What would happen if you did not believe in god but he turned out to be true?

Question

I have been raised catholic all my life and I have a question: If you doubted gods existance could you still go to heaven or would you go to purgatory or hell?

Answer 1

doesn't it piss you off that someone fed you this heap of trash and now you live in fear? get that garbage about hellfire and etnernal damnation out of your mind and live your life to the fullest. you get one shot... don't miss.

Answer 2

You would go to Limbo. The first circle of Hell, where the virtuous pagans go. It's not that bad: there's no torture or anything.

"Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad."

Answer 3

As an atheist, I don't believe in god and I need not worry about your scenario. Occam's razor states that the simplest answer is the correct one. Quite frankly, science has supplied us with a much easier understanding of how the universe was formed and how life came to evolve on this planet without any need for relying on assistance or inspiration from some fantastical fairy-godmother of a god.

However, just to play along with your scenario, if I found myself confronted by some incredible super-being after my death, then I would challenge it to explain why it created a world with so much evidence conclusively proving its non-existence. I would also demand it explain why it, as an allegedly perfect being, would create an incredibly flawed world overrun by so many imperfect beings. I would like to know whether it can really believe in itself as an all compassionate and loving creator when it has created so many lifeforms that suffer horribly because of the genetic defects that it created within them. I would demand to know why such a powerful, perfect entity would create such a flawed world full of so much proof of its nonexistence and then claim the right to judge me and cast me into endless torture just because it failed to demonstrate its existence to me during my lifetime.

Fortunately, I need not worry about any of this. There is no god, no heaven, and no hell. Live and be well.

Answer 4

i personaly don't believe in god but i lean more towards being agnostic. the way i see it, maybe there is a god, maybe there isn't (there probably isnt) but you should just try to life your life by being as good as possible. don't cheat, don't lie, don't steal, don't kill, be nice etc... that's just my view on the subject.

hmmm i guess i didn't really answer your question now did i lol. god is supposed to be all forgiving so he would probably ask you why you didn't believe in him. you don't refuse his existence you simply don't belive it because you don't see the proof and there is nothing wrong with that. only a fool would believe in god simply because he doesnt want to go to hell. i believe you have made a wise decision to not believe in god and god will see that (if he is even real) and you will not be punished.

however it all depends on which religion you are talking about. a lot of other religions, god is mean and full of revenge. if you are talking about christianity then my middle paragraph should suffice.

peace

Answer 5

Are you catholic? Last time i checked the previous Pope already deleted purgatory from the dogma; and redefined the meaning of hell.

But if god turned out to be true? Well, he'd still be the same egotistical deity that some people claim him to be.

Answer 6

This letter That Jefferson wrote to his Nephew Peter Carr says it better than I ever could (I just love that last sentence):

“Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear”
- Thomas Jefferson

Answer 7

Did you live a sincere life?

A life of unselfish loving?

A life that embraced the truth even when it cost you personally to stand up for the truth?

Isn't heaven a relationship between God & ourselves?

You ask good questions & are thinking!

Let's pray for each other....... it IS true!

:-)

Answer 8

Doubt is not a sin...What makes god so miraculous is the fact that it is uncertain. Its the one thing left in the world that humans have not turned into a defintion..into something that is for sure. I think that god is an understanding guy! Believe me there are way worse things that you can...doubt is NOT a sin!! peace

Answer 9

Since none of heaven, hell, or purgatory exist, that part of the question does not apply. The short answer to the rest of it: I'd be surprised.

Answer 10

Read the story about Lazarus and the Rich man in Luke 16:19-31.

That is a real story, not a parable.

And read Hebrews 9:27

Pastor Art

Answer 11

If you doubted God's existance, when Armageddon comes you'll be destroyed. How could you go to a place such as heaven if you doubted the Head or the Ruler up there existed?