While walking my dogs this morning beside the lake I fell into a reverie.
I imagined a time in the far distant future when most ABers were in Heaven. The atheists, though bemused, were as happy as anyone else to be there. But they soon moved to a remote corner of Elysium and began a debate.
'If we don't believe in this place how can we be here?'
Will you, if you're an atheist, be happy to admit you're wrong?
I think a great number of atheists would love to believe...would love the opportunity to say "i was wrong, god and heaven exists" after having been given undeniable proof... but unfortunately common sense prevails
its the same as how we'd all love to believe in santa etc, but we just cant...
What possible need could an omnipotent and omnipresent creator have for his creations to believe in him, or for those of his creations who do believe in him to praise him?
Better to fall into a reverie than into the lake i suppose. Soggy thinking though, either way.
This is just a version of Pascals Wager.
No heaven.No hell. No evidence of heaven. Yours and your fellow travellers faith in such a construct is all that sustains it as a concept.
Show me a devout amputee whose prayers for a regrown limb have been answered Sandy. Show me a real-time re-alignment of the stars in the firmament that spell out jehovah. No? Thought not..
'No-one can come to the Father except through the Son' and our failure to recognise the authority of Christ would mean that our names wouldn't even be on the guest-list.....
Joko, why do think a lot of us would like to believe in heaven etc? There's nothing agreeable about descriptions in, say, Revelation.
Admittedly the Koranic paradise is a little more agreeable than the servile bowing and scraping of St. John'd heaven. It does involve totty and (presumably non-alcoholic) wine.