I would not destroy the faintest ray of human hope, but I deny that we get our idea of immortality from the Bible. It existed long before the time of Moses...The history of this belief we find in ancient tombs and temples wrought and carved by those who wept and hoped. Above their dead they laid their symbols of another life.
You say I take away immortality. I do not. If we are immortal it is a fact of nature, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.
(Another version: If life is eternal, it is a fact of nature, not a matter of belief.)
Is there beyond the silent night an endless day?
Is death a door that leads to light?
Is death a door that leads to light?
We do not know whether the grave is the end of this life, or the door of another, or whether the night here is not somewhere else a dawn.
