(November 4, 2009 at 12:07 pm)solarwave Wrote: If it seems so much like God than you cant tell the difference what do you lose my beliving that? If you are wrong you are no worse off than by being atheist.If it were a hypothetical being of enormous (but not omnipotent) power, and it started making demands out of me, such that I would lose my life, everything I cared about, all to "follow" it when all it really wanted was to trick people and get more power, then I would lose everything.
So let me assume that you would believe in this being, since you don't seem to think you'd lose anything. What if God (the Christian God, or Allah, or whoever) existed, and this being claimed to be him. You believe, and then when you die you get sent to Hell because this being isn't the God he claimed to be, and you worshiped and idol rather than a true God. You lose everything again.
