Than not believe, and burn?
There you go, Chem! =0)
2007-04-16 08:16:34 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh, oh yeah....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
2007-04-16 08:19:43 · answer #1 · answered by dissolute_chemical 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
How do you know what you believe is right? Is there really a safe side? What if the other side was right? Careful with what you believe. Just do the right things and care for people and you will be fine. After all that is what most beliefs come down to; good and bad.
2007-04-16 08:24:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is pascal's wager. Unfortunately, my emotional desire to avoid hell isn't sufficient evidence for the existence of God. If God exists, why all the mystery? Why not just reveal himself to me in ways that can't be misinterpreted as a feeling or an emotion? Faith means belief without evidence. Seems like an odd requirement for admittance to paradise. One doesn't even need to be a good person....just believe. Yet oddly enough, if there is a God, he gave me a brain. My brain is conditioned to value cognitive evidence over blind faith. Why would God give me reason and rationality and expect me to trade it in for blind faith?
Some things aren't true no matter how much you want to believe in them. Finally, which God should I believe in? The Hebrew God, Zeus, Allah, Buddha, Set, Apollo, etc? Religions directly contradict one another, so I can't believe in them all. Really, am I asking for too much for God to be a little more obvious and a little less hidden? I've been faithful several times in my life and I've always noticed one thing; I can talk to God all I want, but he's never talked back. This wasn't how it was with Abraham or Paul or Moses? Why reveal himself to them and not me?
2007-04-16 08:28:06 · answer #3 · answered by godofsparta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
believing in religion is a personal choice. I havent discovered which religion I am yet, as i am still young and have questions ang concerns about each relgion and religion in general. Sometimes I feel like people clutch onto religion and depend on that to make their decisons and save them from their problems. They use it as a security blanket and read to far into it. I sometimes think relgion is for people who are really lost in life and need someone/.something to tell them what to do in life and who to believe in. Other times I think that relgion can be a useful tool to help people believe in the good in life. But cant you just believe in karma? Im not sure that if you believe and go to church all your life you will benefit from this when your gone, I kinda think you should spend your life living and not preparing to die and preparing for the afterlife. But Whatever helps you through the day making good decisions and helping others around you is good.
2007-04-16 08:25:10 · answer #4 · answered by fabulous13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I answered questions like this before. First, you can't believe to be on the safe side. That's not belief.
Next, what to believe in ? There are a number of major religions. Are you praying to the right God. Why don't you pray to all of them - - - - - just to be on the safe side ?
2007-04-16 08:22:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well...what if you are wrong and THAT puts me on the burning side?
Besides I have too much faith that God is not as stupid, petty, evil, greedy, retarded as humans and I have no such vanity to think God is as bigoted as humans to burn anyone who was a good person that didn't put a shiny name tag of a club on their shirt or let some dooshbag into paradise just because they had a special decoder ring
2007-04-16 08:23:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you trying to get everyone tipsy early today. Is it legal to drink to your own question?
And actually, sometimes I believe I'd rather not believe. It seems more peaceful than ever seeking. But I just don't have it in me. I'm driven to seek and believe.
Stinkin' pascal.
2007-04-16 08:34:40 · answer #7 · answered by G's Random Thoughts 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd rather believe and know in my heart that my belief is right then believe in something just on the off chance I might be right.
2007-04-16 08:24:05 · answer #8 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you call yourself a Christian, just to be on the safe side, but you're actually atheist or agnostic, of course your not going to Heaven! It's called faith!
peAce
2007-04-16 08:32:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this part of the drinking game? Where we take a shot for every time we read the same questions?
I am on the safest side of all. I believe in all of the world's 4000 religions and all religions expired!
2007-04-16 08:19:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Which one of the several hundred deities should I believe in though and if I believed in one would it not make the others angry?
2007-04-16 08:28:46 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋