What if you're right and Jesus is a big fake? But what if you're wrong?

Question

If you are right and Jesus Christ is fake then you have nothing to lose by believing in Him. But if you are wrong and He is real and you don't believe you have lost Everything!

Answer 1

Praise the Lord.

i concur with u!

Answer 2

I have thought about this, sincerely. I believe that if jesus and all that nonsense is true that if someone is true and sincere in their heart about questioning and finding out the truth for themselves.
I think that someone who lives a good life(most people who don't believe in jesus have very high morals(we've just come up with them on our own instead of being told that this is how we should be), if you have lived a good life and you have questioned what man has presented to you as to what you should believe then I do believe that that will be acceptable. I think it would be easier for him to accept someone like that than someone who just followed blind faith just believing what someone else has told them.

To me following a faith like christianity is a lot of wasted effort in the wrong place for alot of people. I have taught sunday school, I played the piano in church. No matter how much I studied I never felt that what was there was right. It did not resonate with my being. It made my being want to be ill.
Have nothing to lose????? My time is the most precious thing that I have. I have spent enough time on the issue. I have studied it out and I have pondered about it a great deal and I have come to my own conclusions. Jesus is not the way for me. Sorry

Answer 3

"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder" [Homer Simpson's version of Pascal's Wager, "The Simpsons"]

Pascal's Wager was debunked years ago...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_wager#Criticisms_of_Pascal.27s_wager

You do stand to lose a lot. The first thing being is your intellectual honesty. You also lose your natural desire to wonder about the universe and how it really works because you think you have the answers already. You also lose your sense of morality by adopting a religious doctrine that states that owning slaves is ok, that people deserve to be eternally tortured for the crime of being born, that homosexuals, unruly children and people who work on the sabbath etc.. should be lapidated. You help divide the world into groups who fight over who has the most powerful invisible friend. You lose time and energy that could go into helping elevate society, but instead is wasted on carrying out rituals from bronze aged myths that can easily be disproven with the most basic forms of common sense and logic.

I could go on and on. Your age old question deserves an essay for an answer. Here are some.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/wager.html

Answer 4

If, as your faith requires, one must accept christ into one's heart, then believing in him, simply to hedge your bet, wouldn't do you any good. Its not true belief.

If you take a look at the historical, and archeological evidence, there is absolutely nothing to sustain the belief in this man you call Christ. The earliest writings about him were hearsay that occured at least 100 years after his "death", and were sponsered by a christian scholar who advocated lies and deceit in order to keep the church in power. This man was also a bishop, and his name is Eusebius. In his Ecclesiastical History, he writes, "We shall introduce into this history in general only those events which may be useful first to ourselves and afterwards to posterity." (Vol. 8, chapter 2). In his Praeparatio Evangelica, he includes a chapter titled, "How it may be Lawful and Fitting to use Falsehood as a Medicine, and for the Benefit of those who Want to be Deceived" (book 12, chapter 32).

Please, do some reading from unbiased sources. Biblical historians are identical to creation scientists. They have an agenda to fulfill, and will do so at the cost of many (if not all of the facts). I understand that your question is more aimed at appealing to a sense of logic, but its the wrong way to do it. Logically your arguement makes less sense than the belief itself.

Answer 5

What if you are wrong and Jesus isn't what he claimed to be, but the Norse religion is right? *gasp* You'll end up in their underworld with the Goddess there... her name is Hel. Or maybe the Greeks are right? Then you'll end up in Hades (oops, that underworld is already talked about in your Bible... except it isn't Satan that runs things down there... it's the God Hades.)

Personally, I don't second guess my beliefs. I used to... because of questions like this. Now I don't worry about things like this. I don't believe any Creator would go thru all the trouble of creating life and allowing all of creation to have such freedoms (as thinking for oneself, choosing, etc) and then get mad because it doesn't like the choices made and torment those forever. According to that ideology, Hitler would have made an excellent God.

Answer 6

I don't want to believe in something imaginary just to fit in with everyone else. do you know people who believe in imaginary things are considered crazy. just take a look in mental hospitals. the majority of those people see and hear voices on a regular basis. be careful the same doesn't happen to you.

Answer 7

Oh so your just believing in him to be on the safe side are you. Sort of covering yourself because your frightened of hell. That's exactly why they invented religion in the first place, to keep people controlled through fear. I don't fall for that.

Answer 8

The question doesn't arise. I have no interest in Jesus or Christianity. It doesn't remotely concern me.

Answer 9

Sorry, I don't subscribe to Pascal's wager...

and I know I am not wrong.

Answer 10

Define everything.

jesus forgives, so we are back to where we started.

Answer 11

Eternity is a looong time to be wrong!