*Where do good but atheist people go, to heaven or hell?
2006-06-26 15:45:24 · 30 answers · asked by ricardocoav 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Have you ever lied? The Bible says there is none righteous, no not one. Yet, don't be to hasty to call God unfair. He made a way for you to be able to spend eternity with Him even though all humans are rot in sin. The narrow way is Jesus Christ.
Romans 10:9
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Pray to Him and invite Him into your life.
2006-06-26 15:53:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell is simply separation from God. Because He IS so loving and forgiving He let's people choose for themselves if they want to share eternity with Him. He doesn't force you. Hell is life without Him, be it now or in the future. Hell is the absence of His Light, Love and Friendship in a life...it is darkness. But if darkness is all one has known, then one wouldn't know the difference.
Jesus opened the Door into God's Presence symbolized in the tearing of the curtain to the Holy of Holies (in the Jewish Temple) when He died on the Cross. When people tell you you are going to hell they are being mean and ignorant...in a sense you are already in hell. It is not a punishment it is a situation in which the dimension of God is closed to you. There are other spiritual dimensions open, but the one to Him has only one door...Jesus. He said, "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." Mt.7:13-14
Because He Loves, He makes a way. It's kind of like being offered a precious diamond, but if you don't know it's true value, you may throw it away. And then you find out too late it's wonderful powers and value. Hell, in eternity, is living in the full knowledge of what you threw away.
2006-06-26 22:49:49 · answer #2 · answered by novalee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There isn't but two places that's open on judgment day for business and that's Heaven and Hell. Having you heard good works alone don't get you into heaven; the atheist will join the fool, and all the others that rejected God. God's word to the atheist will be the same as it will be to the fool and all others that rejected Him; Depart from me I know you not and Hell will open up to welcome them. Time is running out for playing around, foolish gestures, and folly it's time to seek God before it's to late. Nobody is promise tommorrow it's only by God's grace and mercy that we are allowed to see another day.
2006-06-26 22:51:05 · answer #3 · answered by herosedy3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth is that you don't have to be a good person nor a bad person to be accepted into the gates of Heaven. If you actuelly invite Christ into your heart and let him handle your life and guide you, then you will, certainly, have eternal life with other believers and God in Heaven. So yes...no buts, if's, or ands, Hell exists for those who don't believe that God is their savior, and Heaven is for those who do believe that God spared our lives so we could have eternal life in heaven once our earthly-life is over. Hope that answers your question!
2006-06-26 22:58:53 · answer #4 · answered by hollister_cali_surf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is with God. Hell is apart from God. God has offered to anyone who chooses to accept his Son, the ability to spend eternity with Him. If you choose not to have a relationship with God, he will respect your decision.
However, you have seen here on earth the horrors of what people are capable of doing to each other. Now try to imagine what eternity would be like without the presence of a loving God.
2006-06-26 22:57:20 · answer #5 · answered by BigDave 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. Is God's idea of justice a Mortal's sense of justice, or a real god's. If it is a mortal's, then he would have mortal things like his great jealousy actually affect him and his descision, probably leading to atheists going to hell. If he truly has a god's sense of justice, he would probably send them to hell, but nobody really knows for sure the answer to this question.
2006-06-26 22:58:22 · answer #6 · answered by Joe Shmoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there is only Heaven and Hell...
Anyone not accepting Jesus Christ into their heart will not go to heaven...that leave only one place to go and it's not Jamaica.
Keep you eyes on the Lord...
Grace to you and God Bless!
2006-06-26 22:49:59 · answer #7 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fortunately even I go to Heaven! And I am an athiest. When I get there, there is a book of life that they look to see if my name is in the book. If not, I am thrown in the lake of fire where my soul then dies.
2006-06-26 22:49:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that if atheist people are good people, than they will be brought to heaven, God, in my opinion, accepts people who have done good to the world, no matter their religion.
2006-06-26 22:48:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
good atheist people who have heard the message of christ and still didnt accept him go to hell according to the bible.....which is how you know that hell doesnt exist, since why would a good and perfect god send moral people to hell
2006-06-26 22:49:31 · answer #10 · answered by UCSC Slugmaster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋