Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do not die, now, as a punishment for their sin, but they die that they may be prepared to live!
It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.
If worship does not change us it has not been worship.
There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.
There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.
