If people weren't so busy trying to earn God's love through their works
This is a total mindset and preoccupation of yours due to an obsessive and incorrect theological perspective. My intent is to not start another spinoff into the dispute about "once saved" and other such protestant fixations (works salvation). What I aim to understand is why you would post this knowing the current world is more on what I'm talking about in the prior post (which scorpion expounds on further) which is "Why isn't the reality of death, and it being part of life, and that you don't really choose anything about going out (certainly coming in you don't), more obvious to people?"
At least 80%, and probably 90% of the people I see walking around are at best indifferent to living beyond the moment, certainly not asking themselves how they're going to "earn God's love through works." If we've seen anything in the past 5-10 years, and these things keep coming up in my posts because I'm quite honestly shocked it's actually this bad, it's that people are just fear and survival based in almost all of their actions, with entertainment and distraction being a subset of the survival aspect. We all do the distraction thing to a degree of course (we're all broken in various ways being "human") but any insight about this is amazingly grim (exceedingly rare for most), it's been apparent to me in recent years.
Do you dispute that?
All is vanity, as was written in Ecclesiastes. Everything is passing away, and we shall all return to the dust from which we were made. Our material wealth and comfort often blind us to the inescapable grasp of death that awaits us just around the corner, and therefore robs us of the corresponding joy of knowing that we have been saved from death by Christ.
In the end, our faith is the only thing we can take with us, which is why we must regard it as our most precious asset.
This world is not our home. We are just passing through.
This is on my mind a lot lately mostly because I'm very aware of how clowny the world has become, and how people just accept it and keep doing the same stuff over and over, but never seem to ask like might - "There's nothing more?" Admittedly, this is a gift and a curse to look into it, and I'm somewhat rare in combining that with being successful, but that also makes me laugh because it makes it even clearer - I think people might look at me weird if I told them, "Yeah, it turns out that after you've competed and succeeded in most things, life is actually sort of retarded to look at as something that should be prolonged at all costs." As a doc that's weighed in on this and seen people and family members (recently I heard a story of someone over 90 considering taking chemotherapeutic agents for "cancer") it's the ultimate level of absurdity.
I honestly think the current state of things, and what people take for granted (I'm American so yes, at least talking USA here) is way more preposterous than most realize. The fear of death and the cultural baggage related to it is a tremendous stench. I'm sorta laughing about this as I write it, since I'm imagining you all reading this and being like "Damn, this dude is sorta a misanthrope" but I assure you, I'm actually quite optimistic day to day. It's just that you have to vent about this kind of stuff, and you all are smart and in the similar personality type - most would think this stuff is either brazen, egocentric, or bizarre - when in reality, they are just matrix participants by and large and just don't/won't get it. So I don't bring it up but to select people.
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