I understand that you get to look smart in front of your dork friends, but is that really worth going to hell for?

1) Believe in God. He exists, eternal salvation is your reward.

2) Believe in God. He doesn't exist, nothing lost.

3) Don't believe in God. He exists and is super pissed at you now. Say hello to hell.

4) Don't believe in God. He doesn't exist and you would get to feel smart now except you're dead.

Seriously, why not play the odds?

*cums on Jesus*

5) You probably chose the wrong one. Go to hell anyway.

>>3
Still, you've got the worst possible odds by not believing.

6) God doesn't care either way. Your fanatic belief in simplified morality and dogmatic nonsense portrayed in one of the many barbaric books only serves to disappoint him. You go to heaven either way, but now you don't get to be God's bro. He dislikes you for eternity.

7) You waste every Sunday of your life.

I think it's being ignorant of God and being so closed minded that he MUST not exist that is stupid. Why must it be logical to assume there isn't a God; what if it's logical to assume a God does exist? Anyone who says they're an atheist is dumb (Dawkins), how can they KNOW God doesn't exist, a Christian has faith that God exists and believes they don't KNOW he exists, no one can fully understand God, unless you are literally God. Science is neutral when it comes to proving or disproving God.

The only reason Africa's population is growing is because of Western medicine.

Jesus claimed deity. (simply a matter of verses)

Several independent primary source documents confirm. (e.g. the four gospels) (Simon Greenleaf)

The four gospels have the greatest text critical attestation of any works of Greco-Roman Antiquity (F.F. Bruce, Bruce Metzger, Kurt Aland, et al.)

Therefore the claims of the gospels probably ought to be historically investigated and taken very seriously.

>>9

Older things are harder to verify

Oh no. You blew my mind and totally convinced me!

Honestly, though, are you actually arguing having faith and depending on evidence in the same sentence. You're one hilarious nigga.

If your motive for believing in God is to make it to Heaven then you won't make it. You're selfishly motivated, and that's liable to win you a nice comfy spot in the third circle of Hell.

>>11
“The NT Text…is far better attested than that of any other work of ancient literature. It’s problems and difficulties arise not from a deficiency of evidence but from an excess of it. In the case of no work of Greek or Latin literature do we possess manuscripts so plentiful in number or so near the date of composition.” – Sir Frederick G. Kenyon.

>>7
No doubt. Atheism is just as ridiculous as faith. I can't say for certain that God exists, and I don't claim that he certainly does. To be certain about anything you don't know for sure is ridiculous.

Implying I don't believe in the Christian god because i want to sound smart

OP do you say you love Jesus so that the kids at your youth group think your cool?

>>14
The central tenet of classic Christianity is that God became man in the person of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is a historical figure. (Unless you're an asswipe like Dr. Richard Carrier)

Therefore God is investigatible via the science of examining history.

Simple Aristotelian logic.

>>14
Exactly - but what would you say to a Christian who feels they have met/encountered the living God, is that not enough to know that God exists? An athiest however cannot make these claims.