2. Box-Score of Your Life

Life’s “big questions” have always been the most discussed and impactful because the answers shape our entire existence. The answers you choose guide your life, whether accurate or not. We’re not here to tell you if you’ll get married soon, find happiness, or achieve personal goals, but we can show you where your beliefs will lead you on the most important matters. The answers given are not controversial, these are common sense, and the big facts summary of your life only depends upon which box you choose to stand in, and whether your answer to the big question is true, or not.

We’re going to use a simple four-box method to explore your future outcomes, based on two major factors:

1. Your chosen belief system
2. The reality of whether God exists or not

Here’s how to work through the exercise:

Start by identifying the belief system you currently live by. Then, choose a contrasting belief system that you think could be true if yours isn’t. These two options will go on the left-side of the four boxes. For example, let’s use Atheism (belief that no God exists) and Christianity (belief that the biblical God exists) as our two options.

Now, look at the two columns: one where God exists, and one where He doesn’t. Based on your chosen belief and what you believe reality to be, you’ll place yourself in one of the four quadrants.

• If you’re an atheist and God doesn’t exist, you’re in Box 1.
• If you’re an atheist but God does exist, you’re in Box 2.
• If you’re a Christian and God doesn’t exist, you’re in Box 3.
• If you’re a Christian and God does exist, you’re in Box 4.

Consider which belief is supported by reality. Only one belief system will be supported by reality on a level no other belief system can reach. This is simply common sense, and logic by the Law of Noncontradiction, meaning only one belief system aligns with reality—two opposing worldviews cannot both be true.

If you cannot decide what you believe or why you should have to, then it may be extremely beneficial for you to recognize why you should care and discover the evidence available. Your answer will determine the exact box and the corresponding future facts you will find yourself in when all is said and done.

Depending on your beliefs, examine the implications for your future.

• If, for example, you are an atheist and your belief is accurate, no God exists, then you are in box 1, the upper-left quadrant. Have a look into your inevitable future experiences.
• On the other hand, if your belief is inaccurate, God does exist, then you are in box 2. This would be basically true for an agnostic also. An agnostic, who claims either no one can know whether God exists or not, or simply they just do not know, if not accepting the biblical God as needed, will therefore exist in the same box 1 or 2 as an atheist, just with all but the last bullet-points lessened.
• If you are a Christian, then if your belief does not fit reality as no God exists, you are in box 3; if your belief is true, then you will inevitably experience box 4.
• Further, let’s say you have searched the evidence reality provides and think the likelihood no God exists is 60%, so you choose to live as an agnostic, then you have a 60% likelihood of experiencing box 1, and a 40% likelihood of experiencing box 2.

Right now, you are already in one of these quadrants, heading toward the consequences laid out within it. Here’s the big question: If you discovered that another belief was more aligned with reality, would you be willing to switch to that belief—and its corresponding box of consequences?

If your answer is “no,” and you wouldn’t consider changing even if another belief were proven more likely, you have a barrier of irrationality, keeping you boxed into your current position. Not safe.

If you want to live your life as though all beliefs are equally true, and will lead to similar overall impacts on you, then you, without question, will be in a box not supported by reality. It is playing Russian Roulette with your future consequences. The only difference, instead of only one chamber in the gun having a bullet, and all the other chambers empty, there are as many chambers in the gun as there are different beliefs systems to choose from, and all but one of the chambers have a bullet waiting for you.

The answer whether you should move to another box, if another proves better supported and therefore more secure, should be obvious. It is all about costs and benefits –  but not always simple as emotions do get involved, and current comfort is a powerful motivator to stand still.

• If you recognize your beliefs are at the highest level of serious and impactful, the next logical question is: Can we know the truth about beliefs, and if so, how?This is the topic of the next section: How Can I Know What Is True?
• Once we recognize that truth about worldview beliefs exists and can be known, we’ll be motivated to explore the evidence. And the evidence is amazing and available. The following articles will cover science, history, philosophy, and other areas to present the facts guiding toward truth.
• Finally, you’ll get to see what so many people miss: how to different worldviews compare to each other. You’ll see how each answers life’s big questions, and where they are verified or invalidated. By following the evidence, reality will inevitably support one worldview over the others because, by the Law of Noncontradiction, only one can be true and be supported by evidence greater than contradicting beliefs can ever reach.