Aren't you tired of the same old story? Mankind can make a
telescope to study the origin of the universe but can't send food or
medicine to the poorest countries. They can send up a thousand
satellites to create a worldwide telecommunications network but
can't clean up the land mines and other hazardous waste after a
conflict. Did we get to vote whether to explore the mineral deposits
of other planets or whether to create a world where everybody has
the same standard of living? If profit is the only measure by which
we judge what is good then the human race will look back on this
time as one of the most primitive of all. When people committed the
most barbaric crimes and amoral acts for little more reason than to
get monetary credit which was then used to decorate their lives with
costly belongings.
The people who fall for the delusions (traditions) of this time will
regret that they did not have the self control to resist because in
the later years when their money, fame or looks have failed they
will be tortured by their own conscience. The adulation from their
peers will have gone and they will have to face who it is they
really are without the accessories. It may not sound like too bad a
price to pay for a corrupt life if people live for about seventy
years, but whether a person believes in an afterlife or not, they
run the risk of corrupting the most fundamental part of their being
for a temporary high during their mortal life. If, God forbid, we
should just die and nothing of our being continues beyond death then
they will only be remembered by future generations with contempt,
which is reason enough to do what is right rather than that which is
the most profitable.
Of course, we are all guilty of some crime or sin so how can there
be such a thing as a peaceful afterlife in which we are untroubled
by our conscience for past deeds? The answer is in the Bible.
