Isn't it obvious that atheists are smarter than god?

Question

Heck, everyone knows that we've got the best of both worlds. We can live our entire lives like rational human beings, certain of logic, facts and evidence, (aka sinning) and then if, in the unlikely event we get too frightened of damnation, an instant before we die we can just denounce it all like a 5 year old saying they're sorry, and accept Jesus and God.

I mean, wow! It's the best of both worlds. What a way to get over on the big omniscient being upstairs. Guess he/she/it didn't forsee this.

Answer 1

That's actually false doctrine. You cannot instantaneously repent; true repentance is a process. There has been much misunderstanding about this "deathbed repentance" doctrine. Confusion has arisen over the years when there was no prophet to lead the people. Adam, the first man, was also the first prophet. He may not seem like a prophet, but he was one. In time, though, the Lord's children chose a different way.

So the Lord called Noah, and his family was the only righteous one on earth. The people wouldn't repent, so the Lord flooded the earth and started over. This success didn't last, however.

So the Lord called another prophet: Abraham. He taught the people righteously, but eventually, the people fell away again, and found themselves in bondage.

So, to guide His people, the Lord called Moses, who led the children of Israel out of bondage. He led the Israelites with righteousness, but they became unworthy of seeing their promised land, and wandered 40 years in the wilderness.

Eventually, the God sent His son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to establish His church upon the earth. Unfortunately, even this did not last, as He was tortured and crucified to death. Ultimately, all the Apostles died out as well, and for many centuries, just like before, there was no prophet to lead and guide the earth's inhabitants.

But now, in the last days, the Lord has called a prophet to lead and guide the human race, name of Joseph Smith, Jr. He has restored the Lord's church in these last days, and has brought forth the Book of Mormon, and has, in the words of a successor of his, "done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it" (D&C 135:3). Today there is a prophet in his place, name of Gordon B Hinckley, and he is the Lord's mouthpiece on this earth.

May we all listen to a prophet's voice.

Answer 2

There have been a couple times in my life that I came very close to dying.

Like the time I came over a rise going 70+ on my 750 and had to negotiate an extremely tight righthand sweeper with a wall of oncoming traffic (3 lanes) coming right at me. [I didn't know motorcycles could lean that far]

Then there was the time I had a head-on collision with a diesel truck hauling 6 tons of gravel. (I was in a volkswagen Karman Ghia). [boy did that hurt]

About the only thing I had time to say in both those situations was OOOHHH - SSSHHH I I I TTT ! ! ! ! !

[please pardon the expletive]

I don't think you're going to have time to search your soul and say any kind of meaningful prayer of repentence.

Don't assume you're going to die of old age, it's my bet you're not the first to put off making a decision for Christ until your death bed. I bet Kurt Kobane did too, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Jimmy Morrison, Madeline Murray O'hare, Vince Foster, heck, the list is endless . . .

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Answer 3

Let me tell you a funnier story. Heck, everyone knows that we got the best of both worlds. We can hate in the name of God, condemn people to hell and when the time to be judged comes we claim that we are not perfect like God is and we will be forgiven for just believing in him, so we can live without any guilt or awareness of our actions and sins. We can also kill someone, but then we become born again Christian and poof! magically it is all forgiven...give me a brake.

Answer 4

Boast not yourself of tomorrow; you never know when you are going to die. Maybe not for 90 years; but maybe in the next 9 micro-seconds.

And a person can only come to Christ when the Spirit draws him/her. You reject long enough and the time may come when the Spirit no longer draws you.

And you seem to have a totally wrong concept ... it is to have Eternal Life NOW; not to avoid it until the last possible moment.

Instead you want the "joys of sinning" for a season? lung cancer, broken marriages, children you get to see only once a week, etc., etc.

Answer 5

:) Cool if that's the way it will happen. I was an Atheist (among many other non Christian things) for 30 years. After a while I had developed such a hatred for GOD (Something I didn't believe in) That I would of cursed GOD to his face if I died. Just wait. It gets better as you go. But if you wont listen to GOD then my experience has no chance.
IMHO
GOD bless ya.

Answer 6

Sorry, but you don't have the best of ANYTHING. You are a sorry pitiful person, and to top it off, you don't know what the heck you are talking about. Maybe you ARE really a 5 year old. You sure sound like one. In case you didn't know, God sees our hearts, and knows if we are sincere or not. I guess you are only fooling yourself. Go get yourself a bible, and try and read it if you even know HOW to read!! You are pathetic!!!!

Answer 7

This is the essence of contrived projection. It's exactly what the secular fundamentalists do to christians, only in different form. It's a very immature perspective of god and spirituality.

Answer 8

And you even know the seconds before you die. Wow. To be able to muster up genuine repentance in your heart like that, all while knowing you're about to die, that's just incredible.

Answer 9

Unhuh sure.
But what you don't know ( obviously ) is that we are judged by our words.
"By thy words we are justified, by thy words thou art condemned."
And you cannot curse the Holy Spirit, that will not be forgiven ~ but you wouldn't know or care about that, you're an a - the -is -t? is that it? I feel bad for you, the only way to true love is to love God. You must live lovelessly, God bless.

Answer 10

I've never met an atheist who even considered denouncing atheism just before they die. If you thought there was any point to that then you wouldn't be an atheist.