After That Then What?

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_733662,0008.htm

When I shared my admiration of the landing of probes in Mars early this year, someone of a certain religious following asked me rhetorically: "so what's next? All that is going to be mere passing knowledge". As if he had found something more permanent and more important.

I did not ask him what 'knowledge' he would consider as non-passing but assumed it is what 'knowledge' he gains from his sacred book

Then I thought, jeeze, these fellas are going to live their lives through eternity (they believe that they will be in Heaven with God for eternity, you know) contentedly with knowing only what they read from that one book?

Phew, that should be real boring, isn't it? I mean, for God.

Imagine billions of these fellas sticking around the Big Boss talking only about what is written in that one book which the Big Boss supposedly wrote?

But I guess that's just a passing question.... unimportant.

But that great being has only one miserable 300 pager of knowledge for all these fellas to admire through eternity? Not a very knowledgeable Being.

Perhaps God has to a lot more to offer that will fill up many books. It's just that because these fellas would not be able to appreciate them, God had left all of them out of it. That's why God wrote only ONE miserable book. The rest He pass off as mere 'passing knowledge'...