(December 2, 2009 at 6:28 am)Darwinian Wrote: This stems from an old conversation with CoxRox (a former member, sadly missed) who eluded to the fact that whilst she believed in God she didn't expect an afterlife.
So.. The question is this.
If it were somehow proved to you beyond all doubt that when you died you simply ceased to exist with no hope of resurrection, ever, but the rest of your beliefs were correct, would you still bother doing all those things you do now, i.e. worship, study the bible/Qu'ran, go to church, glorify the lord etc. etc.?
The simple answer to your question is yes because God is worthy of glory regardless of whether or not He has created us as beings that have eternal souls. God is still an infinite, just, and holy God and it is in His love and grace that He gives us eternal life.
We do not go to church to earn God's favor because God in being infinite can not be appeased and is not impressed with anything that I as a finite man can do. Church is a place of fellowship and to come and express worship to God. And the reason we strive, and are not perfect, to live righteous lives is because God tells us to be holy as He is holy.
Christ came and personally did for each of us. That is why we try not to do the very things for which he died to set us free of.
