Why do Christians have hope and atheists live in hopelessness?

Answer 1

Hey it's No*no
2.] reasons. We are full of God's love, and know his grace, and mercy. They are without God's grace, and mercy. And God has turned them to a reprobate mind . G.B.

Answer 2

You're asking two questions at once, with very different answers.

First, you can't assume that every Christian has hope all the time. I am a Christian, but because of a depressive illness I have experienced total hopelessness. You (or I) cannot claim to know what someone else, in this case an atheist, is feeling at any given time. So in that context, your question is moot.

The other way of looking at your question pretty much answers itself. Christians have hope for eternity because we anticipate eternity in the presence of the Almighty - atheists do not have that hope, nor do they seek it.

But to give the impression that Christians never experience defeat, or that atheists experience nothing but defeat, sorry but that's kind of ignorant.

Answer 3

I like C.S. Lewis's answer, here he describes his atheistic viewpoint before he became a christian:

"But all civilisations pass away and, even while they remain, inflict peculiar sufferings of their own probably sufficient to outweigh what alleviations they may have brought to the normal pains of man. That our own civilisation has done so, no one will dispute; that it will pass away like all its predecessors is surely probable. Even if it should not, what then? The race is doomed. Every race that comes into being in any part of the universe is doomed; for the universe, they (science / scientists) tell us, is running down, and will sometime be a uniform infinity of homogeneous matter at a low temperature. All stories will come to nothing: all life will turn out in the end to have been a transitory and senseless contortion upon the idiotic face of infinite matter." - The Problem of Pain

This is indeed a bleak, meaningless and hopeless view. Atheists may indeed have "hope" but it is a different "kind" of hope than a christian would have.

Answer 4

Yes christian live by hope but also by faith and love.I have hope that people will come to know God and those who do will get closer to him.I believe that atheists( as they as called) do not have hopelessness for they do not believe in heaven or hell.Even through there is a Heaven and a hell.We must have faith and hope that they will come to know and follow him.Plus we have no right to judge them only Jesus does.We can only pray teach the word and love people.Plus follow The Bible and everything Jesus tells in the bible and to us personally so Christians open your spiritual ears and eyes for Jesus is telling you something.

Answer 5

I don't know, you tell me.

I'm an atheist and I've never been happier... I am starting college in a few weeks and really looking forward to it. I also have a fellowship and a great job lined up, I spend quality time with my friends and family, and I am in great health. However, when I was a theist, I was always worried about going to hell and never being good enough for god, and was very seriously depressed about being gay and transgendered because I thought I'd go to hell, and totally confused because none of the doctrines made sense.

So, why is it? Is it possible that you're not really happy and are just pretending, or that you're happy because you have belief in something that isn't real?

Answer 6

Why do you hope Atheists live in hopelessness?

Answer 7

I think that is an assumption based on the fact that atheists are the alleged "opposites" of christians in terms of beliefs in God. Christians are associated with being filled with faith and hope. Since atheists are anti God, and so steretypically anti christian, they are associated with the opposite of being hopeful, hopeless.

But of course this assumption is totally inaccurate because atheists simply reject the idea of a God, not all beliefs.

This is especially true because hope isn't always associated with God and faith.

Answer 8

I know of no hopeless Atheists. Did you just make that up?

Answer 9

Because they think that they will die and that's it.

What hope is there in that? None. Zero.

I am so glad that I don't have to believe what they do.

I mean, what do they have to look forward to?

Atheist Preacher:
Dear dying people without hope.
I am coming here today to tell you that life is soon going to be over. And since we are Atheists, we have absolutely nothing to look forward to. There ahead of us is death, and we will hold on to that idea to our death. Let the Christians and the other religions believe what they will, we have common sense!

Yes, and with our common sense we will conquer the world someday, . . . and then die and that's it.

So be proud fellow Atheists! Be glad! For we will die and that's it! Nothing will be left for us, but at least we can convince ourselves that we left the same death for our children. And as long as they remember us . . . they can't even remember to brush their teeth . . . but anyway, we will overcome this religion thing! And then we will die and be nothing.

What was I saying, I forgot? Oh yes. We have our idea that we will just die! So look forward to it . . . what was I saying? Oh yes, our lives mean something here. It's kinda short . . .so don't let it get you down! Fight the good fight which is the common sense that we will just die and rot in the grave. It's super duper! YAY! Good thinking people!

Anyone have some water?

Answer 10

Fallacious question. Let's start with, do all Christians have hope, and are all atheists hopeless? The answers to those questions will, I believe, make your original question seem somewhat bigoted and biased.

Answer 11

My life is spent trying to help as many people as I can, including donating money and resources to organizations I believe in, being a bone marrow donor and keeping my house available for refugees from Darfur.
Could you please tell me and the people that I help how my life is hopeless?