Will atheists be Judged after death?

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Will atheists be Judged by God after death? What will happen to them?
 
Everyone is judged by the Almighty after death.

What will happen to them? 🤷 Depends on whether or not they understood and rejected the Gospel.
 
Newbie2 said:
Everyone is judged by the Almighty after death.

What will happen to them? 🤷 Depends on whether or not they understood and rejected the Gospel.
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How do you know that understanding and rejecting the Gospel has anything to do with it?
 
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
 
As catholics we believe everyone will be judged.

So yes we believe atheists will be judged by God. Of course atheists who don’t believe in God won’t believe this.

As to what will happen to them… I guess we’ll find out. I can’t see them wanting to go to heaven since they reject God and such.
 
Why I believe everyone will be judged:

simply put line 7 from the Apostle’s Creed:

“He will come again to judge the living and the dead”

This is a matter of faith.
 
praise_Jesus said:
Why I believe everyone will be judged:

simply put line 7 from the Apostle’s Creed:

“He will come again to judge the living and the dead”

This is a matter of faith.
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And why do you believe in the Apostle’s Creed?
 
tonsofquestions said:
Sorry, please explain?
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Since God is the ultimate source of all that is; no human is exempt from His judgment. Having been created in God’s image, all will thus all be judged according to how they have conformed themselves to that image by their responses to the graces He has bestowed on them throughout their lives.
 
FCEGM said:
Since God is the ultimate source of all that is; no human is exempt from His judgment. Having been created in God’s image, all will thus all be judged according to how they have conformed themselves to that image by their responses to the graces He has bestowed on them throughout their lives.
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Why do you believe that God is the ultimate source of all that is? Why do you believe He judges anyone? Why do you believe that we are created in God’s image, and why do you believe that being created in God’s image implies we will all be judged?
 
Tons of Questions:

I have many reasons to believe but the most important is:
I believe because I have CHOSEN to.

Now I don’t have much time so this will be my last post.

I leave you, and the other atheists to worship your cunning intellects and superior logic skills. As for myself, I choose to worship the source.
 
If this is your last post, that’s fine, but if you end up feeling like posting again,
praise_Jesus said:
Tons of Questions:

I have many reasons to believe but the most important is:
I believe because I have CHOSEN to.
I know that you have chosen to, but why did you choose this rather than something else?
Now I don’t have much time so this will be my last post.

I leave you, and the other atheists to worship your cunning intellects and superior logic skills. I do not worship my own intellect or my logic skills, and I do not believe my logic skills to be superior to anyone else’s. If I did, I would not be posting here. I would simply go through life arrogantly confident that I knew everything, and never feel the need to discuss it with anyone, because, after all, I would be superior. Instead, I choose to come here and debate others and see of there is any truth to what they believe, or what I believe. I come here hoping that through debate, I can learn new things from those who know much more about theology than I do. I don’t think that means I worship my own intellect or logic, however.
As for myself, I choose to worship the source.I to, would like to worship the source. However, I’m having trouble finding it. There are may religions that claim to worship the true source, so I would like to know why you think Christianity worships the true source as opposed to being no different then other religions?
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TonsOfQuestions:

I do apologize for the harsh comments in my previous post. I let my frustration get the better of me. So please accept my apology, I respect that you are rigorously trying to find the truth.

As for why I believe:

My belief in a god comes from my inability to conceive the beginning of time. Time as we know it had to start sometime, otherwise we couldn’t be here today. Now I understand this opens the door to some discussion about what is time? and the physics of the universe but I believe that something had to have come from nothing and time had to have been created at some point. Whether this was the workings of billions of years of evolution or not is up to debate.

Now that I believe in a god, I have to ask myself what this god is like and how would this god make himself known to us? I believe that this god would have some values that we should follow for the better of humanity. I also believe that this god would reveal this to his creation. Accepting this there are a lot of religions that may have good values and claim to be following the truth. But for myself I have to look at the history, and I have to trust. The fact that Jesus fulfilled all the prophecies he did is quite extraordinary. Of course some may dismiss Christianity as a fraud, but the miracles and signs Jesus performed are really extraordinary. When I look into Christ’s life and the early church and then even the old testament the pieces seem to fit. As I research some of the Catholic theology around the fall of man and then God sending his son Jesus to the earth it just seems to work and all make sense. And for the things that don’t make sense I find that I can almost always find the answers I’m looking for through prayer and research of the Catholic teachings.

Now I see the catholic church standing firm for the past 2 millennia. Sure we had rough times, and popes who were not the best role models. But if we look at the core church teachings these have been preserved. I also research what brought some of the Early Church Fathers into the faith. One that comes to mind right away is Augustine. This guy was smart, and somehow he found his way into the faith and wrote wonderful things.

So that’s just part of my personal experience. I hope and pray that you will find the answers you are looking for. God bless.
 
praise_Jesus said:
TonsOfQuestions:

I do apologize for the harsh comments in my previous post. I let my frustration get the better of me. So please accept my apology, I respect that you are rigorously trying to find the truth.
No problem brother. Or sister.
As for why I believe:

My belief in a god comes from my inability to conceive the beginning of time. Time as we know it had to start sometime, otherwise we couldn’t be here today. Now I understand this opens the door to some discussion about what is time? and the physics of the universe but I believe that something had to have come from nothing and time had to have been created at some point. Whether this was the workings of billions of years of evolution or not is up to debate.
I agree that something had to have come from nothing, and that time had to be created, but I A) am not sure it would have to be a God that was that first uncaused cause, and B) I am definetely not sure if the Christian God would have to be that uncaused cause.
Now that I believe in a god, I have to ask myself what this god is like and how would this god make himself known to us? I believe that this god would have some values that we should follow for the better of humanity. I also believe that this god would reveal this to his creation. Accepting this there are a lot of religions that may have good values and claim to be following the truth. But for myself I have to look at the history, and I have to trust. The fact that Jesus fulfilled all the prophecies he did is quite extraordinary. If you read my earlier threads, you’ll find I think that a lot of the “prophecies” Jesus fulfilled were taken out of context, and weren’t even prophecies, they were verses of the Old Testament that talked about something unrelated to Jesus, that Christians used as “prophecies” Jesus supposedly fulfilled.Of course some may dismiss Christianity as a fraud, but the miracles and signs Jesus performed are really extraordinary.As far as I know, we have no first hand accounts of Jesus performing signs or miracles. If you can point me towards some, that would be great When I look into Christ’s life and the early church and then even the old testament the pieces seem to fit. As I research some of the Catholic theology around the fall of man and then God sending his son Jesus to the earth it just seems to work and all make sense. And for the things that don’t make sense I find that I can almost always find the answers I’m looking for through prayer and research of the Catholic teachings.

Now I see the catholic church standing firm for the past 2 millennia. Sure we had rough times, and popes who were not the best role models. But if we look at the core church teachings these have been preserved. I always wonder when Catholics say Church teachings have never changed, do they mean infallible teachings have never changed? Or is there another criteria to be a Church teaching?I also research what brought some of the Early Church Fathers into the faith. One that comes to mind right away is Augustine. This guy was smart, and somehow he found his way into the faith and wrote wonderful things.

So that’s just part of my personal experience. I hope and pray that you will find the answers you are looking for. God bless.
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… It’s brother.

I understand there is a lack of first hand accounts in the gospels. I can understand that this is troublesome. There are truthful biographies written by people who were not even alive at the time their subject was. Of course one could decide that a biography is only valid or truthful if it was written by someone who personally knew the subject, or was present at any of the events written about.

For myself I’m not really bothered by the lack of first hand accounts. Look at St. Ignatius of Antioch, he was a disciple of the Apostle John. Now John was a first hand witness, and he passed his information onto St. Ignatius who is one of the Early Church Fathers. Now St. Ignatius didn’t seem to have a problem with the written gospels. And he wrote a lot about the faith that fits into what is taught in the gospels. So I believe it is highly likely that John passed his information onto St. Ignatius who then helped formulate the faith.

This is just one example that came to mind.
 
tonsofquestions said:
I agree that something had to have come from nothing, and that time had to be created, but I A) am not sure it would have to be a God that was that first uncaused cause, and B) I am definetely not sure if the Christian God would have to be that uncaused cause.
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I’m a little curious about why you think that something had to have come from nothing. It’s definitely a possibility, but it’s also a possibility that the universe has always existed. Most people don’t realize that the standard Big Bang model does not say what happens prior to Planck time. Just like Newtonian physics does not apply to all settings and you need quantum physics, quantum physics no longer applies before Planck time and we have no idea how things would have behaved. If you already knew all this, I’m curious about what argument against an infinitely old universe (or natural world) you find persuasive.
 
**Tonsofquestions ** > Hello, a little bit off topic here, but if you are questioning the historicity and/or reliability of the Gospels I really suggest you read a book called, ‘Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony’ by Richard Bauckham. This book has been highly praised!

As Amazon describes it: *-This new book argues that the four Gospels are closely based on eyewitness testimony of those who knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the accounts of Jesus circulated as “anonymous community traditions,” asserting instead that they were transmitted in the name of the original eyewitnesses. To drive home this controversial point, Bauckham draws on internal literary evidence, study of personal names in the first century, and recent developments in the understanding of oral traditions.
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses also taps into the rich resources of modern study of memory and cognitive psychology, refuting the conclusions of the form critics and calling New Testament scholarship to make a clean break with this long-dominant tradition. Finally, Bauckham challenges readers to end the classic division between the “historical Jesus” and the “Christ of faith,” proposing instead the “Jesus of testimony.” Sure to ignite heated debate on the precise character of the testimony about Jesus, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses will be valued by scholars, students, and all who seek to understand the origins of the Gospels.- *

You can actually read some of the book on Google Books, although it is a preview and limited:

books.google.com/books?id=ybOa_w8PCcQC&dq=jesus+and+the+eyewitnesses&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=ZmQxSuT0I4TMjAe0hP3MBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4

Here is also a video on the reliability of the Gospels!

youtube.com/watch?v=kXdIKgW4vYM

God Bless!
 
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