Self-Evident Truth #3:
We live in a little speck of time suspended between two eternities. I magine a piece of chalk the size of a telephone pole (50-60 feet tall), and a chalkboard hundreds of miles long. Pretend you take that huge piece of chalk and draw a thin line that goes and goes until the chalk runs out. Think of this as a time line representing eternity, except that with eternity the chalk never runs out. Now, put a tiny dot at the front end of that line, and let it represent your whole life here on earth compared to eternity. First, does it matter whether God exists?—Of course. If there is no God, you might as well erase the line, for when you die the party is over—forever! In which case, you should drink all the enjoyment you can out of this tiny dot of time, for that is all you will ever get. On the other hand, if God is real, and there is an afterlife, then nothing on earth could be more important. You are literally at the beginning of forever; be it good, bad, or otherwise. Things such as war, a terminal illness, making money, marriage, having kids, national freedom, getting an education—even sex—would not begin to compare in importance to that which will affect you eternally. Latest statistics say that 100% of every generation will die. We are each living one breath and one heartbeat away from eternity. Pascal, the French mathematician who devised the formulas for probability and chance, and was a forerunner of calculus, said it was amazing to him that people worry and fritter over temporal things which are of no eternal consequence, while at the same time living without forethought or seeming concern for that which will affect them throughout eternity.
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