If I am too stupid to recognize the "one true god", how can I be deliberately choosing to be tossed into...

Question

...a bonfire?

Answer 1

Hopefully God will take your stupidity into account as a mitigating factor which reduces your culpability.

Answer 2

I'm sorry the Middle Eastern death cult known as Christianity has so brain-washed you. Look beyond desert cults intent upon global conquest. What about the religions of the far East? What about the Native American spirituality? What about ancient European religion that is re-interpreted by the New Age Paganism? I'm sure you could find something real and useful. The Christian cry is 'conform or be damned'. They and Islam are the only religions that are like that. If their was One True Faith that made all others False and Paths to Damnation, wouldn't they have began all over the globe and not just from one tribe in a desert? Sounds like the kind of thing a desert people who were used to being conquered and despised their neighbors would come up with, doesn't it?

Answer 3

Due to the fact that there is no one true god ( except for the one mankind invented in his own image) I would have to say you have nothing to worry about, unless of course, you build your own bonfire and jump in. However, if there really is a god, You bring the marshmallows and I'll bring some ice because I'll be seeing you there. And I'm looking forward to it!

Answer 4

You're not! God judges us where we're at. He's completely fair and righteous. Christians need to realize that Yeshua, (Jesus) meets us right where we are. If we look up at the sky in complete ignorance and seek after God, He hears us! In the Bible a man named Cornelius knew nothing about God, but he did works of kindness and tried to pray. God Himself specially sent apostle Peter to Cornelius' house to tell him about God, because God heard Cornelius' prayers, even though he didn't know God. There are millions who want so much to know God...not the God of strict religion but the kind loving Father God whose Son Yeshua came to save us. God sends people who will go for Him to love and help people find Him, and He sends them to all kinds of people...lots of them who religious people would throw away.

Answer 5

I agree with Tiny One, you are rebellious. You know the difference between good and evil, you just choose to do evil. Again, not God's fault. Why don't you choose someone else to put down, like Castro or bin Laden, they deserve it. God deserves your obedience!

Answer 6

There's no evidence the bonfire of hell exists. If you're talking about christians burning you at the stake, that's always a possibility.:-)

Answer 7

beats me. ...... I don't know why anyone would make that choice even if it is by default. But I don't think your stupid so you don't have that as a crutch anyway. God knows if you're stupid or not. That's for Him to decide not me.

Answer 8

Apparently, you're not too stupid. Your ability to ask these questions demonstrates that! :)

There are 2 choices - life from God, or death from rebellion. Life is a conscious choice. Death is the default.

Answer 9

If it's because you're stupid and can't comprehend it, you are considered innocent.

But if its because you're rebellious and lie about the nature of God, which is that He is One and no-one else should be worshipped - well, hellfires it is.

Answer 10

God does not want you to be ignorant of who He is. Instead, He has revealed Himself to you in may ways. Such as morals. If you noticed almost every single person on the face of the planet, but those we've known about for thousands upon thousands of years, and those only recently discovered, have similar codes: murder is wrong, lying is wrong, stealing is wrong. If everyone has these same codes, then were did we get them? There had to be universal lawmaker for the world to have a universal law. Now some would say that there is no universal lawmaker since there is no God. But think about this for a minute. If we have no God then their no purpose for life. We were all an accident. There would also be no morals. Survival of the fittest would be okay. Murder would be ok, not immoral. So would slavery would not be wrong. When people say there is no God, what they are really saying is that everything goes. Also, if we had no God, then the very fact you and were born is a cosmic accident. We would have no value at all. But I say there is a God and that He purposly made us, instilled an inborn moral code in each and everyone of us, and gave us value. That means we have a purpose, a moral, and value.

With all the different religions around it hard sometimes to know who is the true God. But, if you listen to that inner voice, God will reveal himself to you. He's doing it now.

But if you won't more proof of the TRUE GOD, then please listen to my story. As a child I had a lot of people who did cruel things to me, one person in paticular. I grew up to be a very bitter and angry person as well as suicidal. I grew up in the Christian church and even became saved. Somewhere along the way I became so busy and started to ignore God. Then in my early twenties I started to question who God was and became an agnostic. One day I asked God, if He was really there to show Himself to me so that I would know Him. Lets just say He did. As a result I gave my life back to Him. That's is when He started changing my life. I wasn't overnight that I had a complete change, but in God's timing the bitterness and anger has left me. People even started to notice the change in me. Now friends who have only know me since I gave my life back to God ask how I can have such peace when they see others around them who are bitter and anger. The only way I can is through my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Read the following versus below from the Bible. They are Taken from Romans 1:18-21.

"18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened."

Versus 19 and 20 both clearly state we wil know Him who has made us. It tells us that we may know God because He reveals himself to us.

You asked how can He send us to Hell if would do not know Him? God is a Holy and Just God. He is perfect and cannot tolerate sin. He created us to be perfect beings with a mind of own. He did not want us to love Him out of force but from our own choosing. But through Adam, sin entered into the world. You may think you have no sin but answer these few questions. Have you ever lied, even if it was a little white lie or just told the half-truth? (In God's eyes a the half-truth is a whole lie, since it was concived to decieve others.) Have you ever disrespected you father, mother, or those who were in authority over you? Have you ever stolen anything, even if it was a pencil or a dollar? If so, then you have sin. And because of sin everyone is doomed to die and go to Hell.

Roman's 5:12 "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—"

But it does end here. Instead, God sent His son Jesus Christ to save us from all our sin. Jesus was born as child so we could relate to Him. He died upon the cross to take our punishment. He rose again from the third day to break the bonds of death. Through Jesus, we can gain eternal life.

John 3:16-17 "16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."

Because of what He did, all we have to do is repent of our sins, ask God to forgive and save us. Its that simple.
Romans 10:9-10, 13 "9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation ... 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”

If you need more proof then this, read the Book of Revelations in the Bible and compare it with what is going on in the world today. Also read the book The Case for Christ. This was written by a journalist who did not believe that Jesus was the savior. He used his investegative skills and determined that Jesus was exactly who He said He is.

P.S. I noticed some other comments, one specifically saying that there is no Hell. There is, in fact that Bible states that it is in the Heart of Earth. Hmm, now I wonder what place on earth is so Hot that it could melt anything on contact, and that would be placed in the middle of the earth. Could it be the Core?

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