It’s hard for me to imagine that ANY religion could be true, because I see no reason to believe that there is ANY kind of invisible or unseen spiritual world at all.

 
Well, I would agree that Christianity is built on the foundation of what we call DUALISM, the belief that there are two realities, the seen and the unseen, the material and the immaterial, the physical and the spiritual. We first have to establish that dualism is true before we can move on to issues like the nature of the soul, the existence of an Unseen Creator God, or the existence of Heaven and Hell. If you are right and there is no unseen world, then Christianity is false and there is no spiritual reality and no life after this material existence.

 
Yeah, that's what I believe. I believe that when we die, our bodies just go back into the dirt. I don’t believe that there is a life after this one.

 
Well, you would actually fall into the minority view on that topic if you look at the history of how people have thought about this issue. Over the ages, most careful thinkers (including people who did NOT believe in Christianity) have formed the belief that there is some kind of life after this one. But I can understand why you might ask that we first establish a foundation for our hope in Dualism and the afterlife before trying to describe what Christians specifically believe about that next life.

 
Well, I think the Christian view of Heaven and Hell is preposterous anyway. If there really is a God, I can’t believe that he would send good people to Hell just because they don’t believe what Christians believe. If he would do that, I don’t think I would call him a Good God, that’s for sure.

 
OK, that’s why it’s important for us to discuss the presence and nature of the unseen spiritual world first, then move on to describe what we believe about Heaven and Hell, answering objections along the way. Is there an unseen, immaterial reality? Does it exist? Is there really a Heaven or Hell waiting for us? How does God look at these things, and is the Christian God a judgmental, spiritual bully? That’s what this section of the website is all about. We start with a defense for the very existence of the soul, and then move carefully forward to describe what we believe happens at the point of death and the nature of the Christian concept of Heaven and Hell.