The Ever Immortal Soul!

Lazarus before the rich man’s house, Gustave Doré¹

The soul never loses it’s ability to think, to remember, to ponder and be aware of itself, whether it be in everlasting bliss or eternal remorse.

However, Stephen Hawking has convinced his worldwide brotherhood: “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

 "Because there are laws such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."



Yet, Jesus in a parable that was not a parable reminded “a certain rich man” ─ more righteous than Hawking:

“Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. … Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 

"Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead” (cf. Luke 16:26-31).

¹By Gustave Doré - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8710/8710-h/images/076.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=909870