Atheists and non-believers, if you didn't have to believe in God or become a follower of Christs whilst here.?

Question

So if you didn't have to believe in God or become a follower of Christs whilst here on earth,
then passed over,
and found out there always WAS God,
And Heaven and He did Love you,
And He did Create You,
Just like the Christians had said,
and it was just as beautiful and peaceful, Loving, no sickness or disease, and where the streets are made from Gold...
and fact was,
that you COULD Live Forever with Him in Heaven,
and your friends, relatives and loved Ones,
if you Repented and Bowed down and Worshiped Him,
or go to the other place......

What would you do.

I thought it would go without saying that this is a hypothetical, I would like you to think about?

Marooned on Earth, I hear you! This next part isn't intended for you. Or others who said they would follow Him then.

Mostly I hear from atheists that All they want is some evidence,
You turntables!
Now youv'e got it!!!
and you don't want Him anyway.
Ha, laughable.

Proverbs 8:17
I love everyone who loves me, and I will be found by all who honestly search.

My atheist and non-believing friends, I have not put this here to harm or hurt you.

Please mutual respect and don't print anything that would be offensive about the One I Love.
Jesus Christ, my Savior*

Answer 1

I would repent. I have no problem admitting when I am wrong and if this all were true I'd be happy. I'm a non-believer but I wouldn't be bothered by any of the things you described.

Answer 2

non-zoroastrians:

So if you didn't have to believe in Ahura Mazda or become a follower of Zoroaster whilst here on earth,
then passed over,
and found out there always WAS Ahura Mazda,
And Heaven and He did Love you,
And He did Create You,
Just like the Zoroastrians had said,
and it was just as beautiful and peaceful, Loving, no sickness or disease, and where the streets are made from Gold...
and fact was,
that you COULD Live Forever with Him in Heaven,
and your friends, relatives and loved Ones,
if you Repented and Bowed down and Worshiped Him,
or go to the other place......

What would you do.

I would probably do the same in both cases - worship God or Ahura Mazda. Because your hypothetical example can be put in the language of nearly any religion, it provides no reason to worship God (at least no more than to worship Ahura Mazda.) In fact we could even flip your religion around and make it so that Satan is actually in control of the universe and will give you heaven if you worship him. Then your logic would lead to you rejecting God. These are all remotely possible hypothetical scenarios and not worth thinking about unless you are stoned.

Answer 3

Depends on which christians who turn out to be right obviously. And what my friends, relatives and loved ones would do.

In most possible scenarios I would probably at least pay lip service to God, but I'm not sure I would feel comfortable with being chosen over other people who had a more principled position than me. I probably am too much of a coward to stand up to him though.

Answer 4

I would surely be thankful to God for having made me a thinking man and would try to do some thing useful for society instead of restricting myself to reading only bible which is a good book by the way, or kneeling down before sign of a cross and praying for the sins of others who spread colonialism or killed innocent people in Iraq.

Answer 5

How stupid of you to ask this question.
When HE loves you as you believe that HE loves you, HE doesn't care whether you love him or not.
What use gold is when you needn't buy anything?
What is the meaning of everlasting life if needn't work, toil or sweat?
Friends relatives and loved ones are pests when they always by your side.
How could an enlightened soul like you fall for the chicanery of conniving tricksters who have created heaven and earth to boost their own ends of achieving power and recognition?

Answer 6

Give God some pointers on how to, you know, make it at least look like he exists. And on how to show a little of that "love" on earth. And ask wtf he was doing while all those children were starving to death in Africa. And then ask for a rational explanation for the whole crucifying your own child thing.

Yes, God would have some explaining to do and he obviously needs some pointers. I'd be rather disappointed.

Answer 7

Hypothetically since there aren't any deities, if one couldn't respect that I made an intelligent decision based on the lack of evidence presented then I certainly wouldn't bow my knee to it.

Answer 8

Good question.

If there was a hell into which people were actually being sent, a place of infinitely long torture for whatever finite crime they did on earth, I would not want to be in heaven because I would not and could not consider such a god moral. I'd choose hell.

Answer 9

I'll stay as god made me, without theism, until he changes that. A very good argument can be made that the only people who are following gods will are those who don't believe.

After all every religion on earth is without question following other humans and not god. They all conflict and contradict each other and none can say for certain they know what god wants.

If god exists he made everyone including you begin life without theism. You simply gave up waiting for god and chased one of the many religions out there. Who is truly waiting for god? The religions of the world all claiming to know what god wants OR people who refuse to accept anything that doesn't come directly from god.

If we meet god when we die we'll all find out only then what he wanted. What if he says "All of you who waited only for me may come in. Those of you who abandoned me and followed a human religion are welcome to it. Go."
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In response to the Additional Details: I thought about yours. In fact I would say everyone has since it's a very old worn out question that gets asked here at least once a day.

However what if you're simply following a human construct? What if you're just following a lie from humans and god tells you to go away and follow your human religion? What if he says "wasn't it obvious that you should wait? I provided no evidence, no proof so that you would wait only for me to tell you what I wanted. Go follow your human religion."

I can guarantee you that everyone not following some religion has thought about your question and made peace with it. Have you thought about the reverse? What if only non-believers make it into heaven because ONLY they waited for god? What if all of the people chasing human religions are sent away to continue following their made up religions?

What if hell is simply knowing that you gave up on god by professing to know what god wanted instead of waiting for him to tell you?

You can't tell me it wouldn't be hell for you to see a heaven filled with those 'non-believers' while you're tossed to the pit to follow the human religion you chose above god.

Answer 10

Hypothetically speaking (as this will never happen) - I'd tell him for an omniscient, all powerful deity, he sucked HARDCORE with the state of the world and things that "he" has "let" happen even though he supposedly can control everything. I might even kick his holy butt.