re: What happens when we die?

For those who believe in a creator (as I do), you have to ask the question why have we been created. Granted we can't know the mind of God, but I don't think He would create us to perform some ambiguous test of how many 'good' points you can collect while you are on earth. I think the Bible provides the best answer as to why we have been created and it's for us to find complete and total joy in Him alone and nothing else.

That is what our challenge in this life is. If we are going to live for eternity, then we must be completely satisfied in Him and not in the world or anything we can put before Him. He gives us the freedom to choose Him or reject Him in this life so that we are not forced to love him for eternity. If we had no choice, we would be robots. He has created the world in the one and only way that we could ever have true free will. He has given us signs of His presence through natural revelation (think about the precise nature of the physical universe and its laws) as well as spiritual revelation through scripture and Christ. He has given us enough knowledge of Himself to desire Him if we want to and enough obscurity that we can reject Him if we choose to.

Downplay or minimize the impact of the question of why we are here all you want, but it is the fundamental question in each of our lives and how you answer it should drive everything that you do in your life.