God is an answer to the problem of our existence in reality.
The Christian God is a personal creator; and as such provides the possibility of purpose and meaning, if we choose to align with the divine.
This God loves us each as a parent loves his or her child; and therefore we may have a personal role in creation - as a member of God's loving family.
Jesus Christ is an answer to the problem of our life in this world.
This actual experienced world is a mixture: life and death, creation and destruction, good and evil, joy and despair, love and fear...
Jesus offers the possibility of a life of creation, good, joy and love - forever and unmixed.
It seems to me that Jesus's offer is the best I know of, that I can believe.
It has one disadvantage, which is that Heaven lies on the other side of death: we must first die and be resurrected if Heaven is to become possible: if we are to be fitted for Heaven, and if Heaven and our-self is to become eternal.
The only offer that I can imagine which would be better than that of Jesus is if it was possible to provide Heaven on earth now and without dying.
I don't believe that this is possible*. I believe that the nature of this mortal life and world is such that entropy, death and evil are always going to be present.
But I imagine that someone who could believe that real, unmixed, everlasting Heaven on earth and on this side of death was a genuinely possibility; would probably prefer it to what Jesus offers.
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* In case anybody is interested why I (personally) do not believe Heaven on earth is possible (others will reason differently, of course); the main reason is that I regard the free agency of Beings as primary.
Unless each and all of the Beings on earth and in this universe (i.e. every single Being, including the mass of non-human Beings - animals, plants, "minerals" etc.) were to choose to live wholly by love; and allow the elimination of everything about themselves that was incompatible with Heaven -- then there would still be evil present in this world, and Heaven could not be made on earth.
So much for evil: what of entropy and death?
I regard "chaos" (of autonomous, uncoordinated, unaware of each other Beings) as primal; and God's creation as being imposed upon that. While there is no end to God's create-ing, there is a constant tendency to revert to the primal state, which is termed "entropy". So the harmonious cooperation that is creation, is always tending to degenerate; and "death" is the end of all earthly "things", forms, structures, Beings.
In other words this is a mortal universe, everything changes, decays, "dies"; and everlasting life cannot be imposed upon it (cannot - because otherwise, with the creator as good and personally loving, eternal living would already have happened and be normal).
I regard it as a fact of life that we all must therefore die, before we can be re-made eternally; from scratch, on the basis only of love (i.e. resurrected).
I state my reasons, not to defend or debate them; but because I find them compelling. The point is not to argue about it, but to discover what You find compelling.
