Athiests. Those who dont believe in the God of the bible.?

Question

What will you do? What will you say? If Key word IF you are wrong.

Lets say you die and BAM you are standing before a Huge thrown and sitting behind it is God.

Please dont give me the boring "There is No God"

You have to think something. or would say something ?RIGHT???????

Answer 1

IF I'm wrong and somehow a logically impossible, self contradictory deity exists?

I'll tell it that I looked for it for the better part of 2 decades and that I finally came to the entirely logical and well supported conclusion that it doesn't exist.

I'll tell it that no matter how powerful it is, I don't consent to being treated like a criminal for doing nothing more than using the intellect that this thing had apparently given me the ability to use.

I'll tell it, if it wants to know, that I lived a good life, loved my family, raised my son, did many good works for humanity, laughed, sang, helped, cried, cared, and was a generally decent human being.

I won't ask for forgiveness because I've done nothing offensive. I won't beg for mercy because I've done nothing to deserve the opposite. I wouldn't bargain for entrance to heaven because it wouldn't do any good.

Now.... please....... I'd really really like you to answer the same question, but substitute "Ra", "Zeus", "Ninsun", "Quetzalcoatl", "Neptune", "Vishnu" and "Woden" for the Judeo-Christian "God".

Answer 2

I'll tell him what a hypocrit he is, I will then gladly hop onto the next train to Hell because I used my "free will" the way I wanted to and wasn't blackmailed into worshipping a sadistic God. Of course, I use this same philosophy if it was ANY god, wether it be Allah, Zeus, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc.

My only regret right now is not becoming an Atheist at a younger age.

If its either the Islamic or Christian God, I will add something like "I've seen 6th graders write better and more compelling stories."

Answer 3

Hypothetical situation, but I'll go with it for a minute.

I'd probably ask where all the evidence was, if he put fossils on earth to test people's faith, why the universe has the appearance of being billions of years old.

I'd want an explanation of why I would want to worship him having read the OT (specifically all the genocide and slaughtering he commits). I'd demand a rational explanation of why unbelievers suffer in hell for eternity, I'd query why Jesus had to die when its god who makes the rules, and how this is justice if some people have to pay punishment for there sins and others don't. Finally I'd ask why he let babies die at childbirth, why he appears do dislike people using there brains and taking a skeptical approach to the world.

To finish, I'd ask what he thought was a higher ideal, to show kindness and compassion (undeserved) to only those who worshipped him (the christian viewpoint), and punish teh rest for eternity or to show kindness and compassion to all sentient beings, whether or not they worshipped him (much more like the buddhist bodhissatva ideal).

I'd point out that if he was going to send the millions of good people who weren't christians to hell, whilst Fred Phelps, Ted Hagard, Peter Popoff etc. go to heaven, I know where I'd rather go in his warped world.

Answer 4

pascal's wager in a different version....

Christians. Those who believe in the God of the bible.?

What will you do? What will you say? If Key word IF you are wrong.

Lets say you die and BAM you are standing before a Huge thrown and sitting behind it is Zeus.

Please dont give me the boring "There is No Zeus"

You have to think something. or would say something ?RIGHT???????

Answer 5

You are presenting what is commonly referred to as Pascal's Wager. Simply put, "If I am to wager on whether there is a God or not, it would make sense to my eternal soul to bet on God existing."

This is a nonsensical presentation of a fear-mongering Christianity that only present your religion as an insurance policy rather than a commitment and a lifestyle. I think you sell yourself and your religion short. And quite frankly, I think you insult my intelligence.

I do not believe in God, and I have thought it through thoroughly. If God exists, "he" doesn't sit on any throne like some demonic regent. Your God is so infinitesimally tiny, you can't even fathom him beyond a vision of a monarch like Henry VIII.

Find a better God. Find a better argument. Find a thought in your head that has some originality to it and then come find me. Until then, keep your idiotic ideas inside your church, where they will find a happy, warm home.

Answer 6

I know God is not real, but to humor you,
I would tell him that with the intelligence he gave me and the evidence I had, I made the conclusion that he did not exist. Then I would ask why he did not just come outright and tell me he existed and what he wanted. Then I would say, send me to hell, you are no God of mine. Because the God of the Bible is not a just or open minded man, not a man I'd want to know, even if he existed.

Answer 7

Which God, dude? I mean, the old testament god, the new testament god, perhaps the Hindu god, or one of the Greek ones? If I died and found myself standing before a god, well, I'm assuming I'd be at his/her/its mercy... perhaps it'd give me mercy, which I would request on the grounds that I'd be merciful to myself if I was god, and if it didn't give me mercy, I'd be in for punishment of some form, possibly.

In short, I would say 'please forgive me, I can see you now, so don't smite me'. Which, I think, is pretty much what you might say if you turned up in front of a god you didn't worship after your death- or would you say "You're not God" ? I think that could get you into trouble...

Answer 8

well it depends on how it was. there would be many things behind me, waiting to see god due to the amount of beings dieing, i dnt surpose he would have much time.

apparently god will forgive us, if he did then i may or may not choose to go to heavan, u see, people, there may be that u dont want to be with the angels, hell is run by the devil whom is the fallern angel, now he was once an angel and keeps the caracteristics im sure, and i think i would be happy going between hell and heavan. mind u ive sind so much my blood runs thick with sin, but how do u explain how i am top of the class and broken no law?

Answer 9

Which god? Allah? Thor? Jesus? Buddha?

I believe that with the mind I was born with, in the situation mere circumstance has left me in, I have no choice but to disbelieve in the concept of god. I would explain to this almighty thing that I had no choice in the matter, that one cannot blame me for not believing in ghosts, martians, or invisible ears without evidence anymore than not believing in god, as he left so little or no evidence of himself. I would point out that he or she or it, whoever this god is, apparently made me the way I was, and being an atheist was part of that. I am a moral, intelligent person, and I would expect that this would mean more than indoctrination-induced blind faith.

Answer 10

You answer this one. You just died, and suddenly you find yourself standing before a tribunal of Egyptian gods. Jackal-headed Anubis steps forward and rips your heart from your body and tosses it upon a pair of scales, balanced against a white feather. What will you say when he looks down his long nose at you and asks why you never sacrificed to the gods of Egypt?

By your logic, one should sacrifice and pray to every god, goddess, and supernatural entity ever conceived by the mind of man throughout history--JUST IN CASE!

Seems rather pathetic to live your life trembling in fear of what might be, doesn't it? That's how we feel, too. I refuse to live my life in fear. That's a waste of energy, and I'd prefer to put my time and energy into living the most moral, useful, and fulfilling life I can. We know this life exists. Your afterlife is pure speculation based on ancient superstitions.

I'm no more worried about a posthumous judgment than you are of being reincarnated as a steaming hot burrito.

Answer 11

I'm not an athiest, but if there is such a thing as a "wrong" religion, I think I would just say I tried to live a good life and help other people and that's all that should matter. (Also, "Loved the earth. Good job, God!")