(February 16, 2015 at 10:46 pm)Godschild Wrote:(February 16, 2015 at 9:59 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Of course. It would be unreasonable to expect Christians to believe anything, without the prospect of a reward. Business is business...
The rewards are promised long before any become a Christian, Jesus himself asked us to store up treasures in heaven and not worry about the things of this life. He referred to God caring for the sparrow, how much more will He care for a believer.
Thanks for proving my point. Jesus promised you eternal life, so you believe everything else the Bible says, no matter how ridiculous it is. As you said before - without salvation you have nothing. Without the promise of paradise, the whole christian "philosophy" is useless and christians would not adhere to it.
Maybe you believe all that stuff, because it makes sense to you (somehow). Or maybe - just maybe - you simply don't want to die and will follow anyone and anything, that gives you the slightest hope for immortality.
Maybe you behave morally simply because you're a moral person. Or maybe you do it in order to suck up to Jesus, so that he invites you to his after-party.
I guess we'll never know...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
