“But how will you know unless you take the time and diligent effort to disprove it.”
You can’t, that’s my point!
“Your eternal life hangs in the balance.”
I’ll take my chances, just like you are. You have no idea that what you believe is true - it’s just a belief, just like kids may believe in Santa Claus. And if your god is so petty that he would condemn me to eternal hell after what I consider to have lived a “good” life, simply because I say I don’t know if he exists, then he’s not only insecure but extremely vengeful. Not a guy I’d care to around with.
And by the way exactly what would I be doing in heaven for eternity, play the harp? What would you envision your eternal life in heaven to be like? What would you do day and day out, if they even have days?
“after what I consider “
Christianity is about the Creator and the Creator’s standard of good. Human’s all have their own standard of good and bad. If everyone judges what is good or bad then there truly is no good or bad, just confusion about what is good and bad based on who says so, and that’s part of the fallen world we live in.
IF believers in God (Creator) die and it truly didnt matter who’s standard mattered it’s no real big loss, they still lived a good life by their standard.
If someone who rejects the Creator and Creator’s standard dies and it turns out it mattered because Creator had a standard of good and bad, then it was the person’s choice to dismiss the opportunities the Creator tried to reach out to them and they rejected the opportunities to know the creator before end of life. You cannot argue then that you didnt know, you were given opportunities.
plenty of atheists or people of other beliefs have taken time to investigate and ended up believing in Jesus. If you want to check any out and limit your own time investigating check out YouTube I happened upon people from sciences, various other religious beliefs, atheist, people who had NDE, medical people who had amazing experiences helping patients, the little kid who’s story lead to the book and movie Heaven is for Real, etc.
Lee Strobel is one I recall - The Case for Christ (book and movie) - he said his years of looking into whether God exists and Jesus was who he said he was, resulted in him realizing it would take more faith to NOT believe, there was just too much credible evidence to support that Jesus lived was crucified and rose from the dead just as he said he would to be the redeeming way for us to reunite with God the Father in relationship while alive, and for eternity.
J. Warner Wallace was another. He investigated lots of info too.
Having a pivotal moment that changed my life lead me to believe and I prefer life with God in it than what I considered was “good” life before. it’s the reason for my tagline.
No one can force you, neither does God, he gives you a life time and chances along the way. But you can’t say when you face him that you didnt know, or had no choice about it.
That 'god', which you claim not to know whether he exists or not, has left THIS message:
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.Romans 1:20
So, was this world CREATED or has it ALWAYS been here?
Some scientists say the universe is expanding. Some of them say it’ll continue to do this forever, while others say at one point it will contract back.
Do you have a dog in this fight?
You’ve said a lot of words but all I hear is BAAAWWWWWWWW.
If you hate God so much why are you whining about not having to spend forever and ever with him?
I would think that people like you would want Hell; you’d never have to deal with God again.