The Bible clearly states you'll have everlasting life by being born again (John3:3) and becoming a child of God. Sadly,most of the world prefers to live their lives as they please with no regard for answering to God after they die.Jesus said the path to heaven is narrow and the path to destruction (hell) is wide. In this wicked world,that wide path has never been wider.Isiah 45:23 clearly states that EVERY knee shall bow and EVERY tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord, but sadly , too late for most as they will do this after they die without accepting Christ during their lifetime.
If you are an atheist/evolutionist/agnostic reading this..if what you believe is true,then you have nothing to worry about when you die and neither do I or all other born again Christians. BUT,if you are WRONG, the saved STILL have no fear of death but woe be to the unsaved and unrepented when they die.Is your very eternal soul worth gambling away a few years of pleasure for? Eternityisforever.Beready!
2006-10-14 10:52:38 · 28 answers · asked by Jeff C 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
One agreed with me. Sadly (for them) 25 didn't agree. Thanks for taking part in my little test of proving what Jesus said is true.. The path to heaven IS narrow indeed.The path to hell grows wider every day.
2006-10-14 12:52:04 · update #1
Amen to that Parkman!
The gibberish that JP posted with the a,b,cx,y and z (pascals wager) proved not a single thing. You (and most) seem to overlook the obvious fact of the 2 choices God lays before us. It's up to you to accept Him or reject Him. I feel sad for the people that reject God's Word. All we as Christians can do is pray for them and hope they come to repentance before it's too late.This life is but a brief moment compared to eternity,it pays to be ready.
God bless you and yours,
In Christ,
Jeff
2006-10-15 00:57:08 · update #2
Jeff,
Thank you for posting this question on Yahoo! Answers. Let me share with you what I "lost" by giving my life to Christ.
I lost the desire to follow along with the cool party crowd. Until God saved me, I was a "follower" in the worst sort of way. I drank like a fish just to fit in with the people I worked around. I had no real desire to party; I just wanted to be one of the boys.
I lost the desire to drop money on pornography as if money grew on trees. I wasted more money than I care to admit on adult movies and magazines. I thank God that he saved me before the advent of the internet. I would have thrown away everything for the porn that is rampant on it!
I lost the desire to treat women like sex objects just to satisfy my lustful thoughts towards them.
But what I gained cannot be measured:
I have the confidence that should I die in my sleep tonight, I will awake in the presence of Jesus Christ, the creator of the universe! My life and communion with him will continue throughout eternity.
I now have a friend in this life who sticks closer to me than a brother. He guides me through my day-to-day life in a calming way that allays my fears and worries.
And finally, I have gained numerous Christian friends and a wife who love me for who I am and not for what I can do for them.
Regards,
Park
2006-10-14 16:53:29 · answer #1 · answered by Kidd! 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe that salvation can be lost. . .but it takes some doing: Specifically, a conscious decision on the part of a mentally and emotionally competent person to reject the Holy Spirit's message of salvation through Christ. He must be able to fully and willingly reject his earlier acceptance of Jesus as Lord and Savior Your hypothetical accident victim is not a different person than the one who received Christ: he is the same person with a severely impaired memory. Although he appears to be capable of rejecting salvation, he doesn't have a true capacity to remember what led to his initial acceptance of Christ before the accident. When he stands before God in judgment and sees the entire picture of his life, both before and after the accident, then he will have the capacity to say, "Yes, I accept Christ" or "No, I reject Him." Until that time, there can be no final assessment of his salvation.
2016-05-22 02:06:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're kidding yourself about your "eternal soul", so you're throwing away your life. You have no reason to assume the bible is correct and the koran and hundreds of other religions are wrong, you just decided to believe the bible, or more likely it was stuffed down your throat from early childhood or you've been influenced by people around you. Have you read the koran? Why don't you think the koran is correct? People that blindly accept things, like muslims, are dangerous to us all.
2006-10-14 11:00:14 · answer #3 · answered by kimmyisahotbabe 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why should I live my life in terror that I might be wrong? If the god you talk about exists and is the way you say he is, then when I die, he'll accept my apology and forgive me for being wrong. If he isn't the way you say he is, then I don't want to worship him anyway.
Belief born out of fear isn't belief at all. It's just fear.
And why in hell would I want to spend eternity basking in some gods glory just so he knows how wonderful he is?
2006-10-14 11:00:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Intelligence, for one thing. Common sense. Understanding of truths. Wisdom. Belief in a more perfect god than the manic depressive humanoid deity created by the ignorant people who wrote the bible.
That's a lot to lose.
2006-10-14 11:21:42 · answer #5 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My independent thinking.
My capacity to decide everything for myself (at least everything about myself).
My Sunday mornings.
My lack of guilt whenever I do what you call 'sin'.
My happiness to do things you'd frown upon
My creative capacity with no more limits than my imagination
My capacity to see things from different viewpoints
My capacity to accept ONLY what I'm accounted for.
My defence against manipulation.
...
Anyway, IF there were a hell and a heaven, and IF the bliss of heaven consisted of being next to god, and IF the punishment of hell consisted of being away from God, I DO want to go to hell.
2006-10-14 11:00:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
There are plenty of religions out there. If you have to place your "bet" on one for the future of your after life, I think people should look carefully. If Christ is not God, then you lose your bet for praying for the wrong dude. Isn't that is a big bet ?
As a start, I think Bible is full of holes and stories that doesn't add up. Even people are telling me not to trust it to the context. Hmmm... that sounds scary, does it ?
Anyway, good luck to you.
2006-10-14 10:57:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
*Sigh*
When will you get tired of Pascal's wager? Haven't you realized that the contents of your book hold little to no meaning to those of us who (by definition) do not believe it? It doesn't matter to me WHAT your book says...as far as I am concerned it's all about the myths and superstitions of a nomadic tribe of people who died out a long time ago.
Do you get it? Your Bible has not had a scrap of convincing evidence to suggest that its claims about life, the world, and everything are true.
2006-10-14 10:59:59 · answer #8 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why should I give my regards to "god"? If biblegod is real, he screwed it all up from the get go. I mean, what kind of incompetant fool creates imperfect heaven (satan and his league), trys to create perfection on earth, they screw up and instead of sending the savior right away, he curses man, floods the earth, burns Sodom and Gomorrah, waits 4000 years, sends himself in man form to teach for 3 years, dies, comes back to life and teaches a bit more, goes back to perfect heaven, and hasn't shown his face back since.
I'd say if your god is true he should be down here kissing my feet and apologizing to me for screwing up this world so bad...afterall, he didn't have to CHOOSE to create it when he KNEW how things would turn out. "Died" for our sins...NEWSFLASH, if he "died" for our sins (which he made the CHOICE knowing we'd sin) then he should still be dead.
2006-10-14 11:01:22 · answer #9 · answered by FreeThinker 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If what you say is true...god is mean
..god never wrote a bible..it was written by humans,even Jesus never penned a word
religion seems to prevent people from taking responsibility ....(I believe so I'm cool)
soooooooo stupid
2006-10-14 11:05:53 · answer #10 · answered by murphys_lawyers 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋