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JWeinCom on 18 September 2018
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Dr.Vita said:
Runa216 said:

Yes. That's how evidence works. I mean, of course there would be idiots out there screaming fake news, but if actual, tangible evidence arrived showing that god was real or that one God made any more sense than another, most intellectuals would take it to heart. 

But, since we're going on something like a few millennia of no evidence ever being presented, I highly doubt that would happen. 

Yes that's the thing that doesn't make sense to me. If the existence of God would be proven every (intellectual) human would automatically believe in God and act as the humblest person on earth. Because they know with the existence of God that there is 100% an afterlife after our earthly life. People wouldn't do that because they are convinced by the Christian message, they would only act like this because they would fear the afterlife or more precisely hell. Everyone would want to go to heaven and therefore start acting like being nice people. So more or less they would fear God and his power. And that's not the purpose of religion. That's not what God would want.

On the other hand without an evidence of the existence of God only the people who are completely convinced by the Bible believe in God and the Christian message. That's the special thing about human beings, they have the free will to believe in what ever they want. Everyone can be an atheist or a theist, it's up to them what they think is the right choice. But by an evidence of the existence of God there would be no free will anymore for human beings because they are more or less forced to believe in God.

How does god not confirming his existence solve this problem?

Isn't the central promise of Christianity that those who believe in Jesus will have everlasting life? Isn't that the only reason given to believe in Jesus? That's, from what

Whether people know 100% there is an afterlife, the only reason for acting "morally" (according to christianity) is because you want the reward or to avoid the punishment.  

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