The Value of Self — Part 6 "An intelligent person does not need the promise of heaven to see the merit of good deeds..." — Unknown When someone truly values themselves, they will naturally want to help other people without the coercion of religion. Religions say that we should obey their "holy" scriptures in order to avoid punishment and gain reward in a hypothetical (unproven) heaven. But even if God does exist, how could they possibly know the rules of God? How could they know that their holy book is not a huge lie? THEY CAN'T. Therefore, our own conscience and our own imagination is a much better moral guideline than any holy book... Our mind is free to consider every possibility, whereas a holy book offers only ONE POSSIBLE set of rules of a hypothetical deity. A friend of mine once said: "When you do something good you have a good feeling and when you do something bad you have a bad feeling." You don't need a God to tell you how to behave. Just always do what you think is right (honestly, without fooling yourself)... and remember to consider EVERY possibility, as far as how your actions might affect your eternal life. Part 1 ►http://is.gd/PKhufr Part 2 ►http://is.gd/kbDi7Q Part 3 ►http://is.gd/OAjTgO Part 4 ►http://is.gd/gIpN88 Part 5 ►http://is.gd/njvvjn Part 7 ►http://is.gd/heEdYK via Eternal Life Fan Club http://ift.tt/1pJduQD
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