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Teejay....If this was 16th century Europe and I asked this question I'm sure I would me Nyam Chom right now. Your rebuke is in that same spirit of the Inquisition(Dont ask Just believe...or else).

If asking questions about my faith makes me sinner so be it. But Christianity was not spread with your "Thou Shalt...and thats that" attitude.

The Early Apsotles argued, searched Scripture and Prayed whenever something a question arose about something relating to their faith.

Back to my question.

The Danish theologian Soren Kierkigaard dwelt with this question extensively when he tried to survey the Sacrifice of Isaac. According to Soren,the Christianity of his time had degenerated into mere "Ethics and Metaphysics".

He argued that such concepts such as worshipping God in return for a paradise filled with all our hearts desire had taken the place of TRUE WORSHIP which according to him involved seeing God as wholly Other(Derrida's interpetation actually) to us and His Will and that alone is what matters not what is in store for us.

That said let me put my question back.
Blaise Pascal wrote that
"the conviction that belief in God is reasonable on the ground that there are no rational grounds either for belief or disbelief, so belief is not less reasonable than disbelief; but this being so it is wiser to gamble on the truth of religion since this policy involves success if religion is true and no significant loss if it is false"

This is "Pascal's wager"

Is Christianity an "Eternal Life Insurance Policy" ?