I sure hope he does, and thanks.

Firstly, that passage that you provided is beautifull, and is now up there amongst my favourites, so thank you. Secondly, I perfectly agree with what you’ve written about in terms of the individual acceptance of God. I don’t, however, believe that mankind as a whole is capable of great change, not necessarily because humans will allways remain the same to some extent, but because even if we know that we all sin, we do little to stop it. Everybody knows that Christ suffered to absolve mankind, but few people truly can appreciate the full extent of his suffering; and that’s why so many people, even though they go to church and perform transubstantiation and cast their rites and say they are a dutifull Christian, they’re really not quite there yet, because they haven’t come to truly accept Christ as their saviour. They merely understand Christ as a concept, and God as a measurement. I see a lot of that all the time - many of my friends, who were born into Christian families and raised with it all their lives having attended Sunday school and church weekly, don’t really appreciate God, nor do they really care about God, for that matter. To them, God’s only a vague, nebulous idea of something they grew up with, and little else.

As you hinted towards in the last sentence and as Ecclesiastes directly states, all life is just vanity - but it’s in this vanity that so many peple have entrenched themselves into without even knowing. All works beneath the sun were made from dust and return to dust, as does their earthly creator - nihil sub sole novum. Ecclesiastes was the book that really turned me to Christianity because it made me realise just how futile the things we’re doing are in the longer run, and how everything I was doing was more or less escapism to a certain extent. It shook me so much, you know? It was right then and there that I realised that we, as a collective species, have let God down so much - we are firmly trapped in a halfway point where even though we want to receive salvation and love God, we still heavily rely upon worldly pleasures and solutions to allay our pains and sufferings. It’s not that mankind doesn’t have the capacity - it’s that mankind simply does not have the requisite willpower. Milton wrote that, ‘Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light’ - and that’s exactly what it is. We all see the light and want to get there, but we don’t have the strength and dedication to invest all our faith where it’s necessary in order to get out, because then we feel insecure about our temporary sufferings.

lol, apologies about the extensive passage, and how rambling and logically flawed it may be. If it doesn’t make sense, I apologise, I just converted to this recently and I have still yet a long ways to go before I achieve clarity on such an issue.

But anyways, thank you for the welcome, much appreciated.