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Originally Posted by JMS
usgrant7, without the promise of a reward would you still be religious? if the bible offered no compensation for your devotion to its teachings, would you still follow? i know this is getting off topic but you seem like a pretty open religious person so ill take advantage to ask about this. so, what motivates you to be a christian, what beliefs do you possess that keep you in check according to your faith?
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My wife asked me why I picked her. She was expecting me to describe what was in it for me. Gee honey, you look like a knock-out (arm candy), you keep yourself fit, you have great hair and eyes, and I love the way you make me feel when we are together. (All of which is true, btw.)
However, I answered her like this: I was really impressed with how you give yourself to others. I wanted to be involved with a person who cared enough to make a difference. I wanted to help you, to be a better you, because I cared about the same things you cared about. And to be there to help you, was actually helping the people we both want to help.
God may lift me up to some place on high, or bring me low, to a place where I shovel cow poop for a living. Yet will I serve him. Because, ultimately it isn't what you do, but who you serve. And he owns it all. Its his playground. His rules. His property. Forgive me for just being smart enough (or foolish enough, depending on how you see it) to figure that out.
If I am wrong. Who even qualifies to judge my life? Some peacock deity from Iraq? LOL Nope. Ala? Nah... Vishnu? Moloch? Hades? No... Zeus?
If there is an after life, then I choose to serve the one who makes the rules in that place. If there is none, then I live in peace with all men and will return to dust with nothing to explain.
I am not close to being perfect, but I am confident that the Bible has a workable solution to that. One that makes perfect sense.
Ty - one of the best questions I have ever been asked.
And to stay on topic, that’s what motivates most evangelicals to oppose abortion. Because they believe it offends the one they serve, and is a crime against humanity.