Hope of a Christian Beyond the Grave

Is there more to life than being born, making money, and then dying and then people cry and put you in a box and then burry the box in the ground with a bunch of other boxes that contain the decaying bones of a once breathing human being? Do we re-enter as an animal or maybe another human being to different people, with a different name, in a different place, in a different time period? Will we one day meet a scale that all of our good deeds are on one side and the sinful, ugly things sit on the other side and if the good out ways the bad then we will enter into heaven? Is the answer to life that we are just an accident, we have nothing to live for, life is pointless, and that when we die well, that would be the end of that? My answer to all of those questions is NO. As a Christian I believe that I am a sinner. I believe that there is a heaven and a hell. Heaven being a perfect place that will last for all of eternity that has the presences of God and the absence of sin. Hell well that would be the opposite of heaven. It is a burning blackness that lasts all of eternity that has the absence of God and the presence of sin. Sin entered to world when Adam and Eve sinned by eating the fruit of the one tree that God said not to and from then on all of humanity is doomed for death and eternity in hell. BUT God loved us. He developed a rescue plan. It would involve the death of His only son at the hands of sinners like us in the worst way that we could come up with all for us because He loved us. But we had to believe Him and trust Him. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son that whosoever believes on Him should not perish but have eternal life." We cannot and will not enter heaven because we have done good things. It is all because of Jesus Christ that I will one day see Him face to face and spend all of eternity with Him. Ephesians 2:8-9 "For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast." No we are not an accident. We are made by God with a purpose. Genesis 1:27 "so God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." As far as the point of life, well that is found different places in the Bible but once you are a Christian we are to tell others of Jesus Christ and what He does in a persons' life. Mark 16:15 "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation." The hope of a Christian beyond the grave is that because of Jesus Christ that when I die I will see Jesus face to face and will remain there forever! You and I are not accidents. You and I will not have another shot at life. You and I will not make it to heaven by doing good works. It is really simple if you believe that you are a sinner and the because you are a sinner you deserve to go to hell and that Jesus died to take your punishment and rose again on the third day that you will spend eternity in heaven. If you don't believe that then you will spend eternity in hell. As a follower of Jesus Christ I have hope beyond the grave!- Halfcup