I hear people say that Christianity is cheap virtue because it threatens you with hell if you are bad and promises heaven if you are good. The people who say this are no doubt good because of the sheer angelic sweetness of their natures. Or something. But it is not a threat to say: If you don’t exercise, you will be flabby. If you don’t read, you will be ignorant. This is just the way things are. If your life expresses your soul, the idea of you in the mind of God, then that is how you will live in the mind of God forever. If your life expresses another idea that lives elsewhere, you will live
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