Non Believers and Atheists, Hypothetically, If Jesus appeared to you personally and took you to heaven and...?

Question

..took you to Heaven and Hell. ..And He gave you a revelation that He was the great I Am and He is who His children say He is.
Then He takes you back to keep on living here.
You are totally transformed due to this revelation!
What would you say to evryone who is still an atheist or a
non-believer?

Out of interest, you could read Luke 16:19-31 if you wish?

Answer 1

I'd say "Have I a story to tell you"

Answer 2

SERIOUSLY, you're proposing the wrong hypothetical and asking the wrong question; a misunderstanding most "believers" - whether Christian or whatever suffer from. When that sort of question was presented to me as a seven year old, I chose atheism because "How could I worship a "god" who was capable of such unconscionable behavior?"- even condemning a murderer to everlasting hellfire was too much for my second grade logic, much less an "innocent unbeliever." I learned not to listen to such silliness and eventually understood that hell was an earthly experience of intense lack or psychological pain; heaven was the promise of salvation from it. Jesus describes a very specific "way" - as do the founders of other religions - to avail ourselves of this practical experience. Because our minds are very powerful (the physical experience of reality mirrors our psychological state), we "literally" live by faith - can only experience what we have been taught to believe about ourselves and others. The difficulty of trancending experience is that we can't change our minds about what we are unconscious of. Jesus' admonition - "know them by their fruits" or what we produce in reality - is the only verifiable way of spiritual progress. However primitive modern psychology may be a present, we at least now understand the power of personal transformation through self-knowledge. What he was teaching was far more powerful. Referring to Luke 16:19-31 - of course a person with great wealth is unlikely to seek the rebirth of his true nature (no matter his secret angst) and experience heaven and purposefulness in this incarnation - his ego is too distracted with little incentive. He is likely to end his life in unhappiness. But, a person who is suffering cannot help but seek relief - and with self-knowledge and understanding comes the chance for redemption and heaven in this lifetime.

Answer 3

Hypothetically speaking, I would say better to burn on my feet in hell than serve on my knees in heaven.

It's incorrect to say that I'm totally transformed due to this revelation. After all, it's still a choice between eternal damnation and eternal slavery? So not feeling the love, here.

Out of interest, you could read 1 Tim 2:11-15.

Answer 4

I would do exactly the same thing as if I had been abducted by extraterrestrial aliens: I'd borrow and bring back a psychokinetic cup holder (or a metamorphic bath towel) from my saucer room as evidence.

If I'm not allowed to do that, then he/she/they aren't better than cats with mice, and they will prove to be just another "intelligent entity" we'll have to coexist with (in the best case scenario) when we finally leave this suburb of the galaxy. I'll keep my mouth shut, become a marginal science-fiction writer, and exobiology will remain an interesting scientific field. I'll get a thorough medical check-up, and hmmm... I'll probably change my favorite coffee brand, just in case.

If I'm allowed to bring some evidence, then human science will go on, and exobiology will become extremely popular.

Or I'll just cut to the point alltogether and ask him/her/them if they intend to construct an intergalactic highway bypass in Earth's neighbourhood, and I'll request to meet directly his/her/their own creators -- because we're more than fed-up with corrupt or hallucinated intermediaries.

/humor
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Answer 5

I would calmly and rationally explain my experience, preferably showing them the video I would've invariably made (Camera phones are useful after all). Had I not a video, or was the video unconvincing, I'd accept that I didn't hold enough data to convince everyone, and consider the possibility that I had hallucinated the experience. But of course, Jesus -IS- omnipotent, right?... So couldn't he just do this for everybody on earth at once?... It'd save us a whole lot of trouble if he is interested in more than watch us scramble around with poor explanations of things.

Answer 6

This is so silly! And here's a question for you:

Christians, Hypothetically, if Jesus appeared to you personally and said to you: "No, no, no, you have it all wrong! I never wanted to start a new religion. I was just trying to improve the one I had; just trying to show people it could be better, but I'm a Jew and I never wanted to be anything else." What would you say to other Christians after that?

Answer 7

I would say to them that I just had the weirdest dream. Then I would continue to live in a world of reality and logic. You Xians will never learn. Even if Jesus came up to me and did some magic I still could not follow that homicidal misogynistic bigoted slave loving psychopath.

Answer 8

this question doesnt make any sense. If that really happened to anyone they would no longer be a "non-believer" and real "non-believers" honestly cannot put themselves in a situation like that hypothetically. If this had happened to a real non-believer they most likely wouldnt say much to the other non believers because they know that it woulod take a revalation to get one to convert, not just some looney talkin about a crazy dream or some really good LSD the got their hands on.....

Answer 9

Heavenly Father, Bless my sister for having the courage to ask a question like this in the midst of all these negative answers...Bring the person here that you want to see this question and work in their heart and mind that they may SEE You and who You are...In the precious name of Jesus. Amen.

Answer 10

There are a couple problems with this hypothetical. First of all, there would be no way to prove that it was not a psychotic episode or some sort of vivid hallucination. Next, having had the reality of God proved to me, I would wonder why God would not do this for everyone, and why he would value faith if he was proving himself to everyone. At the moment that the reality of the All-mighty was proved to me, belief in God is no longer a factor.

To other non-believers, I would have to resign myself that there was no way to prove this to any of them, and just try to demonstrate that my life was better because of my revelation and the way in which I changed my life.

Answer 11

If that happened to me, I would personally accuse my atheist friends of slipping me some acid. I probably have more biblical knowledge than you do and Luke 16: 19-31 is a parable of hell told about a beggar Lazarus and a rich man. As usual, christians damning us all to hell for our lack of belief. Typical.