If atheists think there is no judgment day, what if they are wrong?

Question

I've heard all the goofy answers, So please, those who have a mature answer, please share with me, what you think? Thanks!

Answering a question, with another question, I perceive as not taking time to tell someone what you really feel. I thank those who opened up and shared. I pass no judgement on anyone. If I believe there is a Judgment day, and I am wrong, my thoughts are "how great it was to be given such a awesome time on earth." I asked my question, because I wanted to remember what others think. Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

This question is asked often on here. I will tell you what I have said before.

If I am wrong about being an atheist, and I stand before god, I will hold my head up. I'll say "I looked for you harder than anybody I know. I read the bible in its original languages. I prayed for hours and hours. If you know all, you know how sincerely I looked. If you can chuck me into hell, knowing that, then I go with a clear conscience. Because I wouldn't want to share eternity with a being who could torment ANYone for eternity. Let alone someone who looked for him so hard."

I would rather go to hell with a clear conscience and a pure heart than go to heaven because I chose out of fear.

Answer 2

"...the father's love for you..!" If this 'Father's love' capacity permitting 3-million human beings to be tortured and slaughtered by Nazi Germany, or permitting a 9-9-year-previous little woman to be abducted, tortured for days, then murdered, or no longer noticing the uncounted thousands and thousands of starving toddlers contained in the worldwide, then i think of i'm going to basically pass. Extracted from Yahoo!solutions community policies -- Yahoo! solutions isn't a soapbox to...rant approximately subject concerns. Yahoo! solutions is a community of questions and solutions, no longer a communicate room. If a submit is neither a question nor an answer, it doesn’t belong right here.

Answer 3

Religion is a funny thing in that exact way.. What if other religions are wrong? I personally believe it's not the religion or type of god you worship, rather it's the way you live your life. I don't believe you need to belong to a certain religion to be okay after death. As long as you live your life in a caring, responsible fashion, try to help others as much as possible and don't create problems that you'll be perfectly fine.

Answer 4

If atheists are wrong, then they will go to Hell, according to the Bible. It's plain and simple in the pages of the book of Revelation. But it's not just the atheists that would go; it's also the people who believe in something other than God, and people who say that they believe but act as they don't. Christianity is not singling out atheists or evolutionists. No where in the Bible does it say that. It DOES say that everyone is welcome to read or hear about Jesus. You can make up your own mind after that. But let the Bible be what you base your decision on, not the the hypocritical behavior of one or two people you encounter while ignoring the dozens of others who are truly walking the path they believe.

Answer 5

You know what you think happens, so why ask? I know what you want me to say, but nobody really knows. We could all be completely wrong and be doomed for all of eternity.
P.s. Why is this question asked to atheists only? Isn't everyone that has beliefs that are different from yours in the same boat?

Answer 6

As an atheist in a Catholic family, I have actually thought about that a lot. Sometimes, I feel scared of my beliefs and wonder if I'm doing the right thing, straying away from God. Death scares me a lot. You have a point...what if I'm wrong and I go to hell? What if God shakes his head at me and hands me over to Satan? But you have to understand that I still love Him. I just don't want to listen to false priests and people who claim to know Him but really don't. I want to worship Him in my own way, in the privacy of my room. If God wants fancy celebrations and a bunch of meaningless preaching, then screw Him. I ain't gonna participate in any of that. If I'm not good enough for God, then I wouldn't want to spend an eternity with Him, and that's my true opinion. Do what you want with it.

Answer 7

This is gonna sound a little more rude than I mean it too, so I'll apologize ahead of time.

If atheists are wrong, they'll finally have PROOF. No proof til then makes the whole Pascal's Wager thing a moot point though.

Answer 8

It depends on what kind of "Judgment day" you are referring to. If you are talking about a day where God judges people based on their actions, then I would say Atheists are in no better or worse shape than Theists. If everyone will be judged according to actions, then Atheists have just as much a chance of having good actions as Theists. Believing in God is not a moral issue. Morality has to do with action, not belief. I could believe that the earth is flat, but that would not make me immoral. It would make me wrong, but not immoral.

If you are speaking of a different kind of Judgment Day, where people are judged based on what they believe, then it depends on what beliefs one is supposed to have. According to Islam, one ought to believe in Islam, and therefore, the Atheists, Christians, and everyone but Muslims will be in trouble that day. If people are being judged on whether they believed in Jesus or not, then Atheists, Jews, Hindus, and everyone but Christians will be in trouble.

Answer 9

To be honest, no one can answer that. Because the only people who would be able to answer are already dead. So for anyone to give a "this is the truth" answer, could be right or wrong, but there is no way to verify it. That is why there are so many religion, because no one really knows.

Answer 10

Well, it would be God's fault for not providing enough physical evidence. If God knows all, and really wants everyone to get to heaven, he would be smart enough to provide more evidence other than the bible to convince us atheists, since he should know atheists are very logical and skeptical in thinking.