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"No innocents", except Socrates, Aristotle, Gandhi, Buddha, Confucious, Lao Tzu...

...Dalai Lama...

...six million Jews from the Holocaust...

...Hippocrates (you know, the guy who wrote the Hippocratic Oath that every doctor takes to perform medicine)...

...the victims of Tianemen Square (sp?)...

...Africans who died on Christian slave ships while being transported from their homeland to Washington...

...Muslim women and children who sought refuge in Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre when the Crusaders took Jerusalem...

Why are these not considered "innocents in hell"?

2006-09-14 15:17:17 · 13 answers · asked by bobkgin 3 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

why do they deserve to share a cell with Hitler, Jack the Ripper...?

2006-09-14 15:18:58 · update #1

there's a misnomer if I've ever seen one :-\

2006-09-14 15:22:32 · update #2

Actually, I've heard there is an excellent book listing all the notables you can expect to meet in hell. A pity I don't have a copy.

2006-09-14 15:23:53 · update #3

Do Christians deliberately avoid reading Revelations 21:8?

2006-09-14 15:25:22 · update #4

"the ...unbelieving...will be thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone" aka Hell.

Nary a one on my list who would be called a believer of the Christian god.

Or are Christians trying to claim that Confucius and Buddha worshipped their God?

2006-09-14 15:28:00 · update #5

13 answers

No one in hell, except the hell on earth learning process of rejecting fearful belief systems in favor of love based ones. We all go through a process of learning about how to love. In the absence of love, we experience a separation from the very source of our being and feel that as hell...at least that's what I think.

So Socrates, Aristotle, Gandhi, Buddha, Confucius,Lao Tzu, Dalai Lama, etc...who are great lovers of the world. These are most certainly not in hell! If they are, then I aspire to be with them too...along with my son and daughter and some very beautiful and loving friends.

2006-09-15 08:53:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Who says the people that you list are in hell? Paul says this, in Romans 10:13-17, "For 'everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.' But how can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? And how can people preach unless they are sent? ..."

Also, John says, in his first letter, that "God is Love, and whoever lives in Love lives in God,,, and whoever says he loves God, whom he cannot see, while hating his brother (everyone is his brother), whom he can see, is a liar and there is no truth in him.

so God got these people covered, and you can relax now. :)

Gandhi lived in Love and I look forward to meeting him in heaven. Did Socrates and Aristotle and Hippocrates live before Christ was born? Then how could they know him? Did they know Love? A rose by any other name....

There are probably at least one or two people in the multitudes that you mention here that are in hell,, God judges individually by a person's heart.

The thing about not believing is, that if a person does know the truth and rejects the truth then they are culpable. And people do have consciences to know they should 'love one another'. But if someone before Christ or in a still remote area, or in a place where the teaching of Jesus as the Son of God is illegal, then they may not have heard of some things, then they are not responsible for that.
The reverse is also true, that if a person does know the truth, that Jesus commands us to 'love as he has loved us' and goes to church everyday,,, 1 Corinthians 13 says that without Love it is nothing, only clanging cymbals and noisy gongs (we have a few of those here, don't we?").. and 'not everyone who says, "Lord, Lord" is going to heaven but only those who do the will of God, which is to love as he loves.

so there ya go. :)

2006-09-16 02:14:45 · answer #2 · answered by mary_n_the_lamb 5 · 0 1

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2016-10-15 00:28:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Only God can judge.
Not you.
Not me.
Not wacko nutjobs that call themselves Christians and really aren't and make the real christians look bad.
If you EVER read the Bible... GOD NEVER TAUGHT ANYONE to enslave and judge and whip people. The people who did that are NOT true followers of the teachings of Christ.
I think people need to learn to differentiate between the over-zealous religios nuts that are horrible people and use Christianity as their platform and what the actual BIBLE teached us to do which is to turn the other cheek, love thy neighbor, treat others as you would like to be treated..... does that sound like the God of slavery and hatred to you? You can't judge God based on the evil deeds of unrighteous men.

2006-09-14 16:03:59 · answer #4 · answered by tatjana 2 · 1 0

Since when were you appointed to decide who is in Hell or not? Only God knows peoples hearts and only God can judge them. You need to rethink your position.

2006-09-14 15:22:37 · answer #5 · answered by Robert L 4 · 1 1

Are you getting this from Dante?

He was writing a political novel in the disguise of a religious work. Don't take it too seriously.

2006-09-14 15:23:09 · answer #6 · answered by BabyBear 4 · 0 1

Who are you to condemn anyone of these to hell? God is the only judge. And no one knows what happens in those last few minutes before death steps in...only God knows that...and if any of these, or anyone else for that matter, ends up in hell, it is by their own choice...we all have that..."free will".

2006-09-14 15:23:01 · answer #7 · answered by Judah's voice 5 · 1 2

And are you SURE these people will go to Hell?...

I think that we do not fully understand the power of Jesus Christ's Atonement.

2006-09-14 15:22:16 · answer #8 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 1 2

They are? Since when?
You are insulting beyond words, mister.

2006-09-14 15:19:57 · answer #9 · answered by Ms. Misty 1 · 1 1

BECAUSE NO ONE IS INNOCENT, NO NOT ONE. NO ONE IS GOOD. NOT EVEN ONE.

EVEN ONE SIN AND YA MISS THE MARK. THAT'S WHY CHRIST CAME TO SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOST.

2006-09-14 15:21:40 · answer #10 · answered by setfreejn836 3 · 2 1

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