What if, by some dreadful piece of bad luck...

[InterestedAtheist]

What if you went before God when you died - and discovered that it was Allah?

What if you learned that actually it was the Muslims who were right, and the Christians who were wrong, and what if Allah gave you a choice: follow him - worship and obey him in Paradise - or else go straight to hell forever.

I don't know all that much about Islamic beliefs, about whether or not you would get a choice, or be sent to hell forever, but what if the above did happen? What would you do?

 

[seajoy]

What if you went before God when you died - and discovered that it was Allah?

What if you learned that actually it was the Muslims who were right, and the Christians who were wrong, and what if Allah gave you a choice: follow him - worship and obey him in Paradise - or else go straight to hell forever.

I don't know all that much about Islamic beliefs, about whether or not you would get a choice, or be sent to hell forever, but what if the above did happen? What would you do?

Since that is not a possibility, I have no answer.

These are the words we must look at.
Jesus said "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no man comes to the Father but by me."

seajoy

 

[InterestedAtheist]

Oh go on - how about if we pretend that this happened in a dream?

There are plenty of things that are not possibilities, but that doesn't stop us from thinking about them.

If someone asked me what I'd do if I met Harry Potter or Darth Vader, I'm sure I'd be able to think of something.

 

[Kehaar]

I'd give the same answer as seajoy

 

[seajoy]

Oh go on - how about if we pretend that this happened in a dream?

There are plenty of things that are not possibilities, but that doesn't stop us from thinking about them.

If someone asked me what I'd do if I met Harry Potter or Darth Vader, I'm sure I'd be able to think of something.

Funny you should mention this as a dream. I was just thinking (while walking down the hall at work), maybe I should think of this as some crazy nightmare, then I might be able to give you an answer . But low and behold, that didn't help...I'd be praying to Jesus to wake me up from such a horrible thing.
(Wow, for a couple moments, I was thinking the same as an atheist )

seajoy

 

[InterestedAtheist]

So that means your reaction to Allah's offer would be not speaking to him but praying to Jesus?

OK, thanks!

 

[InterestedAtheist]

Maybe I should amend the question, since in the first one I only gave you a few minutes to decide what to do. How about if Allah was merciful enough to give you a while to think it over? And presumably by this point, you'd know that Christianity was incorrect - that is, that Jesus really was just another prophet of Allah, which I believe is what Muslims say.

 

[HoustonHorn]

Interested -
I like this question. This line of thought is what led me away from Christianity in the first place and I'd love to get a good answer. Maybe it'll bring me back - dunno.

To the others -
I mean no disrepect by this, it's an honest question. Are you so afraid to question your beliefs that you won't even answer this as if you were in a fiction type situation (dream, whatever). Why is "won't happen, so I'm not going to answer" a good answer?

 

[Kehaar]

Interested -
I like this question. This line of thought is what led me away from Christianity in the first place and I'd love to get a good answer. Maybe it'll bring me back - dunno.

To the others -
I mean no disrepect by this, it's an honest question. Are you so afraid to question your beliefs that you won't even answer this as if you were in a fiction type situation (dream, whatever). Why is "won't happen, so I'm not going to answer" a good answer?

Hiya

Respectfully, we have not been afraid to answer the question, we have done so.

Would you expect us to answer differently? We have our faith and beliefs and are responding truthfully to the question.

If it were a dream, then my answer would still be the same. After all, it's just a dream.

 

[seajoy]

This line of thought is what led me away from Christianity in the first place and I'd love to get a good answer. Maybe it'll bring me back - dunno.

What line of thought led you away from christianity? Was it the thought that Christians say "this is the only way to heaven." Because if you asked this same question (in the OP) to Muslims, I'm afraid you'd get the same answers we've given you.

We (christians) aren't narrow minded...what we have is belief. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1.

seajoy

 

[HoustonHorn]

Ok, the line of thought was "how do I know that the Christian God is the real god". Of course what followed was "could it be Allah", "could it be Zeus", "could it be no god". I settled on "we can't know" and am happy here. It's the only one that felt honest to me. I'm going to stop here - both because it's going off the original topic and it seems that this could pretty easily get into a debate.

And I missed you "I would pray" answer before I typed my question. That seems to be a very fair answer to the original question.

 

[£amb]

Maybe I should amend the question, since in the first one I only gave you a few minutes to decide what to do. How about if Allah was merciful enough to give you a while to think it over? And presumably by this point, you'd know that Christianity was incorrect - that is, that Jesus really was just another prophet of Allah, which I believe is what Muslims say.

Going along with the pretending if this were the case....I would think on it and pray that I would be guided into the decision that would be best for me. Obviously Allah would be God in this case, so of course he would want me spend my time in paradise instead of going to hell. So that would sum up the decision making for me.

Now....what if you stood in front of God and He asked you question. What if you died and found out God was real, and He gave you choice of hell or reliving your life over again except you would live your life for God....would you do it?

 

[AbidingInHim]

Just a quick answer, I have the HOly Spirit to confirm to me that He, Jesus is the only way, there is no doubt when you have been sealed by the Spirit

Therefore speculation on impossibilites are not possible for me.....either you know He Is and you trust HIM or you don't, for me there is no what if the other guy is right, only a burden for them to know the truth

 

[ebia]

Allah is God.

So, it would turn out that I was wrong about some stuff about God - surprise, surprise.

 

[hlaltimus]

What if you went before God when you died - and discovered that it was Allah?

What if you learned that actually it was the Muslims who were right, and the Christians who were wrong, and what if Allah gave you a choice: follow him - worship and obey him in Paradise - or else go straight to hell forever.

I don't know all that much about Islamic beliefs, about whether or not you would get a choice, or be sent to hell forever, but what if the above did happen? What would you do?

I guess, at that point, I would be awfully sorry that I wasted all of my time on Earth seeking a Being who was just a mere man, even though He raised from the dead a corpse stiff for four days, fed 5,000 people from only two fish and five loaves of bread and still ended up with enough extra food to fill 12 baskets full, transmaterialized an entire boat with it's crew while on the Sea of Galilee to it's western shore, etc., etc., etc. Who but a Divine Being could perform such feats? I'll trust Him beyond death's door to show up on the Throne of Glory and not Islam's Allah, and I will do it for those aforementioned reasons and many other personal ones that I will always treasure up in my heart.

 

[Im_A]

What if you went before God when you died - and discovered that it was Allah?

What if you learned that actually it was the Muslims who were right, and the Christians who were wrong, and what if Allah gave you a choice: follow him - worship and obey him in Paradise - or else go straight to hell forever.

I don't know all that much about Islamic beliefs, about whether or not you would get a choice, or be sent to hell forever, but what if the above did happen? What would you do?

i don't know what i would do.

i mean sure there may be a chance for me to say that i believe in Allah then because there'd be no way that i could not believe in Allah at that point. i mean, let's say with your example that that would happen, how could someone say "i don't believe" at that point? whether it would be to save my soul or to just acknowledge the fact that i would be standing before Allah at that point, so i'd have to acknowledge what i see and if i knew i died, i knew it wouldn't be a "dream" at that point as well. so sure, i'd probably say i'd believe in Allah if the situation you gave happens.

interestingly enough, i know that Islam states that Jesus was a prophet, and i know there's confliction about between Christians and Muslims saying that Jesus was Divine/God, but i wonder if Allah would send someone to hell for believeing in Jesus (but i'm only vaguely educated about the beliefs of Islam, so i'm no expert to say the least. probably not even a novice ) maybe i'd try to pull a wild card and say, but i believed in a man that your scriptures deemed a prophet. how could you banish me to hell?!?!?

 

[FijianBeliever]

Hi All,

I also believe that the hypothetical question being posed here will never happen, because Jesus and the Father will be there when I die. The question is, what will you do when you die, and find Jesus there waiting for you?

God Bless You All,
Isaia

 

[FijianBeliever]

ps....

I'm so sure of that Jesus will be there that I'm betting my life on it.

 

[The Virginian]

Interested -
I like this question. This line of thought is what led me away from Christianity in the first place and I'd love to get a good answer. Maybe it'll bring me back - dunno.

To the others -
I mean no disrepect by this, it's an honest question. Are you so afraid to question your beliefs that you won't even answer this as if you were in a fiction type situation (dream, whatever). Why is "won't happen, so I'm not going to answer" a good answer?

If the above happened, then I would be glad that I'd had the opportunity to live for Jesus while upon the earth, and refuse the presence of Allah.

This is the question martyrs face: will my faith hold in the face of death? If I want the answer to that question to be yes, then I make preparations (i.e., I live my life) beforehand to acheive that glorious outcome!

 

[YoungJoonKim]

Hi,

(I hope I don't offend Muslims, take this as another radical note...as Al-Qaeda did the worse)

I've been 4 years and went through this question of, "What if there is another God afterlife?"
Well, I've compared many Gods and religions..
To me, Christianity is unique.
Christianity is about relationship with Christ and accepting him as savior. Knowing we sinned and our lives aren't perfect. Aiming to be like-christ and loving and forgiving those who sin against us, surely.. this does not apply to Islam (Maybe forgiveness and love)

Islam is submission to God, like old Gods of the past.
Yes, Islam took down Paganism in middle east and I look that as amazing accomplishment. However, guess what.
Christianity could not spread to Middle East because there was no translation of arabic bible back in middle ages (..almost none) and Christ's disciples (well, let's include Paul (one of the best servant of God)) were in Roman age and they were part of Roman Empire, thus, influence of Christanity would be greater in this particular empire than others.

Anyways, this is just history and what might be like if disciples went onto Islam.
I think we all know Islam came after Jesus... I believe that what Islam teaches (Jesus Prophet?..) is unrealiable as it's a source from another religion.
To me, Islam is satanic religion.
In the bible, it says Satan can even appear as light..
Whatever Islam teaches, is irrelevant and untrust worthy as my faith is in Christ.

Also, CHRISTIANITY demonstrates different way of showing Love of our Lord, savior.
Jesus died to show his love to us, taking away our sin and making bridge (connection) between us and him.
Because of his death and his departure, he left us with Holy Spirit, whereas, spirit of God can be with us forever and ever.

However, what Islam have is, the exposition of Islam was Prophet spreading the message given by their..God, Allah and used military tactics to take over Mecca and destroyed all Idols with force.
I can safetly say that Satan may have called himself "Gabriel" because he knew him (Gabriel is commonly known as messanger), contacted with Muhammed.

So there is so many possibilites how Islam started, leaving blanks after blanks.
However, in Christanity, as our belief, it was started by GOD himself, instead of prophet. This is SOO different than other major religions around the world. Also, out of 11/12 disciples were killed during their mission and never again, there was another disciple (expect Paul heh).
However, Prophet Muhammed had SO many disciples, he could dispose them in any area, for the glory of his ..belief.

So to be honest, I can't even start believing that Allah can be....God in afterlife.
I'd rather believe in God who came physically and spiritually to us on earth, as Earth belongs to him.

If I compare two religion, Allah is coward and only speaks through his so-called prophets and does not risk his life to save his people.
However, Jesus Christ spoke and speaks to us directly and came on earth directly, to show and reprove us all.
Ultimately, died for our sin.

So as conclusion,
I don't believe in luck.
There is no such thing as luck.
Everything happens due to something after effect of another.
Only thing that can be luck is love of God after so many screw ups we made against our Lord..but still, he loves us.
How lucky we are