What makes you think that there is life after death?
Someone from the audience has said just now, 'Because God says so.' And I say, yes, an excellent answer. And, as a Christian, I've another big reason for believing it. Can anybody guess what that is? Well, perhaps you're not Christians, because if you were Christians, you would know. The Christian gospel is, that
Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. (1 Corinthians 15:3–4)
Jesus is alive. That is the absolute centre of our Christian message: that he was buried, as literally as you or I may be, one of these days. He died for our sins that we might be forgiven, was buried and, the third day, rose again. There is tremendous evidence that the New Testament supplies, and that history supplies, that the grave in which he lay was found to be empty on the third day. It was the resurrection of Christ that pushed the early apostles out onto the streets, because Christ had been raised, and they wanted to tell the people. And what they preached was 'Christ is risen'.
So, yes, because God says so, and because of the resurrection of Christ, I believe there is life after death, along with a whole large host of other reasons as well.
