If all of a sudden, you seen a man step out on the clouds, with a army behind him and you begin to see people vanish before your eyes... What would you think??? I am NOT trying to convince you in any way, i am just asking..... Would you feel any regreats? would you be in shock? Because i have imagined there is no God, and If there wasnt I would have nothing to be disappointed in... But if i didnt believe and i seen that, I would feel very disappointed... Just wanted to know your opinion... PLEASE NO SMART CRACKS.......
2007-02-02 08:22:27 · 20 answers · asked by wva_butterfly 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Honestly, If I saw that at first I would probably take as a hoax of some sort. Like a holographic projection or something. If any doubt that it was real was taken away, I would probably $hit myself and hide under a rock because (according to the bible anyway) I've been a bad person. And if I saw something like that I would know that the bible was probably right. I really don't see it happening though.
2007-02-02 08:29:08 · answer #1 · answered by thatoneguy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You really don't get that this is not a "belief", do you. I say that I there has never been any evidence to prove the existence of God; therefore, I am justified in saying that God does not exist. That is an intellectual position. "Prove it, or stop claiming it to be true."
Now, if a man steps out of the clouds with the army and people start disappearing, I would first want to know what that is. I would have to confirm that it isn't a hallucination, a hoax, another god, and rule out other possible causes. If it turned out to be God, I would feel no regret or shock, I would simply have to do the intellectually responsible thing and state that I was unable, absent any proof, to accept god's existence as fact.
Refusing to accept a claim that is made with no evidence to support it is not morally "wrong". There is nothing "bad" about it, and I would have done nothing to regret, don't you see that? It's not a matter of right vs. wrong, it's about correct vs. incorrect. I would not have been wrong, I still would have been correct to come to the conclusions I had, given the data. Given new data, I would come to a new conclusion, and that would also be correct. That's how science works. That's why Pascal's Wager doesn't work for me, because it assumes that the position that God does not exist is either correct or incorrect. It is not. It is correct, no matter what, because a logical person could not conclude otherwise at this time. If the existence of God was proven, atheists would come to a new conclusion...that he exists, and they would still be correct.
Any god that wouldn't understand that would be far too stupid a deity to hold any further interest for me.
2007-02-02 08:28:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If something like that did happen, it would not convince me that it was god doing it, all that it would prove is that something I haven't got an explanation for was occuring. I would investigate the matter as thoroughly as I could with the instruments science gives me, and make a conclusion. It might end up being a hologram, or a mass halucination brought on by aliens tampering with our brainwaves. Hell, it could even BE an alien floating down using an as yet unknown anti-gravity device. It could of course also be god, but I would have to see the evidence.
Just because it's strange and inexplicable, doesn't mean it's god. It just means it's strange and inexplicable.
2007-02-02 08:32:36 · answer #3 · answered by dead_elves 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
your question is strangely put. if i saw a man step out of the clouds i would first think i was hallucinating (really) and then i would wonder why people were disappearing. of course i'd be in shock. how often do men step out of clouds? i would feel no regrets at all because having a belief that turns out to be wrong doesn't make me a bad person--just a guy who looks at the evidence. i think a good god would understand that. i think a good god would not have such a strong ego-need as to punish people simply for not believing in what they cannot experience with their senses-(i.e., their mechanisms to test reality). and why do you think god is a man? a man doesn't have the capability to know all at all times.
2007-02-02 08:30:32 · answer #4 · answered by heyrobo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
come on! no smart cracks?
"A man step out on the clouds"
"an army behind him" (on the clouds I presume)
"people vanish before your eyes"
I would probably lay off the peyote for a while if I saw that. Is this really what you think will happen?
The rest of your question is just a rather badly spelled version of Pascal wager's yet again. Bingo, anyone?
2007-02-02 08:33:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What would I have regrets about? I am proud of the way I've lived my life. I've tried my hardest to help others. I've tried to treat others the way I would want to be treated. I've made mistakes but I've tried my hardest to correct them. If it turns that there's a god up there who's been watching me all along, well, so be it. Let him review my life. If in the end, he cares more about my choice of religion than anything else, then I'd tell him that I looked at all my options, did a lot of research, studied, and tried my hardest to make the best possible decision based on my own reason. I'd remind him of that time earlier in my life when I tried very hard to convert to Christianity, and I'd remind him of all the reasons that I couldn't; and I'd tell him that when faced with the option of either converting to a religion or lying to myself, I will never choose the latter. And if in the end, he thinks I deserve hell solely for that reason, then so be it -- because like I said, I have no regrets.
2007-02-02 08:32:29 · answer #6 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's see - if I saw a man step out on the clouds, I would make an appointment with a psychologist pronto, since my first instinct would be that I'm hallucinating.
Not a smartcrack - just the godhonest truth.
2007-02-02 08:33:23 · answer #7 · answered by Lunarsight 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say to God, even if i wasn't your follower as such surely I have lived my life with honest, integrity, helped those who needed my attention and generally lived my life with good ethics MUCH BETTER THAT THOSE SO CALLED CHRISTANS. Therefore I'll ask him who he is going to save? if he chooses the hypocrites then I take a leaf out of his book and adapt a new life style in heal.
If i get chance for second question then it would be if u all might God why didn't u give me a brain to allow me pretend as those many so called religious people do?
I seriously tried to answer ur question as honest as possible!!!
2007-02-02 09:39:15 · answer #8 · answered by SMB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first thought would be that we are in for some bad times because it looks like those crazy Christians were right. I would not have wanted to abandon the earth just when it needed me most anyway. I'd be preparing for a fight.
Interesting variation of the wager.
2007-02-02 08:35:06 · answer #9 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe in some things, a higher power being one, but i don't necessarily think that power is called "god."
for a long time, i didn't know if i believed or not. irregardless, i don't think your "question" is a very good one. because, as a believer, you should know or at least have faith in the fact that god, or whomever, loves all his children, regardless of whether they accept him or not. due to this, you should know that he would never do such a thing.
even if i didn't believe and i thought that this could be a possibility, no, i wouldn't have regrets, because god, or whomever, has given me free will. and i do not believe in the concept of regret. what i have chosen to do was done so with his blessings. he made me be able to make my own choices and he accepts them because he wanted his children to be able to think and do freely, within their own conscious.
2007-02-02 08:29:54 · answer #10 · answered by nc_strawberry 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋