That when you get to the end of your life&you know you're pretty much going to die soon;what are the chances you will do as the thief on the cross&ask God for forgiveness&to please come into your heart so you can be in Heaven with Him?
2007-08-25 12:06:44 · 32 answers · asked by Maurice H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'll give it a 1% chance. Never say never, right?
2007-08-25 12:12:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
For an Athiest to say categorically, "There is no God," is to make an absolute statement.
For the statement to be true, you must know for certain that there is no God anywhere in or beyond the entire universe.
No human being has all knowledge.
Therefore, none of us is able to truthfully make this assertion.
If you insist upon disbelief in God, what you must say is, "Having the limited knowledge I have at present, I believe that there is no God."
Owing to a lack of knowledge on your part, you don't know if God exists. So, in the strict sense of the word, you cannot be an atheist and it would be more intellectualy correct to at least be an Agnostic.
To say you don't know which religion to convert to is a cop out.
If God exists and he has certain requirements, then does it not make sense that he would have revealed this to us and left us some proof as to which Holy Book was his word and not the word of men or the word of demons?
Whilst we can't expect EVERYTHING to be provable, we should at least enough be provable that the rest can safely be taken on faith.
The Bible for example is:
1. Historically accurate. No historical revelations disprove the Bible's account of history. New historical findings continue to verify the accuracy of the Bible's historical basis.
2. The Bible has proven to be archaeologically accurate. No archaeological evidence has ever been unearthed that disproves the Bible's account of civilizations and cultures that have existed since the beginning of man's life on earth.
3.Between a fourth and a third of the Bible concerns prophecy because fulfilled prophecy proves God's existence. No mere human being can accurately and consistently predict future events in great detail hundreds if not thousands of years before they take place. Yet the biblical prophets did so hundreds of times.
God revealed the future through these human messengers, inspired those messages to be written down and preserved for us, and then He brought those very specific prophecies to pass—hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years later. Nothing but a divine, supernatural Being could possess such power.
The prophecies recorded in the Bible came true in such a detailed way that they could not have been predicted by chance. Further, archaeologists have evidence that these prophecies were written down many years before they were fulfilled, proving that the documents claiming to be prophecies were not written after the event.
4. Eye-witness accounts of miraculous events, by people that had nothing to gain but everything to lose by speaking out about what they had seen.
All you need do is compare what evidence other religions have that they are the right one and go with whoever has the best proofs for their claims.
2007-08-25 12:50:49 · answer #2 · answered by jeffd_57 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agnostics have a much better chance of doing that than atheists. Agnostics are more sensible.
2007-08-26 08:07:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How much time and energy have you wasted in your life on this god guy myth? Does it really matter what happens when you are dead?
Dude you will be dead, so get over what you are gonna do when you reach that condition, because you have never met anyone and will never meet anyone to tell you what it's like to be dead.
2007-08-25 12:18:19 · answer #4 · answered by Bob from Mars 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Been there.
In Afghanistan one time, I thought the plane I was in was going to crash. It never occurred to me to pray. I just hoped it would be quick and painless.
We atheists live among the theist majority. So we know you much better than you know us.
Please ask more questions, of us!
2007-08-25 12:21:09 · answer #5 · answered by hunter 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not having been that close to death, I can't say for absolute certain. However, where I am at this very moment I'm going to say 0%. I don't believe that any god exists, and I'm not a hypocrite.
2007-08-25 12:12:07 · answer #6 · answered by N 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
If that day were today, pretty slim. I can't tell you I won't change my position before that day arrives, if I run across relevant new knowledge.
2007-08-25 12:16:32 · answer #7 · answered by wondermus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends, it is possible I will ask for forgiveness when I am delirious. When you are near death your mind is affected. You will probably not think rationally.
2007-08-25 12:16:09 · answer #8 · answered by Louise 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on how intact my mind is in old age. However, if all my mental faculties are working properly, 0%.
2007-08-25 12:17:49 · answer #9 · answered by atheist 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Probably about the same probability as you submitting to the Flying Spaghetti Monster on your death bed.
Thanks for playing!
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2007-08-25 12:19:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋