Death and God
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Death and God
Death is perhaps the greatest mystery of life. It is one of the few things we can offer no concrete answer. We know why we die and what causes death, but we do not know if anything exists after death. Modern man seeks truths based on facts and proof. We do not have any proof or eyewitness accounts of whether there is life after death. There are no scientific studies to prove we have spirits and they go to a "better place" when our bodies have ceased to exist. Death therefore, is the end that all life leads to. When we die we just become cold unfeeling corpses buries under mounds of dirt. More and more people are beginning to accept this as true, but there are still those who refuse to believe such a morbid end.
In the late 1800's, when Christianity was still quite apparent in early America, death was more moldable...