This life in the modern world vs. the next (vanity)

[Faith Presses On]

We live in a time and place that's very prosperous and where our "human rights" are respected and the importance of having our basic needs met is regarded. Does all this actually work against people, though, however, in that God Himself promises that unless one repents and trusts in His Son for salvation, life in the next world will be spent in Hell, where such rights and needs aren't respected?

[caseinpoint]

Our rights and human needs are respected. We made a decision here in mortality that we didn’t want God in our lives. He is respecting that choice. We demanded the right to refuse to take advantage of our basic need for the Atonement of His Only-begotten Son. It is not at cross purposes to suffer the consequences of our decisions.

One of the reasons we get hung up on rights and needs here is because we know mankind is not very capable of justice. That is, we don’t know all the mitigating and aggravating factors when we attempt to deal out justice. However, the Lord Omnipotent and Omniscient does know all the factors and, regardless of where we end up in the hereafter, we will all say it is done in perfect justice.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The era in our country from WWII through the early 60's was very rare. The vast majority of the American people were united together to defeat Naziism and Communism and advance an agenda which was Christian through and through. That period ended in the 60's.

Then, as Christians, we could have our cake and eat it too. We could believe in the very radical claims of Christ while at the same time going about our comparatively humdrum and conservative lives.

Now, however, that America no longer exists. Christ's radical claims on our lives are now seen for what they are as truly radical. In order to live the lives He wants us to we may have to make significant sacrifices. We won't necessarily be able to be good Christians and good Americans anymore.

In the 60's we complained about the radicals, not just those who took up arms, but also those that took up picket signs and held sit-ins. What a waste of humanity in support of such horrid ideas we said.

The same things are being said, and will be said, about Tea Party members and similar groups that picket the American government and the no longer recognizable "American" people.