A question for atheists?

Question

You believe there is no God, but I do, along with heaven and hell. You believe we all become worm food and nothing else. Now, wouldn't an intelligent and logical person convert to christianity simply because he/she has nothing to lost, but everything to gain. After all you might be wrong. you cannot tell me you have never made a mistake in your life, even after you were 100% sure you made the right decision. Then find out later, your decision was wrong.

No other religion is mentioned in the Bible, and no other religious source has such a strong foundation. Think of the prophecies of Christ, or the rest of the world like Tyre and Babylon. 24,000 reliable manusripts all saying the same thing.

alot of you are talking about blind faith. Christianity is about knowledge-based faith. Alot of the bible can be verifed by facts, and fulfilled prophecies, the rest is faith.

Answer 1

Drink up!

More termites.

Answer 2

and pascals wager all over again. lets think about the falsities this argument has. if there is a deity of some sort out there it may not be the judeo-christian god. so what god do you worship? there are so many that have been worshiped throughout history and so many that are still worshiped today that that question is impossible. you cant know for sure your belief is correct which is why it is called a belief. since you cant prove your faith is correct shouldnt the logical intelligent person convert to something else?

Answer 3

You can't fake a belief. Either you believe in something or you don't. An intelligent, logical person who believes in God would presumably understand that God would know it if an atheist only pretended to believe in him.
When I've found in the past that I've made a wrong decision it was because new information came my way indicating my mistake. If I make a decision but am scared I made the wrong one, it doesn't necessarily mean that I haven't made the right one.
While we're talking about percentages, the odds are that no matter what a person believes they are going to be wrong.

Answer 4

Would you consider worshipping Zeus to save yourself from Hades? Or perhaps you'd like to worship the FSM and drink from the beer volcano? Surely an intelligent and logical person would see there are too many religions all offering messages of salvation in contradiction to each other and no one can be truer than the other. What if I worship the wrong god? Then it's all in vain, why can't I just live life and help people for the sake of helping them instead of some eternal reward?

Answer 5

This proposition is called Pascal's wager; it was first proposed by mathematician Blaise Pascal some centuries ago -- and shown to be logically invalid not long thereafter. It is scientifically invalid also [reference]. It is just as easy to believe in a god which, for reasons of its own, has decided to hide any evidence of its existence; all people who determine, based on the lack of evidence, that there is no reason to believe in a god get awarded paradise, while all those who invent such a thing, without using reason, are consigned to the fire.

Answer 6

Ever considered that you may be wrong in making the assumption that there is a GOD. Just live your own life and stop critizing others for there own beliefs. You can't understand how other people think because you are so set in your ways that it dosen't matter what they say, you won't hear it. So don't ask this stupid question pretending that you are actually interested in the answer... all you will do is put down others who don't believe in what you do.

Answer 7

Pascal's Wager again .

Christians sometimes proffer Pascal’s Wager (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager ) suggesting to non-believers that they should accept Jesus (John 3:16) as some sort of insurance policy against hell, just in case it turns out god really exists. The fallacy with this line of reasoning is that faith in god for some reward or to avoid punishment is not faith at all. It is a selfish act to receive something in return for a belief. The point of religious belief so that one becomes a better person, not to receive a reward or please a spiritual being.

Answer 8

Why do you morons never learn? Is there some developmental disability disorder present? This is the same old debunked argument that Christians have been using without success for the last 300 freakin' years! Google Pascals wager.

Answer 9

So the sole reason for being a Christian is to avoid hell? Won't your god see right through that?

What if it is some other god you must believe in to get to heaven? Can you honestly believe in them all just to be on the safe side?

Sorry but an intelligent and logical person would not pretend to believe in something hoping to fool any deity that may exist.

People honestly can't just force themselves to believe in anything.

Answer 10

Is being a person of faith really only about doing it "just in case"? You can't MAKE yourself have faith. If you don't feel in your heart that there is a God, it would be dishonest to convert. If a person were to tell a church, or even say a prayer that they give their heart to Jesus but didn't really believe it, wouldn't that be an even worse sin (lying to God and yourself) that just being an atheist?

Answer 11

Pascals Wager.

Have you even thought how rude that really is since you are asking someone else to do that in which you would not do yourself. Would you just give up your beliefs because someone else asked? I highly doubt it.

There is no empirical evidence that any deity exists and none has come to light in the many years civilizations have been on this earth. Given that, it is more logical to think with that many thousands of years of history that deities do not exist.