Psalm 139:8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Sheol:

(Heb., “the all-demanding world” = Gr. Hades, “the unknown region”), the invisible world of departed souls. (See HELL.)

No matter what you call it, common thinking is heaven or hell. It is one or the other.

What of those who believe neither exist? They do not believe in final judgment, God or Satan?

When arrested, tell the police they have no authority over you. Do you expect them to just take off the cuffs? When the judge sentences you to prison and they drag you off in handcuffs do you expect them to take you home? 

Life itself teaches us about death. That is physical, not spiritual. You can be physically alive and spiritually dead.

The majority of mankind believes in some form of God or gods. Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto and a myriad of pagan worships believe in something beyond this physical life even if they do not agree on what that means or how to attain access. What is the point without access?

The three major faith based religions all began with Abram. He is identified as the father of faith.

Abram heard God, believed God and obeyed God. Those are the three basic issues of faith for access to something other than this physical life. Even so, none of the three agree on exactly what this access point means for their supplicants.

2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

Two of those faith based religions never read this truth about God, He wants to say yes to us.

I don’t know about the others, but I hear Yes and I say Amen.

For His glory, not mine.

1 Corinthians 8:2 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

Imagination is a construct of the mind and cannot be trusted.

Issues of faith are grounded in trust.

2 Corinthians 1:9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

The resurrection of the dead is not someone’s imagination.

1 Corinthians 15:6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

Are you someone that cannot trust the witness of others?

John 20:25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”

Then Jesus revealed Himself to doubting Thomas. So if this is about your inability to trust others, what is to be done?

2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

Place your faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ and be tested. What do you have to lose?

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

I guess that depends on what you are hoping for doesn’t it?

Deuteronomy 28:66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life.

Perhaps you have never feared for your own life. Fear does not disappear through imagination, that is where nightmares are born..

Matthew 10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.