How Confident Are You in Your Spiritual Beliefs?

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Are you willing to stake eternity on them? We take many gambles in our lives. We risk life and limb every time we get out of bed... we are also risking all if we choose to stay in bed. Every purchase we make, we are betting the amount of money we spend on the quality of the product and if we will enjoy it or not. Every time we breath, we are gambling that the air we take in is safe for human consumption. We put unquestioning trust in the foods we put in our mouths, the surfaces we walk on, the other drivers as we guide our personal cruise missiles from point a to point b. But with all the choices we make from cradle to the grave, none come with higher stakes than our spiritual beliefs. Why? Because choices we make in this life just may have an effect on what comes next... yet we have to make our choices without any knowledge of what "next" might be... if anything at all. If there is no life after death, then this isn't just the only opportunity to play our hand, it's the only hand we'll ever be dealt. There is no tomorrow and the only things that will matter about our lives once we're gone will be decided by those we leave behind. We will have no say in the outcome of our lives, because well... we're dead. Most of us won't even get to see how we did. If there is life after death then the game is much more important. It becomes the difference between a single game played for fun and a full season of games, where how you did in one game decides your standing in the next one. Heaven or Hell; Progress or Stagnation; Moving on to a better place, or coming back to try again; Getting to remember all your past lives, then choosing your next life based on what you want to gain from different circumstances... all of the "next life" philosophies you can imagine. They seem to have one thing in common... your choices here matter. But no good can come from choosing a false path. The only thing that separates faith and stupidity is truth... But truth only happens when this life is over. So how confident are you in your spiritual beliefs? Are you willing to stake your eternity on them? Because ready or not, truth will happen.