"***If I had to die like a dog, and there were no hereafter***, I would still choose to be a Christian, for of all lives that can be lived, there is none that can compare with this."

Если бы мне предстояла позорная смерть и не было никакой надежды на избавление...

Или под hereafter подразумевается "загробная жизнь"?

"И даже если мне было бы суждено издохнуть как бездушному животоному"

А "сдохнуть, как собака" - не я эту фразу придумала.
Да и коннотации в вашем тексте похожие.

я знаю что она у них есть ))))), у тех кто способен испытывать страдание в первую очередь, а у тех способности страдать которых нельзя стать свидетелем её (душу) нужно допустить, на всякий случай

А про псю смешно, спасибо.

вот например:
Choose your way of life in broad daylight. If you propose to die without hope in Christ, say as much. If you resolve to let the future happen as it may, and to run all risks, then put down in black and white your daring resolution. If you believe that you shall die like a dog and see no hereafter, do not at all conceal from yourself your doggish degradation, but be true to your own choice. If you choose the way of evil pleasures, do it deliberately and after weighing all that can be said on the other side. http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/2098.htm

My testimony is that, if I had to die like a dog; if this life were all, and there were no hereafter, I would prefer to be a Christian for the joy and peace which, in this present life, godliness will afford. http://preceptaustin.org/spurgeon_sermons_on_hosea_3.htm

And if I had to die like a dog, and there were no hereafter, I would still prefer to be a Christian, and the humblest Christian minister to being a king or an emperor, for I am persuaded there are more delights in Christ; yea, more joy in one glimpse of his face than is to be found in all the praises of this harlot-world, and in all the delights which it can yield to us in its sunniest and brightest days. http://www.biblebb.com/files/spurgeon/0409.htm

*А так - весь НЗ об этом*
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