The only right way
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The second possible variant of the actual reality is the transition to another world after death (spiritual or material, or spiritual-material) through resurrection. Such a statement is presented in all books of the Holy Scriptures.
Based on the only logical conclusion drawn in the first chapters about the existence of the Creator of all things, and the fact that the second option of our outcome is prescribed to us in the Holy Books worthy of our faith, my sound mind inclines to the truth of the second option. This leads me to believe in it and the Scriptures.
I will analyze a situation in which a person still cannot determine the most correct option for himself. The logical conclusions described above are not enough for him. For example, an unbeliever assumes that everything is primitive according to the Darwinian view. Humans live, then die, decay, and disappear. Let's try to find all the pros and cons for a person who has chosen this way of believing to analyze how true it is.
If this is true, then everything is meaningless. This approach contradicts the order and organization of the universe described above. Such people don't care how they live this life, they have no boundaries of morality and ethics. And with such a truth, according to Darwin, it would be appropriate. Appropriate, but that doesn't mean that such an approach would have any real advantages. For in such a mindset, everything is meaningless, and life is so short that even a hundred years would pass like a single day. Elderly people now will understand me. Even though a life of wealth and abundance is actually just a grain of sand of wealth. It is as if you do not exist. You exist for a brief moment in the Universe, being a millionaire or a pauper, happy or suffering, predator or prey. It is just a moment – and you are gone. In such a situation, there is no sense in anything – neither in life nor in people themselves. In such a case, it's better not to live at all.
And so you die, that's your end. And why do you need your billions, why do you need fame, why did you fight, why did you kill, steal, disrespect, achieve, or just do nothing, or tolerate, suffer, maybe love, enjoy? Why do you need all your emotions and feelings and actions – all this vanity, all this meaningless, all that energy? You will just disappear and you will never exist again, as if you never existed. Just think about it for a moment, realize it – it is a very important moment. And this disappearance, the end, can happen in a minute, it can happen tomorrow, it can happen in a hundred years, any second. Realize that in this case, no matter how you have lived, it is as if you have not lived, as if you have always been dead, so there is no difference in how you have lived and what you have done.
Also, imagine for a moment that the second version of existence is true. The option that is described in the books of the Abrahamic religions and that I have come to logically. The transition to the next true reality, the eternal reality, is the resurrection. In this case, our earthly life is immediately filled with meaning. First, because there is no death, and second, because in the resurrection, according to the Holy Books, everyone will answer for the way he has lived this earthly life. And then it becomes clear how, if you do not believe in this statement, you run the risk of living like an animal, like a plant that exists only biologically and then dies. It is we humans who think that we are very intelligent and evolved compared to animals, for example. In fact, on the scale of the entire Universe, we are insignificant, and our intelligence and development are insignificant. The risk is that if everything that is written in the Scriptures is true and you don't believe it and you live as a biomaterial, as an animal, without believing it, you will lose everything. You will be among those who are not favorable to your Creator, you will really die, disappear, and be separated from your relatives and close people forever. In fact, after death, you and all your loved ones (if they are also unbelievers) may go to hell (I think everyone knows what this place is). You will lose eternal true life and receive eternal torment. This is the risk of unbelief.
If there is no way to eternal true life if what is written in the Scriptures is not true, but you believe in it, do you risk anything? No – absolutely nothing. There is only one end for everyone in such a case – you will disappear. And your life, even a hundred years, is a grain of sand in this Universe.
So if you don't believe, there are only risks. If you believe, you either risk nothing, or you get eternal life, where you come prepared, knowing that you will have to answer for your earthly way. And maybe you go to Paradise (I think everyone knows what that place is).
It is logical to hedge the risk that there is with the possible truth of the Holy Scriptures, for the people who do not believe in them. After all, this risk is infinitely dangerous; it is worth the fear of even the most desperate and fearless people. So why would one take such an infinitely great risk, realizing the possible torment? No one would dare expose themselves to it, the only question is the realization that it is real. Again, dry calculation and logic lead even a non-believer to believe.
The logic of the apparent existence of the Original Source and the infinitely unattainable order on Earth and in the Universe, as well as in the Scriptures, inclines me to believe in the truth of the Bible and the Qur'an, not to be reassured, but because of the obviousness that I have realized by applying simple logic.
If you don't believe, then you just haven't tried to realize, you are just lazy or afraid to realize the infinite danger of the future. It's everyone's choice to believe or not to believe. I choose to realize that death is a transition to another life, as the Scriptures say. This gives meaning, great hope, and joy, removes the fear of death, and motivates one to learn about the Original Source through the Holy Books. And the conscious reading of these Books makes the faith even stronger and gives not hope but a real, clear realization that everything it says is true.
The path of unbelief leads only to death. To constant mental disorders, to depression, to nightmares. To thoughts that your end and the end of all your loved ones is the same – death, cessation of existence. This way leads to the formation of a personality with a worldview of death, not of life. I emphasize – leads to the formation, which does not mean that it is good. Paradoxically, this worldview is formed precisely because people do not think about death and ignore the fact of its existence as if it were somewhere infinitely far away.
Think of any significant, important, exciting, and memorable day in your life. For example, the day you graduated from elementary school, the day you graduated from college, the day you got married, the day a child was born, or, unfortunately, the day that someone close and dear to you died. So it happened once, and it can never happen again. And once you either looked forward to the event, worried about it the day before, or suffered agonizingly the day you heard about it. Once, before all these events, we didn't even think about them, then they suddenly came, and now it's all behind us as if nothing had happened. In childhood, we don't think about death, and in adolescence, many people don't think about it at all, but it will come to you, just like all the events mentioned above, and this is a fact that most people ignore throughout their lives. But think about it for a moment, maybe it will happen tomorrow or a hundred years from now, but it will inevitably happen, just like all your important, exciting events that have already happened. I'm 37 years old now, I used to think that was an unattainable age, but lo and behold, school, university and so much more are behind me. And that Day will come incredibly quickly. This is a fact, this is our reality, and this is what awaits us very soon. Earthly life is very fast. And when that day comes, the day of death, everything material, everything living, ceases to exist for you, and you think about what comes next, but it is too late to think.
All this is just to say that our life is very short and the end is very near. There is little time to doubt faith, much less to live the right way.
The difference is that for the unbeliever, death is death, but for the believer, death is resurrection, the passage in eternal life.
The right questions and meanings
Many people do not know what they are living for. This statement is true even for mature people who have lived quite a long life and who work in serious companies in high positions. I am talking about businessmen with considerable life experience. Can you imagine them not knowing what is worth living for? I can sort of understand why that is. It's probably because there are too many imperfections in the world, and they're disappointed in everything and everyone. Today wives cheat, friends cheat, and even family members betray. It is clear to any reasonable person that neither friends, nor work, nor even family can be the only meaning of life as such. All of these are goals that we want to achieve. We want to make our family happy and not in need of anything, we want to not betray our friends, and we want to not cheat on our wives. These are just our goals, which we do not always achieve, and often many people change their priorities in such goals. But neither wealth, nor the opposite sex, nor fame – nothing can be meaningful by definition. A person is satiated by everything if he has it. Either the most terrible question is the question of death. Many people think that either there is nothing in it or there is something, but they do not want to find out what it is. Also, the most difficult question is the question of God, and they do not think about it. It is as if they are ashamed to acknowledge Him or afraid to prove His existence or non-existence. They are afraid that if He is discovered, it will change everything, or if it becomes clear that He does not exist, everything will become even more confusing. The strange thing is that many people have a hard time accepting simple truths. We're ready to believe anything. Any kind of fairy tale, any kind of hypothesis. Even the monkey we all came from. We're willing to believe anything but the simple truth. It's like we have trouble living with common sense. It seems clear to everyone that "GOD" is the most common and natural concept. There isn't a person on earth who doesn't know about Him. Or death? Well, no man will avoid it. And whether we like it or not, it's everyone's immediate future. Or maybe you don't care about these questions? But indifference is a very scary thing. Indifferent people are more dead than alive. They have no interest in living. That's a terrible thing. If you want to have healthy views and not live in blindness and indifference, you have to understand the most important things. For example, what you live for. You have to know what the soul is, who is that being inside us that we are always talking about, arguing about, judging. Why do some people get everything and others get nothing? Where is justice in life? If there is a God. Why do billions of people believe in religions? If there is life after death. If there are rules for a happy life. What true success in life is. How to achieve basic mental harmony. What is the sense of life in general? A sane person should at least be concerned about these questions.