It Needs to be True.

There are many things we may never know the answer to. Like, Is the Heaven described in Christianity real? In this piece, I will touch upon this topic, but ultimately, the point of it isn’t to convince anyone of what may be real. I think I have come to realise that as humans, in a fragile position here on earth, there are certain things that we want to be true or real, and then there are somethings that we essentially need to be true or real.

Existence is heavily characterised by suffering and death. Both of which seem like absolute certainties for us, when other aspects of life are not so certain. This is a negative observation, but a rather obvious one. With life being the way that it is, human consciousness tends to seek answers to the big questions. Using “Is the Heaven described in Christianity real?” as an example, I would like to explain why some things need to be true, for us, whether they are true or not. I understand that seems like a slightly confusing statement, but please let me elaborate. When humans imagine the possibility of life after death, we develop many ideas with many variants in our imagination and have done so for at least thousands of years. Reincarnation being one idea, vanishing into nothingness being another, and the afterlife of heaven being another, for example. Which of these three possibilities would be the best possible outcome? I think eternity in heaven, without evil and suffering, with all our loved ones, best matches what we would truly desire after death. So, if that is the best possible outcome, why does it need to be true? I think the answer is embedded in the question. The best possible outcome needs to be true, for us, because it is the best possible outcome.

If we are to courageously put our faith into something, it might as well be aligned with our deepest, truest desires. To have faith in, or at least hope for something, that you cannot prove, takes a certain kind of spiritual strength. Out of the potentially endless possibilities that may occur after death, there is one key idea (with some variants) that stands out, and that is eternity in heaven. To say “I believe in heaven” does not mean that one knows that heaven exists for sure, but instead has chosen to put their faith into it. And can we blame them? This life is full of hardship, and biblically described as a fallen world, so it seems on natural for us to imagine things that could justify our existence. So we seek the best thing we can imagine, which is something like the Christian Heaven. These things are not merely true or untrue, but are needed to be true, for some very deep part of us.