Non-Christians: How are you going to feel when you stand before God on Judgement Day and it is to late?

Question

Revelation 14
10The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

Answer 1

Too late for what? If I miss breakfast with God, I guess I can always catch lunch. I could buy if it's my fault I'm late.
When is Judgment Day? I must have deleted it from Outlook. More than likely, I'm going to be late on Judgment Day if it's not in Outlook. Can you have God send me an update so I can get it on my calendar?

Answer 2

We have no idea what will happen in the future, and attempts to predict it and/or for-tell it, in the form of a "judgement day" or life after death, is a senseless and fruitless pursuit to gain knowledge of something we cannot know for certain, and most likely will not until such time arrives (or passes us by, referring to the "end of days.") Such is the same for trying to explain the origins of the universe. In the end they are all placebos that we use to either give us an illusional sense that we understand everything that can be understood, or that there is something beyond us that actually does, something we cannot prove exists, definitively; or to justify untried faith/ideas/beliefs we hold and cannot definitively prove either than book citations. (As is this case.)

This is not just Christianity, alone; this is, in fact, all religions and ways of life (including my own (Buddhism.))

There is a story I heard once:

A man was on the crowded street, and was shot be someone arround him, but he couldn't see who it was. As he layed bleeding, the crowd gathered and he asked everyone who shot him. Everyone looked at each other, not singling any one in particular out. A person asked him if he had called the police or ambulance, but the man kept asking who shot him and why he did it, over and over again until a handful of minutes later he died from his wounds.

Basically, we, as humans, only have one true certainty in our life, and that is our own lives. It is senseless to search for answers that will, most likely, not be answered until lifetimes later. It is better to enrich our lives and those that are alive around us, because we never know when our time will be over, and because we have no real and visceral idea of what will happen after that point, we don't know if we will ever have to opportunity to do again what can do right now.

Thanks,
Kelly

Answer 3

It'll never happen. At least not in the way the Bible describes it.

But I'll play along. I'll stand before God and tell him, point-blank, the following: "Well, God, to be perfectly honest with you, you never showed me enough evidence to believe in you. Some people are more skeptical than others about the claims we make, particularly when it comes to religion, and I'm sure a rational deity like yourself would agree that there's simply nothing wrong with examining things a little farther."

Answer 4

darling ... if ever there is a judgement day and I stand before God ( which I highly doubt )
then I will say ... OK , I used the brain you gave me to work out what I believe , and I did not come to the conclusion that Christianity was correct

what else can I say ?
what do you want me to say ?

now I will ask you
how will you feel when you get to the spirit realms
and see everyone there from every religion and race
what will you say about your life of condemning others ?

Answer 5

Well, if I end up standing in front of your god on "Judgement Day", being told that it's too late and I'm going to hell for not figuring out what to believe/how to behave/etc with all the conflicting messages and such I was given to sort through...

...I'll certainly feel more confident in my evaluation of your god as a "volatile megalomaniac prone to toddleresque temper tantrums".

Answer 6

It is not going to happen.

You can wait for Judgement day till... well, Judgement day, and even then it won't happen.

Although, I would like to see the look on *your* face when you find out you've been following the wrong religion for your entire life.

Answer 7

How are you going to feel when you realize (if you have time before the lights go out) that you've spent a life self-righteously mouthing ancient, outdated platitudes and scripture, only to simply snuff out?

Answer 8

Sounds like God will reward us with free wine and smokes. What a guy.

Answer 9

Hmmmm, about the same as I'd feel standing before any of the other more whacko claims of religion.

ie. "What on earth? One of the multitude of religions guessed right? Hah!"

Meh. I prefer the normal christians.

Answer 10

It's not going to happen.

Quoting the bible isn't going to influence anyone. You could quote from Lord of the Rings for all I care.