What do you have to lose if god doesn't exist? Your life. Living a lie means your whole life was nothing but a big lie. I dont know about you, but I dont want to live a lie. If god doesn't exist, your whole life is a big trick. That's like being married for 60 years before finding out your husband never loved you and did nothing but use you and cheat on you. Putting 5 dollars in the offering plate every Sunday all your life comes out to LOTS of money. What do you have to lose if god doesn't exist? Your life.
2006-10-11 04:59:09 · 29 answers · asked by Spookshow Baby 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have to agree. The "you have nothing to lose" argument is just as much BS as the idea that we are somehow "saved" by a christsicle.
In addition to the donations, lost sunday mornings, living a lie, etc., is the guilt trip that being Christian tries to lay on people. You really can have more fun without that baggage.
2006-10-11 05:31:19 · answer #1 · answered by lenny 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wow, I just figured it out. $5 a week at 6.9% interest for 50 years comes out to a bit more than $116,000.
If I tell you I have $1,000,000 in a safety deposit box and I give you the key and I say go to the bank and you can have what's in the box, you lose nothing if when you get to the bank you find the box empty. Because you never had the money in the first place. Whether God exists or is more akin to the Easter Bunney is like that bank account.
Now if I remember how the Christians do this, oh yeah, say you think there is no money in the bank account so you don't go. And there is no money. You've lost naught.
Now, the other person, he goes to the bank and looks in and surprise, it's empty. He's lost nothing also.
But and this is where the Christian's go aha! What if the second person goes to the bank and he peeks inside and wow, there is a $1,000,000. He has gained that money.
But what about the poor guy who didn't bother to look Well, he's lost that $1,000,000. The Christians think there is a $1,000,000 wiating for them at the end of the raindbow and they are afraid of losing it.
Anyway, if Crhistians like church and have fun and like their chruch friends then they shold keep going. But if they hate it and are miserable and wish they were home wathcing cartoons then they shoujld stop. Becaues likely they will find their key doens't fit at the end and then they really are losing somethng..
As fo rme, well I think I'm going to start putting $5 a week into the bank myself.
2006-10-11 05:20:15 · answer #2 · answered by Twoflowers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we just wink out after death, nothing you've stated matters at all. Lots of money, what good did that do you when you're lying in the dirt? If the church uses it to feed the homeless or dig wells in Africa, isn't that a more worthy cause than whatever else you would have spent it on? If you just wink out, who cares what anyone's husband did to anyone? It doesn't matter. If there is no god, then there will be a day when there are no humans, and what would the point in any of it be to anyone?
A better question is: What if God is real? What do you have to gain now and in the afterlife from a realtionship with Him?
Because, if we're wrong, we've lived our lives with charity and love, believing in something better than anything else this world has to offer. If we're right (and I believe we are), we get to continue that life forever through the grace of a God that loves us.
I'm sorry that you find more comfort in money than in a loving God and a loving community.
2006-10-11 05:12:01 · answer #3 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Please, if this life is long, tell the 12 yearold that died in a car crash that. Where is his life? He never got a chance to live, did he? So how is life meaningful to him if he never got a chance to enjoy the things you've got to enjoy.
You can have this life, I'll take the billions of years that are coming over the chance to enjoy a few decades.
Please, you lose this life? WHat about all the people in the world that have no choice either way...
The Starving
The Handicapped
The Blind
The Poor
The mentally challenged
Where is their choice?
Dont worry they'll get theres in the next life (like the 12 yearold), a life that lasts billions and billions of years more than your measly life. But enjoy it while it lasts, you dont have much time.
2006-10-11 05:09:46 · answer #4 · answered by Murfdigidy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as quickly as you die, you're ineffective the two way, and except you have made a important effect then different than for the relatives/pals who knew you.. this is going to be only such as you in no way existed. you does not even understand you ever existed or the style you lived your existence. So might you particularly have misplaced something? you does not even understand your existence replaced right into a lie and could not probably, no remember what, ever care. Christians have not something to lose using fact if God does exist, they have lived their existence for him and could be in Heaven, and if He does not, then they have nevertheless lived the very superb existence they knew how and that's some thing properly worth doing.
2016-10-19 05:08:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oddly, I've gained a lot since I've become religious. My health improved, I've gained confidence, I've had a lot more good luck then when I was a Wiccan. I don't think I've lost a single thing by going to church every week. I believe in God, and am happy to spend my hour with him. I pray in the car and haven't regretted a single word. I don't think of my money in the collection plate as lost, I"ve seen what it can do for my church. If I see a priest when I"m pumping gas, I pay for his gas as well. I don't lose out at all.
Just because you don't like my religion, doesn't mean I have to change it for you. God exists, and I'm glad to dedicate my life to Him. As I said, I'm happier now then when I was a Wiccan. I was miserable and near suicidal, and no magical Goddess came to my rescue.
2006-10-11 05:11:33 · answer #6 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
however if God does exist (and i know he dose) then i go to heaven when I die, and you well I wont say to be nice but the bible is very clear
I also live with the love of God every day, the peace of God is greater than you could ever understand.
He has blessed me taken care of my family in times of great need. He has even healed my body.
and if by chance you are right (and i know you are not) then I still have lived in joy and happiness that most do not. I have lived to make my world a better place with faith and peace, in morality and humility, nobility, and honesty
2006-10-11 05:08:45 · answer #7 · answered by Noble Angel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My life is just is that...my life. I don't consider treating people with respect, loving my neighbor, and following down a righteous wasting my life or living a lie. A better question is what if you spend your whole life NOT believing only to find out you where wrong. Worst case I lose nothing when I die, I'm dead. Worst case for you, death leading to eternal damnation. I'll take my chance with Jesus!!!
Peace and Blessings
2006-10-11 05:08:32 · answer #8 · answered by SmarterThanYouThink 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Giving money to church isn't a bad thing, my church has several ministries to the homeless and single moms. In fact, they're stretched a bit thin for cash. Churches aren't always swimming in money like some ppl portray them to be.
Living by God's laws isn't a bad thing, it often keeps you away from problems. Waiting until marriage for sex keeps you from STDs. Honoring your body by keeping it healthy through good diet and not doing bad things to it (like taking drugs) will keep you alive longer and save you from that addiction. You actually have a much safer and happier life by obeying God and avoid a lot of problems. You don't have to worry about the effects of sin if you never do it.
2006-10-11 05:05:24 · answer #9 · answered by STEPHEN J 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What do YOU have to lose if YOU'RE wrong? Your life. Ironic, huh?
I don't feel I've lost anything. I did live before I was saved; I did things most people only dream of doing. I don't miss any of it. My life is fuller and I am more content now than ever before.
Peace.
2006-10-11 05:06:47 · answer #10 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋