instincts tended to be the same when it came to concepts… (Register to read the rest of the article)