Why do Christians think they have nothing to lose if god doesn't exist?

Question

What do you have to lose if god doesn't exist? Your life. Living a lie means your whole life was nothing but a big lie. I dont know about you, but I dont want to live a lie. If god doesn't exist, your whole life is a big trick. That's like being married for 60 years before finding out your husband never loved you and did nothing but use you and cheat on you. Putting 5 dollars in the offering plate every Sunday all your life comes out to LOTS of money. What do you have to lose if god doesn't exist? Your life.

Answer 1

I think that having a relationship with God throughout my entire life time is a win win situation. Well I would have spent my whole life being loved and giving love to others and enjoying beautiful peace and joy without having to worry because my Savior promised to take care of me in every way. What a waste
I have more money in the bank, I don't drink and smoke and a longer life because of it

Answer 2

Once you die, you're dead either way, and unless you've made a major impact then except for the family/friends who knew you.. it will be just like you never existed. YOU wouldn't even know you ever existed or how you lived your life. So would you really have lost anything? You wouldn't even know your life was a lie and couldn't possibly, no matter what, ever care.

Christians have nothing to lose because if God does exist, they've lived their life for him and will be in Heaven, and if He doesn't, then they've still lived the very best life they knew how and that's something worth doing.

Answer 3

You know, most Atheist think Christians sacrifice everything for this "GOD" we believe in.

You think we just hand our "precious" money away, we spend countless hours with like-minded people, we have given everything that is "good" in life away.

That is pretty far from the truth. If for some reason, like in your mind, there were no God. What have we really lost?

We have helped people in need.
We try and be compassionate to everyone.
We do things out of the goodness of our hearts.

I feel sorry for you, if you think giving five dollars a week to someone else, for whatever reason, is loosing your life.

Answer 4

Let's look at the alternative. Suppose in your mind, God does exist. You choose to disbelive in Him and so doing cause His wrath to fall on you. Wouldn't you had rather when you died except His forgiveness and live in Heaven, a place where there is no more sorrow or pain, nor suffering, versus the alternative, Hell, a place where eternal suffering exist, and the fire is never quenched.

Now if God never existed, I would not care when I died what others thought of me, since I was dead. I mean, who will remeber me 2000 years from now, except for maybe someone in my family (if even then.)

So I choose to follow Christ and believe in God, because I believe He exist.

Answer 5

1.Nothing, I gain loving morals.
2.No. not a lie. A life of determination.
3. No trick. My determination is not tricky.
4. Don't compare a cheating hubby, to God.
5. Money is Tax deductible, even by YOUR standards. It goes to people.


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Answer 6

Was about to ask that after 'arrogant's quote:

"It is better to live as though there was a God and find out there was not, then to live as though there wasn't and find out there was".

I disagree because if there was such a God who would punish you for not believing in him, even though your faculties concluded that you are not sure if he is or that he is not... he is not worth caring for! How can God reward you for living a lie unless he is evil himself and loves servile unthinking insects! I d rather spit on the face of such a God when i meet him! After all there is such thing called human dignity!

Answer 7

I have a simple way of putting this, there is often the idea that to believe in God is a weakness and a downfall. I want to suggest...an intellectual aspect to believing in God. Have you ever heard of Blaise Pascal? He was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher who wrote several works. He wrote a piece called the Pensees which in it included something now known as "Pascal's Wager". I suggest you read that. It will challenge you to think...not emotionally or foolishy...intellectually.

Answer 8

Have you ever tossed a penny into a wishing well? Or closed your eyes and made a wish on a shooting star? We all need to dream and hope and wish......and believe. What do you have to lose if God does exist might be a better question to ask yourself. It's not about money or promises, its about purpose while we're here. After that if theres more wonders awaiting us....GRAVY!!!!

Answer 9

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?

What any Believer stands to gain is why s/he has nothing to lose by modelling him/herself after a peaceful healer who told men the truth at the risk of His own life, modelled forgiveness on the Cross to the ones who were killing Him, and did not come to condemn a world that does a fine job of condemning itself.
Jesus loves you just as much as me. Note: Who expresses the most hatred in this column?....Peace. Buttercup

Answer 10

Speaking as an atheist who considered himself a Christian at one time, I remember feeling that I did indeed have something to loose if god didn't exist. I knew it would mean that one day, I would die and utterly cease to exist, for good.

I knew I had wasted an inordinate fraction of my life in devotion to this 'concept' when I finally concluded that I had assumed something all along without any basis whatsoever. Tough to swallow.

During my early childhood, my parents did not expose me to ideas or viewpoints conflicting with their own. I had no alternative - no choice - in a sense, but to believe what they said until I was free to seek answers for myself. I trusted the god-centered model of reality given to me as totally as one trusts daylight to come.

It pains me in a way to see children led-on so by cowardly parents, unwilling to expose themselves to the discomfort of a child's probing curiosity.

Time, money, trust, opportunities...much, much to be lost.