I think we all evolved into Seekers from our Hunter-Gatherer Roots. The Concept of a Superior-Overseeing-Intelligence goes back far-beyond Christianity, as does the concept of Good-vs-Evil. As for Hopes of an Afterlife, even Neanderthals buried their dead.

The idea that our minds are "wiped-clean" after our death is a fallacy. I enjoyed a lotta chatting with JPF's IdaMarie Naelitz..a very-Enlightened 70-Something Yr Old, who's done many a Hypnotic Regression Session...& has something like 4 Previous Lifetimes she can tell you, now, all-about.

I've never had time/loot to try H-R, but plan on it, someday, since Christianity never did have ALL the Answers I've sought for 66 years now.

IF you study all the Life Forms that already exist on THIS planet...just WAIT 'til the first Confirmable ET, with an Intelligence Superior to OURS arrives here, then try to tell me "WE're the Image of GOD"... (Yet DNA seems to be God showing us SOMETHING that SHOULD Unite ALL of us Living Creatures into a better Understanding of What's It ALL About?)

As for the Issue of Heaven...Hmmm...MOST of the Near-Death Returnees describe that not-too-secret Tunnel of Light, leading back to a Very Bright Source/Clustered with LOTS of Little Lights (translated into Souls)..in some kinda Special Place.

Call it What You Will, there are now 11 "Known" Dimensions which somehow explain Matter/Energy/Time/etc...and Heaven's probably for-sure safely-tucked-away in one of those Higher-than-4 Numbered Dimensions, to keep us Eternally-Questioning, yet Never-Tinkering with the Entry Exam.

There'll ALWAYS be a Higher Intelligence than Ours running-the-show. It's just Up to Us to Admit It, & Go Along with The Program, while killing-off the Fewest Numbers of those who don't agree with us.

JMO,
Stan

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