Ok this is kind of hard to explain but let me try. Well if you truly belive in Jesus Christ and GOD and according to the bible if you have jesus and god in your heart you are saved. As well as theirs a heaven and hell. Heaven for the good people that belive and love god and hell for the non belivers and bad people.
My question is... well if your a christian and catholic or any kind of religion that belives in Jesus and God as his father, theres a heaven and hell right. Well heres my question, Where do buhdas, Hindus, Muslims, Athiests, and other religions that do not belong to GOD and Jesus Christ go after they die i mean well do they belive in such thing as hell or heaven?
Hard question to explain... sorry
2006-08-15 19:30:38 · 39 answers · asked by Enigma 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The broke the commandment forbidding false gods. Bible says they're going to Hell. Give 65 million to charity, go to hell Bill Gates. Preach peace not war, go to hell, Ghandi. Die trying to save lives in the WTC, go to hell, you firefighters who did not believe in the correct religion. Go to hell any unbeleiver who gave his life for his family, country, or fellow man.
Bible says so. Break a commandment, you've sinned against God, you don't go to heaven. Only other place is Hell.
2006-08-23 12:57:53 · answer #1 · answered by freebird 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on your view of what it takes to get into heaven. I am a Catholic and yes Church leaders sometimes say that if you are not a Christian that you will not be able to enter into heaven. In Dante's Paradise Lost the really good people who did not necessarily know Christ/God or believe in Him would end up in limbo, which is just somewhere inbetween heaven and hell. They don't really suffer because they weren't bad people, but they just cannot enter Heaven because they did not know/believe in God.
As for my own thoughts, I'm really unsure. God is love, and I don't believe that He would send good people to Hell. But at the same time I was taught that you will go to Heaven on the premise that you believe in God/Christ to begin with.
It isn't a hard question to explain...it's just a really hard question to answer. Each religion has their own idea of what happens after death. This question will only be truly answered when a person actually dies.
I just hope that something good happens after death, otherwise it would be pretty sad if this life was all there was. (Not to say I have a bad life, but I mean it is a sad life in terms of the state the world is today and all the suffering that takes place...there HAS to be something better than this!)
2006-08-15 19:50:00 · answer #2 · answered by sailormercury_utopia 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If god wanted us all to be Christian he would come down when you are born and tell you. Did he do that? No. So you aren't expected to be Christian. IF you grew up on an island all alone and no one ever handed you a bible, could you be Christian? Not really. Christianity is a guide, a helpful one for some, but certainly not for everyone. I think any God who was that simple doesn't deserve are respect. The important thing out of pretty much all religions is to love others, respect others, and focus on our similarities, not our differences. Anyone who was born Christian should question every word of the Bible and everything the church stands for before saying they are Christian too.
2006-08-23 09:23:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great Question.
As much as we would like to think that our perception or beliefs are reality; you will sooner or later discover that there is an ultimate truth.
You can not make a judgment call on anything unless you can see everything. God can see everything and I can't.
I am a Christian. I have a very close relationship with God through Jesus Christ. I know that I can do no better then that with my life.
No one should be able to correctly answer this but God so I would suggest you ask GOD.
Take Care
2006-08-23 12:42:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the Christian's point of view, people of all those other denominations go to hell. That's just what they get for not accepting out lord and savior... or something like that. I believe that's what they'd say.
In reality land, each religion has it's own concept of an afterlife. Some religions do believe in Heaven and Hell (though sometimes by different names), some only believe in one, and others believe in a sort of void which is neither. Bhuddists for example (or at least Japanese Bhuddism which is mixed to an extent with Shintoism) believes that after death the soul is sent into the cosmic void where it is prepared for it's next reincarnation. The ancient Greeks believed in a place called Hades which was neither a paradise nor a place of torture, but more like a storage cellar for the dead. Furthermore they believed that people who have achieved great heroic feats were either granted access to either Mt. Olympus (in which case they were turned into Gods) or the Elysian Fields, which were both a sort of Heaven in their own rights. Similarly after the battle between the Olympian Gods and the Titans, the defeated Titans were banished to Tartarus, a place comparible with Hell, though some Titans were just given earthly sentences. Atlas, for example, was forced to carry the world on his back for the rest of eternity.
In Norse beliefs, a warrior who died in battle or at least with his weapon in hand was sent to Valhalla, essentially an infinate tavern identified with Heaven. Those who didn't get to go there just kinda flickered out, though it was believed that they would sometimes return as reanimated corpses.
A uniform afterlife was so popular among European pagans, in fact, that when Christianity moved in they adopted the idea for themselves and added Purgatory (or Limbo) to the list of places a dead soul could go after death. These were often virtuous people that simply hadn't accepted Christianity or perhaps Cristians who had unrepented sins.
Hop that helps a bit.
2006-08-15 19:51:24 · answer #5 · answered by Luce's Darkness 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are all going to the same place, their faiths are formed on all the same principles, they stand on the rituals and lore of their respective regions.Muslims do believe in Jesus, they just have a different interpretation based on their culture of the 1300 AD. Hindus, Buddhist have Nirvana, it is heaven from that cultural point of view.
On a funnier note however, It could be that all non-Christian people are like Socrates in Dante's Inferno, purgatory. The bible doesn't recognize atheists, so they probably are just worm food just like they believe.
2006-08-23 18:30:23 · answer #6 · answered by spider 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Islamic teaching,it is not automaticaly we will go to heaven if we believe in God Almighty.We have six pillars of faith called rukun iman as a base of our faith.We have also a five pillars called rukun islam as a base of a muslim.In rukun iman we should believe to(1) Allah as only one God we should pray at least five times a day as a compulsary and optional pray is up to us Praying is a direct communivcation from us to Allah (2)Holy Qur'an and Hadith as our life guidance and we should implementing it in our daily life (3)Prophet Muhhammad as the last messenger of Allah for transfering Islamic teaching to us
(4)Eternal life after death which is divided into heaven for the good persons and hell for bad persons (5)Angels as an intermediary between Allah and prophets and angels who helps Allah in the communication with humanbeings (6)Allah's decree or takdir as a maximum fate decided by Allah while we were in the womb of our mothers,but we do not know it so we should try hard to reach our goals'life
Rukun islam are (1)Syahadat or swear in to our Allah Almighty (2)Shalat or praying to Allah everyday as our directcommunica-
tion
(3)Paying alms or zakat regularly and orderly in a right time and a right amount for a right persons (mustahiq)
(4)Compulsary Fasting in a full month during ramadhan
(5)Pay a pilgramage to holy places i.e Mecca and Medinah once in a whole life if we have enough money and healthy and no other obstacles.
We will go to heaven and have a happy life if we can implement the Islamic teaching in our life by obeying all what we should do and avoiding all what we can not do it.We should control our desires by avoiding satans'temptation.
If we can not do those said above,we will go to hell and have a miserable life and have a very hard punishment
2006-08-22 21:50:01 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that if one has lived their life right, but never really knew the one true God, that they will be given the chance at resurrection day. They will have a choice to believe and accept or not. This is the second chance. Regardless of what your religion or beliefs are,you will know the truth and will be given a second chance. Maybe this is the thousand year reign the bible speaks of. Maybe during that time you will be educated in the one true religion. Who knows. Just a thought.
2006-08-15 19:44:42 · answer #8 · answered by GraycieLee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not everyone
the story of Jesus was based on the story of Horus and Osiris ,and this was a symbolic representation of the life cycle of the Sun .
its purpose was to transform Paganism to the Islamic and Christian religions
the religion was based on the humanized story ,of these cosmic bodies and their events,by the descendants (illuminati)of the Anunnaki ,who was know as the creator but who was not a God ,but no more than a learned refugee from Mars before it was knocked out of Orbit
the Illuminati used this religion to manipulate,the Adams race,which was created by the Anunnaki (through genetic engineering and cloning)to mine gold for them ,and to this day controls this race(most of us)descendants.
over the eons the symbolism was totaly lost .
the myth was strengthened by continues application of false information
(i.e Leonardi da Vinci ,was one of many,and the shroud of Turin is such an example, as was the da Vinci code,humanizing the legend)
so that by now Jesus has become a real person .
however no one ever could agree on what he should look like.
and over the centuries,artists have made up several accepted versions. of the greatest con in all of Human history
Todays allies of the Illuminati are the bilderberg group,the Round table ,U.N,the Club of Rome(Vatican).and these control the world through war and finance.
they always have done so
and their method has been by dividing Humanity in to religious,cultural ,and political oposing groups ,which are then set against one an other
the New World Order (continued from Hitler) is their baby,
Bush and Blair are their present marionettes.
as al USA presidents have been (34 of them are related to Charles the great and Charlemagne,)the leaders of this world have always been, more or less one clan,including the Roman and even Chinese Emperors ,the Pharoes,the Popes,as far back as the kings of Babylonia.
Source(s):
some suporting text can be found in
Anunnaki PDF and
the biggest secret by Icke
2006-08-15 19:36:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Even though some of those religions don't believe in Jesus or God. They do believe life was made by a higher power. This question I don't think anyone can answer. Some of them have their own explantion on where they go.
2006-08-23 08:10:47 · answer #10 · answered by AysiaBoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋