Question?

[PETE_ROSE]

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!

[chimp3]

Funny that someone named Pete Rose is offering a variation of Pascal wager.

[The Valkyrie]

If the god of the bible was proved to be 100% real I would have to believe.

I could not, in all honesty, worship or serve it because that would mean that the events of the OT were real and actually happened and NOTHING could get me to worship the evil being that is the god of the Old Testament.

[J a c k]

Pete, my man! Hell to the nah!
Former Christian here. Fundie, actually. Bible school after high school and before college. Pastor parents. Former preacher myself. Yeah, I did the looney talk behind the pulpit. Christian enough for ya?

'Kay. The answer is nope. Never would I worship the god of the Christian Bible were he proven to be real. The dude's a dick. Oh, and yes, I know the Bible. Want verses?

[The Valkyrie]

Pete, my man! Hell to the nah!
Former Christian here. Fundie, actually. Bible school after high school and before college. Pastor parents. Former preacher myself. Yeah, I did the looney talk behind the pulpit. Christian enough for ya?

'Kay. The answer is nope. Never would I worship the god of the Christian Bible were he proven to be real. The dude's a dick. Oh, and yes, I know the Bible. Want verses?

Wait, you couldn't have been a real Christian™.

If you were you wouldn't have been a preacher.  Because the bible clearly states that a woman should remain quiet...

[SteelCurtain]

With the new avi I always think Mama is Jorm...

I would get myself checked. I would always be skeptical. But if we are skipping straight to the hypothetical that I have been convinced, I would believe. I would not worship. I take the Billy Joel approach. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than die with the saints. The god character described in your holy book is not worthy of any admiration, if he existed. That's for sure.

[Whateverist]

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!

Even if some interpersonal experience led me to believe a god existed, I can imagine no circumstance which would lead me to believe it was the god of the bible.  Nothing strikes me as less likely and I don't think any Christian has reason to think the god of their belief is that god.  It is just wanton stubbornness and pigheaded prejudice.

[J a c k]

Pete, my man! Hell to the nah!
Former Christian here. Fundie, actually. Bible school after high school and before college. Pastor parents. Former preacher myself. Yeah, I did the looney talk behind the pulpit. Christian enough for ya?

'Kay. The answer is nope. Never would I worship the god of the Christian Bible were he proven to be real. The dude's a dick. Oh, and yes, I know the Bible. Want verses?

Wait, you couldn't have been a real Christian™.

If you were you wouldn't have been a preacher.  Because the bible clearly states that a woman should remain quiet...

I know, right?  
Yet, cherry picker former me was great at getting applause for preaching  neyastee (nasty, mmmkay). Lol! I was the typical "I won't say what you wanna hear" type of deal. Hahahaha! Hence, now atheist.

[The Valkyrie]

Wait, you couldn't have been a real Christian™.

If you were you wouldn't have been a preacher.  Because the bible clearly states that a woman should remain quiet...

I know, right?  
Yet, cherry picker former me was great at getting applause for preaching  neyastee (nasty, mmmkay). Lol! I was the typical "I won't say what you wanna hear" type of deal. Hahahaha! Hence, now atheist.

Glad you recovered.

[Angrboda]

I don't think I could ever have certainty that a god exists. There's just no evidence that doesn't have a more mundane explanation that is more probable. I don't think I could answer your hypothetical as I don't believe certainty is possible. Lacking certainty, I just wouldn't believe.