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Full Idea
Religion is capable of 'eschatological verification', by reaching evidence at the end of life, even though falsification of its claims is never found in this life; a prediction of coming to a Celestial City must await the end of the journey.
Gist of Idea
Belief in an afterlife may be unverifiable in this life, but it will be verifiable after death
Source
report of John Hick (Theology and Verification [1960], III) by PG - Db (ideas)
Book Ref
'The Existence of God', ed/tr. Hick,John [Macmillan 1964], p.260
| 1469 | Some things (e.g. a section of the expansion of PI) can be verified but not falsified [Hick, by PG] |
| 1470 | Belief in an afterlife may be unverifiable in this life, but it will be verifiable after death [Hick, by PG] |
| 1471 | It may be hard to verify that we have become immortal, but we could still then verify religious claims [Hick, by PG] |