I had a sleepover yesterday with a friend who
truly believed in God, and Jesus as his/her savior. I admire her for her strong beliefs, but when she tried to convince me that Jesus too, was my savior, I had no Idea what to say. So this is the beginning of my rant today.
For the past years, Me and my brother have no strong beliefs. We both agree on being atheists, but way back deep in my heart, I don't know, would God damn me to hell? (Ha I hope not)
I always wanted to know if I could ever go to Heaven and not believe in God, or not accept Jesus as my savior.
My parents, on having us, we weren't so big on God anyways, so I guess we were never "exposed"
And answer from most people who go to church is "of course not!", and the answer from other atheists is "Only God brings Heaven and Hell. If you truly don't believe in God, Heaven and Hell do not exist."
Right?
A lot of families get their children into God early, sending them to Sunday school and listening to the preacher preach in Church. So since that's the only life the children have lived, that's what they will believe for the rest of their lives. Right?
But I have noticed many facts, many little things that God and the
exilers have missed.
First of all- Science contradicts some of the things in the Bible, main one being evolution. For my to truly believe in God or not to truly believe in God, I want the answer to my question- Is evolution real? Its a theory, but supported by many facts. So of course, I asked this guy who volunteered at a church if he knew, but the only answer he gave was that he believed in both. But before I asked him, I asked a woman, to see her opinion. She told me that believing in Evolution was like believing in the Devil. No, scratch that- Believing in Evolution
is believing in the Devil. And so far, to this day, I have not yet found an answer to my question.
Second, How did all the other religions form? Did Christianity originally begin, and a bunch of traitors suddenly started to believe in Islam? Or
buddah? (Buddha?) If so, these religions have been alive for thousands of years, so why hasn't God done something? Maybe he should have killed these "traitors", or meddled with their conscious to switch back to Christianity?
So all religions believe if you don't believe in that religion, you're messed up and going to hell. Unless you believe in something peaceful, like Confucius, or Taoism.
And third - wheres all this proof of God?
I mean, billions of people throughout the world believe in him but wheres the actual proof that he was there? Can you actually believe others experiences? I mean on TV, I remember this girl who had some sort of accident, and when her mom sang bible songs to her, she dreamed the Jesus picked her up and cured her. But how do we know that she dreamed it? Had God done anything in the world that thousands of non believers or kinda in between people like me have seen?
Not yet.
But if you ask someone who believes in God, yes yes and yes again. Is there a real answer out in the world?
Fourth reason, check the news! All these wars were about religion too!
Suni and Shiites, Jews, Muslims, whats wrong with the world? Isn't God the blame? If he's not than what is? I mean, you can't possibly blame the people, they believe in God. Put yourself in their shoes. Believing in Allah or Buddha is correct in every way God is correct to Christians! So they fight for what the believe in. But is it really worth it? Is God worth it for thousands to die, kill and be killed?
But the real thing is, believe in God or not were all the same people. Yeah, I know, people who believe in God might be looked upon as more innocent, have a more clean image (maybe) and respectful etc.etc. but In my opinion, I truly truly
truly believe they are the same. I mean, people who believe in God still say "Oh My God!" and commit the same "sins" as people who don't believe in God.
Back in school, one of the girls I less favored who's parents have believed in God and grandparents and from generations before her cheated from a test. We were having a vocabulary test and she pretended to rummage in her book bag for a pencil and she stole a bunch of looks at her flash cards. She rummage for quite a long time, and I swear I could hear the sound of her shuffling through her cards. Plus she took her card case out and set it on the floor.
I've also heard things like "God won't come to you, You can only come to God"
But that's probably bad for me because I'm the type of person that likes to try it out before I actually decide (Yeah I know I have to decide to try first but that's not the point) And if God doesn't come to me and show me his true powers, what will happen?
I'm sure plenty of famous people also don't worry about God too much, do they go to hell as well?
And how bad is Hell?
A place of fire to burn people for eternity? Bloody wars and eternal battles or sinful people?
And why cant a perfectly good girl who doesn't believe in God go to heaven? Isn't that what God wants? Perfectly good children/adults/humans living in his world??
And a good friend of mine even stole from a store!
Not like anything of value of course but that just proves that God believers aren't as innocent as you think! And if you disagree, I want to hear your thoughts. Can you answer my questions?
So in the end, there's only two things.
God and his science.
And it would be VERY much appreciated if people who do believe in God stop forcing people who don't believe in God to believe in him. Think of it to be that everyone is free to believe who they want to.
But also you can think of it as this- Its not possible to not believe in God and go to heaven because Heaven is Gods "thing" . If you don't believe in God, you don't believe in heaven. There is no heaven.
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