False religion?

Question

what would you do if one day someone came out with undeniable evidence that your religion is false. what would you do? would you except that you have been lied to all your life, or would you still believe no matter how strong the evidence is?

this is just a question, im not saying there is any evidence what so ever, i just wanna know how you would react.

Answer 1

It happened and I stopped going to church and started having fun to make up for lost time.

Answer 2

It won't happen! People have been telling us this for thousands of years! But so what? IF and I do mean IF this were to happen. I would have lived a good descent life. I would have loved my neighbor, I would have helped the poor, I would have not hurt anyone. I would still be me. I would not have any feelings like "Oh man! You mean I could have been doing anything and still be rewarded?" So I was taught to live by a set of rules that did not hurt anyone. I would not have any regrets. If i could do it all over again I'd still live my life the same. Peace be with you!

Answer 3

Religions can be false, but true faith in God is evidenced in people's lives by the Holy Spirit living within them. Jesus said that by their fruit, what their character and life is like, you can see what their faith is really like.
"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them."

Also, today evidence can be manipulated in so many ways, that I wouldn't trust any material or pictoral evidence to prove my faith wrong.

Answer 4

You may not know it but your question is not as hypothetical as you may think. Some religious organizations started making sure that anyone becoming the head must have a physically strong heart; disasters had happened in the past when new leaders whose hearts were borderline gave way after they saw baffling facts!

In my religion, ECKANKAR, we do not believe; we know. So even if the religion ceases to exist, what I know cannot be taken from me.

Answer 5

The problem is..my religion is so complete no one and I mean no one can prove me wrong otherwise.

I believe in a single creator, who has created everything and who has sent mankind, messages in the course of many years, to remind them of who they are, and what they must do to be better peeps. I believe the creator is so high hes free of all the human errors and is the originator of all that is.

I believe that man and god are seperate, only because man has an ego and man cannot and should not worship ANYTHING that can die or go away. Because God does not die.

No one can challenge that.

The only challenge would be: that god doesnt exist. and even that is not something they can prove to me :)

so I win...either way.

because I live my life to the fullest and Im good to everyone around...and if I die someday, I wont have any regrets ..thanks be to my religion.

Answer 6

Accept-not except, just to correct your small error, and in my opinion this very thing will happen sooner or later... That's why my intelligence, common sense, and realism guides my life, and not a false hope belief system based upon theory, speculation, and possibility...

Answer 7

Well I believe that the power of God and my faith in him and the Kingdom of heaven is strong enough to overcome any evidence that Satan could throw at me, so I believe that I would have to dismiss the evidence no matter how compelling because I would automatically think it was placed there to detour my faith. I have been warned of these things from God's word and no matter what I might think with reason in this world, I know God is with me.... so no one can be against me

Answer 8

That happened to me. I figured out when I was about 10 that the Sun had to be older than plants and that meant that my sacred text was wrong.

I didn't see any reason to take the rest very seriously after that.

Answer 9

What would you do if it were incontrovertibly proven that 1 + 1 do not equal 2? How would it change our understanding of the universe.

Similar story.

Answer 10

Well actually this did happen to me. I proved it to myself.

It took me a long time to figure out that just because someone had told me lies about God, it did not mean that God was not real.

About then this happened to me.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 11

Just because someone came out and claim that this the strong evidence, should I just believe it...I guess not. My believe is too strong to be swayed.