Originally Posted by joeysteele

I don't believe things happened by accident, I do believe in some force that planned life.

I was brought up RC and I love most of all the teachings as expressed in the words attributed to Jesus. Only the words he has reportedly said, not Saint Paul with his bad tempers and getting up one morning preaching love and brotherhood for all then another day in a foul mood, condemning all and sundry.
That is where the Bible starts to fall away due to inconsistency.

Whether it is a God or a force,that I don't know and no one has a blueprint of what happened or what then happens too after we die.
It was claimed evolution was proven and that evolution proves creation by a force wrong,not so, for something to evolve it must first exist,so the answer still remains as to how whatever evolved came to be in existence in the first place.

As to after we die, I like to think there is a part of us, energy maybe, that remains in some dormant state, that other energy that we have been close to also will be gathered to that mass of energy for whatever in the far off future.

Sometimes fiction carries more sensible answers or possible interpetrations of possible answers, such as in the film 'Ghost' at the end, where he says he has to go now but that you take the love with you.
I don't believe after death that we go and have parties and meals and skip around all day in heaven but I can believe part of our energy goes on for some reason and that those we are connected to,then their energy is also afterwards gathered all together.

I could be totally wrong obviously but that's where I am personally as to any faith I have at the present time anyway.