Would you honestly not want your loved one to go onto a better place if they were on their death-bed? Would you want someone to come and preach the gospel to them to at least TRY to have them accept Christ into their hearts before it was too late? I don't want anyone to be offended ...I am not meaning to hurt people in any way! I am curious as to how you would handle the situation if God forbid it should arise.
2007-09-11 10:39:08 · 9 answers · asked by Linda M 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Would you ever doubt even for a moment that MAYBE you were wrong about not believing in God?
2007-09-11 10:50:37 · update #1
Don't you EVER wonder about what will happen when you die...where you will go, and what will happen to you??
2007-09-11 10:52:14 · update #2
Uh, we decompose and go back into the soft dirt from which we come. That dirt feels so good....
2007-09-11 10:43:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I don't understand the question. If I'm a non-believer, I wouldn't believe in the need to be saved. While going to a better place sounds great, a non-believer either doesn't believe such a place exists or that you get there through some method other than Jesus.
2007-09-11 17:45:39 · answer #2 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
"Would you ever doubt even for a moment that MAYBE you were wrong about not believing in God?"
Would you ever doubt even for a moment that MAYBE you were wrong about YOUR beliefs in God?
There are more concepts of God than the Judeo-Christian one. How can you be 100% absolutely positively sure that YOURS is the right one, instead of say the Muslim concept of God? Or the Kemetic one? Or the Wiccan one?
Because to them, YOU are the "unsaved" one...
2007-09-11 17:56:49 · answer #3 · answered by Nandina (Bunny Slipper Goddess) 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Goodness, no. I would not want anyone trying scare tactics on a dying person. I would not want it to even enter their heads that there's any need to be 'saved' at all, or any doubt in the harmony of things. Why would I want them to suddenly buy into a morally bankrupt concept upon death? To die in fear of an evil deity?
How insulting and degrading. I would even resort to violence to keep preachers away from my loved one.
2007-09-11 17:50:52 · answer #4 · answered by KC 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Considering a non-believer would not accept the idea that there is a "better place" beyond death and that death is only the end of life- your question is irrelevant.
2007-09-11 17:43:51 · answer #5 · answered by James M 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My loved ones do believe in your god. However, if they didn't I wouldn't be concerned. If I was concerned, that would indicate that I believed your religion had some validity, in which case I would follow it.
2007-09-11 18:01:31 · answer #6 · answered by vérité 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wonder what will happen when I die. Maybe it's nothing but no one really knows. I know it's not the christian afterlife because I know the bible is erroneous.
2007-09-11 18:00:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is kind of like me asking you if you would want your loved one sent to Candy Land. It sounds stupid to me. I don't care if they are "saved" or not because I am sure it is make believe. I want Santa to bring us all presents too, but it just ain't gonna happen.
2007-09-11 17:45:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, but we're non-believers. We don't think 'accepting Christ into our hearts' actually does anything. We certainly don't think it will get you into heaven. We don't think we need to be saved.
2007-09-11 17:44:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋