Materialists
claim that the believer in God, exactly like the atheist, is motivated by
self-interest, because they expect to be rewarded a great interest, an eternal
paradise after death.
However, this
materialistic analysis is illogical, why? Because the logic of interests is
strongly connected with the near time, and without this closeness of time it
won't be called interest. The closer the fruit the more it becomes an interest,
this is the logic of interests, like when you put a land for sale and announce
that its price will be doubled after 5 years, you'll find many people wanting
to buy it, but if you say it will be doubled after 15 years you'll find less
costumers, and if you say after 40 years they'll be a lot less, and if you say
after 70 years they'll laugh at you, and if you say it will be doubled after
death they'll call you crazy!
This is the
logic of interest, which is entirely inapplicable to the idea of paradise in
the afterlife, after we all turn into dust and the whole world ends. Notice how
fragile the connection is between the believer in God going to heaven and
self-interest, which makes the whole idea unconvincing as the rest of the
materialists' analyses.
According to
this idea, there is no value for the love of God after the believer goes into
heaven and survives hell, all the love will be poured into heaven! This is
logically unacceptable. And according to this idea, after believers
in God go to heaven they won't love God because who enters paradise will not be
taken out from it! Doesn't this make us doubt the whole materialistic analysis
and its inconsistency with reason?
Thus, the law
of self-interest isn't what motivates the believer in God. They are moved by a
moral motive which is the love of God, and the love of the existence of the
God, because He is a symbol of good. The true believer in God adopted their
faith because they love good and is ready to sacrifice their interests for the
sake of good, which opposes the law of self-interest. The true believer is even
ready to sacrifice what's called the guaranteed interest. So is it logical,
according to the logic of interest, to sacrifice a guaranteed interest for an
unguaranteed interest that only comes after the end of the world and the whole
universe?
Many believers
in God, but not all of them, do try to join the two ideas, in that they
want paradise and yet they don't want to sacrifice their self-interest, but
that's a contradiction caused by their preference of their self-interest.
Therefore, the idea of self-interest corrupts faith, and a thing can't be built
on what corrupts it.
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