Death and Judgment: Exploring the Final Frontier

While Gene Roddenbery had us imagining a future of exploration that included “space: the final frontier,” human beings have been confronted with a real frontier where “all men have gone before.” Of course, this is no longer the 1960’s, so I must correct that to “where all people have gone before” in order to be politically correct.

In spite of the blandishments of technophiles and sci-fi writers, the prospect of human immortality is as unrealistic as ever. Every one of us must face the reality of our demise, sooner or later.

I am a Christian, and I look at the world through a biblical lens. I am also a biblical literalist, so I tend to read what the words in the Bible actually say and believe them as literal truth. (I am not a robot, of course. I read literary genres like poetry, biography, narrative and psalms on their own terms.) I also look at what they don’t say, and tend not to believe what others fill those blanks in with.

The “filling in” happens a lot. Some examples:

Wise men arriving at Jesus’ birth to the stable. It was up to two years later, at a house.

Mary remaining a virgin throughout her lifetime. She actually had four named sons (James, Joseph, Simon and Judas) and at least two daughters after Jesus.

The ones that I address in my new book, Death and Judgment: Exploring the Final Frontier, have to do with the ideas many well-meaning Christians have about what happens after we die.

Do we graduate to a “better life” or become “angels” or immediately go to heaven or hell? Do people in hell burn forever? What about “Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates” who accepts or denies people entry into heaven?

What does the Bible actually say about all of that and more? What fanciful notions are floating around that have no real grounding in the book that tells Christians what the facts are about their faith? There are many.

Death and Judgment: Exploring the Final Frontier sets out “just the facts” and points the reader to the incredible and awe-inspiring grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ. It is now available on Amazon.