Is there a secular afterlife ?

A recent newspaper article had as its title - " Secular UK ". Amid claims that Christianity is slowly loosing ground in the UK. Not to other religions - but instead to the secular / non-believer viewpoint. So I simply ask the question is there a secular afterlife ?

What do I mean by a secular afterlife ? Most people I know - even those who class themselves as "non-religious" still believe in some kind of after life ie after we die. You have only got to see the following of such things as all the TV programmes about haunted houses and mediums etc to see that lots of people actually believe in some kind of life after death. We can see this as well in all the many religions of the world - where an afterlife is very much part of the religion. So if many people in the UK are looking more & more to a " secular/ non-God" belief system - do they also think that there is a "secular afterlife" - where God doesnt get involved ??

In the Charles Dickens classic - A Christmas Carol - Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his ex-business partner Joseph Marley. The ghost warns Scrooge that unless he changes his lifestyle - he too would end up chained & loaded down with all the sins & misery that he caused people in his life. Basically the moral of this is that what you do in this life - will catch up with you in the next and will greatly influence what happens to you.

In 1988 God revealed Himself to me. Since then I have been a committed follower of Jesus Christ. As a follower of Jesus Christ I have come to see that not only is God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit & heaven real - but so too is the devil/Satan and hell.

As I see it any one who thinks that the devil is just a "fun character", that the Christmas Nativity didnt really happen and that God doesnt exist - is simply deceived.

This is something that Jesus said :-

" The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." John 10 verse 10

In the film Ben Hur there is a bit where Ben Hur says to one of his Roman captors " who took your faith from you". Most people I know who claim to have lost their faith - once had a faith of some kind ! So who took it from you ?? Was it Satan ? Quite possibly - because thats what he does. He then goes on to destroy any notion of God in your life and then that he doesnt exist either. Like in Star Wars - you're on your way to the dark side.

But there is always hope. Something else that Jesus said was this :-

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” John 8 verse 12.

So dear friends, why are you walking in darkness - when you can let the light of Jesus Christ into your life. You can do this by praying the following prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, I am sorry for all the things I have done wrong in my life. I ask for your forgiveness. Thank you for dying on the cross for me to set me free from my sins. Please come into my life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and be with me for ever. Thank you Lord Jesus. Amen.

followed by reading a Holy Bible, praying & meeting with Christians.