i have 2 questions, 1 for christians, 1 for atheists?

Question

to christians
if you were, hypothetically show proof that go did not exist, would yoou accept, and move on with your life.

atheists
if you were shown, hypothetically, that god does exist would you accept and believe.

i asking to see how open minded you are.

i think the christians are showing themselves to be completely closed minded.

Answer 1

"Open Minded"???????

You're asking anyone who would believe in the fiction of a collection of archaic rubbish to be "Open Minded???

Answer 2

I'm not an atheist, but I'm not a Christian.

If I were shown proof that the Christian god is real though, I'd probably do an about-face. I don't expect that to happen though.

What would I accept as proof? One single verifiable miracle of the sort that Jesus himself said would follow believers. For example, my friend's daughter was in a car accident and is now quadriplegic. If Christians gathered around her, prayed, and she was able to walk again, that just might do it for me.

As a matter of fact, if the Christians here got together and prayed for this girl, and she was able to walk in the morning, I'd trade in my pentacle straight away and repent.

Somehow, I don't think that will happen. I prayed to that particular god for many years and not much happened. Things did change when I found an empowering faith and was able to recognize gifts for gifts and to realize that we are on the paths we chose for ourselves, rather than ones imposed by fiat.

Answer 3

Well, I don't fit into either category. I am neither Christian nor atheist. I am a Neopagan Polytheist. I believe in multiple gods and goddesses. For me, it isn't a matter of "proof" or hard empirical evidence, but rather of direct personal experience. I don't think you'll find a single believer in a single religion who came to those conclusions based on hard empirical evidence. Science is, for the most part, a good thing. But science can only go so far -- only as far as what can be measured, weighed, and observed in a lab. There are questions which Science cannot answer, just as there are questions which Religion cannot answer. And the two are not mutually exclusive.

But to answer your question -- for those that Believe, no proof is necessary. For those who do not, no proof is sufficient.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

If I were shown incontrovertible proof that God exists I'd be delighted. But:

o It would have to be good proof - not violent and extrovert necessarily, but something obviously involving changing the laws of physics.

o I'd be pretty disgusted if the deity in question turned out to be the Abrahamic God, who's clearly a psycho tosspot. He'd still be very interesting scientifically, however.

I have not the slightest expectation of this happening, of course...

CD

Answer 6

What a silly question. If I was shown absolute proof of the existence of a God and it's desire for my worship and belief, of course I'd believe and worship! I'd be stupid not to, in the face of the obvious. I'm alright with being wrong, as long as I learn what's right.

Answer 7

As a questioning teenager, I 'prayed' that I would believe the Truth - whether God existed or not, or even if He was just a great big green blob. etc.
After studying many religions, peoples, psych. history, etc.
I just gave up == then I got my own personal proof. My own miracle. I think it was because I was being honest and really asking to find the Truth.
We can all think what we choose, but that won't change what IS.

Answer 8

I'm an atheist and you've asked two separate questions
Were God to be shown to actually exist in the physical world , would I accept his physiacal existance ? Of course I would .
Would I then choose to believe in him ?
Absolutley not.
I don't like tyrants. I don't like people that have all the unresolved personality issues that God seems to have.
I mean Hell , the man requires people to worship him and severly punishes those who don't.What does that tell you about who the real God actually is ?

Answer 9

Of course. Show me enough proof for anything and I will believe. Atheism is not about sticking to a belief system. It is more about not accepting unnecessary belief systems. It is about reason and logic -not faith. Many atheists become atheists because they are open-minded enough to view religion objectively and reject possible preconceived ideas about religion that prove to be false or fallacious. Most Christians and Muslims lack this ability.

Answer 10

To answer your question; I'll start with the second question; if you were to prove to me that God existed, I would simple acknowledge that God is real and He is present. Accepting and believing that God exist is good, but all that does is validate that "yeah, see...He is real." I can easily deny something that's not the truth, but if something is a fact, it won't change the claim being true; I'd simply suppress the truth by saying "Yeah, I see you've proven that God exists, but I refuse to believe in Him." So, in short, if you were to prove that God existed, I would acknowledge it. As for your first question, hypothetically speaking, if you would prove that there was no God...then I wouldn't be able to do anything including move on with my life...because "hypothectically speaking" if God is the Author of life, then "without" the Author of life, there won't be any life for anyone to move on to. So...I hope that helps and I hope I answered the questions for you. Thanks for asking. God bless!!!

Answer 11

I would question the proof in both circumstances, as you could not prove with Science that God existed or didn't exist. Creators would have to work outside of what we know as science and provable.