If god is fake, do Christians care that they could be living a lie?

Question

Living a lie makes your whole life a big joke. If god is just a fairy tale, how stupid could you feel? Is that why you have faith? You force yourself to believe that god is real because you couldn't imagine being soooooo tricked. Even if you had a thought that god might be fake, you probably would just block it out of your mind for the sake of not dealing with how much you've already been fooled. If god is real, he has a lot of explaining to do. That's how atheists feel. Us atheists have less to lose because if god is real, it's not our fault that he didn't come down to show himself. If all atheist go to hell, it would probably be a nice place to live because most atheist are good people. I dont mind living around a bunch of nice people.

Answer 1

If God does not exist, how does that for one second make my life a lie? If I found out that God did not exist, I would not feel stupid or tricked. I would feel disappointed, but I think I'd be rather philosophical about it. After all, I LIKE the life I lead. It's not as though I suffer through it because I'm afraid of hell, and if I found out that God didn't exist, I don't think I would live all too much differently. Unless you're suggesting that loving people and helping others has no merit? You say that at least in hell you'd be surrounded by nice people, but try reading through your question again. There's nothing nice in that. Quite frankly, you're giving good atheists a bad name.

Answer 2

I would rather live my life believing that there is a GOD and die to find out that there isn't, then live my life believing that there isn't a GOD and die to find out that there is......

With that said, I also believe that all good people will be given the chance to accept him or not under the right circumstances. Everyone will be given the opportunity to here GOD's gospel and accept or reject it. Everyone is at a different spot, just because someone has never felt the spirit and had a confirmation of the truthfulness of GOD doesn't mean that they are bad. I believe that GOD works on his own time frame and us in our own little mortal bodies can not even begin to comprehend all that there is to understand about GOD. I don't feel like I live a lie. I am who I am. I do the best that I can each day, I make mistakes and I work through them. Life is to be lived and experienced. That is what it's all about. What I do and how I live makes me happy and truthfully I wouldn't want my life to be any other way. Except to maybe have alittle more patience, and that I am working on. I will say that as you struggle with religious people, my only question is how do you live your life the way you do, the same could be said, what if the joke is on you? because of your stubborness over proof of his existance. I think it would be weird to live a life and then die and not think that there is a whole heck of alot more then just this life. Come on.......once you die that's it. That's the thing that doesn't make sense to me. Who you are is not your body, but the spirit that is in your body. Either way, the one thing I can do though is respect your right to believe in the way you believe. My salvation and what I believe doesn't depend on you or what you believe. That's the nice thing, we are accountable for our own actions. By the way, hell is nothing like what you think it is. And truthfully you have to be a really bad, bad, bad, bad person to go there. I doubt that you're that bad!!!!!! maybe blind, but not bad.

Answer 3

What if you're the one that's wrong? The Scriptures describe hell and it is constant torture for eternity. This will not be a nice place to be, nothing but torment and the "gnashing of teeth" the Scriptures say.
What if you've been sooooooooooo tricked? What then? It'll be too late. Hell is a awful place, and before sending yourself there, you might want to do some homework about it. Apparently you haven't because you think you'll just be with your friends there, it isn't that kind of a place.
You have less to lose? What about everything? What about your soul? Everyone has a soul and it will live on somewhere, the choice is yours, but you can at least do some homework and find out what's what instead of taking other people's word for it.
Everyone will stand before the Lord, and give an account for their life. It will be to late then.

Answer 4

Wow.

1. Hell. As a Christian reading the Bible apart from doctrinal influences, I am not sure hell, as commonly described, exists. However, if it does, then it is literally defined as the absence of God and His influence. That would mean no parties, no 'nice people', no acts of love or kindness, no friendship, no intellectual discourse... these are not he things you would find in Satan's realm.

2. We force ourselves to believe... to block out the idea we are tricked? Even though it seems that belief is hard-wired into the brain- which in some ways seems like one of the best pieces yet of evidence for God and against evolution I have heard yet (although I doubt we know enough about this for it to really count).

How do you KNOW you are not blocking your innate tendency to believe because it would be inconvenient for you if there IS a god? How do you KNOW which of us is being tricked and manipulated?

3. GOD has a lot of explaining to do? What does He have to explain? The fact that we tend to act like idiots? The fact that we occasionally (OK, 'often') do really stupid, greedy, shortsighted, mean things to each other? The fact that He is not FORCING us to act like perfect little puppets?

I don't understand this. You don't believe in a god, which means you think all the bad stuff is either people or nature. If there IS a god, however, HE is going to be to blame for the stuff you usually blame on people will somehow be God's fault instead of our own?

The shorthand version of this is usually "how could God allow [fill in the tragedy here]?" I suspect the answers we will hear most of the time will be:
- "You need to look at the big picture. When you see it, it will make perfect sense" and/or
- "Why did YOU allow it?"

4. "If I thought God might be fake". I've been a Christian for about 30 years now. Not a day has gone by that I did not question some aspect or another of it. For the last couple years, I've been on a personal quest to cut through the BS we are taught in Sunday School and see what the Bible really has to say.

I've gone 'semi-atheist' several times, and I would be the first to agree that there are a LOT of Christians that are EXCELLENT ads for atheism out there.

But... there is SOMETHING there... something difficult to identify or quantify... something that keeps me from severing the ties, even when I am pretty close to doing so.

5. "Most atheists are good people". True. Most of ANY population is good people.

I read a biography of a guy who was proud he was not a Christian. His reasons? When he was a kid, God did not turn him into a puppy so he could get out of some grade school test.

Sadly, most of us are like that. Most of us are atheist because we just don't don't want to really think about it, and atheist is a nice default position. Many people (I personally think MOST people) calling themselves Christians today are actually 'untheists'- they sorta believe in Jesus and what's His name, in the Holly Bibble, and if pressed, can even think of the name of a church they have been in once- either for their wedding or a bake sale. They don't really know what Santa has to do with the Nativity, or the Easter Bunny has to do with a cross- but by Golly, they check that little box beside Christian every chance they get!



I have no arguement with what ANYONE chooses to believe in. I just really, really prefer that they REALLY think it out- especially if they plan to share it.

Answer 5

You could ask yourself "if" all you want, but I know that there is an Almighty God, named Jehovah. This has been proven to me by regular study of God's word the Bible, along with history and Bible prophecies that have been fulfilled down through the years. For instance:
2Timothy 3:1-5: "But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away."
These prophecies are so real that they could have been taken from the newspapers, but were written in the year 65 A.D. long before our culture came into existance.
Over 25 years ago, I went to the library where they had a copy of the Bible that was over 300 years old. The 300 year old Bible had the same basic truths that true Christians have made their lives over for and are prepared to die for. You have every right to be an atheist if you choose, but saying that you don't believe in God is like saying that you don't believe in 'gravity' as you jump, unaided from a highrise building. Your 'beliefs won't help you one bit when you hit the ground.
You need a regular Bible study so that God can 'do a lot of explaining to you, to prove to YOU that God is real, not 'a trick' or a 'fake' and holds out the promise for our future.

Answer 6

First of all, it's God, with a capital G. And how can you possibly look around you at all the wonder of the world and not know for sure that there is a God who created it all. Seriously, created by a Big Bang ? What amazes me, is the number of people who really don't believe...and what a dismal life they must live...to think that this is all there is, and nothing more when you die. How horribly sad....to think that you'll never see loved ones after they are dead....and what a comfort to those like me who know that we will see each other again, in Heaven

Answer 7

God's not fake,God is real.
We don't have anything to loose by having faith in God but everything to gain.Ok so let's say what if God didin't exist,we would just turn to a primortial goo and that be the end of us there are no consequences in that,but on the other what will an atheist do because God is there, he/she will spend entire eternity which is endless in eternal damnation,that mean's torture just because he/she turned away from God ,God will turn himself away from this atheist(eternal seperation from God=hell).
Why would you for instance go playing ball on a Highway if you know you'd get killed?,thus since you know the consequence you listen to the right direction of you parent(eternal Father) and he will lead you the right pathway.

Answer 8

So, if God is a fake (which I do not believe is true) then I will have lived a happy and full life.
If however you are wrong and God is real (which I believe he is) then I will end up in Heaven and you know where you will go.
You will end up in Hell.

Answer 9

1. If my life is a joke, it's a good one. 2. God doesn't have to explain anything. He's in charge. But someday we will understand. 3.Hell will be a miserable place to live. You may not believe it, but it's eternity. Why take that chance?

Answer 10

They essentially are just looking for the answers. But if they discover that they are wrong they may not change due to the fear that is in their unconscious minds. This takes time, and no one really knows the whole truth so if some one tried to show them the flaws of their belief, they would just hang on to anything they can find to keep their belief system alive.

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