Why take chance in not believing in God, What if he is real, the price that we have to pay is too much and there is no going back. And if you believe in God and if he doesn’t exist, there is nothing to loose.
Think.......
2006-08-18 08:03:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What if he is real ............
2006-08-18 08:05:06 · update #1
Each of us is just a unique accountable creature. Thus I beleive in God because the diversity that helps each of us feel that he/she is very unique in everything.
By everything I mean the physical attributes as well as the mental attributes.
How many people are there? and the way that each is very unique is really a sign that although that we belong to Mankind, yet each of us is very unique, so who would spend all that effort to develop a new distinguished person every second expect God.
2006-08-18 08:18:45 · answer #1 · answered by egyptian_youth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've essentially restating Pascal's wager. You're greatly simplifying the problem though. The Jewish God YHWH is not the only God people believe in. By wagering for the Judeo-Christian God, you wager against all of the other Gods. Wouldn't it make MORE sense, therefore, to believe in EVERY God, to maximize your potential returns? But following that logic, some Gods may not want you worshipping other Gods (YHWH included), so in taking a polytheistic view you then must weigh the risks... are the potential returns of believing in multiple Gods greater than the risks that a handul of these Gods could rain down fire and brimstone on my head? Where does it end?
Furthermore, in wagering for God (assuming the JudeoChristian belief), you must give up earthly pleasures. If you live your life without experiencing life, living only for a heaven that may never arrive, then you have indeed lost something by wagering for God.
Your argument assumes a binary choice:
1. Believe in God = Reward
2. Unbelief in God = Punishment
It's not that simple.
2006-08-18 15:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If god is real then I can look him squarely in the eyes and say "I tried to understand the universe and I didn't see you in it". But what if god isn't real then you have wasted the only on average 75 years of life you will ever get waiting for something better to come along that isn't real. Think....
Say no to jesus
2006-08-18 15:11:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What if?
What if you die and suddenly find yourself in the Hall of Osiris standing before a tribunal of Egyptian divinities headed by jackal-headed Anubis, who reaches forth, rips your heart from your body, and tosses it into a pair or scales to be weighed against a feather? What will you say when Anubis asks you how often you made sacrifices to the true gods of Egypt?
Wouldn't it be safer to offer burnt sacrifices to the Egyptian gods twice a day, every day, and memorize all the appropriate propitious spells--JUST IN CASE?
2006-08-18 15:24:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's a question of whether or not people want to believe in God...I believe most people want to believe there is an all powerful personal being out there watching out for all of us.
However, the problem is that most people can't believe in God because of lack of evidence and the hypocrisy shown by his followers.
They might want to, but they can't.
2006-08-18 15:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People believe in gods because they don't want to face the cold reality that when you die, your consciousness is gone. People are self centered (through evolutionary design) so they like to think of themselves as very important. Believing in a god supports this view of their own importance.
I am atheist and believe in my heart I am correct. I never try to persuade others unless I am asked directly as you did.
Peace and Love,
Rat
2006-08-18 15:11:29 · answer #6 · answered by Ratmeyer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We should believe that God exists because it is the best bet?
2006-08-18 15:13:32 · answer #7 · answered by Macaroni 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says there is nothing to lose if you believe in God and he doesn't exist?
What if you are supposed to believe in the Almighty Tofu Jesus?
2006-08-18 15:11:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think, if god does exist, he'd know if I was pretending to believe in him "just in case," and that would piss him off more than me following my heart and believing what I really believe. I can't force myself to believe in something I don't. Sorry.
2006-08-18 15:10:40 · answer #9 · answered by Girl Wonder 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are simply rehashing Pascal's wager. Read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
The short refutation of your argument is that you assume only two possibilities: your God as you understand him or no god. What if some other God is the true one? or what if you are simply mistaken about what your God is about? Then you are in the same boat as the unbeliever.
2006-08-18 15:12:23 · answer #10 · answered by phaedra 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋