xtreme1131
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Alright so I have a pretty good argument/question that I am curious to see responses to.
Religious believers claim that there is a God.
Non believers claim that there isn't. They ask why would God only appear to certain people and not the entire world to make His existence known. Believers would probably answer with "God is testing our faith," or something along those lines. Basically, they claim God wants to see how strong our faith is, and/or how loyal we are to Him by following His laws.
How can this even be fair?? There are 21 major religions around the world, which are divided into hundreds of sects and sub-sects, which are in turn composed of different beliefs from one another.
We do not choose which religion we become when we are growing up. For example, I was baptized and confirmed as a Catholic, but only because I was told to do so.
So if God is testing our faith by making us believe in those who wrote the scriptures (Christians), how do we know that they are the ones telling the truth and not the thousands of other people claiming different beliefs, most of which claim that you will be damned if you don't. So how does this even make sense?? How can you go to hell just because you were brought up by one religion, which originated in the same manner as most other religions--by stories passed down from generation to generation? If you truly thought that this religion were true, why would you be punished? If your answer is that God is forgiving and will forgive those who believed in some sort of belief, then why won't those who didn't believe in God not be saved? We don't know for a fact that God exists. He has never come down in modern history. All of these stories took place thousands of years ago when people believed anything other people told them, and the laws of physics were not as they are today.
It just would not be fair. It sounds like God is a very deceiving person by putting hundreds of different beliefs into this world, and then making us decide which one is correct, if any.
I want to know what believers/non-believers think about this??
Religious believers claim that there is a God.
Non believers claim that there isn't. They ask why would God only appear to certain people and not the entire world to make His existence known. Believers would probably answer with "God is testing our faith," or something along those lines. Basically, they claim God wants to see how strong our faith is, and/or how loyal we are to Him by following His laws.
How can this even be fair?? There are 21 major religions around the world, which are divided into hundreds of sects and sub-sects, which are in turn composed of different beliefs from one another.
We do not choose which religion we become when we are growing up. For example, I was baptized and confirmed as a Catholic, but only because I was told to do so.
So if God is testing our faith by making us believe in those who wrote the scriptures (Christians), how do we know that they are the ones telling the truth and not the thousands of other people claiming different beliefs, most of which claim that you will be damned if you don't. So how does this even make sense?? How can you go to hell just because you were brought up by one religion, which originated in the same manner as most other religions--by stories passed down from generation to generation? If you truly thought that this religion were true, why would you be punished? If your answer is that God is forgiving and will forgive those who believed in some sort of belief, then why won't those who didn't believe in God not be saved? We don't know for a fact that God exists. He has never come down in modern history. All of these stories took place thousands of years ago when people believed anything other people told them, and the laws of physics were not as they are today.
It just would not be fair. It sounds like God is a very deceiving person by putting hundreds of different beliefs into this world, and then making us decide which one is correct, if any.
I want to know what believers/non-believers think about this??