Your God needs a better PR agent for his Bible mocks him enough on its own.
Why Should I Believe in God?
by hamilcarr 40 Replies latest jw friends
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AlmostAtheist
You might enjoy the responses on this thread; I asked a similar question a few years ago:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/82731/1.ashx
Zach, my 9-year-old son, asked me to mention on his behalf, "Well, what else would have created all this around you?"
Dave
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hamilcarr
Why take the risk of not believing and possibly ending up being tortured forever?
Creepy how belief always meets up with fear. Do you really think these arguments bring people closer to 'your God'.
My God will not be mocked!
'My daddy is stronger than yours. Nah'
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real one
Outlaw, you will get your reward
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willdabeerman
Outlaw, you will get your reward
No worries Outlaw. It seems we are on the same reward plan.
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Awakened07
You should believe in God because this means you get to spend eternity living in peace and happiness! Why take the risk of not believing and possibly ending up being tortured forever? Believe and experience His love and grace and mercy. Dont believe and share a room with the Devil. Imagine that.
You take the same risks by believing in your God. Your God has a set of rules you need to live by in order to be saved. You may say "No, He doesn't, we're saved by grace", but it's quite clear that to be a Christian, most Christians feel one has to live life according to certain standards. Other people (collectively) believe in hundreds or thousands of other Gods with the same conviction, and with their own rules or standards to follow. Chances are you are not following the standards of their Gods, and they're not following the standards of your God. So you will be doomed by their Gods, and they'll be doomed by your God. -Now, a Christian (or any believer - that's the point) will argue that that doesn't matter or even enter the equation, because they are following the True God, whereas all these other gods are false. But then so will all the others claim. It's not like a believer in another deity goes: "Oh, I know Christians are right, I just want to follow my God anyway". No, they actuallybelieve in it, just as much as any Christian. People may then say "Well, you should at least believe in the Creator" (and then often use that as a 'wedge' to sneak in their own God), but when you move down to that basic, non-religious level, there are pretty much no characteristics you can put on that Creator. You'll have no idea what this Creator's plans are, if anything. Any characteristic imposed on this Creator is just that; imposed. Guesswork. "Oh, but we have the Bible, telling us about the Creator's characteristics." Yes, and in so doing, we're back to the God with certain standards to follow, which other Gods also have that you don't follow. And around and around we go.
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Satanus
If you don't believe in him, he gets all upset, angry, complexed, heartburn, choloky, constipated, and grinds his teeth while he's resting. You don't want that to happen do you? Secondly, when other people that DO believe in him find out that you don't believe as they do, they get all those symptoms, too. So, just make them all happy and believe, ok?
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hamilcarr
Outlaw, you will get your reward
His love and grace and mercy at work!
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Gopher
Why take the risk of not believing and possibly ending up being tortured forever? Believe and experience His love and grace and mercy. Dont believe and share a room with the Devil. Imagine that.
There are many different gods who have their own horrid versions of what happens to the wicked in an afterlife.
So, what I suppose I ought to do is go god-shopping. I mean, find the god who threatens the WORST torture imaginable for one who doesn't serve it/him, and then worship that god. That way I'd avoid the worst possible consequence.
(But really, if there is a god who puts people in hell as their punishment, I wouldn't want to serve that nasty god anyhow.)
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