God, the Hereafter, and Human Nature

GOD, THE HEREAFTER, AND HUMAN NATURE Questions related to God and the life Hereafter are ostensibly related to the Unseen world, but they are an essential and indispensable part of human nature. Man’s innate nature knows the issues of God and the Hereafter. The fact is that there are two levels of realization of God— the rational and the natural. God-realization at the rational level is only the initial stage of this realization, whereas certainty about God’s existence and the Hereafter at the natural level is the highest level of God-realization. The purpose of using rational arguments concerning God and the Hereafter is only so that the veils of doubt can be lifted from man’s mind, and he is taken to the position where he can accept the reality of God and the Hereafter at least as possible truths. The purpose of using arguments, evidence, and logic about God and the Hereafter is to bring man to that intellectual level where he can accept his existence. Every person has eyes that can ‘see’ God and recognize the reality of the Hereafter, but a curtain of conditioning covers his eyes. Logical evidence breaks this conditioning or mental block and removes this artificial curtain placed over the eyes of man’s nature. After this, he is able to accept God and the life Hereafter. He now develops complete certainty about the existence of the invisible God and the reality of the Hereafter, just as a child is sure of his mother’s