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What if both sides are right?
What if 100% irrefutable evidence was found that any god is real? He/she/they show themselves to the world and prove they are gods by doing miraculous acts that could be only described as divine. They even prove that they created all life on earth and that they could create worlds if they desired. Atheists, would you believe this being is a God then? Those religious, would you say this is your God?
Now, what if in reality they are not spiritual beings. What if they are actually sentient lifeforms with technology far beyond our own?
How would this affect those who are religious and those who aren't? Would say a Christian worship them if they proved to be the Christian God? Would an Atheist believe in them as a God if they proved themselves gods?
7 Answers
- DavisLv 410 years agoFavorite Answer
Speaking from the Christian point of view, I would not believe it was God. Jesus clearly told us that he would come back one final time in a triumphant display where "every knee would bow". When he comes again there will be no second chances to change; he would not try to win people over with miracles.
- 10 years ago
Christian here. I would say yes, that is God if He could prove that He created life here.
If it's a highly advanced Being that has been behind the scenes since creation and He/She/It IS God, then really nothing has changed for me. I would just have a different way of visualizing the Being I worship. I would be surprised, though, but would get over the surprise.
But that would not make both sides right. It's still God and the other side says God does not exist.
- 10 years ago
Your second paragraph was what I was gonna get to. There really wouldn't be a good way to tell. I don't know if Judaism, Christianity, or Islam could claim it was their god. From what I read in the Old Testament, god's glory is supposed to be too great for us to see his face. And there already are people who believe aliens visited in the past, it's the Ancient Astronaut Theory and it has never been proven, although I will say it's slighlty more belivable than most religions.
Source(s): Atheist - Anonymous10 years ago
Your 100% specification would identify the evidence as absolute.
If the evidence was absolute, your "in reality" can not exist.
Maybe you should study the English language a little more. Your question waffles. To correspond with your "in reality", you should have written seemed, instead of proved.
Begsus D telos
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- auntb93Lv 710 years ago
Both these possibilities have been explored in science fiction, which can be more enlightening than plain factual reading. The science fiction writer lives by the expression "What if?" An excellent recent effort in this vein is "Blasphemy" by Douglas Preston.
- ProfLv 410 years ago
Both sides cannot be right because the Bible says that this theory of yours would not be the real God. In other words the Bible cannot contradict itself and at the same time be without error.
- Anonymous10 years ago
Both sides are right, accroding to Panentheism. Technically, all sides are right.
