to be honest, I have trouble believing in something after death other than rebirth
Think about it, some believe death as sleeping and never waking up. well imagine waking up without never having slept. That's what it's like with birth
idk man
I personally find rebirth to be a poor explanation or atleast entirely un-verifiable.
People aren't born with knowledge of a past life, and personalities can be formed through experience, so they aren't entirely created at birth. So its difficult to say that a soul can be reborn.
Bodies will always be different too. Similarities exist, but there are always changes, like finger or tongue prints (bar in identical twins, but you can't be resurrected into the body of your twin who is being born alongside you). So if bodies aren't reborn and neither are souls (minds) then how can you possibly claim that you as an individual have been reborn? That's certainly not life after death, but rather an entirely new life unconnected to a previous death.
Personally I find theistic resurrection to be more viable than rebirth. At the very least it can be verified eschatologically, through death. If I die and am later resurrected with my soul and/or body, then I can verify resurrection through my own experience of it. If I have no previous memory nor the same body when reborn or reincarnated, then how can I verify I am a person who has previously died, and found life after death?
So atleast the concept of resurrection or even the immortality of the soul (the soul living on after death) could be subject to eschatological verification through me dying and then seeing whether or not I am resurrected or if my soul lives on.
For my actual views however I would consider myself a materialist and of the view that I die entirely, body and soul, at death.
I might in some essence live on in memories or legacies or through the continuation of my genes, but neither my body nor my soul will ever experience that, so I can't personally consider it to be a continuation of life after death.
