You know there is no such thing as Judgement day, right?

Question

You can't honestly believe in something so ridiculous, can you? That god and Jesus are just going to magically appear one day and start saying "I like you, I hate you, I like you, You suck, You're special, You're going to hell."? Does that make any sense? What possible motivation would 'god' have to create a world, let it run for millions of years, just so one day, out of the blue, he can start pointing fingers at the people he didn't like and bestowing special favors on the people who sucked up to him?
You realize this is just a fairy tale, right?

ass400. The problem is, you are PRETENDING that there is a god when you have no proof that there is one. Just because you want there to be one doesn't make it so! I can want Santa Claus to exist, I can have FAITH that he exists, but that doesn't mean that suddenly there's going to be a fat guy in a red suit riding around with reindeer at the North Pole. Your point that life is pointless if it is meaningless is exactly right - it is. Whatever purpose this all serves isn't for any living thing to know. You can hope and wait all you want for your death to know the answers, but just because you HOPE for it, doesn't mean it's going to happen.

Amanda, here is an example of God's little love note to you and me:

"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)

Answer 1

Wrong. There will be judgement day, because there is a God.

Let's play "pretend". Pretend there is no God. You live your life as if you won't have to make an accounting of your life. You die. Nothing happens. All you did was "waste your time alive being good".

Now, pretend there is a God. You live your life as you want. You die. You now have to account for your life before God. You have to account for both the good and bad. The difference? It is now to late to do anything about it.

Answer 2

In a word, no. Judgment day is a little too far-fetched for me. I believe what you say is correct. I cannot imagine a divine being; standing around going yes you are good, no you are bad. It doesn’t mean that human beings cannot be good to each other; to treat each other with respect and try to live with decent values. I would go as far as to say religion is a dangerous thing. More wars and bloodshed have been caused by religious beliefs than any other reason. God fearing people often say to me that there has to be something that has created all of this, some divine intervention. Why?? Science shows that life forms easily start. Human beings are just another life form, evolved over many, many years. I respect a person’s rights to believe in God, if they so choose. If that is what motivates them to live a good life, fine. However, when they start killing and persecuting in the name of those rights, I lose that respect. The concept of good and evil is a fine line. Religion should not be the moral compass. Loving and respecting your fellow human being and treating them as your equal is what should be guiding all of us. I’m a realist and know that this is impossible. I accept that I will live and I will die and that is all there is. I do not need to believe some powerful God will judge me, and that is what will make me a good person. That is too illogical for me personally to accept. I don’t believe there is a Satan or a God. I believe that a fluky set of random events have created a species on a rock in a solar system.

Answer 3

Yes there will be a Judgement day, but not like we are led to believe in the bible, remember it was written by man, so by writing this it was a good way to scare people of those times, and still some now in to doing what had been written in the bible. Just take a look and see how much profit has been made by the what man has written in this book. It may have started out God's idea, but man soon changed that.
Judgement day will be when we destroy the earth, not God, and those that survive will class it as Judgement day.

Answer 4

There will come a judgement day and then will the Ravenswood marbles be judged before the Peltiers and the Akros will be ajudged superior to both. For lo, the corkscrews are still an amazement to those who know not the spirit of the spinner cup as it overfloweth in the vituperations of the laird.

In the wink of a cats eye, the patch, the steely (dan) and the moonie shall be swept away for keeps.

It is written thus in the Book of Confusions:

Losing Our Marbles

Mibular
clicking and
spherical
dreaming. In
vivo, In
vitro: sand.

Gyroscope
whirring and
lyrical
throwing in.
Knowing the
secret

And we spin just like tops on our points of desire,
and we melt just like glass newly-drawn from the fire.

Tremble, blush and mumble --
tongues once glib now stumble.

Like two school girls we stare and stop
to see whose dress is first to drop.

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Can you tell me that any MAN wrote THAT???? Hardly!

I hope this helps all of us in our search for that teachable moment.

Peace and no take-backs!

Answer 5

There WILL be a judgement day in the future, whether you choose to hide your head in the sand about it or not. Besides, if God is not real and does not exist, then where did life come from? You can not possibly credit that to evolution. It sounds like YOU are trying to live in a fairy tale. But God loves you anyway.

Also, ringo711 got it wrong when he said that the Bible was written by man. Yes, it was physically hand-written by dozens of God's chosen people, but it was God who divinely told them what to write. Also, the Bible is a love letter from God to you and me-it was not written to scare us into submission. It sound like both of you need to get your facts a little straiter.

Answer 6

I believe there will be a judgment day, as we have all already had several times. When you die, your judgment day happens right then, but you are judged by yourself, your higher spiritual self and if you judge that you did not live your live correctly according to your original purpose, then you will choose to reincarnate and to try it again until you do. After you get it right you will either reincarnate to help other people, pass on to the next dimension and start again there or return to god as part of god.

Answer 7

I don't understand the comment above "wasting your life by being good." First of all, good is a relative term. I'm not sure if by good, the author of the above meant following every rule and commandment set forth in the Bible or the pick-and-choose mentality that so many so-called Christians choose to follow so that they can fornicate. I'll go with pick-and-choose. Or better yet, I'll go with principles. So say we're living by principles instead of by rules. Principles like treating others as you would wish to be treated. So does that mean the only reason for being a principled person is because there's some grand reward afterwards? Or because of a fear of eternal punishment? I don't consider myself a Christian and am not convinced that there's an afterlife, but I don't see that as a reason or an excuse to commit evil or immoral acts towards others. I feel that whether I was placed here as part of some grand design or not, I should have principles in my life so that complete chaos does not ensue. If there is heaven, maybe all the Christians are right and they are going to go there. Or maybe it's only the Catholic Christians who are right. Or the Baptist Christians. Or the Seventh Day Adventists. Or maybe all the Muslims are right and they are going to go there.

Another thing that has always bothered me...why would the Christian God grant Satan, his enemy, the right to punish the ones who were doing his bidding in the first place? If Satan is evil, why send evil people to him? Wouldn't they just have a big ole party down there in hell?

People constantly try to convince me that there is a God that has a plan. They tell me that all of the horrors we experience on Earth are just a "test" for us and that if we get through it, we'll be rewarded. When I tell them this is bull, they always offer up the analogy that you would allow your children to go through certain things so that they learn. Sure, I would. I would allow my children to go to school, knowing they are going to be exposed to many different things that I might not agree with. I would allow my children to learn to drive, knowing that they might possibly get a speeding ticket or get into an accident. But would I stand by idly and allow one of my children to pick up a knife and stab my other child through the chest to test them? Would I sit and watch my daughter get raped by my son, only stopping to say, "Okay, Honey, this is a test, I just want to make sure you get through this, okay?" No. Why? Because hopefully, if I have children I will love them enough to do whatever it is in my power to stop them from experiencing horrifying things...even if that horrifying thing is being committed by one of my other children. In addition to the horrors of past and present wars, genocide, slavery, concentration camps, we have the everyday robberies, physical abuse, rapes, murders, diseases, epidemics, natural disasters and various other things. If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, he or she or whatever sees all of this and does nothing. He (for the sake of using one pronoun) has sat idly by and watched every horrible thing that has happened on Earth to his "children" whom he supposedly loves. So if there is a Higher Being, some Great Existence, obviously we do not figure into a plan. Maybe this Higher Being is simply observing us, without emotion, the way many scientists observe rats in a scientific experiment.

Answer 8

Even if someone pretends there is a God there is no judgment day. St. Paul wrote Revelations as a letter to motivate and encourage persecuted Christian, nothing more. This is not to say I discount Christianity, just revelations. It was meant as fiction.

Answer 9

I don't believe in a literal Judgement "day", as if it will happen all in one day, any more than the earth was created in six actual days. I think that it will happen, only GRADUALLY. And I think we will have some warning that it will happen, and many of us will reject the warnings, much like people today reject any news or warnings on the subject.

Answer 10

Perhaps there isn't a judgment day as we all perceive. but i do believe what we do in this life reflects how we will live in our next life. example, a rapist may live this life as a bad man, a rapist, perhaps in his next life he comes back as a orphaned child who get molested repeatedly, or perhaps comes back as an advocate for public execution for rapist.No one knows the real answers, these are all just beliefs.