Do you believe your friend will go to hell?
Do you believe your friend deserves to go to hell?
If so, how do you look them in the face, knowing you think that their just deserts is eternal damnation?
Not an aggressive question. Trying to understand how you reconcile this.
2006-08-13 03:31:53 · 19 answers · asked by the last ninja 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Granny Annie: I think that is the point I don't understand. How can you be thinking about the present when hell (if you truly believe in it) is for eternity. Surely if you thought someone was going to murder your friend you would object, or you would be very concerned if they developed cancer. But an eternity in hell you can ignore? This is what I do not understand.
2006-08-13 03:41:00 · update #1
I cannot say who will or will not go to hell as I am not God and have nor real idea. I do not believe that they deserve hell but some would say that I would say that about anyone. They may be right. Sometimes I wonder if God is not more like human parents and making threats to get us to behave. I pray, love and have faith. All I can do actually.
2006-08-13 03:34:22 · answer #1 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Did Jesus teach only believers? Do well people go see the Doctor? People are people, and atheists have just as much of a chance of getting into Heaven as any Christian, because it is NOT the title people go by that proves anything, but their character that does. It is what is in a persons heart that counts, personally I reconcile this by reminding myself that God knows that person is a good person even if they do find it hard to believe in God. All roads on the path of seeking the truth lead to the same finish line.
2006-08-13 03:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by arvecar 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I do not believe they will go to hell. They will have to stand and account for their life here now.
My Atheist friends are really good people who understand me and my family but do not and I stress do not have in any way the capacity to question or try to disprove any beliefs.
Maybe they are reserving their belief until the end I cannot say.
One thing they have is compassion for life and no questions as to why it is.
Some questions out here are decided in the question already.
Notably the use of abhorrent language.
As for me I wish the best for my friends and if they decide otherwise I still consider them unique friends.
2006-08-13 03:38:22 · answer #3 · answered by beedaduck 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I simply continue to pray for them, and I have recently come to the thought because of a death in my close family that maybe, at the time of death, those people will be before God and have one last chance to believe in Him or not. I'm not sure about this though. Prayer is all I can do, but God does not want to lose any of us, that I know for sure.
2006-08-13 03:41:01 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ Luveniar♫ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Do you believe your friend will go to hell?"
Yes, if they do not repent and accept Jesus
"Do you believe your friend deserves to go to hell?"
Yes, and so do I. The only reason I am not going to hell is because I have accepted Jesus's payment for my sins on the cross.
"If so, how do you look them in the face, knowing you think that their just deserts is eternal damnation?"
They are no different than me. It's just that my eyes have been opened and I know how beautiful and loving and forgiving and holy God is. I understand that even though God loves me, I cannot be in his presence because of my sinful heart. That is why Jesus died: to cleanse me so I can be in the presence of God. I don't think I'm better than my athiest friends, i know I am not!! I just pray for them almost every day that they will come to know the forgiveness and peace and hope and joy and eternal life offered to us by Jesus Christ.
It is hard to be their friends and not be able to share this news with them. Some of them have openly told me never to talk about my faith with them. That's fine - I still want to be their friend, but I feel like they are tied to a railroad track and a train is coming and they have tied my hands back too so I cannot help them get free.
sigh.
2006-08-13 03:36:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
There is no hell. What are you talking about? That's all a big fat one.
And if there is a hell I am sure everyone here deserves to go there for one reason or another. Everyone knows that. That's why they want to be saved.
It's a mystery to me.
2006-08-13 03:34:56 · answer #6 · answered by Cattlemanbob 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Only those people who think and talk about hell deserve to go there.There is no hell other than life of terrorists.
2006-08-13 03:38:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christian here. First I have many agnostic/atheist friends..they all know my views and I theirs...in the end it's a choice. I've made the choice for Christ and would love for them too...I have faith that say's they will
2006-08-13 04:02:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dad was an atheist, and it use to really upset me that he wouldn't listen to me tell him about Jesus, he believed in the evolution theory. When he died without accepting Jesus, I felt and still do feel a constant sorrow that he will be forever condemn into the fiery wall of hell. He was a good man, with a big heart, but he just wouldn't/couldn't believe in a spirit that could create the universe.
2006-08-13 03:36:17 · answer #9 · answered by pooh bear 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
My friend is an atheist. When I asked him what happens to him when he dies, his opinion is that's it - no afterlife.
And maybe that's true. As for me, I'd prefer heaven. But not just yet!
2006-08-13 03:43:34 · answer #10 · answered by scourgeoftheleft 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋