you wanna know what not fair is? Jesus getting sent to the earth to be killed for all these peoples sins. he was tortured! He went through more than me and you can ever imagine. All he asks in return is for the non believers to believe! that sounds fair to me. i know they hear about him. if they dont god will take mercy. but thats only if they have never heard his name. and i think everyone has. so i think its plenty fair. they can accept it or leave it. its plenty fair either way.
2006-09-08 10:21:04
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answered by ready4answers 2
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It's not that God is unfair by sending us to hell, it is that when the original sin was created, we were no longer perfect, and we were separated from God. We cannot go to heaven unless, we are saved because we are sinful. I am sure you do not want to see bad people in heaven, but if they were sorry and God forgave them before they entered heaven, than you will just have to see them. Yes, they have done very wrong, but in the eyes of God, no sin is greater than another. They are all wrong. You say it's not someone's fault if they do wrong because of how they were raised. This is not true because every person can tell in their heart, if what they are doing is wrong. There is no excuse. You cannot blame all your actions on everything that is around you, you are you own person. You choose to react to every situation, the way you want to. That makes you an individual. If you can't except that you are wrong because you chose to be, then you are just as wrong as all the bad people you were talking about...remember, they may have been raised "wrong" too. In the end, what it really comes down to, is the one who knows they did wrong, they are truly sorry, and want to change. Those are the ones who should go to heaven.
2006-09-08 17:33:10
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answered by HeavenLee 3
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God is fair. He knows. Everyone born on this earth has a choice to follow Him or to follow satan. You make the choice not God.
2006-09-08 19:41:00
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answered by Birdbrain 4
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God gives everyone a choice if they choose to accept Him or not. He lets us choose how we want to live our lives and doesn't force us to. That right there to me is fair.
2006-09-08 17:23:39
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answered by Jesuslovesyou! 3
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What you say ..unfortunately doesn't count because you are Not The Creator -(GOD).....you need to get into a Bible believing church and learn the things of GOD & What HE SAYS!.............
2006-09-08 17:32:46
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answered by Anonymous
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There is no heaven or hell, just learning towards Godhood. Go study.
2006-09-08 17:19:05
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answered by Anonymous
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yes,they will go to hell only.
Its our own good or bad actions that decide hell or heaven.
2006-09-08 17:22:04
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answered by nice01guyin 3
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It sounds to me as if you have a little bit of an inner conflict.
2006-09-08 17:19:45
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answered by Anonymous
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hitler was an aetheist: he will be in hell
2006-09-08 17:20:49
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answered by sarahstar111 2
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NO ONE ON THIS EARTH IS GUARANTEED TO GO TO HEAVEN JUST BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST OR BY GOD'S GRACE ALONE!
God's grace, alone, won't do it...
My faith, alone, won't do it...
How I live my life, by itself, won't do it...
I know that I can only get to heaven through Jesus. Also, it is not just by this faith in Jesus, nor just the Grace of God, nor just the works that I do. It is a combination of many things.
We receive God's saving and sanctifying grace in many ways, and Christ Himself, into our souls when we are baptized and through the sacraments. Yet we also know that Christ Himself has established certain conditions for entry into eternal happiness in Heaven.
"Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever."" (John 6:53-58)
We will be judged by this as well, so be warned...
"Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself." (1 Cor. 11:27-29).
We will also be judged by our faith, but not by this alone, we will also be judged by the works that we do (Justification by faith alone is a Protestant doctrine; it was unheard of in the Christian community before the sixteenth century.)...
If St. Paul meant that faith ruled out the necessity of good works for salvation, he would not have written:
". . . and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing." (1 Cor. 13:2).
If faith ruled out the necessity of good works for salvation, the Apostle James would not have written:
"Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only'? . . . For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead." (James 2:24-26).
If faith ruled out the necessity of good works for salvation, the Apostle Peter would not have written:
"Therefore, brothers, be all the more eager to make your call and election firm, for, in doing so, you will never stumble. For, in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ will be richly provided for you." (2 Peter 1:10-11).
If faith was the only necessity for salvation, the Apostle James would not have written:
"If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, his religion is vain. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world." (James 1:26-27)
Christ Himself stated:
"For the Son of man . . . will render to every man according to his works." (Matt. 16:27).
"‘Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven’" (Matt. 7:21).
But, I need my faith as well...
"Who were those who rebelled when they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt under Moses? With whom was he "provoked for forty years"? Was it not those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert? And to whom did he "swear that they should not enter into his rest," if not to those who were disobedient? And we see that they could not enter for lack of faith."(Hebrews 3:16-19)
When I die, I will not enter the kingdom of Heaven immediately, either...
The Bible distinguishes between those who enter Heaven straightaway, calling them "the church of the firstborn" (Heb. 12:23), and those who enter after having undergone a purgation, calling them "the spirits of the just made perfect." (Heb. 12:23).
Christ Himself stated:
"Settle with your opponent quickly while on the way to court with him. Otherwise your opponent will hand you over to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison. Amen, I say to you, you will not be released until you have paid the last penny." (Matt. 5 :26).
And:
"I tell you, on the day of judgment people will render an account for every careless word they speak. By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned." (Matt. 12:36-37).
2006-09-08 17:19:55
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answered by Bob 5
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