I love buffets, not just for the sheer joy of "all you can eat", but because the selection is great. Feeling adventurous? You can sample as many different entrees as you care to. And no one tells you what you can eat,
just take what you want and leave the rest. And yet, I've never left a buffet and said, "That's the best meal I've ever had". It's usually "That was good, we'll have to go back soon".
I know a lot of folks who treat their spiritual life that way. "All great religions share the same wisdom and preach similar principles at their core," they say, "Why claim one way is better than another? Just take what you can use and leave the rest. As in God on a sampler platter. While I guess it's possible to attain a vague sort of spiritual satisfaction that way, it's hardly fulfilling in the way complete commitment provides Christians. Christians know where they'll spend eternity, we have a well defined purpose for our temporal lives and the certainty of joy in the hereafter.
So I try not to take my faith buffet style, however pleasant that may sound I'm looking for certainty, not vague feelings of contentment.
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