You can’t fool God is one presumption I always believed in.
Tigercity, an atheist, wrote the following;
If you believe in God, surely that comes from strong faith and a 100% certainty in his existence. Also, I assume that God knows which people truly believe in him so even if you try and trick your way into a potential heaven, you can’t fool God.
This leaves us with a conundrum. If you’re not sure, you can’t very well opt for the ‘maybe it’s true so I’ll give my soul to Jesus’ default setting cos that’s a cop out, you’re fooling yourself and you’re attempting to fool the Almighty.
What about if you blindly go through life, claiming to be a believer, acting all devout and avoiding sins? You turn up at the pearly gates and they don’t let you in cos they know that you deep down always carried some niggling doubts about your faith.
So that would be a waste of time…
It’s not and can’t be about ‘playing your cards right’. If it were this simple I’d have signed up to religion years ago & resigned myself to a state of grace. Sure, i wouldn’t have been a ‘true’ Christian but at least I’d be backing a horse which couldnt lose.
I hope you see what i’m getting at here, I’m writing this in a simple way to try to make my thoughts clear.
Nobody wants to risk their soul, but either it dies when I die, it goes to heaven or it gos to hell.
Right here, right now and at this point in time I just believe that when I die, it’s over.
Yes I’m sorry it sounds so final, some memories might carry on in people’s heads, they might talk about me from time to time, perhaps even something I’ve written might survive and some photos will be preserved.
A final word – if God exists then fine, but he’s not done enough to convince me, it seems he’s convinced others though… but I keep an open mind and a fair heart… I just feel that if it were to be true then we would be left with absolutely no doubt about his existence.
To play this game of ‘cat & mouse’ with humans is frankly unfair… or maybe we’ve solely got a tendency to do it to ourselves..?
