What if it all depended?

Question

I love the TV show "House". He's an athiest through and through. There was a patient that had come in from a car accident and he electrocuted himself (he didn't die from that) but he told Dr.House he was dead for 97 seconds and he saw something. House argued that there wasn't anything, but to try to prove it, he electrocuted himself. He basically concluded at the end, there was nothing.

So tell me, what if...what if it all depended on what you believed?

:)

Just curious :)

Im not saying im an athiest, i was just curious...

i love House because Hugh Laurie is a great actor.. :)

jakkio sorry, i thought i had heard him at the end say there was not something when he said "Sorry about your luck"
my bad!!!!!

omg people, do not attack me please, i was asking a question..i did not say i was an athiest!!!!!!

Burry - i guess i misinterpreted it, my apologizies, i would love it if he saw something.. ;)

Answer 1

He concluded at the end that there was nothing because you cannot GIVE yourself a near- death experience and you also cannot do anything to yourself just so that you can see heaven or hell. That is a privilege that only God can give. Sometimes, God allows people a glimpse of what their future will be like. I have known a couple of people who saw a glimpse of hell and one person that saw a glimpse of heaven. At least that is what they told me in their testimonies, do you think that if I tried to kill myself so that I could experience that, that I actually would experience that? It doesn't all depend on what you believe, because it is the non-believer that has the experience of glimpsing hell and they come back being a believer.

Answer 2

Do you normally base your theology on TV shows? So the writer of that show decided that his character would experience nothing after death. The writer of "Ghost" decided to have a very complex afterlife. On TV, and in books and movie, the afterlife is whatever the author decides to make it. If the writers of "House" had decided to have he him see something, would you now be a theist?

However in the real world, there either is or is not an afterlife. Whether you believe in it would not affect the facts of its existence any more than your believing it in would make New York City appear or disappear. or cause your cancer to go away or come back.

If there is an afterlife, it is there for everyone - or it is there for no one. Your belief may determine your position in that afterlife, but it will not cause an afterlife to exist for some people and not for others.

Answer 3

I dont even think it is as straight forward as that ...
there are believers who have experienced nothing in an NDE and non believers who experience the whole works....
perhaps some have truly died and others have only touched on dying...
perhaps some go to spirit right away , for others it may take a little time for them to be taken ...
perhaps some are meant to experience it for reasons unknown to us ... and for others , experiencing it wouldn't alter a thing , so it would be a wasted experience
perhaps some NDEs are just a product of lack of oxygen , and some are more than that
while there are so many IFs .... trying to find ultimate proof is not going to happen

I have heard many convincing stories about NDEs though , and I am more of a believer than not

Answer 4

Ok first off it is a show. Second faith in what you can't see is believing. if you don't believe in heaven then you die and you learn it is too late then you would be sorry. There is no really way to know what you see when you die. I seen where people wore dying and would say. it is so hot is so hot. before they die. which could mean they were seeing hell. My husbands uncle said he saw flames before he died. so you might see heaven or hell if you die but get brought back to life. but you can't prove it to no one cause they will think your nuts. Unless it changes your life for the Good then people will want to know what changed you and then you can tell them what happen then they might believe. but other then that a person who is stubborn wont agree with you no matter what you say. we must lead by example. God gave us free will. You chose weather you go to hell or to heaven. So if you die and didn't believe in God denied him, the Jesus will deny you before God. so it says it the bible. We must believe the whole bible or none of it. I believe there is a heaven and a Hell. I wouldn't want to go to hell. the bible shows us what both are like. The story of the rich man and poor man. And so on. any ways. yes you decide where you go. some do it unknowningly and other do it knowingly.

Answer 5

Then we would be "of all men most miserable" as the Bible says.
But it doesn't depend on what you believe.
If I tell you that there is an 80 ton logging truck speeding towards you at 75 miles per hour and you tell me you don't believe it, does that mean you will there for not get hurt by it?
If you say you don't believe it will hurt you to jump from a skyscraper with nothing to keep you from falling - and that you don't believe in gravity and won't fall, will you therefor not fall?

Facts are facts to matter what you believe.
God is God whether or not you admit it.

The bible says, "The fool says in his heart there is not God -" some people do more than that - they say it out right. It doesn't make it so.

Answer 6

It is all about perspective. God reveals himself as people come into the state of mind where they are able to fathom such a power. God has given us the power of free will and has even left the decision of believing in Him up to us. He will always be there when we need Him. A loving Father, that no matter how great our sin...will always be our Father and never turn away from us. "All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way" Isaiah 53:6
Each person will come to God on his own terms...They just need to realize how lost they are before they can find Him.....Good luck on your journey!! And know how much God wants you to find Him...Listen and you will hear His voice.

Answer 7

What if whatever you believe becomes your reality when you die? Is that what you mean? If so, I don't agree. I think that there is an absolute truth about life after death. What I mean is that as a Christian I'm either right about gaining eternal life after death or I'm wrong.

BTW I think that House was definately questioning his faith by the end of the show. Maybe his atheism is in jeopardy??? ;)

Answer 8

Well is does depend on exactly that:

de·pend (d-pnd)
intr.v. de·pend·ed, de·pend·ing, de·pends
1. To rely, especially for support or maintenance: Children must depend on their parents.
2. To place trust or confidence: You can depend on his honesty. See Synonyms at rely.
3. To be determined, conditioned, or contingent: a grade depending on the results of the final exam.
4. To have a dependence: began to depend more and more on drugs.
5. To be pending or undecided, as in a court or legislature.
6. To hang down: "And ever-living Lamps depend in Rows" Alexander Pope.

Answer 9

I absolutely think it does...Every day I live by what I believe. I believe my car will transport me, so I drive it. I believe my food is not poison, so I eat. Every action of my life is based on a belief.

So the question might be, "Is there a central belief everything else depends on"?

For me the one question that all of my life and future depends on is this: "Is Jesus who He said He is"?

If not, I die and there is nothing. If He is, there is a fantastic homecoming.

I am hanging the weight of my life of the belief that Jesus is who He said He is.

Answer 10

Your Q's a little confusing....I am very spiritual. I believe in a higher power and I believe that wonderful and beautiful things happen everyday, but most people are too busy to notice them. As far as other people are concerned I wouldn't try to kill myself to prove anything to them, because if THEY didn't experience it they still wouldn't believe. As far as being true to my beliefs, I would not let anyone sway what I know in my heart is true.