your future? time is infinite in both directions, but flows in only one. those who profess to be able to read the future are only deducing the most probably outcomes from what they see... those who seem able just have a better wealth of information to draw from.
you know when you are in love when you feel sick, when all you can think about is the other person--but not getting them into bed, but caring for their well-being and not being able to see your life without them for the LONG TERM.
you can be a star when our sun explodes, or is enveloped in a bunch of interstellar matter that eventually condenses into a nebula and forms another star. Hew Hew!
as far as Christianity.. well. I'm going to make some people very VERY angry, but i think that humans ARE living a lie. without getting into those debates about how the roman empire co-opted the basic premise and twisted it to serve their needs... i think that the god of the Christians is but one of many large energetic beings that feeds upon the souls of humans (and others). he rides all sides of the equation, calling upon Jews, Muslims, and Christians to kill each other, then feeding upon them all when they enter the astral realms upon death. the threat of eternal damnation keeps most of them in line.. and i feel the promise of eternal life in some sort of heaven to be akin to the lure of the angler-fish...
i hope that helps!