To: fourdeuce82d
What if we die and we find out the guys who worship rocks were right?If the rock worshippers are correct then what will I, as a Christian, have lost out on when I die?
On the other hand, if Christianity is correct then the rock worshipper will have lost everything when he dies.
-ksen
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01/03/2002 12:47:51 PM PST by
ksen
To: ksen
I think you spoke from a position where even if you're wrong you're right. If you're wrong and the rock worshipper is right was you've lost is all of the time and money that went into your worship of Christ, and you've also lost your chance at immortality in paradise. Same thing the other way, if you're right and he's wrong he loses the time and money and the shot at immortality in paradise. Basically that's what everybody loses if they bet wrong on the roulette table of religion, assuming anybody is right. If the atheists are right nobody gets a shot at immortality in paradise and everybody that believes anything wasted their time and money.
To: ksen
If the rock worshippers are correct then what will I, as a Christian, have lost out on when I die?
On the other hand, if Christianity is correct then the rock worshipper will have lost everything when he dies.
The trouble with this logic is that one will end up worshipping the religion that has the scariest version of the afterlife. What if the rock worshipper also believed that if you weren't a rock worshipper when you died, you would spend eternity squared being pummeled by huge rocks? Now, there are negative consequences attached to both belief systems. If the Rock Worshipper is correct, the Christian will have lost everything when he dies, and if the Christian is correct, the Rock Worshipper will have. The trouble is, this alone isn't enough to determine which is "true." And people faced with the choice, if the use the logic of Pascal's wager, will pick the choice that will have the least consequences for them if they are wrong.
To: ksen
If the rock worshippers are correct then what will I, as a Christian, have lost out on when I die? Of course you will have missed out on the Rock God's heaven, and be relegated to the Rock God's hell. Do you not understand this simple point?
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