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In Mark’s other “afterlife” controversy (10:17-31), Jesus responds to a rich man’s question about how to “inherit” eternal life. Jesus responds by reciting from the ethical commands of the Decalogue (the Ten Commandments). The man answers “I have kept all of these since my youth.”  

The concept of a heavenly afterlife for the faithful (and a hellish one for their persecutors) seems to have become appealing in Judaism during a time of great persecution: if faithfulness was not rewarded on earth, then it would be later by a just God.

Afterlife is one of the fundamental beliefs in the Abrahamic faiths and as well as in many other faiths.

We can’t contemplate an afterlife without wondering whose life we’re contemplating.

Regarding a hypothetical woman who has successively outlived seven husbands, before finally dying herself, they ask: “In the resurrection, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her.” 

I was a little older when I first heard the term “afterlife.” I did not equate it with the same heaven my mother had described. 

I believe in the afterlife because I think God has “planted eternity in the human heart” (Ecclesiastes 3:11) and so it makes sense to me that there are locations to live out that eternity.