What do you waste if you believe? Wouldn't you rather believe and be right, than not believe and be wrong?

Question

God loves you, He just wants you to love him back.

Answer 1

are your trying to get us all drunk.

It's good old Pascal, yet again!

Bottoms up, all!.

Answer 2

I see this same question asked a couple of times a week on here. The answers are basically always the same. When this question is asked it gives non-believers ammunition to aim at believers. For instance, this sounds like you believe in God out of fear. Sort of a "just in case" philosophy. I do believe in God---I just cringe lately when this question is asked yet again---To try to convince someone to believe in God, you will have to take a different approach than this. And I'm not even sure someone can be convinced to believe---I think people come to a belief in God through more personal experiences than that.----Blessings.

Answer 3

I waste life if I believe in an imaginary God, and if I don't believe, there's no one to tell me what is right and what is wrong, only my life experiences. If I believe in God, what my life experiences taught me might contradict with what God says, and then I might end up making the same mistake over and over again. Okay, I can love God, just like I love my sister, or my friends, etc., that doesn't mean I should believe in his religion, does it. I'll invite God to dinner sometime.

Answer 4

Though I am a Christian believer, I don't believe you can truly have a relationship with God as a "default position, just in case". You have to be moved by the Holy Spirit to increase in faith. Most of the strongest Christians I know are not strong because of fear, but because of the love that Christ taught us.

Answer 5

You are right! There have been studies done that also show that people who have a religion and believe have better recovery times and survival rates after surgery. It is sad that there are so many people that do not believe in God. It is also sad that there are so many jackasses on here that are mean to people who ask spiritual questions.

Answer 6

Yes. I'd rather believe. What's so wrong with personal belief anyway? Everyone wants to pass judgement on people who believe in a higher power.

Answer 7

Would you want to go around with a super size parachute just in case the ground feel underneath you?


I would rather be right. Not believe fantasy.

Answer 8

You believe there is one God, do you? You are doing quite well. And yet the demons believe and shudder. james 2:19

Answer 9

hello,, just to keep this unknown going,, would it be better to believe and be wrong , or not to believe and be right.? my brother said God shines a light on everyone, but when he follows the path to the light he believes God is holding a flashlight at his side and when he looks at it God kicks his ***.

Answer 10

Pascal's Wager. No offense, but I think there is a better way of bringing atheists to God.

Albert Einstein wrote in his book "The World As I See It" that the harmony of natural law "Reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
He went on to write, "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe--a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble."
A very significant statement, wouldn't you say? Why did he say that? Simply because our universe could not have been created by chance; the force behind the Big Bang, something physicists call "the Dark Energy Term" had to be accurate to one part in ten with 120 zeros. If you wrote this as a decimal, the number would look like this:
0.000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000001
Need I say more?

But the best proof God exists is no other than Jesus Christ, the Word of God who became flesh and the REVEALER of God. God the Father sent Jesus not only to redeem man. He was also sent so that we have no excuse for disbelieving. What human can?

Silence a typhoon?
Walk on water?
Multiply a few loaves of bread and fish in order to feed a multitude of 5,000?
Bring dead people back to life?
Give sight to people born blind?
Change water into wine?
Rise from the dead?

These miracles demonstrate Christ's power over life and death and the forces of nature. Only a person empowered by God can have such powers. And if these miracles were just made up, Christianity would not have grown rapidly in the first century. His disciples would not have risked their lives for a bunch of lies. That is simply not human nature.
One thing and one thing only can explain it: These men had encountered the real, solid, bodily-resurrected Jesus Christ. Not a hallucination. Not mass hypnosis. Not looking in the wrong tomb or any other silly excuse. The flesh and blood risen Christ was seen and touched by more than 500 people. (1 Corinthians 15,6). That's why the resurrection story could not be silenced.
God wants to show how much he loves and cares for you. After his conversion from atheism St. Augustine said “our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.” Humbly seek God and you too will find him. He wants to embrace and welcome you to his Kingdom.

May the Lord's peace be with you!


If you need more scientific proof of the existence of God, please go to the links below.

http://www.doesgodexist.org/Phamplets/Mansproof.html

http://www.proofgodexists.org/

http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/audio/newevidence.htm

http://www.allaboutcreation.org/scientific-proof-of-god-faq.htm

http://www.geocities.com/scientific_proof_of_god/

http://www.wie.org/j11/goswami.asp

http://www.meaning-of-life.info/?Source=ad

Answer 11

Is that why you believe, "just in case"?

I have a question for YOU.... wouldn't it be a safe bet to believe in Quetzalcoatl just in case? I mean, if you believe and he doesn't exist, you lose nothing, and if you believe and he DOES exist, you'll be sure to earn entry into Tlillan-Tlapallan, Middle Heaven, the Land of the Black and Red (those colors signify wisdom), by faithfully following his teachings.

If you don't believe and you're right, well, no biggie, but if you don't believe and you're WRONG, you will have doomed yourself to Mictlan, the lowest of the 9 Underworlds. Mictlan is an arid desert where spirits shift aimlessly about in eternal tedium. There they must forever endure this unending monotony, separate from Quetzalcoatl and his wisdom.

Would you not deserve this fate for failing to follow Quetzalcoatl? Will you doom yourself to it even now, having heard the truth?