A 2-part, hypothetical question for Athiest and Christians?

Question

Here is a tough question for both sides of the fence. It is purely hypothetical so please don't take offense or rant for your particular persuasion.


For the Atheist: If tomorrow morning you woke up and God was standing there and proved to you, beyond a shadow of a doubt that he existed and everything the bible says is true, how would this effect your life?


For the Christians: If tomorrow morning you woke up and science was somehow able to prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that God and Jesus never existed and everything in the bible was made up, how would this effect your life?


I hope to see some interesting responses. 10 to my favorite one!

Wow, so many answer! :D

Answer 1

With or without a God, I would still try my best to transcend being human. Still try to be positive and do things that are helpful for the world we live in. This is the "now", for example with or without enforcement, wouldn't you still feel guilty if you lived without caring?

Answer 2

That's the close minded about christians im talking about.
Even if it's proven that God doesn't exist, they still think he does. Everything that makes our life better today is for the most part thanks to science, faith ruins life, we fight over faith in wars basically and it gets us nowhere. Religion is the root of all evil because people can not keep their mouths shut about it. If Jesus tomorrow came to my face and proved me beyond the shadow of a doubt that he and God existed, then thats one thing and I will handle it from there and change my ways, but I want concrete proof of existance, I doubt the existance of God because I have no concrete proof. A book does not prove anything to me. People talking don't prove anything to me. It is proven that Evolution happened, we came from freaking apes, its the truth, we all know it, we found proof of it. God did not make life, show me his drawing board and I'll believe.

Answer 3

I am a Christian, and science has yet to prove "beyond any shadow of a doubt" that God does not exist, or that Jesus wasn't who He said He was. Even what they claim to have "proven", evolution, is shot full of holes. If it is true that God exists, then nothing science can do can ever prove it to be false. I would have to die to "know for sure" that God wasn't real, if that were truly the case. But then, of course, I wouldn't be able to "know" anything.

Answer 4

Interesting.

Proof is proof. It has to shatter your current beliefs whatever they are if you receive incontrovertible evidence that the opposite of what you believed is true.

I think anyone, Atheist or Christian, would feel mislead and perhaps betrayed by the people in their life that told them what to believe in the first place - with the presence of this type of evidence.

Think about the way you asked the question. In Part A, you would be potentially "converting" one Atheist ("you") into a "believer." The god is revealing himself to one person only. In Part B, you would potentially be "converting" many Christians into "non-believers." Science would never reveal itself to one person only.

If one Atheist was converted, I think it would have little effect globally, unless he became a prophet and the proof was something that could be shared in something other than story.

However, if most Christians were converted (I don't think you could convert all, even with incontrovertible proof; some people are stubborn), I think there would be mass upheaval and anarchy. One of the great benefits of patriarchal religion is that it keeps people in line. If you remove the parent and the rulebook that governs Christians and bring them major disappointment and betrayal, they will rebel. What's the point of being good if there's no great reward or hellish punishment? Especially toward fellow man who has apparently misled you? Perhaps other religions would take advantage of the anarchy as the next step?

Answer 5

People call me atheist because I don't believe in the Bible or the biblical god, (or any of the organized religions) but I do believe there is more to life than what we know, although I'm not sure what it is. But if the biblical god was to appear to me and prove his existence, then I would rely on his supposed mercy and love and ask for forgiveness. Afterall, it's not like I'm an evil person. I still love my neighbour and try to be kind - just because - not for fear of hell or hope of heaven. So if god really exists and he is all merciful, then he will accept me.

Answer 6

The Bible alludes to this happening in 2nd Thessalonians Chapter 2. It says that God will send them such a strong delusions that even the very elect will believe a lie.

As a believer I admit there is no absolute proof of God on the earth today. However, there is so much circumstantial evidence that it at least draws attention to a Greater Being. Once the search is on, it is amazing how accurately the Bible describes the process of belief and the development of a person after they gain faith in Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Answer 7

I'm a christian, Christ did exist as well as everyone else in the Bible. There is recorded history in many other places. How could there not be a God, for such a story as given in the Bible not to be true. It has unfolded over thousands of years. No I do not believe that the earth has existed for only 6000 yrs. In Genesis when they speak of a "day" that does not necessarily mean 24 hrs. God's time is not our time as mentioned in the Bible.[ a day could be as a thousand yrs.,etc.] God does not work outside the realm of His laws of the universe except in the case of a miracle, which He had no need of doing at the time.

Answer 8

Christian. IF there were a way to prove no God and I woke up to learn that I would think well I was wrong and seek to find out what was right. But I would have a really hard time believing there was no God of some sort even if he/she wasn't the exact way I thought of God.

Answer 9

Science can never prove God and Jesus don't exist. First, Jesus' existence is an historical fact. I don't have to worry about that. A number of historians attested to his existence and crucifixion and the hands of Pilate. Jesus' tomb was empty, the disciples couldn't have gotten past the Roman guards and the Jews would've produced the body if they had it. The Romans had no reason to steal it, even if they did, they would've produced it to stop Christianity before it started.

Thus, Jesus did and does exist, and He did rise from the dead as there are no other viable alternatives.

Answer 10

I'm an atheist and if god was sitting next to my bed in the morning I would just have to say...... Thank god you're here. Then we'd laugh together and I'd offer him some tea. I would of course go see a shrink to make sure I wasn't schizo or something, but if it turned out I wasn't then it'd be all good

Answer 11

If god showed himself to me, I would believe that he exists, but I would not necessarily follow his teachings. If it was the Christian god, and he told me that hell is real, then I would live my life the way he tells me to. There are too many variable as it is, though, because the god of the Christian Bible is not the only god that could exist.