These words of Jesus should give pause to every sober thinking man. Am I chosen? What can I do to be sure?

What if you aren’t even sure that it matters?That is the state of mind of many and they go on blithely day by day and the end of their life approaches relentlessly. For certain is their life going to end. But not so certainly in their mind, is there anything beyond. There might be and there might not be anything after the grave. How should a thinking man handle this uncertainty?

One approach would be to just ignore it and think of other things more definite and more imminent. This approach is to play the percentages. But what if the chance of a life after death  is very tiny, is it ok to ignore it? Does it make sense to bet against life after death when the risk is eternity? Would it not make more sense to investigate it a little more? After all, if you are wrong, even if only a tiny percentage of a chance, the consequences are worse than anything in this life because the consequences are forever. The stakes are immense and immeasurable.

One might say, “Well, I can’t know anyway so why waste time on something that is unknowable?” Makes sense but is it really unknowable? Just because it can’t be discovered by the usual scientific means doesn’t make it unknowable.