Suppose you die and are presented before God; He offers you a simple choice:
Your acts in the world were such that your destiny is Heaven however you have the choice of foregoing that and ceasing to exist completely if you want to do something for humanity. So here are your options:
1- Go to Paradise for eternal life
2- Cease to exist completely and Africa will be a prosperous nation for the rest of its days without a soul going hungry.
What woud you choose?
2007-06-13 02:02:10 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Alex, I am aware that Africa is a continent; while typing the question and thinking, my choice of words led you to think otherwise.
I think you get the message; many African nations are starving.
2007-06-13 02:09:24 · update #1
Great answer, ria.
2007-06-13 02:11:00 · update #2
thats a tuffy! um....um....i duno....i.....um.....hmmm....i would....um....Cease to exist completely and Africa will be a prosperous nation for the rest of its days without a soul going hungry! i think!
why?
beacuse i guess, i will have a nother chance in the world to accomplish this and have a chance to also create more oppertunities for my self.
so its for doing the right thing...but also to fullfill, what i didnt do the first time round!
2007-06-13 02:08:47 · answer #1 · answered by girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll get thumbs down for not playing along on this mythical concept of God and heaven, but if we change the way we are living now, the future of Africa will be impacted. And by we, I mean each of us. If each of us awakens to the fact that we are no better than the starving babies, no better than the sick and dying and that the choices we make as far as lifestyle impact the whole world. Just like the choices we make as far as recycling and choosing a hybrid car over some gas guzzling SUV. A word of kindness to a stranger changes that person's day. Every gift you give to the poor helps them and deciding to be a kinder, more compassionate person changes the world. Each person who chooses human values over the lust for wealth makes the world a more humane place to live. So this is what I am trying to choose.
Oh, and love your avatar, The Cynic!
2007-06-13 02:12:37 · answer #2 · answered by Jameskan Video 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"2- Cease to exist completely and Africa will be a prosperous nation for the rest of its days without a soul going hungry."
Eternity is boring
2007-06-13 02:10:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
permit me help you reconstruct your question: in the process the Spanish Inquisition, did the Roman Catholic Church supply Christians, Muslims, and Jews the determination of Baptism or dying ? properly, particular. They did. yet there have been an excellent style of alternative issues they demanded. That they should pay reverence to the Pope, that they should adhere to all the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church. Jews have been persecuted even whilst they converted. Christians who weren't Roman Catholic are each and every on occasion met with a similar destiny. And Muslims as properly ( regardless of the undeniable fact that they weren't talked approximately as Muslims then.) the subject replaced into that the Roman Catholic Church held sway with government, and ought to even make deals to get regulations interior of governments to assist their hypocrisy. however the Roman Catholic Church is to no longer be perplexed with those each and every on occasion talked approximately as Protestants. The Christians who weren't Roman Catholics have been additionally persecuted.
2016-10-17 03:05:39 · answer #4 · answered by dawber 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't give up Paradise because I know God has a plan and for all the suffering people endure they will be rewarded in the hereafter...so in the end it will all work out.
But that was an awesome question.
2007-06-13 12:21:19 · answer #5 · answered by Sassafrass 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He cannot offer you anything if he has no one to deal with.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5-6) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.
2007-06-13 02:32:11 · answer #6 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question stops right where you make the assumption that God exists, which puts it outside the bounds of reality. its hypothetical nature aside, your question attempts to put everyone from a thousand different religions into a perfect Christian world that doesn't exist and is therefore invalid.
2007-06-13 02:13:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That will never happen. and by the way Africa is a continent
Edit: honestly God would never cheat someone He loves out of an eternity with him. God has his plans and there are many Christian people in Africa trying to make it a better place. I would love to join them if given the opportunity. So maybe that can be my solution.
2007-06-13 02:06:19 · answer #8 · answered by Joel 2 5 · 7⤊ 2⤋
since im going to cease to exist anyway, might as well have something good out of not existing.
2007-06-13 02:17:05 · answer #9 · answered by Pisces 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thankfully I can in all good conscience receive eternity in paradise because God Himself will restore the earth to the original perfection He had created it in!
2007-06-13 02:07:14 · answer #10 · answered by baronbago 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋