If god is real why go on living?

[fr0d0]

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That excerpt from the Lord's prayer just goes to back up the premise of the OP. "Thy will be done." Revelation declares his will was the marking of the elite, the select, 144,000 for inclusion in the Book of Life. While his will be done that all others be cast into the flames of Hell.


Notice how the crickets are chirping amid the Christians here who have yet to address the question.

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[Judas BentHer]

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I see a gay man retorting with stupid pictures. How nice.

[Anomalocaris]

Because I can still do a lot of stuff in this world.

Evidently the infinite, supreme and eternal spiritual happiness of perpetually sucking Jesus cock in person doesn't outweight the finite earthly concerns of the temperal and material.

[Godscreated]

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If god exists and Heaven is something hoped for, by those who are saved from their sins while they continue to live and sin, why do Christians go on living?
Why not escape the troubles of this sinful sin filled earth and find a way to kill themselves, so they can be with god in paradise forever?

While there are passages in the Bible that speak of the body as a temple of god and seem to imply suicide is not the answer, nothing expressly says don't kill yourself. And why should it? Jesus came to earth knowing full well it was a suicide mission, to take the worlds sins upon himself. Funny that, because there is still sin in the world.

Not to mention cause for the faithful to end it all being the book of Revelation. Chapter 7 and 20 respectively.(Revelation 20:15)Those destined to enter heaven, 144,000, have their names already written in the Book of Life. God's angels sealed the servants of god in their foreheads, (like the mark of the beast contained in the palm of the hands and the forehead.Nice.), so as to designate what members of what tribes of the House of Israel would enter Heaven.(Revelation 7:1-11)

That Christianity is nearly 3, 000 years old one would imagine given when the Book of Revelation was authored and that those 144,000 alluded to are spots already filled, even when Revelation was a prophetic book. And the 144,000 is a particular designation for those Jewish males who have never defiled themselves with women (Big oops there for Christian non-virgin gentiles), what's the point of living as a Christian?

The book that Christians believe is god's immutable word informs life is all for nothing, even for those saved, if they're not in keeping with that certain criteria to enter Heaven. Otherwise, per Revelation, no matter if they're saved those not in the number of that marked 144,000 (Sound familiar to JW's? ) , are to be thrown into the lake of fire.

So the destiny, orchestrated by omniscience, is set. So, why continue living according to the word, when the word says it's all for naught?

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If christians were to end their lives at the point of acceptance then people would believe and rightly so that it was a suicide cult and besides who would be around to preach and teach the gospel so that others could know God. Your assertion is absurd.

[TheAtheistTroll]

If christians were to end their lives at the point of acceptance then people would believe and rightly so that it was a suicide cult and besides who would be around to preach and teach the gospel so that others could know God. Your assertion is absurd.

Yeah, Christianity is far better at being a 'murder everyone but us' cult than a suicide one.

[Ace Otana]

You know what would be interesting? If every religion claimed that the only way to heaven was to kill yourself before you reach 25 and end up in hell when your life ends if you don't. I wonder how many people would actually call themselves Christian or Muslim? How many would actually believe it?

Religion as I see it, is all about what you want to be true. Which is why they can so easily believe so many senseless baseless assertions. I love the idea that when I die, I'll become some kind of bird like an eagle or something. So I can explore the world in a new perspective. Don't see me wasting my life believing that it will actually happen.

[Judas BentHer]

I once heard it said, religion is a word humans come up with so as to describe the unspeakable. And it does a very poor job.

Religions set up these lofty notions of what it means to be human and part of what that entails is to be pleasing to something superior to their condition, that expects them to surpass all that it means to be imperfect in the flesh while hoping not only that it's all true, as they bow and scrape hoping to obey and be approved by the invisible, but that they succeed in the venture.

It's a no win situation. While it keeps the devout subservient to the words that describe a particular religion, which was always authored by people, usually men. And it keeps the faithful confined in their conduct and thoughts,as they comport with the parameters of their chosen faith that sets such barriers because said religion affirms acknowledging one's self as fully human, with all that entails, is something that must be denied because it stands to be deemed wrong conduct by that unseen power that made all those traits in the human possible in the first place.

Religion is slavery. Self imposed slavery.
Just like the slave in literal bondage that fears slipping their shackles, so too are the religious because they are terrified both of the punishment for non-compliance to remaining incarcerated, as well as what will result after they're dead on the chance they didn't obey rightly in order to be rewarded for being in bondage all their days when they could feel and suffer that self-imposed state of confinement.

Is it any wonder the atheist, those who just by name alone indicate to the slave we are more liberated and free than they are, stands no chance of getting through to those who find their chains comforting, because they accept they are where they belong?

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