As someone diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I know all too well the pendulum between depression and mania, and all the emotions that are between those two extremes.
But this pendulum isn't about bipolar. I would like to discuss the risk vs reward pendulum that many of us face in our lives. When...
What are God's expectations of you? Where did you learn of these?
Are there rewards meeting these expectations? If so, what are they? What are the implications, if any, of not meeting them?
To start off, I'm not an actual believer, I'm agnostic or on the fence of Atheism vs Believer.
One thing I noticed about many believers is that many of them say "Do good & you shall be rewarded" and it made me question that statement/(popular)opinion, "Are their deeds genuine? Or are just doing...