Atheists.... If God showed himself?

Question

to you as the world was ending would you repent, and declare him as your lord and savior?..... better yet, if he just showed himself to you now, would you repent?!!

Not meant to offend anyone!

would you ask for forgiveness for not believing in him?

Answer 1

I'd be pretty pissed to find out there was a God out there all this time who did nothing to save people, or even stop this end of the world you include in your scenario.

So, basically, no. Besides, I have nothing to repent for.

Answer 2

I'm agnostic because I can't prove there is no god, so if I had good reason to believe I had seen a godlike figure I'd have to accept it.

I suspect that if there is some sort of omniscent presence in this universe it is far more vast than our puny ideas allow. The universe we live in is immense! We are in one solar system in a galaxy with a billion stars, and there are billions of galaxies.

It seems unlikely we're the only reason (if that even makes sense) for all this.

How about:
1. The world around us should not conflict with our notion of god. bluntly, young earth creationists are wrong.
2. It's ok for us not to know the truth about the universe. How pretentious to believe we can.
3. Everything humans do is guided by human behavior. We are extremely social animals and seek group acceptance. We're also curious about the world around us. Combine the two and you get religious explanations for the universe that conflict with #1 and dispute #2.
4. The simplest explanation is often the best

how about "we don't know"

Answer 3

First off, you didn't say how God would show himself. You didn't say how we would know he's God if he did show himself. Nobody knows what God looks like, so if someone came up to me and said he's God, I would think he's some kind of a kook.
Would I repent ? Repent for what ? What have I done to repent for ? Nope, no repenting.

Answer 4

If humans had the real ability to recognize God then....

There would not had been so many religions with...
Each religion having breakaway group/s to start a new religion
Every religion claiming to know the true God
Every religion rejecting the God/s of other religions
Humans becoming murderers in the name of religion
Fear of Hell used by every other religion not the love of God
To keep the flock together and under total control
Hatred, hostility, contempt, mistrust, fear, sin, punishment
As the concepts of major preoccupation of every religion

Come on.........
How many did follow Christ during his lifetime ?
Why did Mohammad wage war/s throughout his lifetime ?
Buddha, Mahavira, Rama, Krishna.... name any God of any religion all were rejected by many, accepted by few
All had limited geographical area of operation

It has always been the work of the followers that did made the so called Gods more widely accepted and that too decades after their departure from earth.

Even if God were to stand next to you, given the present mindset, you'd only ask him 'Which Religion ?' and if he said 'Mine own' or 'I am God' you'd call him mad and either throw stones at him, after cursing him to you hearts content, or shoot him, knife him, hang him as a lunatic....

Answer 5

I'm not sure what I would repent for, but if God showed Himself then I'd have to believe He existed.

Answer 6

If Ra showed himself to you, would you abandon the Abrahamic God and declare Ra your lord? Would you repent? I don't mean to offend either. I'm just suggesting that perhaps modern Khemeticism could be the right way, too. Especially since a lot of stories, symbolism, proverbs, and ritual in Abrahamic traditions can be traced back to older religions.

Answer 7

If god showed itself, well, then I'd believe there is one. I don't feel any need to repent, though. I've led a pretty honest life and don't feel I've done anything to repent for. I'm not going to repent for not believing in something for which I had no proof. "Gee, sorry, god, but if you wanted me to believe in you, you should have shown up long before now."
And, if god showed up, how would you know that was god?

Answer 8

Repent? How and from what? I don't "sin" any more than the average Xian, so I'm unclear how this would apply?

[Edit]: No, I wouldn't ask for forgiveness - God would have been the one that caused my disbelief... conflicts between bible and science means that anyone looking honestly at both *must* agree with science and its implications.

Answer 9

I'd immediately call a group of subject-matter experts and let them run every possible test available in order to prove the paranormal nature of the subject of study.

After they (scientists) compare and scrutinize their data, and come with a plausible conclusion and a conclusive paper, and after such paper is revised, analyzed and scrutinized by the world's people of science, and after it is published in the most reputable science journals, endorsed by the most reputable and reliable institutions....


.....then I might think there's a grain of truth to that God thing.

Oh, but repenting? NO WAY. The fact that I believe in the existence of a God thing does not put that thing above my principles.

Answer 10

No, I would think that I just had a hallucination, since the likelihood of any supernatural god is virtually nil

By the way, there shouldn't even be a word "atheism." After all do we have words for people who don't believe that Elvis is still alive; or a word for people who don't believe aliens are abducting our cows; or a word for people who don't believe in the tooth fairy? Atheism is nothing more than the noises rational people make in the presence of the delusionsal.