Life Beyond The Final Curtain

By Barry James Goddard

This is not a book full of religious dogma. What it is, is a book designed to enlighten and promote the reader to a much higher level of understanding of the spiritual world into which we are all cast.

While writing it I have endeavored to bring to anyone facing the twilight years of their lives, the answers they need to the many questions regarding the reasons for their being here living a lifetime upon this earth.

Questions like:

“I'm a Christian person but am I good enough to make it to Heaven?”
“When I die, what is going to happen to me?”
“Am I a part of some great divine plan or am I just a cosmic accident?”
“I don't know what to believe, what should I do?”
And many more!

Your lifetime on this earth is a gift from God. And with that gift He gave you the right to make your own choices, so the question you really need to answer is: “Have I made wise choices?” because you cannot make wise choices until you have been exposed to both sides of the story.

I have endeavored in writing to present both sides in such a way as to give you the opportunity to reach your own conclusions and make your own decisions on the many questions regarding the reasons for your lifetime on this earth.

Often in my lifetime I have met people faced with the dilemma of trying to come to terms with the reality of a terminal illness and yet, despite all the help and well meaning advice offered I found it rare to be able to offer them much. It is only now when I find myself faced with that same dilemma and living beyond that final curtain myself that I am able to really understand both the mental and spiritual problems associated with living with a death sentence hanging over you.

Some go down with the curtain but many, like myself, and possibly you, find the curtain suddenly closes behind them leaving them with a situation where they are now unable to live their past life and find themselves staring into a great abyss struggling to come to terms with the sudden change of lifestyle and often, full of in-trepidation and fear.

If you are a believer you already have a head start but this book does have plenty to offer you that will help to reinforce your faith.

If you are an unbeliever, or are confused as to what to believe, you need to start by asking yourself what has brought me to this point in time. Why do I not believe? You might be surprised to find that you have no particular reason other than the fact that you were brought up that way and have never had any formal education on the question of faith. In other words you are totally uninformed and have based you belief on misinformation offered to you by also uninformed unbelievers leaving you with no real purpose or direction in your life.

The good news is that you do have a mind of your own and are capable of making your own decisions by breaking the mold from which you were cast. It is surprising how once you open your mind and decide to take control of your life how you can change it.

Don't know where to start? Why not try reading this book to the end and discover the many life changing opportunities available to you. It's never too late to discover the true purpose for your being here on this planet.

This book will offer you an abundance of food for thought, It puts science against faith and sets out to prove that every great scientific discovery regarding evolution simply endorses the creation story.

You may find this hard to believe but Charles Darwin's claims of having discovered his “theory of evolution within the species” are not entirely correct.

All Darwin did was reveal to us what was already a fact because “evolution within the species” was actually a part of God's divine creation. Darwin was simply a messenger from God, sent to reveal to us just another of the many great gifts of divine creation.

I trust that you will enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Barry James Goddard
• Release date: Feb 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310203268

Book preview

All the world's a stage A phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII.

The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man:

Infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon and old age, and finally facing imminent death. We will all be there but it is not until it has been confirmed that we are facing that imminent death that we find ourselves living a whole new and sometimes very scary…

Life Beyond The Final Curtain

By

Barry J Goddard

Copyright © 2015 by Barry J Goddard

Smashwords Edition

All Rights Reserved.

Table Of Contents

Prologue:

Chapter 1: My Story!

Chapter 2: Now For Your Story!

Chapter 3: Were You Created Or Are You Just A Cosmic Accident?

Chapter 4: What We Know Today About Cells That Could Not Have Been Known To Darwin

Chapter 5: Religion Defined!

Chapter 6: The True Church Of God

Chapter 7: Why Does God Allow Tragedy and Suffering?

Chapter 8: The World Of Jesus' Time

Chapter 9: The Ministry Of Jesus

Chapter 10: The Trials And Crucifixion Of Jesus

Chapter 11: The Final Word

Epilogue

Testimonial From The Author - Barry James Goddard

Endnotes

1 Peter; Chapter 1; Verses 24 – 25: [NIV]

"All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever."

Prologue

Not just a book for the faithful, this book is for everyone born to live a life time on this earth because whether you want to believe it or not, you did not just happen by chance.

You were born into a spiritual realm which offers you so much promise of not only a great life whilst living here on the planet earth, but an inheritance after you leave this life, beyond your wildest dreams.

Each of us has our own designated time to be born and our own designated time to die and we simply cannot avoid it. Some will go down with the curtain but many, like myself will find the curtain suddenly closed behind them leaving them in a situation where they are unable to live their past life and they will find themselves staring into a great abyss struggling to come to terms with the sudden change in their lifestyle and often full of in-trepidation and fear.

Your lifetime on this earth is a gift from God and what you do with that lifetime is entirely over to you as an individual because once again by the grace of God you have been set free to make your own choices and direct your life on whatever course you may wish. It is a tragedy that too many of us often fail to understand that it is the decisions that we have made in the past and are still making today that can ultimately lead to our own destruction.

So, as age creeps up on you there comes a time when for your own peace of mind, it may pay you to review your lifetime and ask yourself, how many of the decisions that I have made in my lifetime are likely to lead to my own destruction and how many are likely to lead to my salvation, and you need to do this before you reach that time in life when the final curtain falls for you, or worse still, when health problems like Senility or Alzheimer’s reach out for you and leave you in a state where you can no longer make the necessary decisions to put things right.

In writing this book I, with God’s help have endeavored to reach out to all of mankind and expose many of the myths surrounding religion as it is in today’s world and reveal the truth regarding the Christian church, as God, the great architect of the Universe and creator of all life on this planet expected it to be.

If by writing this book I can help bring just one unbeliever, faced with their ultimate demise to come to know the truth of the Christian faith so that they may reach out for Gods grace and pass on in comfort, without fear, to receive with his full blessing, their promised inheritance of eternal life in his new Heaven then I will consider all the effort of doing so to have been worth while.

Often in my lifetime I have met people faced with the dilemma of trying to come to terms with the reality of a terminal illness and yet despite all the help and well meaning advice that we try to offer we are rarely able to offer them much comfort.

It is only now when I find myself faced with that same dilemma and living beyond that final curtain myself that I am able to really understand both the mental and spiritual problems associated with living with a death sentence hanging over you.

I consider myself fortunate in that many years ago I collided head on with God and have since built a great spiritual relationship with him which means that I am able to find great peace and comfort by giving the whole matter to him to deal with for me.

Now I do not know the circumstances surrounding the life of you, the reader of this book. Nor where you are at in your own life at present but I feel certain that as you are reading this book your story could well be approaching one very similar to mine as it is with the many other thousands of people living with a terminal illness at this time.

I do know that if the curtain has already fallen for you your views on life will have changed and all that you have believed about your life and the reason why you were blessed with that lifetime will have become irrelevant and that your major thoughts will now involve your future, short as it may be.

If you are already a believer you could well find yourself at peace with your situation as you will be living with the Christian hope of the fulfilment of the promise of salvation and eternal life. I sincerely hope that this book will help to reinforce your faith and add to the comfort you will be needing as your time draws near.

As an unbeliever you are on the other side of the spectrum and I would expect you to feel very insecure as you face your fate with total uncertainty. Here once again I urge you to read on for I am sure that after studying all of the facts presented in this book you could well gain a whole new outlook that will change what is left of your lifetime forever.

You see, it was fine when you were living a fit, healthy life to say Why should I believe in all that God stuff? So far as I'm concerned when you're dead your dead!

I've heard it said so many times, and seen it too often where a life time scoffer has come to their death bed and then begged for absolution just in case.

There can be many reasons why you have come to this point in your life as a scoffer.

Maybe it was the culture you were raised in, maybe you were just turned off by media reports of modern day pastors living in multimillion dollar mansions provided by the Church whilst they have followers on the bottom end of the scale tithing to the Church monies that would be better spent on their families or even worse by the written history of the Church depicting the atrocities committed in the name of religion throughout the ages, or maybe you are turned off by the many atrocities being committed in the name of religion that you now see daily every time you look at the news.

Or maybe it was as I once was, simply having too much to do in your life that was not God like. It's very hard to be of the world and not break God's laws isn't it.

No matter what the reason you are now in a situation where you don't have a lot of choices but you certainly do have the time to think about your situation, ponder on the reasons for your being and consider your options, as you learn to co-operate with the inevitable which of course is to ultimately be your demise.

The question you now urgently need an answer to is; Are you a part of some great divine plan or are you just a cosmic accident?

Now I could say to you, and I have heard this said before. "You have nothing to lose so why not hedge your bets and become a believer just in case you are wrong.

Please be assured, it doesn't quite work like that and I think you would ultimately find yourself in limbo cut of from God.

I urge you to take off the armor that you have worn all of your life to protect your own beliefs, open your mind and hear for yourself the message that this book reveals and then being honest with yourself make your own decision.

Be assured that you cannot make good honest decisions about anything until you have been exposed to every side of the story and if today you still don't believe that you were born within reach of a spiritual realm then it's probably because you were never exposed to everything that taught the truth and you can therefore be forgiven for any misunderstandings you may have regarding your true purpose for being here on this earth.

Since the beginning of creation all human life born on this planet has been and still is being born into a spiritual realm and we are not given a choice. We have to accept it as fact.

Today it is very hard to dispute that fact as there is now, with the availability of modern technology, too much evidence on offer that proves that the bible is not a fairy tale.

Within that spiritual realm however, you do have a free choice, you can either become a follower of the [Prince of Peace Jesus Christ] or you can become a follower of the [Prince of Darkness Satan] and you cannot afford to sit on the fence. It is your call and it is as simple as that. And, nobody should care more than you, about the choices you have, and are still making in your life, because you cannot live in both camps.

You can either build a relationship and walk with Jesus as your saviour, live by every word of God and earn yourself upon your death to this life, a free pass, directly into God's new Kingdom where without judgment you will receive the promise of eternal life in paradise.

Or.

You can whilst living in this life take the easy path, throw all caution to the wind, and follow the Prince of Darkness, Satan, live by his wicked, corrupt ways, and enjoy a sinful, decadent life.

With this path however, there comes a warning. Upon your death to this