If the Heavens split and Jesus descended and proclaimed "I am God", would you still reject Him?

Question

I think many of you simply don't want to know the truth, even if it struck you on the head as lightening. To profess a 'need' for a Saviour, to admit the fact that you can't be saved on your own or that all the gibberish that has been forced down your throat from High School and College professors all these years is a bunch of bunk for many is too big of a pill to swallow.
The truth is the Bible predicts that many will still reject God in the end, even when the truth is as plain as day simply because as Tom Cruise said it " They can't handle the truth!"

Answer 1

If that happens it will be too late. However, I will agree with you about this one.

Answer 2

Wow.....This is the first time I heard someone use Tom Cruise, a devote Johovah's Witness, to justify orthodox christianity. I tip my hat to you sir...

As for your question. The answer is no. If the heavens split open and Jesus started casting lighting at non-believers, I'm sure many people would convert rather quickly. Although, I'm sure that if anyone had the power to cast lightning, they would be worshipped Jesus or not.

Also, as other posters have said, God is kind of a bully. I mean, is it really reasonable to condemn non-believers to eternal torment for all eternity simply because they ate meat on fridays? I think not. BUT on the other-hand, I would rather be worshipping the biggest bully in the universe who has infinite power than the kindest most just person who has no power.

Plus, for some unknown but presumably wise reason, God doesn't like people to see him. In a way, He is like the kid who broke the lamp and is now hiding to escape punishment. God created the universe and then decides he won't play an overt active role in its daily activities. Don't give me that line about sending His son 2000 years ago. He is GOD (The Almighty).....you would think He could do something recognizable once in awhile. (Maybe some public appearences? I got a couple stores He can cut the ribbon at)

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

I've read contradictions in the bible that have been pointed out by a variety of shows and books. Websites, too. Numerical errors exist, also. The books all have references. The bible does not. I've also come across teachings that are accredited to Jesus even though they were mentioned before by other philosophers. So, if the heavens split and a spiritual entity came down and claimed to be God, I would KNOW it was lying and PRAY a 'good' spirit was around to counter such a claim. All of my disbelief has been based on what I've read...not teachers or professors.

Answer 4

God talking to me would help a lot. As it is, God is as arcane and obscure as Allah, Vishnu, and Odin.

There is no proof of his existence, so why would I cast my vote on an empty promise? The other religions make empty promises as well.

If I knew for a fact that the person I was talking with was Jesus Christ, then I couldn't be an atheist. I would *know* he was real.

But then, simply proclaiming that isn't enough. How do I know he's not a con man? The Bible was written by people with their own little agendas, and I don't put faith in that. It'd have to be certain knowledge.

Answer 5

Your "truth" is based on belief and has never been shown to be fact. I really don't want to offend, but you are presenting your belief as something that is definite and that is simply not a fact - look up the difference between faith and fact.

If your faith makes you happy and a better person, then great. But your arrogance in having to push your faith on others without finding out if they even want it is only to shore up your belief.

Your own god told you that if people don't want to hear what you have to say, walk away. My beliefs are different than yours, but I don't feel the need to make the rest of the world like me - that drive of yours is why there are problems in the world today - people don't let others live as they see fit!

Regardless of what the bible says, single source for something does not mean it's true. Constantly being told something is true does not make it so. I am quite happy and capable of living without your faith being shoved in my face.

Answer 6

I'm assuming by Heavens you mean sky...

So if the sky split in two, which would look weird (being a vacuum and all), and a dude floated down and landed in front of me and was like "Mike, I am God," I would:
a) make sure I wasn't dreaming, and then
b) stop being an atheist, and then
c) start asking a LOT of questions. Maybe starting with "Jesus, how does sacrificing yourself to yourself to atone for the sins of humans, which you were able to see they would commit before you ever created them, make any sense whatsoever?"

Answer 7

To Randy GE: It's NEVER too late!! And to you foxray 43, you're so right in your comments about all the bullshit that gets shoved down us in highschools and universities and "news" magazines and "news"papers, and "news"television being too big a pill for us to swallow once we find out what it's really worth that we choose not to swallow it because we can't believe that God would want us to swallow our egos and that what God has for us on the other side of that "crow pie feast" is incredibly better than that crap that's been served to us for so long. Believe me, with my university degrees, what you get there is a lot of bullsheeiitttttt as I told Rush Limbaugh years ago. He congratulated me for coming into the real world and "growing up". I remember once, decades ago, when a man realized that the graduate school program we were in was requiring, or should I say demanding us, to choose between the way they told things and the way God told things in His Bible. He was a young married man, and he was trying to build a career, and as he spoke to me that day, he said, "If I walk out of this program, I'm walking out on all the money I've spent and the time I've spent on this career choice, and I've got a wife and child to feed." "But," he went on, "If I stay here, I'm walking out on God." When I heard him say that, I was petrified to realize what his decision was without him saying another word. He said "Bye", and walked out of the university forever, and stayed with God. I can promise you this: THAT MAN is scheduled for Heaven the moment, the instant he dies or passes from this world. Not only because of his choice to abandon the university that day instead of abandoning God, with no financial security upholding him, but also because even though I stayed and got my Masters Degree, what he did that day has stayed with me for 29 or 30 years now, and I've told that story to a few people here and there, and hopefully helped other people see that the bravery it takes to follow God is not gone or absent. It just takes guts to do, and to have the belief in Him as our ONLY SAVIOR in life. So, back to your question, would I still reject God. No. But I'd be horribly ashamed at how many times I haven't stood up for God like that man did back in 1976 or '77. God Bless you. And God Bless that hispanic man who had the guts, and the faith to follow what he KNEW to be right.

Answer 8

To ask such a question in the form you chose is a direct rejection of Christ and the message. It's a direct support of the ego-based Jesus that has made it into the bible -- a Jesus that symbolizes separation, individuality, and everything else our ego thought system has.

Answer 9

I would be in awe and ask if he would like to join me and talk over a cup of coffee because I would have so many many questions. Well, if he talked with my guardian angels or the ones watching over me he would know that coffee is not the thing to give me, especially when I have questions. It multiplies by 100 and so does the speed at which I talk.

Answer 10

Think about what you said!!! THE BIBLE PREDICTS!!!!!!!!!! For people who don't believe the bible is worth the paper it was written on it doesnt mean anything. And Tom Cruise is a scientologist! so not even he will believe it.

Answer 11

I think you've confused Tom Cruise with Jack Nicholson and "They can't handle the truth!" with "You can't handle the truth!"