A Divergence of Views

I saw a post the other day on my Face Book that made me pause for a second as I read it to try and understand it and as I did; one thought came into my mind, non believers have no frame of reference with the future they only live in the here and now.

Now, I can hear the Hindus and reincarnationist saying, “Hey we believe that you go on as something we just aren’t sure what it is yet.” And they haven’t been able to tell us for thousands of years.

The gist of the article had to do with cycles and how history is nothing more than a series of cycles and we are in a constant changing from liberal to conservative to whatever but that it will continue forever, I guess. Here again there is no finality to their though process but rather we are here living now, doing the best we can for our kids and grandkids and wait until the next cycle and shouldn’t that be good enough.

I say, “No” and I say it emphatically.

Christians have a different view in that we know and believe that Christ will come again, all of the earth will be made new again under Christ’s reign and we have an eternity to live in it. Sounds to simple for the complicated mind and I think that God did in fact, make it simple just to confuse those that rely on their mind instead of their hearts.

Now some of the brightest minds we know and read about can’t balance their checkbook, can’t pay their taxes, can’t drive a car across a bridge without killing someone, yeah he probably shouldn’t be lumped into this group; but they all have problems, we all have problems and we can’t solve what the earth is throwing at us right now.

Look, we have over 6 billion people on the earth right now and we have diminishing resources many that are non-regenerating so the earth is getting smaller both in living space and resources. We have the most populated country on earth spewing carcinogens into the atmosphere and waterways on a daily basis; home of the swine flu also. This is not a cycle this is living fact and this cycle, if that is what you want to call it will possibly have devastating consequences on all of us or on our children.

While the unbeliever will see that the Christian has a defeatist attitude towards now and our future; I plead otherwise. The believer’s future is bright, shekinah (the light that illuminated the Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle in the Holy of Holies in Old Testament times) glory bright and we look forward to Christ’s return because, to put it in the earthly vernacular, “we will be able to sleep with our doors unlocked once again.” All of the filth of this earth will be gone and the evilness of the people will cease.

The sadness is that many know of the path that I speak but many will go down the wide path to destruction. It is a shame but it will happen and there will be “wailing and gnashing of teeth” when this happens.

So non believer live for today because your own beliefs tell you that this is all that there is unless you believe that you might come back as a cockroach and that is a depressing thought, even for a non believer, I think.