If you are athiest do you ever wonder what would happen if Christians were right. If you are Christian do you ever wonder what would happen if Athiests are right. The idea of what happens after death scares me because there is no way to really know what happens. Please don't quote any bible verses. What if the Bible is just a book or the authors got it all wrong.
2007-09-21 21:04:00 · 16 answers · asked by Mr. Nobody 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
well J.P. that is an interesting statement. Because what if the punishment for not wanting to deal with him/her/it is eternal pain - like hell ... thats what scares me ... what if we are actually punished for being wrong
2007-09-21 21:12:47 · update #1
butterfly. what if that feeling was a temporary lapse in sanity or a demon trying to fool you in some way?
2007-09-21 21:15:04 · update #2
Sure, I believe everyone must wonder some time or another. But what can you do? Convert to the other side, just in case? No. I don't really believe if there is a God who is suppose to be all loving is not going to sentence someone who doesn't believe in let's say, Jesus, for example, to eternal Hell. There are too many religions out there. That just wouldn't be fair. Religions all claim they are the right one and it's can be very confusing. And if there is a God, he is suppose to be perfect, so i'm sure he can't be closed minded. I say, just be a kind and person and hope that will be good enough.
2007-09-21 21:25:31 · answer #1 · answered by sonyvet2002 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I used to worry about it constantly when I was young. I was always afraid of "choosing the wrong one". I figured if God was so concerned about our choosing the "right" religion why wouldn't God have made it more clear which one it was!
Now I'm not afraid of that anymore. I pray and meditate to understand God's will, and I've gotten some "bulletins" about things that I needed to change or deal with, but "get thee to the nearest Evangelical super-church", has never been one of them so I don't worry about it. I think that nearly everyone does the best that they can, or tries to, with their spiritual lives and I believe that God is fine with that as long as the choice doesn't hurt themselves or anyone else.
Why should I worry about the after-life, I do the best I can. I think that is enough for God, and as far as Atheists being "right", so I'll die and become fertilizer. No big deal, I doubt if I'll care! And if I'm right then I sure hope heaven is more than standing around on gold streets singing and waving a harp around.
And the belief that "demons" or the devil could intercept prayers said for and meant for God is one of the main reasons I no longer espouse conventional Christianity. The idea makes no sense. How would anyone know where their prayers were going if they could be intercepted? And the answer that "if you were praying to the "true" God, (meaning the mainstream Christian God) you'd know also makes no sense.
2007-09-21 21:22:00 · answer #2 · answered by jennette h 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. i've got explored many different religions, which includes atheism and that i've got proved to myself that i'm interior the excellent one. i comprehend that God is loving and he would not burn people in hell for eternity (Jeremiah 7:31 and that they've geared up the extreme places of To?pheth, that's interior the valley of the son of Hin?nom, as a fashion to burn their sons and their daughters interior the fireplace, a ingredient that I (God) had no longer commanded and that had no longer arise into my heart.) So if others think of that i'm incorrect then i comprehend that when I die there'll merely be no longer something, I won't observe of something, i visit merely stop to exist. (Ecclesiastes 9:5-6) . . .For the residing are unsleeping that they are going to die; yet as for the lifeless, they're unsleeping of no longer something in any respect, neither do they anymore have wages, because of the fact the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 additionally, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and that they've not have been given any factor anymore to time indefinite in something that must be accomplished under the sunlight. If i'm perfect and that i die dependable to God then I rather have a large destiny in the past me, eternal existence in paradise on the earth. Acts 24:14, Proverbs 2:21, 22, Revelation 21:a million,4,5
2016-10-09 15:31:49 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont worry because i no,and it has nothin to do with religion.Im no religion,Hebrew Israelite(read about us sometime in the OT).When u dont know the original language,or study it or nothing,its easy to say otherwise..When u study the language,u began to see and understand..The NT IS a book of authors and letters..The OT is the language of, some, of our forefathers, accounts of what really was and is..But if u understood it,u would not be afraid.I was afraid once also.But its gonna happen no matter what.U have to seek him He says...And thinkin on a religion level is the wrong way..U should just find out for yourself..Shalom
2007-09-21 21:23:02 · answer #4 · answered by Ree 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have thought about it but once I put 2 and 2 together I once again quickly realize why I believe there is a life after death, a hell, a heaven and all the rest of it. To me it's pretty logical.
2007-09-21 21:12:07 · answer #5 · answered by bettercockster7 c 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I used to consider myself agnostic and now I believe in a higher power. God if you will. I don't consider myself Christian or any other religion and I don't think I have to claim just one or any for that matter. For me it's not about organized religion, it's about spirituality. I don't have to call my God a certain name or worship him the way others tell me I should. As long as I believe I am not in control, I'm good.
2007-09-21 21:18:44 · answer #6 · answered by Brandy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. stopped worrying about that when the reality of God and His plan was taugh to me by the Holy Ghost. Once you have been taught by the Holy Spirit and heard the voice of God, you really stop doubting whether what He teaches you is correct, because you have already learned from t he source that it is.
2007-09-21 22:05:50 · answer #7 · answered by Avatar_defender_of_the_light 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist.... and no, I don't worry about it too much.
The likelihood that anyone on this planet has the right answer about God (even if there is one) is vanishingly small. God, if he exists, could just as easily be something we haven't even thought of... or he may not even care about us... etc. There are just a million possibilities... it's not worth my time to worry about.
I'm not really worried about what happens after I die, either, because there's nothing I can really do to change anything about what'll happen.
2007-09-21 21:12:10 · answer #8 · answered by Daniel 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Religion is simply philosoph y-so right and wrong does not matter....i only care about being a GOOD person-that's what life is all about
2007-09-22 05:19:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm no atheist, but I put my beliefs under the microscope daily, answering religious questions on this forum and others. and NOT with my own opinion, but with scripture.
When I read a scripture like john 5;19, it shows clearly that Jesus is NOT God himself. What Jesus said shows he is in full agreement with his Father.
So the scriptures, to me, clearly belie the Trinity concept.
Which, to me, makes every group that believes the Trinity ,
part of Satan's system, false religion.
2007-09-21 22:08:54 · answer #10 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋