yes, these sites are absolutely hilarious. i assume they're parodies, right?

MZ,

   I can not argue you into believing in God. All of the questions you pose are not
original, they've been asked by many people many times before. They are all dealt with on
the Stand to Reason site and the other, which offers the "Does God Exist" pdf.

   Still, you have doubts. Conversion to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ is not a
frivilous endeavour. You will have doubts, friends will laugh at you and mock you and try
to hunmiliate you for your belief. Satan will try to deceive you and discourage you. But
when you reach the point of surrender we believers will give you a hearty "Welcome to the
club!"

   But all I can offer you is a course of action to truly place your request for faith
before the Creator of the universe. Now what more could any of us humans ask for?

   So please bear with me, as this may become a bit lengthy ;)

   First I think it would be a good idea to see what the God of the Bible has to say
about what being in his presence is like. All quotes are from the New International
Version (NIV).

   Here is how the author of Revelation described it.

   (Rev 4:1 NIV)  After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in
heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here,
and I will show you what must take place after this."

(Rev 4:2 NIV)  At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven
with someone sitting on it.

(Rev 4:3 NIV)  And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A
rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne.

(Rev 4:4 NIV)  Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them
were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.

(Rev 4:5 NIV)  From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder.
Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.

(Rev 4:6 NIV)  Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as
crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were
covered with eyes, in front and in back.

(Rev 4:7 NIV)  The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the
third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.

(Rev 4:8 NIV)  Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes
all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy
is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come."

(Rev 4:9 NIV)  Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits
on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,

(Rev 4:10 NIV)  the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and
worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:

(Rev 4:11 NIV)  "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."

(Rev 5:1 NIV)  Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with
writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals.

(Rev 5:2 NIV)  And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to
break the seals and open the scroll?"

(Rev 5:3 NIV)  But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll
or even look inside it.

(Rev 5:4 NIV)  I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll
or look inside.

(Rev 5:5 NIV)  Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe
of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven
seals."

(Rev 5:6 NIV)  Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center
of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. He had seven horns
and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

(Rev 5:7 NIV)  He came and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the
throne.

(Rev 5:8 NIV)  And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four
elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls
full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

(Rev 5:9 NIV)  And they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open
its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from
every tribe and language and people and nation.

(Rev 5:10 NIV)  You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they
will reign on the earth."

(Rev 5:11 NIV)  Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon
thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living
creatures and the elders.

(Rev 5:12 NIV)  In a loud voice they sang: "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive
power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!"

(Rev 5:13 NIV)  Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and
on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: "To him who sits on the throne and to the
Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!"

(Rev 5:14 NIV)  The four living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and
worshiped.

   A pretty impressive place to be, if we are to believe the scriptures. What other
descriptions are in the Bible of this type of encounter? Isaiah saw this while in the
temple in Jerusalem:

(Isa 6:1 NIV)  In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high
and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.

(Isa 6:2 NIV)  Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered
their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

(Isa 6:3 NIV)  And they were calling to one another: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD
Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory."

(Isa 6:4 NIV)  At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the
temple was filled with smoke.

(Isa 6:5 NIV)  "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I
live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."

(Isa 6:6 NIV)  Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he
had taken with tongs from the altar.

(Isa 6:7 NIV)  With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips;
your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for."

(Isa 6:8 NIV)  Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will
go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

(Isa 6:9 NIV)  He said, "Go and tell this people: "'Be ever hearing, but never
understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'

   And Ezekial saw this vision as he was held in a prison camp in what is modern-day
Iraq.

(Ezek 1:1 NIV)  In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was
among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

(Ezek 1:2 NIV)  On the fifth of the month--it was the fifth year of the exile of King
Jehoiachin--

(Ezek 1:3 NIV)  the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the
Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. There the hand of the LORD was upon him.

(Ezek 1:4 NIV)  I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north--an immense cloud
with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked
like glowing metal,

(Ezek 1:5 NIV)  and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance
their form was that of a man,

(Ezek 1:6 NIV)  but each of them had four faces and four wings.

(Ezek 1:7 NIV)  Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed
like burnished bronze.

(Ezek 1:8 NIV)  Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All
four of them had faces and wings,

(Ezek 1:9 NIV)  and their wings touched one another. Each one went straight ahead; they
did not turn as they moved.

(Ezek 1:10 NIV)  Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and
on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each
also had the face of an eagle.

(Ezek 1:11 NIV)  Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward; each had two
wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering
its body.

(Ezek 1:12 NIV)  Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would
go, without turning as they went.

(Ezek 1:13 NIV)  The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or
like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning
flashed out of it.

(Ezek 1:14 NIV)  The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.

(Ezek 1:15 NIV)  As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside
each creature with its four faces.

(Ezek 1:16 NIV)  This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like
chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting
a wheel.

(Ezek 1:17 NIV)  As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the
creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about as the creatures went.

(Ezek 1:18 NIV)  Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all
around.

(Ezek 1:19 NIV)  When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when
the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.

(Ezek 1:20 NIV)  Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise
along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

(Ezek 1:21 NIV)  When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood
still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose
along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

(Ezek 1:22 NIV)  Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked like
an expanse, sparkling like ice, and awesome.

(Ezek 1:23 NIV)  Under the expanse their wings were stretched out one toward the other,
and each had two wings covering its body.

(Ezek 1:24 NIV)  When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar
of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty, like the tumult of an army. When they
stood still, they lowered their wings.

(Ezek 1:25 NIV)  Then there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads as they
stood with lowered wings.

(Ezek 1:26 NIV)  Above the expanse over their heads was what looked like a throne of
sapphire, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man.

(Ezek 1:27 NIV)  I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing
metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant
light surrounded him.

(Ezek 1:28 NIV)  Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the
radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD.
When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

(Ezek 2:1 NIV)  He said to me, "Son of man, stand up on your feet and I will speak to
you."

(Ezek 2:2 NIV)  As he spoke, the Spi