if god is all power and all knowledge, just like you believe, but he didn't offer heaven as a reward for obedience, would you still believe and obey? if yes, then you truly believe and love god simply because he's god... if no, then all you want is the cookie offered by the big papa in the sky and his omnipotence and power mean little to nothing.
2007-01-17 23:13:46 · 34 answers · asked by Shawn M 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes I would still believe
2007-01-17 23:17:29 · answer #1 · answered by Diana J 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
People are so mistaken. Heaven is a place on earth. Is the pleasure of doing the right thing and see others be well because you cared. Is the joy to know someone cares for you. We don't have to wait for an afterlife to get a reward. Heaven is what you do in life to make the difference. The more good you do, the more good you get in return, making you automatically thank God for all the good fortune you have. And is not money I talk about.
2007-01-17 23:20:49 · answer #2 · answered by M'lady 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good point---The earth in itself would or should be enough proof for any of us to appreaciate life. If you are talking about going to heaven for mankind, that is a situation that was never opened up for mankind in general.
Those who have to go to heaven , or have that so-called hope have either a disgust for the earth or have been duped by false religious teachings.
Jesus said "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven....."Mathew 6
"The meek ones shall inherit the earth " Mathew 5
The potential for life and the enjoyement of it on earth, once this evil system is brought to nothing is humongous. God has not abandoned his purpose for the earth to be inhabited by those who love him and appreaciate what marvels he has made for us in this jewel in the sky:
(Isaiah 45:18) “18 For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: “I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.”
2007-01-17 23:40:55 · answer #3 · answered by THA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well think about the question yourself and you will be answered
when you praise someone do you parise them to receive praise back. if so you praise for the wrong reason
i praise someone when i am impressed with what they have acheived, or what they are trying to achieve, or if they are great at something - so God should really be the first person to praise, irrespective of heaven because he is perfect.
Heaven is being in the presence of God - so God takes in those around him who enjoy his company and thinks he's pretty good. so by saying there was no heaven you would be saying we could never be in the presence of God (which God could easily override eing so powerful), or there is no God in the first place.
2007-01-17 23:23:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Heaven is a reward for living right so I choose STILL after being falsly informed by you to believe in God. Sorry to pop your pimple, I mean bubble.
2007-01-17 23:46:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I would still praise God, but I don't believe I'm going to heaven the way it is.
Psalms 37:11-
"The meek ones will inherit the EARTH."
2007-01-17 23:18:51 · answer #6 · answered by No More No Less 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you didn't have taste buds would you still eat that chocolate?
human beings need to associate their actions with a reward or result. If not heaven, it could be the simple pleasure we draw from worshipping him.
You wouldn't do anything that doesn't feel good or right...
2007-01-17 23:21:53 · answer #7 · answered by violet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's a huge difference on the actual and the religious. The actual guy does die and recollects no longer something. although the religious guy lives with God and praises Him perpetually. that is demanding to describe.. in basic terms keep in mind that you'll undergo in ideas.
2016-10-15 09:48:33 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I still love my creator. I do not believe that "Heaven" is a place that one goes to/or not depending on ones obedience.
God requires "nothing" and that includes "nothing" from anything or anyone else. Our "behavior" has no impact in the eyes of God.
We choose to be who we are at every given moment and it is for us to determine if we shall experience love and compassion on our own or continue to fight, kill or other negative actions toward others.
Each of us will continue on our journey to experience who we are.
2007-01-17 23:23:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are trying to explain spiritual life with the natural mind. It doesn't work.
1 Cor 2:14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
2007-01-17 23:20:43 · answer #10 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I certainly would. The way I act and what I believe is not just to get the reward at the end. It is so that I can lead a happy and moral life.
2007-01-17 23:19:23 · answer #11 · answered by Jennifer 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋