actually someone already answered this with a long ass term paper that he turned into his professor in college. but it was mainly about does heaven exist, but u could tie this in with it, it hits all those points you wanted, and i cant remember who did it or where to find it, but someone posted it a longtime ago when we had a religion section on IA. so find that and youll get your answer.

{{{{{ or read the bible}}}}

thats all im saying nothing else, i dont have the facts to show you so you wont believe, and i dont know how to put it to make you understand, and i havent fully read the bible, so im not gonna act like a hypocrite, all i can say is read the bible, no more no less, but intrested in what answers ur gonna get.