From the Barna Group Website, today: Posted on January 12, 2009 For much of America's history, the assumption was that if you were born in America, you would affiliate with the Christian faith. A new nationwide survey by The Barna Group, however, indicates that people's views have changed. The study discovered that half of all adults now contend that Christianity is just one of many options that Americans choose from and that a huge majority of adults pick and choose what they believe rather than adopt a church or denomination's slate of beliefs. Still, most people say their faith is becoming increasingly important as a source of personal moral guidance. Choosing a Faith The survey shows half of Americans believe the Christian faith no longer has a lock on people's hearts. Overall, 50% of the adults interviewed agreed that Christianity is no longer the faith that Americans automatically accept as their personal faith, while just 44% disagreed and 6% were not sur...
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Subsequent generations of people will reuse some of the same atoms that are in our bodies. But they will not be us. If people possess some quality that endures beyond this physical sphere, then existence in that sphere must necessarily be profoundly different, experience in that sphere must be profoundly different, and our notions of attachment are likely to be profoundly different. So the suggestion that our attachments here will translate directly to that sphere seem naive, at best. One might as well ask, will I want anchovies on my pizza and will I still be addicted to coffee?
Well, scripture is clear that they aren't married in the next life, but more than that I don't think we can say definitively. It appears that people continue to be recognizable as themselves. They do many things, mostly praising God, but other things as well.
Thanks - I also remember reading "A Severe Mercy," by Sheldon Vanauken [and I believe Lewis may have written a preface or an endorsement of that book?]...In it the author claims his deceased wife was present in his life for awhile, in spirit, after she died...