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Our earthly minds cannot answer all the questions that arise about the spiritual and the intangible. It is given to each of us to logically prove the most important thing – there is an eternal Creator of all material things, and indeed of everything our brains can imagine. After all, our brain is also created by the same Source. The logic described above is justified and clear, and besides, there is no more accurate, factual alternative to it. It is sufficient. Faith and contemplation (the process of knowledge) begin deeper than this inference.

And no matter how incredibly intelligent a person may be, no matter what heights humanity as a whole has reached in its development, no one will ever find answers to the infinite number of questions that arise deeper than this conclusion. Speaking of which, there is a phrase in the Holy Books that says, "A man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun." That is why we are given faith, which is exactly what begins after this point of cognition. Man cannot know all things, prove all things, see all things. He can come to a certain point with his mind, and from there he can only continue his journey with faith.

Obviously, there is no other information in the world today that is better known and more trustworthy, that has the answers to all questions, except the Holy Scriptures. Everyone has a choice, starting from the understanding of the existence of the one eternal Creator: either to search forever for answers to endless questions or to believe in the most organized and authoritative information – the Holy Scriptures, where there are answers to all questions. For me, there were no more reasons not to believe. In these Books, by the way, faith is the foundation of the basics, a kind of test, like a spouse's test of fidelity. And you have the choice to cheat or not, to believe or not. The only difference is that you can hide adultery from your wife or husband, but you cannot hide the fact of unbelief in the Original Source, God, from Him.

Outcomes

Let's go back to where I started the book – to the death we all keep going to as we live our fleeting, hectic lives. And so, if you are realistic, we can distinguish two possible variations of existence, two outcomes of this life, as harsh as it may sound. The first is to live, just to live in this world, on earth, to live in the way that everyone will choose for themselves, based on the surrounding circumstances. At the end of this life, or existence, to be more precise, there will be an ordinary death of matter, the disappearance of biomaterial, in the understanding that is supported by modern science. That is, man will simply disappear as if he never existed. And it does not matter what path he chose or how he lived, everyone will just disappear.

The second possible variant of the actual reality is the transition to another world after death (spiritual or material, or spiritual-material) through resurrection. Such a statement is presented in all books of the Holy Scriptures.

Based on the only logical conclusion drawn in the first chapters about the existence of the Creator of all things, and the fact that the second option of our outcome is prescribed to us in the Holy Books worthy of our faith, my sound mind inclines to the truth of the second option. This leads me to believe in it and the Scriptures.

I will analyze a situation in which a person still cannot determine the most correct option for himself. The logical conclusions described above are not enough for him. For example, an unbeliever assumes that everything is primitive according to the Darwinian view. Humans live, then die, decay, and disappear. Let's try to find all the pros and cons for a person who has chosen this way of believing to analyze how true it is.

If this is true, then everything is meaningless. This approach contradicts the order and organization of the universe described above. Such people don't care how they live this life, they have no boundaries of morality and ethics. And with such a truth, according to Darwin, it would be appropriate. Appropriate, but that doesn't mean that such an approach would have any real advantages. For in such a mindset, everything is meaningless, and life is so short that even a hundred years would pass like a single day. Elderly people now will understand me. Even though a life of wealth and abundance is actually just a grain of sand of wealth. It is as if you do not exist. You exist for a brief moment in the Universe, being a millionaire or a pauper, happy or suffering, predator or prey. It is just a moment – and you are gone. In such a situation, there is no sense in anything – neither in life nor in people themselves. In such a case, it's better not to live at all.

And so you die, that's your end. And why do you need your billions, why do you need fame, why did you fight, why did you kill, steal, disrespect, achieve, or just do nothing, or tolerate, suffer, maybe love, enjoy? Why do you need all your emotions and feelings and actions – all this vanity, all this meaningless, all that energy? You will just disappear and you will never exist again, as if you never existed. Just think about it for a moment, realize it – it is a very important moment. And this disappearance, the end, can happen in a minute, it can happen tomorrow, it can happen in a hundred years, any second. Realize that in this case, no matter how you have lived, it is as if you have not lived, as if you have always been dead, so there is no difference in how you have lived and what you have done.

Also, imagine for a moment that the second version of existence is true. The option that is described in the books of the Abrahamic religions and that I have come to logically. The transition to the next true reality, the eternal reality, is the resurrection. In this case, our earthly life is immediately filled with meaning. First, because there is no death, and second, because in the resurrection, according to the Holy Books, everyone will answer for the way he has lived this earthly life. And then it becomes clear how, if you do not believe in this statement, you run the risk of living like an animal, like a plant that exists only biologically and then dies. It is we humans who think that we are very intelligent and evolved compared to animals, for example. In fact, on the scale of the entire Universe, we are insignificant, and our intelligence and development are insignificant. The risk is that if everything that is written in the Scriptures is true and you don't believe it and you live as a biomaterial, as an animal, without believing it, you will lose everything. You will be among those who are not favorable to your Creator, you will really die, disappear, and be separated from your relatives and close people forever. In fact, after death, you and all your loved ones (if they are also unbelievers) may go to hell (I think everyone knows what this place is). You will lose eternal true life and receive eternal torment. This is the risk of unbelief.

If there is no way to eternal true life if what is written in the Scriptures is not true, but you believe in it, do you risk anything? No – absolutely nothing. There is only one end for everyone in such a case – you will disappear. And your life, even a hundred years, is a grain of sand in this Universe.

So if you don't believe, there are only risks. If you believe, you either risk nothing, or you get eternal life, where you come prepared, knowing that you will have to answer for your earthly way. And maybe you go to Paradise (I think everyone knows what that place is).

It is logical to hedge the risk that there is with the possible truth of the Holy Scriptures, for the people who do not believe in them. After all, this risk is infinitely dangerous; it is worth the fear of even the most desperate and fearless people. So why would one take such an infinitely great risk, realizing the possible torment? No one would dare expose themselves to it, the only question is the realization that it is real. Again, dry calculation and logic lead even a non-believer to believe.

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