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Full Idea
Verification of religious claims after death is only possible if the concept of surviving death is intelligible, and we can understand the concept of immortality, despite difficulties in being certain that we had reached it.
Gist of Idea
It may be hard to verify that we have become immortal, but we could still then verify religious claims
Source
report of John Hick (Theology and Verification [1960], IV) by PG - Db (ideas)
Book Ref
'The Existence of God', ed/tr. Hick,John [Macmillan 1964], p.261
| 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] |