just because you dont like reality in my opinion
doesnt mean you get a choice between the two. you dont.>>>outhouse
If anyone can appreciate reality, it is I.
You see, reality is because I am who I am, meaning, I am an individual entity, were it not for reality.
The choice I have in reality is to accept it as from God or to reject the whole notion of a God.
you have to look at this in perspective. according to your god in which a third of the population follow and of those only about %5 go to church ion a regular basis.
only a small percentage will get into this heaven or afterlife no one knows anything about.
If you looked at it from my perspective, and as I understand the works of God to be, you are included, as well as I, into the realm of the hereafter.
The question on when, depending on our accepting the promise of the hereafter, having not seen it, but by faith gain entrance sooner than later.
Here's and illustration of Gods works.
Let's use fish, the guppy, I here they multiply fast and numerous.
Let's say I was a God with the powers of a God; created guppy's and named them both Adam.
From Adam his equal, Eve was created. So now we have two guppy fish, one male and the other female.
The next step for me is to place them into an environment that is conducive to their fleshly desires. The water tank. (Earth)
Because I have enabled them to think, reason and make judgments (Decisions), they have actually become as like me, (gods)to know both good and evil.
Since I can be the only God of the universe and all creation, I will not allow any other gods before me.
So, the guppy's must go. (Die)
Technically, their existence is doomed from the get go, but wait, I was not yet finished with the creation process.
Because I created them, and subjected them into a world of vanity, they of themselves can not have a life after. They were created, thus powerless to do so.
So I said to my self, I should also become a guppy, just like them, but in my case, I would have the power to effect and after life, being that I am the creator in the flesh as a guppy.
And that I did! I became a guppy and told everybody (All guppies) that I would include them in my resurrection into the hereafter. If they believed in me while they were yet alive in the tank, they could tap into my powers to overcome difficulties in the fish tank world.
And that, is basically the works of God in simple illustration.
Blessings, AJ