Eternity.

To many modern human beings, eternity, as Christianity speaks of it, is not something necessary. To be damned and not see God is not considered a great misfortune. Seeing God, they do not feel the ultimate happiness. Talk to the superficial person about the fulfillment of human life in knowledge and love. He will understand almost none of this and not long for a life of love. Yet eternity, life with God, does not cease to be a reality. To be interested in the eternal is to assume that we long for it. But many do not desire it. Some will say that longing for eternity is merely the confused reaction of a poor man who takes comfort in the future and, therefore, turns to eternity. Others will say that the longing for eternity is the weakness of those who cannot bear the tragedy of life.
There have been men who have claimed progress and prosperity will render the desire for the eternal useless. Every new invention was, to them, an argument against eternal life. It even seemed to them that medicine and other sciences would take care of the prolongation of life and almost eternal life on this earth without God. How cruelly life laughed them to scorn. In his book, the revolutionary Antoine de Condorcet declared that medicine aimed to eliminate death. Still, he died in the same year and in the prison of the very revolution in whose name he spoke. Science and technology have long ceased to be the salvation of modern man.
Today, however, hundreds of thousands of people are still alive. They are asking again about the meaning of life, asking about God, and searching for Him. The question of death and life after death is arousing new interest among scientists and holding their attention. Books are coming out dealing with the question of death and dying, discussing it from various sides and recording the facts. A question that should have been dead and uninteresting long ago has been revived. Humanity, however, is divided. According to him, life after death is a projection of human desires. According to him, if God is only a being of desire, it does not follow concretely for his actual existence. It is correct to say that something does not exist just because we desire it. It is wrong, however, to say that something cannot exist because we want it. It is on this claim that many base their atheism and their denial of life after death. The counterargument, As if hunger for bread, questions the existence of bread as if sm§d questions the existence of water. Will death extinguish every man in nothingness, or will he remain in being? Do all the ways of man end in the grave? And here, other points of view open up. Will the life of a criminal and a tyrant and the life of a self-sacrificing mother end equally in nothingness? Will every man’s conscience be brought once before the judgment and before the sanctified justice? Or will it turn into nothingness equally to the murderer, the tyrant, the saint? None of us wants to perish. We resist death, which we regard as extinction. Mortality is not proportionate to our desires and needs; our striving is to go further. We are unready, but we are finishing ourselves. Man is still rising. Where to?