You would have likely got a very different answer but it would not have satisfied your curiosity because what you would really like to know is if anyone here would answer yes to the question, are you only a christian because of the offer of an afterlife?
Many might feel compelled to answer, yes, for it is how they were attracted and began. However, once you have been changed by the Holy Spirit and know that eternal life begins the moment you believe and have begun to experience that life, you realise that God is with you right here and right now.
As Jesus said, "He who has the Son has life," and will continue to have it for all eternity.
Many will say, no, because it was other witnesses that led them to the Saviour. I am one of these but I am not ignorant nor not desiring of that eternal promise. It is our goal.
Heb 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Heb 11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
Heb 11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
Heb 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Those who say the Old Testament saints had little or no knowledge of eternity have not read their Bible. Hebrews 11 tells us plainly that they knew it all too well.
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