-- Posted by osmoticdespair at 10:31 am on Aug. 26, 2008 If an omnific God similar to the conceptions of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths existed but at death it was the end and there was no afterlife for anyone, no eternal reward or punishment, and assuming that this lack of reward or punishment was in no sense an affront to justice for whatever reason - would you seek to do God's will? -- Posted by Neugen at 10:32 am on Aug. 26, 2008 Your question and your poll vary in what they ask... -- Posted by RIMHfire at 10:32 am on Aug. 26, 2008 So, your poll choices were too complicated. -- Posted by King Kong at 10:32 am on Aug. 26, 2008 I would be gratfull that God crated us, so possboly yes -- Posted by osmoticdespair at 10:32 am on Aug. 26, 2008 Quote: from Neugen at 6:32 pm on Aug. 26, 2008 Your question and your poll vary in what they ask... how so? -- Posted by marshmellowman at 10:33 am on Aug. 26, 2008 I don't believe God and I wouldn't seek his approval. -- Posted by Spiral at 10:39 am on Aug. 26, 2008 If there was no reward, then there'd be no point. The streets would be full of rioters and looters, me think. -- Posted by newman at 10:41 am on Aug. 26, 2008 God can still strike down a bolt of lightning if He's pissed off at you though! -- Posted by amanitta at 10:43 am on Aug. 26, 2008 1st option...i overcome this part of belief ! i no longer think about these stuffs...because i end up with persuadability ! -- Posted by Spiral at 10:47 am on Aug. 26, 2008 Quote: from newman at 6:41 pm on Aug. 26, 2008 God can still strike down a bolt of lightning if He's pissed off at you though! The fact that it's never happened to anyone pretty much proves this wrong. -- Posted by King Kong at 10:51 am on Aug. 26, 2008 Quote: from newman at 6:41 pm on Aug. 26, 2008 God can still strike down a bolt of lightning if He's pissed off at you though! god has hell for peple who piss him off -- Posted by exceedinglyrare at 11:04 am on Aug. 26, 2008 I'm not in this for the post-life perks. -- Posted by osmoticdespair at 11:05 am on Aug. 26, 2008 Quote: from exceedinglyrare at 7:04 pm on Aug. 26, 2008 I'm not in this for the post-life perks. Poll suggests no-one is. Kinda puts paid to the constant argument that people are religious out of fear of death huh. -- Posted by Kitty Kiska at 2:14 pm on Aug. 26, 2008 I do belive there is eternal reward...heaven -- Posted by SpM at 2:24 pm on Aug. 26, 2008 Quote: from Kitty Kiska at 10:14 pm on Aug. 26, 2008 I do belive there is eternal reward...heaven It's a hypothetical question. And I currently do *not* seek to do God's will but I would do so if there were no afterlife (and, obviously, if I was somehow convinced of God's existence). -- Posted by Shaknbake at 6:14 pm on Aug. 26, 2008 If I believed in a god that had will, I would seek to do it whether or not there was a promise of an afterlife. With no afterlife and no reincarnation/future incarnations, you've only one chance of indeterminate length in which to do things right; if doing things right was doing things by God's will it would amount to a tremendous personal failing to ignore God's will simply because there was no eternal consequence to the choice. -- Posted by The Nowhere Man at 11:02 pm on Aug. 26, 2008 The afterlife is a small part of what I believe - so yes, I would continue to do God's will.