We know the value
of our stuff, it is called assets. If it is valuable stuff, we get it
insured. Cars, houses, clothes, expensive jewelry; these we know the
worth of. So we can replace them, if need be.
We know the value
of our life. Insurance companies sell us insurance for it. Not to
keep our lives, but to live on it after we retire or it allows our
families to pay for our burial. If you can get life insurance, that
only tells you the value of your life to that insurance carrier.
Where love lives
in your life, you are valuable as an asset to the family. Son,
daughter; brother, sister; father, mother; husband, wife;
grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins; in-laws. Your relationship
within your family circle, depending on the strength of that circle,
determines your value in the family in which you live. Sometimes
circles appear elongated because we add our friends to our family
because we get closer to them than we do the family into which we
were placed or born.
But what about
your soul? How do you place a value on your soul
(mind/intellect/decision-maker, will, emotions)? How do we place a
value on something we cannot see? That which we cannot see many tend
to believe does not exist. What is not visible to the naked eye is
presumed either too small or too large and requires technology to see
it, if one believes that that which cannot be seen is really there.
For example, the human cell needs to be seen with a microscope, while
the stars and even the planets within our own solar system need to be
seen with a telescope. Up close and personal stars do not twinkle.
Not everyone
believes in the existence of GOD. Because they cannot see Him, with
or without technological devices, they believe in the non-existence
of GOD. (Side-note here: there is no such thing as a god-particle.
God's creations are everywhere, but the created is not the Creator)
Therefore, if God does not exist, how can the soul exist? Since there
is no God in their life, there is no aspect of life after death
either: no hell, no heaven; only this life. They have no hope. To me
that is the worst life, regardless of how much money they have or how
famous/popular they are. Therefore, after death the soul does not go
anywhere, because there is nothing out there.
Some believe there
is more than one god and that these gods control their destiny,
leaving the souls to wander the earth if they are not received into
the afterlife. Some believe killing people here guarantees them
eternal gratitude from their god. Some believe their soul lives on in
other people if a baby is born when a loved one dies. Some believe
hell is a metaphor for where the wicked go when they die; that good
people get into heaven. All of these beliefs, and many more, exist
because the people who created these religions did not want to obey
GOD. This does not exclude them from God's judgment; unless they
repent, though, it will exclude them from God's eternal presence.
Because they all have souls.
What you believe
in this life determines where you will go after this life is ended.
What is your soul
worth to you?
