If you died and ended up in hell would u regret not believing when you still had the chance? Or would you accept your decision deal with the consequence? Serious question, if ure gonna be troll and say something stupid or derogatory go somewhere else with that trash...
2006-09-15 08:48:40 · 32 answers · asked by mr_kastner 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Belief is not a choice. I can no more believe in god than I could believe "2+2 = 5". How could I reget not believing in superstitious fairytales and nonsense. If there was a god and he wanted me to believe, and knew what evidence I would find credible, then why has he not provided it? Instead all I have is a ridiculous fairytale with talking animals, 900 ear old men, and zombies climbing out of the ground. I can never regret being honest and using the brain I was born with.
2006-09-15 09:08:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mean this world isn't hell?
How can one regret that? It's not like one thinks "OK, from now on I'm not going to believe.". It doesn't work that way. A person doesn't consciously choose to believe or not to believe, one merely perceives and deals with things differently. A certain book might convince you that something exists while it might not to someone else. How important can that be anyway? With questions like these, you merely point out a belief that one may be punished for something one can't control by a deity that is supposed to be loving and fair, and you expose one of many possible contradictions. How would that be fair? You see, it's questions like these that make people doubt the credibility of religious scriptures. How can something so necessarily perfect be so flawed? Let's just say that some people's eyes are open wider than others', and some people's hearts are more receptive than others' as well. I believe that regardless of what I believe, I'm not going to hell, unless I buy a plane ticket to some country where a war is being waged or I fall into deep depression. That's what I think hell is. At best, when I die, I'm leaving hell. Then again, maybe I'm never leaving. But it all comes down to this question: Should I waste my entire life in speculation and fear or should I just do my best as a human being and take whatever comes my way?
2006-09-15 09:04:58 · answer #2 · answered by Ricardo P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a serious answer - sorry if it isn't what you wanted to hear.
A problem with these questions is - how can you freaking answer a question like that?
Given that there is no heaven or hell, how can I tell you how I'd feel if I landed there?
My parents told me that there really was no Oz or Munchkin land - she never asked me the question, well, you don't believe in Munchkin land, but what would you do if you ended up there? I don't know - paint a picture, sing a song? Dance around until I got dizzy.
What if YOU died and ended up NoWhere - dead in the ground, would you regret your decision to be a Christian? Serious answer.
FP
2006-09-15 08:57:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't want to be associated with a God that says that we have free will, then only gives us two choices Heaven or Hell. What kind of free will is that. Is it not cruel to give a thing rational thought, then ask them to fore go the use of the rational mind, it's sadistic and evil. If Christianity was about rational thought instead of faith, I would be all about it, but it is not. I would think a God would be fair enough to show the things that happened in the Bible to be true by making them happen also in our life time, but he does not, so it is natural to think that it is all made up non-sense, if he can't understand that then he is not a God worth being a part of. So no I would not regret using the rational mind that I was given.
2006-09-15 08:59:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No regrets, and no loss of hope here....Satan and I would have one thing in common -- we were both unjustly punished for wanting EQUALITY. If your bible is at all true, then Satan and the Fallen are not bound to hell (Lucifer's running around in the mortal world all the time); and you're going to see a second War in Heaven, the likes of which you can't even CONCEIVE of! We won't rest until there's true justice for EVERYONE, and with Forever to accomplish it, time will be on OUR side....
2006-09-15 08:53:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unlike so many Christians, I cannot and I will not try to justify, excuse, or accept some of the clearly evil things the bible god is depicted of engaging in in the bible...
I do not care what twisted logic you want to use to try to justify a god ordering one group of humans to commit mass murder against woman and infants (1 Samuel 15:2-3). It is evil...plain and simple to see.
I also take into account that the god depicted in the bible is extremely angry, turning a woman into salt for merely looking at something or slaughtering men for simply daring to look inside of the ark. (1Sam 6: 19-20)
Spending eternity in the company of the bible god or satan would be almost the same thing...both are evil...
I choose not to spend eternity with either one of them...
2006-09-15 09:10:09 · answer #6 · answered by stephenjames001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We'll almost anyone being roasted forever in a lake of fire and being unable to die would regret being in the hands of a merciless torturer for all eternity. But my regret would not be in rejecting the insane relgion the torturer imposed. My regret would be at my impotence to stop if not destroy an all-powerful being who would torture someone for eternity for rejecting him.
I'm sure when Saddam Hussein's sons had women prisoners in the rape rooms the women weren't sorry they hadn't cheered loudly enough at Saddam rallies. I rather think their regret was in not having the means to destroy their tormentors.
2006-09-15 08:53:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, because. I cannot love what I believe to be an evil deity. I'd accept the consequences and enjoy my company in hell.
Belief isn't good enough, the most important command is to "Love they Lord thy God with ALL your heart, soul, mind and strength" It is impossible for me to love a monster that would torture people eternally, even for simply not believing...what kind of sicko would do that?
2006-09-15 08:51:04 · answer #8 · answered by FreeThinker 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You seem to be trapped in your limited perception of the world. Not all of us measure our lives based on your belief system. And what the heck to I mean by that?
I cannot go to a place that I do not believe exists anymore than you can travel to a place on this planet that does not exist. Case clossed.
2006-09-15 08:59:31 · answer #9 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd be perfectly happy. All the fun people would be there with me.
More importantly, if there is such a thing as a benevolent God, he/she/it would know that I do not choose to be a non-believer, instead,it is simply who I am. I could no more force myself to believe in God than I could force myself to believe that there is a pink unicorn in my back yard. For me, atheism is not simply a matter of being belligerent. It is a part of my being.
2006-09-15 08:50:43 · answer #10 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋