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In view of what has just been said one might think that following Jesus isn’t such a good idea after all, but Jesus then points out the reality of the situation. By trying to save our own life, by going our own way, we may even manage to have some success in this world (though that is by no means certain), but what is the good of that if we forfeit our soul? Implicit in all this is that there is a day of judgement, and that we are all ultimately accountable to God, and that God has charge over our souls. In the world today there are essentially two primary worldviews (there are many variations within each of these). One is theistic which sees us as created beings, ultimately answerable to the creator. The other is that we just appeared by chance, with no given purpose. Under this latter view, which is the predominant one in power in the West, nothing really matters, and we see the fruits of this view in the state of our society today.
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