“It’s not like I haven’t grappled with my own mortality. I’m a realist. It’s just that people keep saying things like ‘This is not your home’ and ‘We were made for heaven.’ I know they’re just trying to make me feel better about how messed up things are, but it makes me want to say, ‘Well, then why don’t I just go blow my brains out and get it over with?’ I don’t really mean it, of course. It’s just that people talk as if nothing we do this side of eternity matters. It’s all pointless. We’re just waiting to die. And I wonder, then why don’t we just get it over with?” “Maybe salvation isn’t
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* If there is an age of accountability, then why didn’t God let me die when I had open heart surgery so that I could go to heaven?
* Why didn’t God let me pass away when I was certain about my faith so that I would be more certain I’d be saved.
