Are you willing to gamble?
2007-09-15 17:36:12 · 44 answers · asked by Enigma 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Great group, huh, Enigma? Almost would make you want to throw down your weapons and follow them to the nearest bar! You can bet these are the ones that will be turning in your little sister or brother so they can be tortured until they submit to the belief of the whole!
2007-09-16 22:26:43 · answer #1 · answered by Gabriel Archangel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No cost to believe. Some perceived costs (opportunity costs) perhaps if you choose to follow him, but a whole lot more rewards too making actually following him a net positive.
I'm never willing to gamble more than I can afford to lose.
2007-09-15 17:50:19 · answer #2 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you believe in God and live a good life, and then when you die you find out that there is no God, then at least you have lived a good life, and people will honor your memory.
If you do not believe in God and you live a selfish life, taking what you want and hurting other people, and you die and find out there there IS a God and you are in big trouble, then you will lose an awful lot more than the person who believed in something that did not exist.
It boils down to this, it is better to have faith and not need it than it is to have no faith and end up needing it badly~
Of course there is a third catagory; if you do not believe in God, but you do believe in living an ethical life and treating others with compassion and kindness, and then you die, and you find out that that there is a God, and you see that even though you didn't believe in God, since you had done good things and helped others, God is pleased with you and you are blessed in many ways.
Jesus said, "As ye do unto the least of them, you do unto me."
2007-09-15 17:49:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is a cost there was for Christ dieing on the Cross. The disciples were ridiculed and many executed. Peter was hung on the cross upside down because he said he was not worthy to hang on cross as Jesus did. This is after Christ death. Believer if their isn't a cost there may not be believe. Non believer there is a cost too eternal separation from God but he did give us free will to choose!
2007-09-15 17:48:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it does. I presume that you speak of your particular god, perhaps Jehovah.
In truth, belief in that god would cost me my faith. It would require that I abandon my own ministry and my own religion, which I am not inclined to do.
Also, when you speak of gambling, you seem to be reiterating the thoughts of Pascal, and what is known as Pascals wager, which basically stated that in evaluating the potential wins and losses of belief in Christ, that the safer bet would be to believe. The problem that Pascal, brilliant as he was, was that he underestimated the potential losses one might encounter when they do choose to believe in Christ.
If belief in Christ costs you your potential gains in this lifetime, and if Christianity isn't the true religion which it claims to be, then you've basically wasted an entire lifetime involved in a falsehood.
I don't wish to take that chance.
2007-09-15 17:46:13 · answer #5 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would cost most of my brain cells... And I'm too young to gamble.
2007-09-15 17:49:32 · answer #6 · answered by JavaGirl ~AM~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No
I Don't Gamble
2007-09-15 17:44:44 · answer #7 · answered by engelfeurs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything. Life is a gamble. If I lose this bet it costs me nothing.
2007-09-15 17:41:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on whose “God” you are speaking of.
Mine? Nope… not a dine. I wake each morning and see the trees, the sun and the sky. In the evening, I hear the laughter of my family and I have yet to pay a red cent for such wonderful treasures.
2007-09-15 17:51:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope it does not cost a thing and no i am not willing to gamble
2007-09-15 17:41:45 · answer #10 · answered by carriec 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋