Okay so the whole time I was reading Phaedo I couldn't help but think about the ultimate fate of Socrates. Yes he drinks the poison and dies, but as Christians we believe that there is Heaven and Hell and if you don't accept God then you are going to Hell. So what do we do with those who have never even heard the gospels? The whole time Socrates is so certain that when he dies he is going to go down to the underworld and meet all his lost friends and dwell forever in Hades. However, as Christians we know that he is in for one huge wake up call.
That being said, how to we ourselves know? There is always that nagging, blasphemous question in the back of my mind, "How do we know?" How do we really and truly know where we will end up in the afterlife? Are we not also as confident as the Greeks were that there is Heaven and Hell and we will go to one or the other?
I commented in Natalie Schuler's and Daniel Stevens.
I would have to say I agree with you that doubt occurs in every believer's mind. BUT, we can KNOW our eternal destination, for our faith is founded in fact. The Holy Spirit's presence in our lives is evidence of God's plan/ eternal destination for us.
ReplyDeleteI noticed this as well. I thought it was an interesting thing that he was welcoming death and life ever after in the underworld.
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