Faith may get us to heaven, but it won’t stop the hellish future we will be forced to endure here on earth. Just IMHO.
What I am getting at is that we have a range of choice available, more than we can currently imagine, of HOW to address the “hellish future.”
Flash: life on earth has always been hellish. It has been tipped heavily towards sloth in the America we once knew — we suppressed so much superficial evil, we forgot what it is to fight it down deep. God is forcing us out of that posture now. We might have called it nice. God calls it sin.
In other words, faith isn’t just good for getting us to heaven — faith can also get heaven to come right here with us. Perfecting the place? No. Doing obviously great things for the Lord? Yes.
I know what I’m talking about. God has slowly but steadily taken the hell out of my life and replaced it with heaven, nowhere close to perfect yet, but I see it now.