Dr Hugh Ross, a Canadian astrophysicist and Christian author, believes there’s an afterlife.

While some believe that when we die, that’s it for us, others are convinced that there’s an afterlife waiting for us following our time on Earth.

As of 2021, nearly three-quarters of US adults said that they believed in heaven, as per the Pew Research Center. This belief was largely held by Christian respondents, but it was found that 26 percent of agnostics also believed in heaven.

While not everyone said they thought heaven existed, a proportion of those who said they did not believe in heaven or hell did admit that they consider the idea that there’s some kind of afterlife.

One person who thinks there’s an afterlife is Dr Hugh Ross, a Canadian astrophysicist and Christian author.

With his expertise in mind, Dr Ross has shared five ‘lines of evidence for the existence of a transcendent realm beyond’.

The universe’s limits
As I’m sure you’re aware, the universe is pretty darn huge – but just how huge is unknown.

With this in mind, Dr Ross suggests that since we can’t observe all of the universe, there could well be something beyond what we can currently see.

“Given that mass exists in the universe and that general relativity reliably describes the movements of massive bodies in the universe, these theorems establish the necessity of a causal agent (aka Creator/God) beyond space and time,’ Dr Ross told MailOnline.

“[The Creator is] responsible for creating space and time and all the matter and energy that comprises the cosmos.”

The Bible
Many might question how reliable the Bible is, but Dr Ross insists that it has ‘proven reliability’.

“While the Bible certainly is (and often has been) subject to misinterpretation, reasonably defensible interpretations do show that what the Bible records about history, science, and geography proves correct,” he said.