You say you don't believe in Christ Jesus and His precious Word. Ok, that is your right and free will. But what will go through your head if you find out all you did NOT believe in, turned out to be true?
Thankyou
2006-12-14 14:54:56 · 29 answers · asked by Selena Jade's Mommy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, it wasn't funny.
Why, do you sit around thinking about how we will all act when we find out you were right all along?
Do you imagine that we will get down on our knees and beg for forgiveness only to find out it was too late?
Kaile -- Atheists don't believe in reincarnation
2006-12-14 14:59:31 · answer #1 · answered by A 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You might want to look up the term "pascal's wager" and give it some thought.
There is no evidence Jesus actually existed. You have the bible and...well, you have the bible. There are no accounts of Jesus recorded by Jews or pagans during the time he is supposed to have lived and done great works. You have a few references to Christ and Christians written well after the all edged crucifixion - which by the way was a punishment for treason, not blasphemy. That ossuary they found? The inscription James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus, was faked, added to a real artifact. Josephus Flavious was born in 37 A.D. well after the alleged death of Jesus and the references to Christ are high suspect as an interpolation (meaning someone else wrote it later). The books that make up the New Testament were voted on by committees of religious leaders. They had other works destroyed. The Gnostic Gospels are one of the few of those unapproved works that were hidden and survived to be recovered.
Test on the earliest authenticated fragment of the New Testament, John Rylands papyri, indicates it was written nearly a century after the alledged death of Jesus.
I could keep going, but suffice to say, I do not share your concern.
2006-12-15 00:09:29 · answer #2 · answered by February Rain 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably the same thing that would go through yours if you found out sometime that Christ wasn't God. Don't you think it a somewhat ridiculous question?
As a Christian, everything that you are and everything you do hangs on the veracity of a collection of books handed down for generations and generations. Your hope for the future and (for some of you) your actions in life are governed by what's between the leatherbound covers of a book that presumably details events thousands of years old.
Neither you, nor the Atheist have any verifiable proof of the existence or non-existence of God. Atheists have scientific evidence that what much of the Bible claims God to have done, is possible without God. This does not disprove the existence of God.
Christians have their personal experience of what Christ may have done in their lives, and the testimony of the Holy Spirit, but Atheists can point to psychological explanations of placebo effects for healings and the spiritual and numinous feelings.
Who's right?
Personally, I am neither atheist nor Christian, but I find it strange when one group claims certain knowledge that the other is wrong. Neither has any scientific or quantifiable evidence that the other is wrong.
Again, the acrimony is a discrace to all.
2006-12-14 23:07:19 · answer #3 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This sounds like one side of the coin in Pascal's wager. Pascal decided it was better to believe in god because if you don't and you're wrong, you're going to hell, but if you belive and you're wrong, you've lost nothing. But the problem is, what if it's not Yaweh (Jehovah, same thing) that you meet up there, but the three-armed bear that hates the worship of Yahweh (Dawkins used a flying spaghetti monster, but I was using the three-armed bear long before I even know who Dawkins was). There are only two books that confirm the existence of Yahweh (the Bible and the Quran), one of which comes from only one source, and the other which could very easily have been misprinted. Pascal is flawed. He thinks that either Yahweh is there or he isn't, but it could be Yahweh, Baal, the three-armed bear, the flying sphagetti monster, maybe Lucifer himself, or anything. But this doesn't answer your question. I'd probably think ****, they were right. But that doesn't mean I'll belive now. I think that organized religion causes way too many problems, evangelicalism is like a cult, too. They tell you that gays are sinners and evolution goes against god. Organized religion sponsors elitism and hate. All I am is a prime moverist. It acknowledges that something must have created the universe, but I don't think it was goal-directed. I'm getting off topic. If I go to heaven and God and Jesus and Pat Robertson are all staring me down, all I'd just think "****."
2006-12-14 23:06:24 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do believe in Jesus Christ, and a lot of what is in the bible. What I do not believe in is the whole controlling factor of GOD. The only way to maintain the followers is to make them feel that it wasn't just one man but a god. All powerful and that he should be feared and followed. And it is also a great comeback answer to anything to say "Because god created it!".
If there was a shred of reputable evidence then I would admit that I was mistaken in what I believed. Faith is something of an addiction.. Like a punter betting on a horse. Always let down, but is always back in the next day to place a bet.
2006-12-14 23:07:48 · answer #5 · answered by Weiners and Beans 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to play word games but I would imagine it would be the same thing that goes through a Christian's mind when they die and find out that Buddisim or Native Americans were the true believers.
2006-12-14 22:58:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Oh well, better luck next time." As the flames of hell are burning my apparently eternal soul that I was gosh darn sure would be in the body of a cricket this reincarnation around.
Curse you, flaming fiery pit of doom that threatens my soul! Give me flesh and blood and let me become worm fodder.
I think I would be more disgusted with the fact that I was still existing after death to think anything else. Not like saying, "whoops, God, didn't see ya there!" would have much effect if I pissed him off.
Or I'd try to pretend my calender was off and I was just playing an elaborate April Fool's joke. I wouldn't be happy, either way, that's for sure.
2006-12-14 22:58:04 · answer #7 · answered by Kailee 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the first place who said we did not believe it was true? So what if Jesus was a god and a saviour? I may have other reasons not to accept him or worship him.
More importantly for me my reason to deny theism is more than mere 'disbelief'. What if someone told me the sky is in fact green, do I have to 'disbelieve' it? Some things in the world are quite obvious to me.
2006-12-15 06:31:38 · answer #8 · answered by wirelessmouse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even in the bible it talks about not knowing everything.How would you feel if all you believe is incorrect?
1 Corinthians 13 :
9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.
11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
2006-12-14 22:57:00 · answer #9 · answered by ♥ ♥ C.J. ♥ ♥ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The same thing that would go through your head if you figured out that Islam was right and you were wrong, or if Zeus was right and you were wrong. But, alas, this still is reason to take up christianity (or any other religion for that matter).
2006-12-14 22:58:10 · answer #10 · answered by humorist_4_u 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋