that God really does exist?
2007-05-10 08:40:42 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
qaHEARTS: that's why i said "in the end" don't you get it? lol
2007-05-10 08:46:50 · update #1
Nope
I love your name, Thinkerbelle!
2007-05-10 08:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by Buffy Summers 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
No, actually I'm not. I live a good life, but if God would rather put a murderer that apologized into Heaven instead of me, than that's not a place I'd want to be anyway.
Think of it as non-violent resistance. If you're right, you get to know you're hurting good people that stood up for what they believed in. If I'm right, I've enjoyed my life and made the world a better place without living in fear.
2007-05-10 08:55:23 · answer #2 · answered by Kharm 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Although I'm technically Agnostic, I'll still answer:
If heaven is full of people like you that ask questions like this, I think I would rather go to hell.
Yes, I would rather face eternal damnation than go to heaven. Because I would have to spend all my life being good, and then I would end up in heaven where I have to keep being good. And then I would be surrounded by tons of religious people who wont like me because I'm agnostic.
My friends and I are already planning a huge party for when we all get there. We have a jacuzzi (boiling pot), eternal flames (barbecue) and plenty of musicians to keep the party rockin!!
2007-05-10 08:48:04 · answer #3 · answered by trainboy765 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I am not an atheist. I disagree with the premise of this question. All people on this planet are members of a minority religion. So if only one religion is correct that makes most people wrong. Chances are most people are wrong whatever they believe. Be they Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Atheist, Jains, Sikh, Shamanistic, Wiccan whatever they are all outnumbered by people who don't see things their way. Fear of hell is not going to change anyone's mind on anything.
2007-05-10 10:00:07 · answer #4 · answered by Pancho 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good Lord, what kind of question is that?
that's like saying, would you people who don't realize the love of God please forget it and close off all consideration or curiosity.
For one, Scripture is not about eternal damnation.
Scripture is about living a life for God and with God.
Scripture is about love, mainly love.
Hell, which is never mentioned in the "Old testament" is not about the "devil's domain where all the sinners are tortured"
It's a place that is absent of God completely a place of lonelyness. The weeping and nashing of teeth that Scripture talks of is not because people will be roasted on Satan's grill, but because of the knowledge of truth and the absence of it.
God is not some cosmic killjoy, no that's my pastor lol, jk.
Scripture says the the end is about finally being with the Creator that loved us to create us and to come down and live a life and die for us just so we could be with Him.
Rambo.
ps. SOrry to all of you that this question offended, it offended me. Thinker, I appreciate your want to get the word out that life is not all about 70 years of living. But this is not the way.
pss. Listen to you people, and you call yourselves followers of Jesus?
If wasn't knowing that my faith was true I would forsake it because of people like you that claim to be "Christians"
Like my pastor always says, the problem with "Christianity is Christians"
2007-05-10 08:49:35 · answer #5 · answered by rambocommandodude 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I am very scared of this. In fact, I am scared of the negative consequences of not following islam, the flying spaghetti monster, and the invisible pink unicorn. I flipped a four-sided coin (heads=christianity, tails=islam, meatballs=FSM, and horns=IPU) It landed on horns. So I stuck with the invisible pink unicorn. We all have a 25% chance of getting it right. Let's just hope the invisible pink unicorn is real... if not, I am DOOMED.
2007-05-10 08:53:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an atheist, but I don't believe in your god.
That being said, if your god has eternal damnation, as a good person I MUST oppose him as strongly as I can. No one who is good can allow a villian like this to go unopposed.
Are you sure you want to convince me he exists?
2007-05-10 08:44:14 · answer #7 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Do you think it is possible for any Atheist, no matter how reasonably they argue, to convince you that God does not exist?
If the answer is no then consider the idea that no argument you offer could possibly convince them to deny their faith either. They are just as committed to belief in an absence as you are committed to a belief in god. They are just as motivated to spread the word of their disbelief as any Christian missionary who ever lived. their faith is as strong as diamond and they will cling to it to the end of days.
2007-05-10 08:48:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not an atheist, but what a silly question. Why would they be afraid of something they don't believe exists?
I don't care if you said "in the end", it's still a stupid question. They aren't going to be afraid of something now if they don't believe. They couldn't call themselves atheist if they thought "Wow, what if there is a God and I go to hell?" If that were they case, they'd be agnostic.
2007-05-10 08:44:40 · answer #9 · answered by QaHearts 4 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Is that why you follow God? So you won't go to hell at the end? That would be a very cowardly way for me to live.
2007-05-10 10:46:33 · answer #10 · answered by Darth Cheney 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. I would never want to spend eternity with a heinous God who drowns, sickens, and slaughters millions, repeatedly commands his followers to hurt and kill others, and conspires to have his own kid beaten and killed - OR the kind of people who would condone, worship, admire, and praise those kinds of things and their perpetrator - so either way, I WIN! :-)
2007-05-10 08:53:44 · answer #11 · answered by gelfling 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋