I’m not religious and certainly don’t believe in God, Heaven or Hell, for fairly obvious reasons, but for those who do believe, could you answer the following.
Say you live a good honest life as best as possible, repent all of your sins, then die peacefully. God decides that you’re one of the lucky ones, and sends you off to Heaven.
After a while in Heaven, you notice that some of your family (Mum, Dad, Brothers, Sisters, Kids) and lots of your religious friends have been sent to Hell instead. You miss them terribly and decide you’d like to join them in Hell.
Do you think if you asked God to send you to Hell instead, would he grant you a transfer or will you be stuck in Heaven forever without your family and friends?
2006-09-04 08:48:29 · 18 answers · asked by Brenda's World 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-09-04 08:56:37 · answer #1 · answered by TJMiler 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to my beliefs, your question is built upon several false premises. The first is that a person could get to heaven because of being lucky. We get to heaven because we are forgiven through the grace of God by having faith in Jesus Christ.
Secondly, the idea that the mortal bonds you have created while in this mortal life will outweigh the bond between Father God and His son when we are in heaven is misguided. While it may be hard to imagine, when a person (Christian) gets to heaven, the bond we will have with God and Jesus will far outweigh any feelings we have had for any person on earth. A person who is in heaven will never desire to be with family and friends rather than being in heaven.
Thirdly, no one is ever stuck in heaven. We cannot even begin to understand what a wonderful place heaven is. We will not desire to leave the presence of God and His Son, no matter what.
And finally, your disposition after death is final. You are either with God, or you are without God. Luke chapter 16, verses 19-31 indicate that once we die we either go to heaven or hell, and we cannot go from one to the other.
2006-09-04 16:18:49 · answer #2 · answered by hisnamesaves 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you think any one is going to heaven? I heard that God is coming back to earth to set up a government on earth. That hell is just a second death for people that absolutely refuse God, not a burning, torture forever and ever; just a burning and then death. Most people will rebuild the earth with God's government.
2006-09-04 16:02:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not religious either, but as far as my understanding life and death goes i feel you see yourself operating with your body mind and soul even after death. When you die your soul leaves your physical body, then it leaves behind the mind (everything that you learnt here, i mean, all the stupid things the world teaches you includig the religions)and only your soul reaches god the way it was when you were sent to this life, because our souls have the same energy as god, only humans aspire to have all the godly qualities.
I feel there is no hell or heaven, its all the human imagination. This is the only way to control human behavior. Has any one come back to tell us what is happening there? How can you worship a god who is so cruel? Imagine him sitting and pushing people to hell just because they lied or stole something? All your unhappiness is here on earth because of the faulty ways of thinking. If you train your mind to work the right way....right way is when everyone is happy including you. This is what i mean the right way, we have no right to take away anyones happiness. Death is physical not spiritual. God is happy he is not a person who can judge, torture or punish, we tend to give all the human qualities to god because our perception of authority is how people in authority treated us. When i was a kid i imagined a god to have a stick in his hand, my first impression of authority was our elders! Usless people! ha ha ha
2006-09-04 16:12:09 · answer #4 · answered by thachu5 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
YOU don't go to heaven when you die, you go to rest, that is if you are a righteous person, When Christ will gather his own from all over,then will he be with us forever more. that will be heaven in the presence of the LORD for all eternity. The unrighteous will be in torment immediately,and then comes the judgment, all that are not Godly will be cast down into the lake of fire for all eternity.
2006-09-04 15:59:26 · answer #5 · answered by littlecwoman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no hell but only heaven. But some people are not happy with themselves and the place they are going after they die is not going to change that.So they are going to be in their own personal "hell". But they are still going to be together anyway.
2006-09-04 16:14:48 · answer #6 · answered by nyo7_2001 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one in the Heaven will ever bother about those in hell.And one thing, He is so kind He really cares for those who Love Him,He,s not giving any pains to them.But yes He loves all as all r created by Him.Try to find Him out.
2006-09-04 16:01:44 · answer #7 · answered by I am a different person....faith 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to appear before Him.
Where is He?
He is in heaven.
So you got to go heaven to appear before Him for the judgemnet.
Heb 9:27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,
2006-09-04 16:00:36 · answer #8 · answered by chris p 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally believe in heaven and hell, they are real. I don't believe you would ever, ever want to leave heaven. Being with the Father Son and Holy Spirit is worth everything.
My first love is Jesus,
"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me". Matthew 10:37 KJV. :)
2006-09-04 15:58:16 · answer #9 · answered by pineapple 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only through Jesus Christ will you go to heaven- good deeds will get you nowhere.
As for missing your loved ones after getting to heaven- God erases those not in heaven from your memory.
2006-09-04 15:52:13 · answer #10 · answered by Alison 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋