how many of you will actually give christianity a try or at least stay in christianity IF theres no hell mentioned in the bible , NO punishment at all , just pure love .
2007-08-22 03:46:24 · 38 answers · asked by Curious 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
damn , i thought you guys just hate the hell part.
2007-08-22 03:53:22 · update #1
woah i am not a christian , i just wanna hear your points of view
2007-08-22 04:14:28 · update #2
There's no hell in atheism, either.
2007-08-22 03:50:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
::giving serious thought::
No, I don't think so. My spiritual path is much more balanced and fulfilling to me than Christianity was, even if you do remove the "worship me or suffer for eternity" threat aspect of it.
I feel that I am a PART of the world around me, not just some superior creation plunked down by God into a prepopulated stage. It sounds corny, but "Colors of the Wind" actually does resonate really well with me.
The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle, in a hoop that never ends
I cherish that feeling of interconnectedness, and I don't feel that Christianity has the same perspective on it that my current path has.
2007-08-22 03:53:34 · answer #2 · answered by Nandina (Bunny Slipper Goddess) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Giving christianity a try" isn't like trying low-fat milk one day instead of full-fat.
It's ridiculous to think that someone can just decide to change their entire belief system - based on all their experience and knowledge of life, just to give it a try.
If you truly believe that a God exists, you won't be able to 'pretend' to be an atheist for a day, and vice versa.
Also, you make it sound like the only reason you believe in the bible is because you are afraid of punishment in the after-life. That is a terrible reason for behaving yourself.
I'm an atheist and I am a good person, not because someone else might punish me if I'm bad, but because I want to be.
You sound like you have very flimsy connections with God and the fact that you can ask a question like this, shows that you are just hedging your bets rather than actually believing in God.
2007-08-22 03:58:02 · answer #3 · answered by Adam L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm the son, grandson, nephew, and cousin of Methodist ministers. I majored in religion in a Methodist college and went on to spend a year in Seminary. I have attended more varied denominational services than most people ever set foot in, including the following multiple times: Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Metropolitan Community Church, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, and Unitarian-Universalists So I've given Christianity the college try.
However, Christianity as a frame of reference about life makes no sense. There's no reason to believe that there's a Deified Big Brother watching what we do and passing judgment on it. Neither is there any reason to believe that there's a Deified Loving Grandmother in the sky who thinks we can do nothing to destroy her love for us. These are just manifestations of wishful thinking and they keep us from seeing life from a rational point of view.
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2007-08-22 07:27:11 · answer #4 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I gave Christianity a try as a kid. That's the religion my family raised me in. But, by the time I was a preteen, I began to figure out all the contradictions and non-sensical hooey of that religion. Soon after, I found many logical problems with the basic concept of God. I think that before addressing anything thing like heaven/hell, God's love and his wrath, you must demonstrate that God actually exist, and that has not been done.
2007-08-22 03:55:29 · answer #5 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have given it a try (at one time I was a Fundie...) It wasn't hell that made me change... it was an honest study about the books within the Bible, the history and the culture of the people who wrote it. I can find pure love without the book or the religion. ^_^
2007-08-22 04:36:50 · answer #6 · answered by River 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an atheist I believe there are no Gods at all, a belief is something that you can't just change for the sake of changing. I could pretend to believe I suppose, but since a God would know I was just going through the motions, why make myself miserable by not being myself.
2007-08-22 03:56:31 · answer #7 · answered by curls 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was Christian for a long time and never believed in hell. Eventually though I just gave up on the religion in full. If it wasnt a carbon copy of sun worshiper's religions then maybe I would have stayed with it longer.
2007-08-22 03:51:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was brought up as a Methodist and attended regular Sunday school classes as a child. Christianity, as taught, never resounded in my heart and the older I got, the more questions and inconsistencies I found. In my journey toward faith, I read the Bible, the Qur'an, the Noble Eightfold Path and looked at Shinto, Wicca and other pagan faiths. In the end I just considered what I believed in my heart, looked around at what I'd seen and started referring to myself as an animist.
2007-08-22 03:53:48 · answer #9 · answered by Valarian 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The thing about me is that I don't reject Christianity. I'm willing to give it a try and I don't intend to leave Christianity even if I don't like it - which I doubt I would. I'm an agnostic and I'm not saying that I don't care about religion or that I'm uncertain, it's just that I value the morals of religions rather than their beliefs.
2007-08-22 03:53:43 · answer #10 · answered by Blue Star 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell isn't mentioned as we like to think of it. But punishment is mentioned out of Love.
Sincere Question, If the sun didn't come up today, would you go back to bed, seriously this is a sincere question.
2007-08-22 03:51:14 · answer #11 · answered by Plat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋