Notice, none of them actually answered your question. Instead most of them just said "I believe he exists" or "It's about faith". So, they ask everyone else "What would you do if he really does exist?" and yet they can't answer the same question the other way around.
I know what they'd do, they'd be crushed. Because they can't find their hope anywhere else but in a fake book.
Fear is an all powerful motivator. Pity most people don't have the courage to question.
2006-11-04 17:26:08
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Someday you and I and everything else that is alive right now will be dead. If you are right, then that's it. Eternal nothing. But if religious people are right, then what have they given up in this life, some immoral acts maybe. Maybe they have not hurt someone because they falsely believed God did not want them to. So they were "better" people than they would have been without religion. What have religious people lost by believing in God and trying to do what the Bible teaches? Not much really and theoretically anyway, society has benefitted from the good works done by religious people in society. If you doubt this, ask someone in southern Mississippi whether FEMA or church groups got aid to them faster after Katrina. Now for the hard question, what if there is a God? Religious people have not lost anything in life, but have a future after death. And those who believed that life was a random accident in a cruel and empty universe and conducted themselves accordingly during life? What happens to them at death? In other words, don't worry about proof about God existing and follow what he said to do in this life whether or not he exists.
2006-11-05 01:22:45
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answer #2
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answered by mattapan26 7
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I guess I wouldn't be a believer. But, there wouldn't be any proof that God doesn't exist, just like there wouldn't be any proof that God does exist. I learned to accept that and there would be more questions then answers. I would drive myself crazy if I tried to find proof if he does or doesn't exist, or searching for answers if there aren't any or try to make sense out of everything. I Try to accept things the way the way they are and I only have my faith to go by.
2006-11-05 01:00:50
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answer #3
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answered by ? 4
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I don't know if you can prove anyone side, though when I think of folks putting their faith in aliens, I think of all the people in heavens gate who killed themselves in an attempt to hop on the Halle-Bop Comet. thanks, but no thanks... I'll put my faith in a god that does Not make me where black Nike's and eating poison laced applesauce.
ALSO to the IGNORANT BLOKES COMMENT ON OUR FAITH-
if i woke up tomorrow and turned on the TV and saw news that somehow someone had proved that there is no God. I would continue to live my life with integrity and good works, acting in kindness to all beings and rest peacefully... knowing that I was living a good life for good of myself and for the betterment of mankind. I just don't get why some people have to be so synical and vile.
2006-11-05 01:03:46
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answer #4
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answered by Rose 3
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How can you prove that anyone loves you? It is the same question to me.
God is the creator of everything that would include the Aliens and their lab.
2006-11-05 01:00:52
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answer #5
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answered by freemansfox 4
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God exists, you sthinner (key board lisp), so repent. Christians can't even accept something like that as a hypothetical.
2006-11-05 00:58:36
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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If I'm right,when I die ,I'll be in a real place,with my departed loved ones.If I'm wrong,I'll be worm food,and won't know it anyway.I choose to believe not as an insurance policy ,because God wouldn't honor that anyway,but because I really do believe.That comes from years of research,believe me.
2006-11-05 00:59:11
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answer #7
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answered by AngelsFan 6
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I WOULD LAUGH! Since you don't seem to be one of these off the wall people who have an axe to grind with Christians I will try to be civil because this seems like an honest question.
There is proof if you are a reasonable person willing to accept the truth. I have searched for compelling evidence for the existence of God and found it. In fact, it includes scientific laws and principles. This makes it in harmony with nature as it should. There should be harmony between ideology and reality. Here it is:
The following evidence comes from THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD vol. 2 & 19. St. Thomas Aquinas said:
ARTICLE 2. Whether It Can Be Demonstrated That God Exists?
I Answer that, Demonstration can be made in two ways. One is through the cause, and... The other is through the effect... When an effect is better known to us than its cause, from the effect we proceed to the knowledge of the cause. And from every effect the existence of its proper cause can be demonstrated, so long as its effects are better known to us, because since every effect depends upon its cause, if the effect exists, the cause must pre-exist. Hence the existence of God, in so far as it is not self-evident to us, can be demonstrated from those of His effects which are known to us.
ARTICLE 3. Whether God Exists?
I answer that, The existence of God can be proved in five ways.
The first and more manifest way is the argument from motion.... [Newton’s second law of motion] whatever is moved must be moved by another. If that by which it is moved be itself moved, then this also must be moved by another, and that by another again. But this cannot go on to infinity, because then there would be no first mover, and, consequently, no other mover, seeing that subsequent movers move only because as they are moved by the first mover... Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover which is moved by no other. And this everyone understands to be God.
The second way is from the notion of efficient cause.... There is no case known (nor indeed, is it possible) in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself, because in that case it would be prior to itself, which is impossible.... Now to take away the cause is to take away the effect.... Therefore it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which everyone gives the name of God.
The third way is taken from possibility and necessity... [or] to be or not to be. ...If everything is possible not to be, then at one time there could have been nothing in existence. Now if this were true, even now there would be nothing in existence, because that which does not exist only begins to exist by something already existing. [FACT: Matter can not be destroyed nor created; at most it changes form i.e. solid, liquid, gas. Physical Law: the first law of Thermodynamics.] Therefore, if at one time nothing was in existence, it would have been impossible for anything to have begun to exist; and thus even now nothing would be in existence -- which is clearly false. Therefore, not all beings are merely possible, but there must exist something the existence of which is necessary.... Therefore we must admit the existence of some being having of itself its own necessity, and not receiving it from another, but rather causing in others their necessity. This all men speak of as God.
The fourth way is taken from the gradation to be found in things. Among beings there are some more and some less good, true, noble, and the like. But “more” and “less” are predicated of different things [like a match in comparison to the sun]... Therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being [a Supreme Being], goodness, and every other perfection. And this we call God.
The fifth way is taken from the governance of things. We see that things which lack knowledge, such as natural bodies, act for an end... Hence it is plain that they achieve their end not by chance, but by design. Now whatever lacks knowledge cannot move towards an end, unless it be directed by some being endowed with knowledge and intelligence, as the arrow is directed by the archer. Therefore some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are ordered to their end; and this being we call God.
2006-11-05 01:09:47
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answer #8
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answered by Search4truth 4
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It's impossible for me to say that he doesn't exist because hypothetically speaking that he doesn't exist would mean that I wouldn't exist either!
2006-11-05 00:58:16
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answer #9
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answered by Pashur 7
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Thankfully, I won't ever find that out. Since you bring it up, I challenge you to disprove God or the truth of His word.
2006-11-05 00:56:16
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answer #10
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answered by panther 2
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