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Voted : If that's all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing Let's break out the booze and have a ball If that's all there is
Voted : Life Is all there is, and that's enough.
I am a Christian and, yes, I always believed our aware spirits will exist in some form after our bodies have died. But I once heard a pastor cry out with anguish during a sermon, “If there really is no heaven after we die, then all this is nothing but a horrible lie and life is not worth living.” What an idiot, I thought. This got me to thinking. It kind of changed my mind, in a way. I thought, God will always be God whether there is a hereafter or not. Even if there is nothing after we die, we still have life here and the reason for life is to bring joy to others and thus glorify God and bring God pleasure. Actually, if there is no hereafter, we would be more responsible for making this existence the best it can be. No second chances. The heaven of those who live now would be way we are supposed to leave the earth for those who follow. Knowing we have left someone an exquisite legacy would be OUR heaven. After that, I no longer cared if there was an afterlife. I realized then that the hope that there is an afterlife is burdensome and seductive. Now I am content just to do the best I can now without obsessing about where I will go. I think living a Godly life just to please God without thinking you are going to get a prize is truly faith. This pastor turned me off real fast to being fanatic about an afterlife. He was like a. little boy saying, "If I can’t have the desert I demand, then I don’t want my dinner.
It was like he was saying F-ck You to God if he didn't get his way.
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