What "if" you are wrong

[Ajax]

I know, thanks.

 

[Jimmy]

I enjoy knowing the truth.

 

[MikeF]

So ... you disagreed with what I posted even though you didn't understand what I posted, meant. Perhaps you should have taken a little time to actually consider it.

No problem, mate. You are certainly under no obligation to explain you comment.

 

[Nakosis]

To all that believe a god does exist and those that believe(or lack belief) a god does not exist.....
What if you are wrong? Will it matter?

I assume I am but then it is not my fault since I lacked information.
Will it matter? Probably but since I didn't have the information needed to make the right decisions no one can blame me for the decisions I did make based on the information that was available to me.

 

[The Hammer]

What if you are wrong?

I'm not

Will it matter?

Nope

 

[Valjean]

I enjoy knowing the truth.

Even if it's harsh and uncomfortable? Kudos, then.

 

[Spice]

Well, if god does exist, I'm probably going to hell anyway. Ho-hum. What does Trip Advisor say about Hell?

Pack light and it's BYOB.

 

[Trailblazer]

Yep. No one will know until they are dead, if even then.

if even then is right. Why assume if there is a God that nonbelievers will suddenly realize that after they die?

By then... Well who knows.

who knows is also right, since nobody knows, even though many believers believe that they know.

 

[Trailblazer]

If I'm wrong and there's nothing.... well, there will be nothing and there will be no me to know that there's nothing, so what will it matter?

But what if there is something? Do you think it will matter if there is something?

 

[Trailblazer]

Only if I find out I'm wrong, then I'd become annoyed and seek to correct my views.

How are you going to find out you are wrong? When will you know?
If you wait till you die to find out it might be too late to correct your views.
That might be annoying, but it will be even more annoying if you cannot do anything about what you did not know and can't correct.

 

[Trailblazer]

Good luck seeking to correct your views when you are dead lol

I believe that's right.
Logically speaking, why would we be given so many warnings about what we need to do in this life if we are going to get another chance in the afterlife?

40: O MY SERVANT! Free thyself from the fetters of this world, and loose thy soul from the prison of self. Seize thy chance, for it will come to thee no more.
The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 36

 

[Trailblazer]

I seek to be 100% right 100% of the time.

I do not seek to be right at all, but I seek to know what is the truth.

 

[Trailblazer]

Once I'm dead it won't matter any more.

It may or may not matter, nobody knows.
I am not much for gambling, especially when it come to eternal life.

 

[Trailblazer]

Once you’re dead, it won’t matter to you.

It may or may not matter to him.

 

[Trailblazer]

Well, if god does exist, I'm probably going to hell anyway. Ho-hum. What does Trip Advisor say about Hell?

It advises us not to go there.

 

[Trailblazer]

If God gives us brains capable of critical analysis and reason, then provides no objective evidence of himself or his wishes, then punishes us for using the reasoning capacity He endowed us with to defer belief pending evidence... well, that's simply an unjust God, and our ultimate fate a roll of the dice.

But what if your critical analysis and reason led you in the wrong direction?
What if there is evidence and you failed to recognize it as evidence? How would that make God unjust?

 

[Trailblazer]

In a cursory view, it looks like a nice little community with a lot of amenties rated 4 or 5 out of 5.

It might look like that when you first arrive, but it won't look like that after you settle in and realize where you actually are.

 

[Trailblazer]

Well the only way I'll find out is if I'm dead at that point there's nothing I can do, so no its not going to matter.

The only way to find out is not by dying. By then it will be too late.
There is something you can do NOW, before it's too late.

 

[Trailblazer]

What if we knew we were wrong?

If we knew we were wrong wouldn't we seek to know what is right?

 

[MikeF]

But what if your critical analysis and reason led you in the wrong direction?
What if there is evidence and you failed to recognize it as evidence? How would that make God unjust?

Wow. Seriously? This whole site is full of the many varied speculation on gods, deities, and other assorted entities, along with other more abstract notions of ultimate Oneness and Nirvana, etc. If your chosen entity can't be plain enough to end all this speculation, it is absolutely unjust if there were to be actual dire consequences for not adhering to the tenets of the supposedly correct entity out of all those that have been claimed.

The fact that such claimed entities are not more plain in making their existence known is more than sufficient reason to reject such claims as mere human invention, in my view (along with any claimed consequences for failing to believe).