“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.
“plenty of atheists or people of other beliefs have taken time to investigate and ended up believing in Jesus.”
And plenty have gone the other way.
“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.”
How was some primitive tribe in Africa or the Amazon who has never heard and knows nothing about the Christian God and Jesus given that opportunity? And so your God condemns them to hell?
A truly vicious guy that God don’t you think?
Especially, being omnipotent, he could have saved himself and us a lot of trouble and built that belief in all of us, no?