Well think about it this way, the only way you could have eternal life, is if you had Christ’s mind and righteousness. So, inherently, how are you going to receive that? Unless you choose to have it? Because human minds are fallible, and full of sin and doubt, and also nasty thoughts. Just think about all the nasty thoughts you have, and your anxieties on a daily basis. You don’t want that in heaven? So, you’re basically asking Christ to give you His body and His mind, with your Soul, and His Spirit, so you cannot sin, and therefore, will have everlasting peace.

Without it, even if you lived on Earth for eternity, it’d pretty much be hell. Because life without God’s peace is hell. So the more you drift away from Christ, the more like hell your life becomes. It’s not that “God doesn’t love sinners”, it’s that you have to choose God and His mercy, to avoid the wrath, by saying “I’m not good enough to be in heaven.” Because you’re not. You need Christ’s righteousness to live eternally, and be able to fully have pleasure and not sin. You also have to recognize you’re not perfect, and accept Christ’s Lordship in your life, as that’s the only way to receive mercy, is to accept God’s grace, and live with full understanding that you’re not worthy. As only that will produce the kinds of fruits necessary to gain access to the Kingdom.

[T]his world would get so boring, and it's already hellish enough. Imagine never dying, and having to witness war after war, siege after siege, disease after disease, see people grow corrupt, destroy an entire civilization, and then rebuild it, and once it got things just right, it gets corrupt again and falls apart. Or then someone gets the idea to put you into prison, because you're in the wrong country at the wrong time. I mean, even if the woman you loved were immortal too---and you two had the most passionate romance ever---it'd grow dim. Unless we ourselves were empowered by Christ's Holy Mind, we'd never be able to accomplish it. Which is another reason we need Christ to go to heaven. As eternity in our flesh minds and living in this world would be the utmost worst possible thing we could ever have done to us. It'd be even worse than Hell.

Just ask Jesus to take it out of you. And keep asking until He does. If you need to, what helped me was blocking my access to my phone's internet. But then don't establish patterns on your computer, otherwise you'll have to get rid of that, too. Just cry out to Him to purify you. It'll work. 

Also, don't feel guilty about whatever dreams will come your way. All the saints go through that. Lewis, Augustine, Bunyan... if you built up patterns of lust, it'll come out in your dreamspace. It's unpleasant, but it's how it has to be. Don't be worried about stuff like "Succubi" or whatever. Literally, all the Saints had nightmares as that was the only place Satan could get to them. Just get up, wash, and stay out of battle until nightfall. Peace.

Buddhism is about removing desire, and causing yourself to not cause yourself or others suffering. It’s about “Empathy”. It’s about how your mind is not capable of understanding the outside world, and therefore, you are “Fire” as the famous sermon by Siddhartha goes. Everything is “Fire”, all things are rooted in your perception of them, including pain, relationships, joys. All things are tied back to your own perception and mental processes. It also has no belief about the afterlife, but rather views life as a cycle of reincarnations.

Christianity is about fulfilling your desire through seeking the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s about understanding the world’s suffering is arbitrary, and uncontrollable. That being good, you almost will have to suffer, but then you’re to find strength in God’s power and mercy, and joy in His Holy Covenant. It’s about accepting the outside world, and using faith to move “Mountains”, as in, accept reality for what it is, and shape your place in it by having the faith to endure and rely on God’s provision for your joy. It believes in reality… where Buddhism is focused on the interior world, Christianity is solely focused on the exterior world and your place in it. Its moral philosophy is strict, and prudent, and not about “Empathy” only, but also about repentance and turning away from sin; so Christianity is about discipline, so one has the tools to later find joy, and enter into the kingdom and not have sorrows. And of course Christianity centers around Heaven, and entering into the Kingdom.

[R]esolve to know Christ. Don't be indifferent to Christ. Pray all day, every day, meditate on His Word and commune with Him. No matter what, when you feel depressed, take a walk through a forest or desert--wherever, just like Jesus--and pray. You'll be invigorated. Tell God you're angry with Him, but don't let your heart be bitter, and ask Him for peace and love and to not be angry. Prepare to die for the love of your brother, and hope for his wellbeing and satisfaction more than your own. God will provide what's necessary for your fruit. As He wants love and peace, not style and cunning, developed in your personality. Every anxiety, go to the LORD. No matter how hard, go to Him, make known your true thoughts, and develop the fruits of righteousness. God cares more about that than your success. He'll give you whatever you need for righteousness, but prepare to suffer long for the hope of good and ripe fruit.

Do not worry. Ask God for heavenly treasures. And you will soon be freed from this world's burdens. You won't long for death, nor will you despair, but you'll have hope which is commanded.

Plagiarism is such a difficult subject to navigate. Like both Keats and I can have similar themes about the Fall, but we didn't plagiarize each other. It's just the way Fall is, only a few things can be said about it. Which gets into Biblical Exegesis, there shouldn't be too many variations on the subject, because the Bible has one meaning. So, Matthew Henry, Jay Vernon McGee and myself will have a very similar thought process about what the Bible means, because that's just how meaning is.

Not saying these people [who read verbatim premade sermons] aren't plagiarists, but you have to be careful with defining it, because you can essentially outlaw all speech. Like the book Atticus copyrighted some pretty simple platitudes that happen a lot in text conversations, and surely nobody's plagiarizing Atticus when they find those phrases.

It's not all cut in dry. Simply, human thought is limited, so people will eventually come to similar ideas, even removed from each other by millennia or leagues.

And then you add to that, we comprise billions of bits of information we've found all our lives, to make us find what and how we came to all those ideas, you'd essentially outlaw free speech by proxy of making it all subject to someone's copyright. 

What gets copyrighted are specific word patterns and ideas unique to you. Which the point of copyright and trademark is to help people make a living off their own inventions, not to essentially steal it from everyone else. As, the internal combustion engine had hundreds of variations, and what was copyrighted was each unique variation, not the process of internal combustion, which cannot be copyrighted.

Jesus is not symbolic. He literally died, raised from the dead, and ascended into heaven, where He's seated at the right hand of the Father, in a resurrected body of the New Man.

It seems like [I'm] saying the Bible is symbolic. In a sense, [one] can believe that about the Old Testament, but a matured faith should lead you to the conclusion that it's not just symbolic, but actually physically happened too.

Augustine believed the Old Testament is symbolic. You are saved by Jesus, not by your belief in the Bible's inerrancy, although it helps to believe the Bible's true. But, the more important aspects of the faith, is belief in the Moral Law passed down to us, as that creates the conditions for peace and liberty and joy.

And also, you must testify that Jesus Christ is Come in the Flesh. Not merely a symbol or emblem, but was God's Son manifested in the Flesh, the Divine Word of the Holy Trinity.

Yes, The Dragon looks like an alien, and is on a Hindu Temple. Aliens are indeed demons. And they are submitted under the authority of Christ. Reality is so much different than what we're told. If I told you the truth, you couldn't believe it, which is why we need to stop preaching Young Earth Creationism. Because the truth is so much different than anything we could imagine.