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What's The Harm In Believing?

In a world where we believe in the little things, why can't we believe in God?

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What's The Harm In Believing?

It's 2016, we believe in a pile of plastic to transport us places. We believe our lights and stoves and everything else we run energy to won't catch fire and kill us. We believe in others that what we say on Facebook or send on Snapchat won't be too big of a deal. We don't think about these things in depth, we just believe in them. Yet now more than ever, we struggle to believe in God.

How is it that thousands of years ago there weren't cars or planes? There wasn't electricity. There wasn't Snapchat or Facebook. But there was a man named Jesus. You see, in a time where believing in something or someone wasn't an everyday thing, people were able to put absolute trust and belief in a man who said he was the Son of God. Yet today in a world where we put our belief in everything around us, we can't put our belief in a man who has proven himself to be the Son of God.

I don't really get it, I mean what's the harm in believing in something that is not going to harm you in any way, if anything, it'll only help you. A belief in Christ here on earth will give you a better sense of morals, a purpose for living, something to look forward to, and an overall better life. And that belief will get you even more when your life here is over; you see a belief in Christ gives you the opportunity to live for an eternity in the most beautiful, most amazing place you'll ever go.

What does not believing get you? Will it get you a few parties where you'll inevitably get wasted or get high and are not be able to recollect what actually happens? Will it get you sex that leads to a premarital child with a person you end up hating? Will it get you arrested for committing a crime you didn't think twice about because you lacked the sense of morals a belief gives you? Is that really how you want to live? Not believing hurts you here on earth and hurts you even worse in the end because you won't get to experience the beautiful place called heaven, you'll still get an eternity but it'll be spent in hell.

Now some of you may be thinking "yeah but what's the point in all of that if what I believe is that he isn't real?" Well, how I see it, if he isn't real then your belief at least helps you here on earth. And if he is real then your belief gets you an indescribable eternity.

We believe in a car, a hunk of metal and plastic, to take us places; we believe in people to the extent that we'll send very private images out on Snapchat or tell our life story on Facebook; we believe in the advances of electricity that our lights won't get too hot and explode. Why can't we believe in God?

So I ask you, millennial generation, what's the harm in believing?

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