What would be better than what Jesus Christ has to offer?
God is an answer to the problem of our existence in reality.
The Christian God is a personal creator; and as such provides the possibility of purpose and meaning, if we choose to align with the divine.
This God loves us each as a parent loves his or her child; and therefore we may have a personal role in creation - as a member of God's loving family.
Jesus Christ is an answer to the problem of our life in this world.
This actual experienced world is a mixture: life and death, creation and destruction, good and evil, joy and despair, love and fear...
Jesus offers the possibility of a life of creation, good, joy and love - forever and unmixed.
It seems to me that Jesus's offer is the best I know of, that I can believe.
It has one disadvantage, which is that Heaven lies on the other side of death: we must first die and be resurrected if Heaven is to become possible: if we are to be fitted for Heaven, and if Heaven and our-self is to become eternal.
The only offer that I can imagine which would be better than that of Jesus is if it was possible to provide Heaven on earth now and without dying.
I don't believe that this is possible. I believe that the nature of this mortal life and world is such that entropy, death and evil are always going to be present.
But I imagine that someone who could believe that real, unmixed, everlasting Heaven on earth and on this side of death was a genuinely possibility; would probably prefer it to what Jesus offers.
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