Ok, people may be downvoting your comment because of your comments further below or elsewhere, but you are absolutely correct for the larger portion.
With the exception of the Rapture (which some ascribe to, and others do not), we will indeed die, and there are plenty of scriptures in the new testament that support that.
However, in reference to a comment below, the primary difference between almost all religions is the issue of whether or not we have some form of spirit or soul that continues on for a given length of time after our hearts stop and our our brains decompose into dead organic matter.
If you come at live from a perspective of evolution or atheism, in which you believe there is no afterlife, I would pose to you the following study:
Look into the origins of the universe and the Big Bang, etc. Consider that if we assume that "before" the Big Bang, there was something that existed (even if the "something" was "nothing"), that time also existed in one form or another. While there are current theories that even that didn't exist (which winds up being almost as silly as the idea that God created the entire universe out of nothing), if you take on the notion that something has existed for eternity past, that probability demands, due to infinity, that at some point (infinite time ago) a single entity evolved and transcended to the point that they are indistinguishable to us now from any all powerful, all knowing God. To put it shortly: Even if evolution is right, God exists, and it would behoove us to make sure He's not trying to get our attention.
That said, I would encourage you to consider the afterlife and whether or not it is worth taking the chance to believe it to be real. Christianity is one of the few, if not the only, religions in the world that promise an eternity of suffering for "not believing", however, while that is a slight downside, the upshot is that if Christianity is right, I can guarantee you 100% that it's not an eternity of "sitting on clouds playing harps". Again, bringing up infinity, to sit on a cloud playing a harp for even a billion years would very quickly become hell. To the point that we would eventually consider it no different than the hell that the condemned were sent to.
Eternity for Christians is "heaven" only because God is all knowing, all powerfull, and all present. I believe that human beings, whether we have stifled it or not, have a voracious appetite for learning. We want to know stuff. This is part of what it means to be "made in the image of God". We have, in our spirits, and in some ways, perhaps, our grey noodle bowl, the capacity for infinite knowledge. God made us like Him, but we're empty. We have the capacity for omnipotence, for omniscience, and for omnipresence, but we're a blank slate.
Eternity will not be spent just playing harps and praising God, it will be spent pursuing omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. Not necessarily to be like God, but to truly know God.
Jesus doesn’t have to die for your sins. You can do it yourself.
We're all going to die regardless of our sins, that's how life goes.
Ok, people may be downvoting your comment because of your comments further below or elsewhere, but you are absolutely correct for the larger portion.
With the exception of the Rapture (which some ascribe to, and others do not), we will indeed die, and there are plenty of scriptures in the new testament that support that.
However, in reference to a comment below, the primary difference between almost all religions is the issue of whether or not we have some form of spirit or soul that continues on for a given length of time after our hearts stop and our our brains decompose into dead organic matter.
If you come at live from a perspective of evolution or atheism, in which you believe there is no afterlife, I would pose to you the following study:
Look into the origins of the universe and the Big Bang, etc. Consider that if we assume that "before" the Big Bang, there was something that existed (even if the "something" was "nothing"), that time also existed in one form or another. While there are current theories that even that didn't exist (which winds up being almost as silly as the idea that God created the entire universe out of nothing), if you take on the notion that something has existed for eternity past, that probability demands, due to infinity, that at some point (infinite time ago) a single entity evolved and transcended to the point that they are indistinguishable to us now from any all powerful, all knowing God. To put it shortly: Even if evolution is right, God exists, and it would behoove us to make sure He's not trying to get our attention.
That said, I would encourage you to consider the afterlife and whether or not it is worth taking the chance to believe it to be real. Christianity is one of the few, if not the only, religions in the world that promise an eternity of suffering for "not believing", however, while that is a slight downside, the upshot is that if Christianity is right, I can guarantee you 100% that it's not an eternity of "sitting on clouds playing harps". Again, bringing up infinity, to sit on a cloud playing a harp for even a billion years would very quickly become hell. To the point that we would eventually consider it no different than the hell that the condemned were sent to.
Eternity for Christians is "heaven" only because God is all knowing, all powerfull, and all present. I believe that human beings, whether we have stifled it or not, have a voracious appetite for learning. We want to know stuff. This is part of what it means to be "made in the image of God". We have, in our spirits, and in some ways, perhaps, our grey noodle bowl, the capacity for infinite knowledge. God made us like Him, but we're empty. We have the capacity for omnipotence, for omniscience, and for omnipresence, but we're a blank slate.
Eternity will not be spent just playing harps and praising God, it will be spent pursuing omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. Not necessarily to be like God, but to truly know God.