Atheists, Anti-God's: Life and death situation. What if you're wrong?

Question

I just watched a quick movie and was horrified at a guy singing, "I'm gonna burn in hell" and laughing. My friends, I BEG you not to be flippant about this life and death situation.

What happens if you die, and come face to face with God? What happens if everything you believe is wrong? My friends, I have a lump in my throat thinking of you singing, "I'm gonna burn in hell".

Please dont take this lightly and give me stupid answers. WHAT IF YOU ARE WRONG? WHAT IF YOU HAVE TO GIVE ACCOUNT FOR EVERY WORD YOU HAVE EVER UTTERED??

Oh friend, please, please, seek for truth ernestly. Open your heart to the possibility of Jesus Christ, but don't think you are too clever and its ok for you to find out about heaven and hell when death knocks on your door. It will be too late then.

PLEASE.

Answer 1

What if YOU'RE wrong. I don't think any all-loving God as you obviously believe in would send people to hell just because they sang a song.

I think he would be far more mad at people who go to church on a Sunday for an hour to look good or make sure they get to heaven than he would at people who actually do good things because that is the right thing to do.

It's not me who's wrong . . .

Answer 2

If I don't believe in Jesus Christ now, I won't think about it when I'm gonna die. And i most certainly won't sing "I'm gonna burn in hell", because I don't believe in hell. Where is hell anyway? I think that if heaven is not in the clouds like Christians think it is, hell must not be 100 miles underground. But lets say I'm wrong, and God does exist, He'll forgive me. He'd know that I've been an honest and good person. He'd know that I loved my neighbours and friends and family. He'd know of all the charity I've done, and that I mean every one of them. And even if God does exist, He would not be the God Christians portray Him to be. He would be much more forgiving, loving, kind. And He would not send me to hell. That, my friend, I'm sure.

Answer 3

you ought to opt to reveal screen touching the void, it will be seen on goggle video. it really is extremely a peice of rock hiking legend. Joe Simpson is on a ledge 80 ft right into a cravas, after his hiking chum (Simon Yates) had to cut back his rope, He had assumed Joe to be useless, as he became already in a nasty way, with a damaged leg. he says in the documentary. i'm paraphrasing right here "I continuously concept if the sh*t hit the fan then, i'd turn back to god, yet i did not, I nonetheless couldn't have self belief in god, having been presented up a catholic" He abseiled deeper into the cravass, and placed the bottom, from right here He managed to get out. In a project adverse to all odds to keep him self, Joe walks miles, in affliction from his leg, without water, only melting snow in his mouth. he kept his own life, really than sit down there and watch for god to do it.

Answer 4

Oh boy. Another cry of Pascal's Wager.. I bet you thought your idea was original, didn't ya?

Yeah, dancing round hell... should be fun.

Puuhhhllleeezzee..

The fallacy of PW is that -- how do you know you're not wrong in believing in your god? What if you went through life believing in the wrong god? After all, there are thousands of valid deities just waitin' for your worship so that they can dole out the salvation.

Answer 5

What if you're wrong? Do you know how much of a better world this would be if instead of spending a few hours in church on Sunday, people went out and volunteered themselves. And just for that same amount of time. What if people gave their church donations to the poor instead?

If I'm wrong and you're right, I'll burn for eternity in Hell. But just as you believe you are correct, I believe the same way. I'm not afraid of Hell because I do not think it is real. Similarly, you aren't afraid of monsters coming out of your closet and eating you at night, because you believe they're not real. With that example, I hope you can understand how people aren't afraid of burning in Hell.

Answer 6

Will he let me in if I fake it? I really don't believe that God exists. So if I pretend will he let me in. If God exists, I couldn't imagine that he would torture me for having a healthy portion of doubt. That is really my only problem with that stuff, I honestly don't believe in that rubbish. I don't have a problem with doing the right thing. It's not that I'd "rather have my sin" or some crap like that. I really think it's a bunch of made up garbage. Can't you understand that? Do you really think that devil has me tricked?

Answer 7

What if I am wrong?
If god is just then he will look at the reasons I believed as I did and grant that, being as he made me, it could have been no other way. So it is his fault not mine.
If he is unjust he will punish me for his own failure to give a rational person reason to believe in him.

On the otherhand, if I were to follow your advice and believe in him because I am afraid of a spanking, than he should punish me as a hypocrite

Answer 8

Was this quick movie something shown in your church or fellowship? If so, it was designed to get you to feel this way. That's actually a form of brain-washing.

I appreciate that you feel very strongly about your beliefs. I've actually been there myself. It's not the only way to live or think. No one can live with this anguish. If you keep to these beliefs that all of us good people who aren't Christian are going to burn in hell, you'll either suffer immensely, and needlessly, in this world yourself or you'll grow bitter and hateful towards us.

It's your choice.

Answer 9

I was an atheist myself when I was younger because the idea of a loving God who is so cruel and inhuman to prepare a burning lake of fire to torment people He created forever and ever is just absurd. Thank God after I studied His Word thoroughly, I found out that it is not the case. God is merciful and just at the same time. The Bible teaches that there is a Heaven and a New Earth where those who accept His plan and rules of the game will live happily ever after, but those who refuse will be allowed to return to it origin, which is dust or ashes as described in Malachi 4:1-3 and 2 Peter 3:

1 “For behold, the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”
Says the LORD of hosts,

“ That will leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise
With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out
And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
3 You shall trample the wicked,
For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet
On the day that I do this,”
Says the LORD of hosts.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.[c] 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

It is only fair for God not to force anybody to live in heaven forever for those who do not want to believe Him and do His will. For those who like the way of the ungodly, Heaven will be like Hell.
So we are given our present brief life of around 70 years to decide whether we will accept that kind of a life with Him and all His saints, or be returned to our origin, that is dust.

Answer 10

Any god that would create a place of eternal torture and then send the beings he claims to love to that place for the wrongs they did over just 70 years on earth is not a god deserving of my worship, even if it did exist.