(July 26, 2016 at 9:42 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote: Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! Thank you to everyone in the forum for your insightful contributions, I am always challenged intellectually with much of what I read here. I have a quick question for my non theist compadres:
If you discovered personally acceptable truth (whatever that may be for you) that the Christian God revealed in the bible was authentic, would you choose to serve and worship him? If yes, why? If no, feel free to elaborate as to why as well.
I observe there are many former Christians and very knowledgable people here on the content of the bible, I look forward to hearing your responses.
Again, I really do hope everyone is enjoying their summer!
I'm a bit late to the party, but I'll add my contribution.
If I was convinced that the Christian god does indeed exist, I would have no choice in believing in him.
But no, I would not worship or serve him.
First of all, any being that requires me to worship and served him, or face eternal punishment, does not deserve
either.
Second, if his actions, laws and proclamations, as depicted in the Bible, are accurate representations of this god, he is a moral monster, and definitely does not deserve worship.
I can't think of a much worse universe, than one where the Christian god actually existed.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
