why do christains believe that if you don't accept Christ as king your going to hell?

Question

what about the ppl before christ? did they go to hell? sounds kinda unfair if they did.to many contradictions for me.

Answer 1

those people up above me here, you know the ones, are scared of dying. hell, they're scared of living. they are the type that needs constant reassurence, you notice how they always try to shove their beliefs down your throat? ever hear the term "a nation of sheep?" ever watch a herd of sheep? stupidest animal on the planet, they will trample their young to stay in the group.

Answer 2

First of all, not all Christians believe that if you don't accept Christ as king you're going to hell. Stereotyping is bad since it only leads to more ignorance and misunderstanding. Now as for the people before Christ, you've heard of the whole Rapture thing? The Second Coming? The idea that's presented in the Bible is that when Christ comes again, the Kingdom of God will arrive. The dead will be raised up, and everyone will be judged. It doesn't matter whether you lived before Christ or after him, his sacrifice is good for all people. Until that time, we're all just kind of hanging - neither in heaven or in hell, but something more akin to the ancient Jewish concept of Sheol. Of course, people like instant reward/punishment, and they like to know that there will be life after death, so the belief has come about that people will be judged as soon as they idea. This is, however, a corruption of the traditional understanding of afterlife as it's seen in the Bible.

Answer 3

No they did not go to hell.

There is no contradiction. They sacrificed animals for the forgiveness of sins as an imperfect sacrifice as they looked forward to the coming messiah. When the messiah (Jesus Christ) came he served as the perfect sacrifice, providing forgiveness for all past, present and future sin.

In fact the animal sacrifices were symbolic of the future sacrifice of Jesus. So it should not have been such a foreign idea to the Isrealites at the time that the messiah would come and be the perfect sacrifice.

Also, something to keep in mind, the righteous men and women before the birth of Jesus were under a temporary contract with God (a contract based on Law) until God's plan was completed through the death of Jesus and then the permenant contract was enacted (A contract of Grace). Everything up until the birth of Jesus was pointing forward to him.

Answer 4

God gave me a brain and the ability to discern reality. Does he really want me to ignore that and believe things blindly?
Things like a magic apple or talking serpent?

"Christianity and Islam both have strict bans on any sort of questioning of the religion itself-or, as the Wizard once put it, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" In the Bible, it's "Don't eat from the Tree of Knowledge," but the meaning is the same: "The stuff we're telling you is going to seem crazy, but just buy it."

"Imagine being able to sell any other product like that--by insisting the customer swallow every word you spoke about it as gospel or else he'd burn in hell. Where you, as the customer, having been brainwashed from birth about the superiority of the product, upon reaching thinking age, forfeit the benefits of the product if you doubt it in any way, and the claims of the product cannot be tested until after you're dead."

-- Bill Maher

I don't have the answers...just questions.

Answer 5

In Genesis 3:15 God lets man know that He is going to make a provision for their sin. Those who believed that God would do this were looking toward the fulfilment of that promise, which was in Christ. They just didn't know who or how it would be done, in detail. After Christ, we are believing by looking backwards to what has already happened. Christ has ALWAYS been the way to God, just that the understanding about it was different in the Old than in the New.

Answer 6

Christians believe that Christ said in John 14:6: 6 "Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me". I am not quite sure Christ even said that. I call it propaganda.

Constantine and the Council of Nicea added and omitted many things from the written works that would later be put together in the King James Bible, for political reasons. So for a passage to suggest that Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Agnostics, etc would not go to heaven if they did not believe in Christ is an antithesis to the nature of God and his tolerance toward mankind. Thats my opinion.

I support the concept of the spiritual nature of man, as opposed to any religion.

I believe that God created everyone and every person, regardless of his/her religion is recognized by God.

In fact I'll go further in saying that God gives us ALL free will not to TEST us, as many believe, but to allow us to learn life lessons and the path to our own truths, which ultimately reflect our true spirit, which is one with the nature of God. Thats what I believe. No one religion is right or wrong.

Answer 7

It is like this, bro. God has always been active in human affairs. The Jewish people are the chosen people of God and their job was to influence and bless the nations around them so that they would have the knowledge of God and have a chance at reconciliation and salvation. They obtained salvation by looking forward and having faith in what the Lord was doing in their time, and in what he would do in the future when Jesus was to arrive. The people in the Old Testament times had a set of rules (The Jewish law) by which to live and that provide them with salvation since Jesus had not yet arrived. Now he has and so we preach Jesus for the remission of sins.
Mr. M on Christ as king.

Answer 8

Christ went back in spirit to preach to people who died in the flood. For the three and one half days before being re-troyed . dang don't you ever read? Because Jesus Christ is the door to the father not one will go before him with out the son. some people think heaven is only for the dead. But there wrong and they knew nothing of the Lord of host.

Answer 9

Because they are heartless and brainwashed to think that they are right and everyone else is wrong.



Do not believe something simply because you have heard it. Do not believe anything simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of teachers, elders, or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it, and live up to it.

~The Buddha~

Answer 10

My friend:

This happens because hi is sovereign and he created everything, neverless, Lord is a gentleman also. God gives us the option to live in the way we prefer. The humanity is his better creation, he made us as their image (Son, Father and Holly Spirit) but the first humans decided to live separated from them, after this the destiny of humanity was the eternal death with devil ( it made the samething than humans) For that reason, HE SENT HIS SON, for we to have the oportunity to choose living as before he gave his life for us or same way before this.
Regarding the people before CHRIST, their destiny depends by their works (remember Christ death) , if they were "normal" or good people they not going to hell. Pls take note is not necessary nothings else to talk the Father, just Jesus, try him [e-mail]

Answer 11

I am a Christian and I don't believe that. God comes to His people in the manner in which he can reach them. That is why I think there are so many religions. He is called by many names and He is God of ALL people, no matter what name He is called or what part of the world people live in. For some Christians to think their way is the only way is not right.