{"id":3163,"date":"2016-12-31T02:29:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T10:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2016-12-31T02:29:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T10:29:01","slug":"a-relatively-simple-afterlife-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3163","title":{"rendered":"A Relatively Simple Afterlife Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Jason:<\/strong><br \/>\nBesides our energy living on for all eternity (watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0HL-QMcD7Qo?t=110\">10 Myths About Death<\/a> at 1:50) is any other afterlife possible? Is any, all (especially regarding Hell) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evangelicaloutreach.org\/\">http:\/\/www.evangelicaloutreach.org\/<\/a> telling the truth? I am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Fira777\">Fira777<\/a> on YouTube.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve written a great deal on the <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?s=afterlife\">afterlife<\/a>, because of course many are curious about (or troubled by, or desperate to salvage) the idea.  The simple answer to your question is that anything is possible (science does not support an afterlife in any meaningful sense, but the mechanism of the supposed soul may be beyond science <em>if real<\/em>) but if the Evangelical Outreach page is correct about any of this stuff, it is not because they know for sure.  They are relaying their interpretation of the scriptures they accept as the word of God, and they are right or wrong if the text is.  &#8220;Telling the truth&#8221; is subjective based on what one believes; one can be honest and still wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Jason: Besides our energy living on for all eternity (watch 10 Myths About Death at 1:50) is any other afterlife possible? Is any, all (especially regarding Hell) of http:\/\/www.evangelicaloutreach.org\/ telling the truth? I am Fira777 on YouTube. Answer by SmartLX: I&#8217;ve written a great deal on the afterlife, because of course many are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Relatively Simple Afterlife Question&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[560,561,6],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-2","category-science-2","category-text","tag-afterlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-P1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}