RE: Would atheist worship The biblical God if his existence was proven?
January 8, 2014 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2014 at 9:23 pm by Sinnersburninhell100.)
(January 8, 2014 at 9:02 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(January 8, 2014 at 8:49 pm)Sinnersburninhell100 Wrote: I sometimes have doubts but I feel that when I see the world so broken that perhaps humans are corrupted. The world could be better if people followed Jesus's example and thought about how Christ loved them so much that they do not have to burn in hell because of his sacrifice.
Your not helping your case at all.
So, why couldn't 'God' just forgive humanity for 'original sin' without a blood sacrifice? After all, it's his universe, his rules.
Wouldn't that be the moral thing to do?
But instead, the story we're supposed to swallow is that, Yahweh magically impregnated a 14 year old girl in order to give birth to himself, so he could then sacrifice himself to himself in order to forgive mankind.
Seriously...
I am sure God wanted to show the depth of hi love by sacrificing what mattered most to him. His son Jesus died on the cross as a show of love for humanity. We may not deserve his forgiving love but that just show how compassionate God is.
(January 8, 2014 at 9:02 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Clearly, if the god of the bible was shown beyond all doubt to exist, I and most other atheists worthy of the name would have no choice but to accept that existence. There would still remain an incredible gulf between that and worshipping it, certainly the likelihood of my doing so would fall inversely to the entity's demands that I must. I reserve my worship solely for those I cannot bear to live without; an exclusive club indeed. It is most certainly not handed over to any tinpot dictator-cum-abusive father who delights in sub-childish power games, makes knowingly-impossible demands and needs a technicolour post-it note in the sky to remind itself not to destroy the world.
It's rather arcane and more than a little geeky, but this quote from a certain BBC sci-fi drama sums it up for me: "You want to live like slaves, live or die at the whim of a madman, then fine. But you're not taking me down with you!"
Aren't people slaves to what they believe in and desire anyway. Humans are naturally vindictive and need faith to curtail our evil and so often very selfish desires. People would rather entertain themselves and give money to what amuses and pleases them than help those who are in pain or innocent children dying in third world countries. This corrupt sinful world needs Christ as an example of how to be charitable and loving. Without Jesus we are slaves to a different set of masters whether they be selfish desires or ideas and other beliefs we may hold. Humanity is rotten and needs Jesus.
