What If?

[Jesse James]

With all the controversy lately over Gay Marriage I pose this question to all: What if the Bible is 100% correct?

 

What if there comes a Judgement day and all the things God calls an abomination are judged based on what the Bible says?

 

What if Judgement day comes and the Bible is 100% correct about Jesus being the only way to Heaven.

 

What if there is God and the Bible is 100% his word? Where will you stand?

[Irish Cat]

A lot of people will be totally screwed, but it won't just be because of gay marriage.

[PurplePride92]

A lot of people will be totally screwed, but it won't just be because of gay marriage.

 

This.

[PurplePride92]

With all the controversy lately over Gay Marriage I pose this question to all: What if the Bible is 100% correct?

 

What if there comes a Judgement day and all the things God calls an abomination are judged based on what the Bible says?

 

What if Judgement day comes and the Bible is 100% correct about Jesus being the only way to Heaven.

 

What if there is God and the Bible is 100% his word? Where will you stand?

 

If the Bible is correct won't there only be like 144K people that make it Heaven? I'm going to need that whole chapter of Revelations broken down before I can give an informed answer.

[True blue (and gold)]

I would say that those that aren't homosexual won't have to worry about homosexuality as a sin. They might figure out that they wasted a lot of time on it in their mortal life. The Rowan Co clerk that was married four times might be surprised. Many of us might be surprised with our own hypocrisy.

[Bluto]

3 things will surprise us in heaven:

 

1) Who IS there.

2) Who ISN'T there.

3) That WE'RE there.

 

C.S. Lewis

[mcpapa]

If the Bible is correct won't there only be like 144K people that make it Heaven? I'm going to need that whole chapter of Revelations broken down before I can give an informed answer.

 

Kinda narrows it down.

[ggclfan]

If the Bible is correct won't there only be like 144K people that make it Heaven? I'm going to need that whole chapter of Revelations broken down before I can give an informed answer.

 

I hope this is some sort of metaphor because if it is literal, I have no shot. Hopefully some of you other BGPers make it...

[PurplePride92]

I hope this is some sort of metaphor because if it is literal, I have no shot. Hopefully some of you other BGPers make it...

 

You and me both. I need someone with more knowledge to help a brother out.

[Hellbird]

You and me both. I need someone with more knowledge to help a brother out.

I believe that is the mormon faith that says that which reminds me of a great joke told by a comedian when he wondered out loud why the folks from the Latter day saints go door to door trying to recruit more members when only something like 150k will be allowed into heaven lol.

[norse1]

Then I will see most of you in hell.. I will bring the beer if someone else can grab the chips.

[UKMustangFan]

If it's correct, I'm in agreement with TB&G. Straight people won't have to worry about homosexuality, even those who support allowing gay marriage. No chance God punishes people for trying to be a decent human being who treats others with kindness, respect, and equality. I think I'd be more worried if I were the adulterous trice divorced holy roller, but maybe that's just me. :idunno:

[B-Ball-fan]

Never short of words in offering a long winded perspective on the matter...

 

Conversely, what if it isn't?

 

Then perhaps so many had based their life's focus on a myth, and with many of them also spending their energies instilling this myth on to their offspring before they were old enough to discern the validity of this myth, confusing their focus in life with delusion, while even many others also lived their lives confused by a man made guilt complex instead of trusting their own instincts, and living a life following their true reality. For some, no terrible harm done in following the unprovable, while for others confusing and adding internal conflict to their existence.

 

Aside from that, but no less an important item, if so many throughout history had not been so intent on following unprovable myths that they became so impassioned about, perhaps many humans lives would've been spared that were cut short through conflicts and wars prompted by extreme and countering religious views.

 

Some might say that with no certainty one way or another, they're willing to take that chance that it's all true and make sure that they followed the Bible's teachings because eternity is a very long time, and it's worth it to them in life's short time frame in retrospect to ensure that they have themselves better prepared for their eternal existence in the afterlife.

 

On the other hand, others might find that it would be a waste of a life not to follow and trust one's reality because of an unprovable claim that man made writings were inspired by an unseen deity that we are at the mercy of trusting the truth of this belief that has been forwarded and imposed on us by other human entities who quite possibly were incapable of comprehending other's realities, and were perhaps designed teachings that were based on their narrow and shortsighted perception of reality because it wasn't in line with their realty, and their understanding of it on a broader spectrum.

 

If rules are designed by heterosexuals, denouncing homosexuality for lack of understanding, then what a nice clear cut package of more easily followed guidelines for those better inclined to follow, but those who are homosexuals, by no choice of their own, are stuck with rules that beg them to ignore their true instincts to follow sets of rules that counter their natural reality placed on them by those who quite possibly were incapable of understanding their reality.

 

What works for some in easily following guidelines to live by may not always be so cut and dried for others to follow with the same ease because of various countering items within their own personal natural truth.

 

I for one, who cannot discount the possible existence of an afterlife, but approaches life in a more existential fashion, am comfortable with doing my best at living as peaceful of a life as possible imposing no harm on others, all the while trusting my own instincts of my own reality to ensure that I've lived a full life true to myself with the perception that what I do know for sure is that I am alive now, and to live life accordingly, all the while trusting that with the things that I am unsure of, or have no possible way of knowing, that ultimately I will one day die, and then let the chips fall where they may.

 

With a clear conscience, it's my existence, and therefore my own consequences one way or another as to how things will all play out for having lived a life by following my own free will.

[Hatz]

I believe that is the mormon faith that says that which reminds me of a great joke told by a comedian when he wondered out loud why the folks from the Latter day saints go door to door trying to recruit more members when only something like 150k will be allowed into heaven lol.

 

Actually the Jehovah's Witness believe it is a literal number.

 

Some believe it refers to Jews converted to Christ during the Great Tribulation.

 

Still others see it as a metaphor of the "Whole People of God" based on the numerology of 12 as a root and 12 is often seen in Hebraic tradition as a "complete or whole" number. (i.e. 12 disciples, tribes, etc.)

[rjs4470]

With all the controversy lately over Gay Marriage I pose this question to all: What if the Bible is 100% correct?

 

What if there comes a Judgement day and all the things God calls an abomination are judged based on what the Bible says?

 

What if Judgement day comes and the Bible is 100% correct about Jesus being the only way to Heaven.

 

What if there is God and the Bible is 100% his word? Where will you stand?

 

That question works both ways. When one considers how many religions and sub-religions there are out there, and that for the most part, the path you choose is based on where you were born and what you were taught by your parents, there is probably a pretty good chance most of us are guessing wrong. That being said, since most would consider God to be a loving God, I can't imagine that He would place people in situations where they would never be taught "His word" and then later penalize or hold that against them when their day of reckoning comes.