It is very easy to be an atheist on earth when you have everything you need and all is well for you. You live comfortably, you have friends, a job, and everything is going well... Why would do you need God?
Don't you think it’s also very hard to be an atheist on your deathbed? In these last moments, you will start thinking, "what if there is a God?", "what if these guys are right?"
Will you be able to reject God as easily as you do now when everything works for you? I wonder if there is a single person on earth that never thought "what if?" on his deathbed?
2007-03-21 06:58:16 · 32 answers · asked by Gui 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
For the answer to that please go to your computer search bar and type in "To Hell and Back." Then listen to the video or mpeg presentation by Dr. Maurice Rawlings about a man who says that very thing as one of a group of Atheists who died, went to or near Hell and came back to life on earth.
Amazing as it may seem, every person who experienced Hell
in this presentation turned their life over to Christ immediately afterward in spite of their Atheism. Then they seemed to think they should go around warning everyone else on earth that they could reach before they died to stay away from that place. They are doing it through this presentation and in every other way they can.
You be the judge.
2007-03-21 07:52:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
This is one of those points theists have a hard time understanding. it is irrelevant how I live. I would not believe in God even a little bit more if I was going to die in five minutes or if I was completely miserable. I feel it is extremely unlikely that there is a god. that's it. because a belief makes me feel better and more secure and makes me happier does not make it true in any way shape or form. I am not in the least bit more inclined to believe in afterlife simply because I think it would be nice to live in an afterlife. You look at reality and take in the facts as best you can, whatever conclusion that leads you to is what you stick with. and really that's it. to do otherwise is not only a logical fallacy but is a form of cowardice.
my personal preference is to face what I take to be the truth of my condition over perhaps feeling more comfort by believing in God. that is what is beautiful. the truth is beautiful. reality is beautiful. even the ugliest of realities is preferable to a beautiful lie. it's as simple as that.
2007-03-21 07:09:22 · answer #2 · answered by Kos Kesh 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Is it hard to be a Christian on your deathbed?
What if you're there and start thinking "what if I should have believed in Muhammed instead of Jesus? What if all those millions of Muslims were right?"
Would you be able to reject Allah as easily as you do now when everything works for you?
Please realize, all arguments like this can be turned around on you. (and no, I'm not a Muslim).
2007-03-21 07:03:07 · answer #3 · answered by Eldritch 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I have an atheist friend who is dying of cancer. I asked her a similar question and she replied that to change her mind now and go back to religion would just be weak. She said death is just an adventure she's going on soon.
It made me cry but at the same time I'm glad she's being strong. If religion didn't help her and didn't work for her while she was well, why should she turn back to it now?
(BTW, I am not an atheist, but I have no problem with them.)
2007-03-21 07:55:53 · answer #4 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't see why that would be any harder than being a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Jew, or any of the other belief systems.
Or are you suggesting that only atheists are open-minded enough to consider alternatives? You may have a point there.
Otherwise you have perhaps forgotten that unlike Christians, atheists are fully aware that they will someday die, for real. We live with that fact every day - and yet we're still atheists. Hmm.
Gotta go home and drink now.
2007-03-21 07:07:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I know that there has been. My family and a few friends and myself have all been there. Some of my family is in the nursing business and I used to work in a hospital myself.
Lots of people are saved on the deathbed.
Personal experience.
2007-03-21 07:04:58 · answer #6 · answered by sassinya 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It has occurred to me that no matter how many times someone explains their alternative beliefs to people like you, you cannot or will not get it. Everybody has a right to believe in what he or she chooses. No one has the right to tell me or anyone else what to think. There are people like yourself who allow someone to tell them what to think, what to do, and what not to do, and who take offense when others refuse to buy into organized religion. For you, heaven is with St. Peter. For others, it's with 20 virgins. For me, heaven is right here, right now. The afterlife, I believe, will be the moment my energy leaves my physical person and becomes a part of the earth once again. For this, you assume I will exist in fire and brimstone. How small of you.
2007-03-21 07:37:54 · answer #7 · answered by Konswayla 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No one can know for sure but I doubt it. Many atheists here have been close to death or seriously ill. I have a degenerative disorder and I have not turned to God nor seriously considered the idea. Nor do I have everything...my situation is a bit precarious.
So no, it's no harder than being anyone else on their death bed.
2007-03-21 07:02:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
I am a NeoPagan Taoist and an atheist, and I can completely guarantee you that on my deathbed I will NOT be thinking of Pascal's Wager *drink* . I will be trying to harmonize with the Tao.
2007-03-21 07:02:59 · answer #9 · answered by KC 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
After being a christian for many years and failing to feel any existence of a god during that time...I seriously doubt I will change my mind on my deathbed.
2007-03-21 07:05:10 · answer #10 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋