One of the deepest and (it seems to me) most important insights from Jesus, is that what is inevitable in this mortal life, is not for that reason Good.
Many things in this life may be unavoidable - including our own natures, work, and taxes, but also many others - and therefore we should make the best of them; but these same things may nonetheless be evils, or indeed sins.
My impression is that few people are prepared to acknowledge this reality; and instead they tend to assume that that which is unavoidable, or that which has always been an aspect of life throughout known history - are therefore either positively Good, or else neutral.
Yet this point seems to be fundamental to Christianity (at least, as I understand Christianity); because if it were otherwise, then there would be no necessity for salvation, and Jesus would be optional at best.
Or, to say the same thing in an opposite way: Jesus is necessary and our hope lies in salvation exactly because much that is universal, pervasive, inescapable in our own (or any other) mortal life is fundamentally wrong and/or adverse.
In a word, mortal life does not, cannot, and never shall, suffice.
And this is why salvation (with resurrection into Heaven coming after this mortal life) is the only true hope.
This divine creation - the primary creation of this mortal life, world, universe - is not good enough.
The opportunity to follow Jesus is needed if we want better; and the Second Creation of Heaven is our only genuine possibility of attaining that better life and world.
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