2006-10-02 07:30:06 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That answer may vary from Christian to Christian.
If you look at the literalists, they believe that anyone who does not accept Christ as his savior will be in Hell. This is regardless of what kind of person he is. One example of this would be Gandhi. According to those tenants, he would be in Hell for his lifetime of selfless compassion. On the other hand, one who murders and rapes and recants on his death bed would be assured Heaven. For these literalists, good deeds are not enough or even required. Only those who accept Christ as the savior would escape Hell.
A more rational approach is to question if God is loving. If God is a compassionate god, then he would not allow anyone to go to Hell. No misdeed is terrible enough to warrant eternity in Hell. Either God loves you enough to allow you entrance into Heaven or he does not love you and would allow you to fester in Hell. If it is the latter case, then how can you trust him to be caring enough to allow you into Heaven simply by following his rules? Any god capricious enough to allow someone to suffer in Hell cannot be trusted to keep his word to his followers.
2006-10-02 07:31:52 · answer #1 · answered by Rev Kev 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO, atleast not the christian hell. I'm an Asatruar, and in my relogion(Asatru) Hel or Helheim is the realm of Hella and the land of the dead. It must be mentioned that this is not a bad place. Unlike the Christian hell this is a place of rest for those who die but are not sent to a more final afterlife scheme such as Valhalla. In Hel, the dead wait to be reincarnated and returned to Midgard. Niefelheim is the realm that lies at the bottom of Yggdrasil where the Nidhogg serpent chews on its roots, occasionally turning its attention on the corpses of the dead thieves, cowards and oath breakers, that are sent there. As we can see here there are some afterlife schemes that lie within the Asatru cosmology. I'm hoping to go to Valhalla (the home for those slain gloriously in battle (known as Einherjar) who are welcomed by Bragi and escorted to Valhalla by the valkyries, or maybe Folkvang (Freyja's hall).
2006-10-02 08:02:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. When breath leaves the body (life) where does it go? Back to where it belongs, where it came from. God. God is life. When there is no life, it returns to him. That is the spirit of man. The body stays, lifeless. The body without the spirit has no soul, for the soul is the conscious of the man. The body has no thoughts without the spirit. It is as if time is suspended. It takes breath (spirit) and body to create a soul. Therefore, the body stays in the ground, the spirit is safe in the presence of God. When Christ returns he will place breath back into the body, the body will rise and the conscious will come alert, thus the soul. Then judgement.
2006-10-02 07:35:53 · answer #3 · answered by Catie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure.. Both people in the story in Luke 16 arrived quickly and efficiently at their destination that they had chosen on earth.. No waiting in long lines and no appeals..
Luk 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
Luk 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Jesus gets right down to the job and gets it over with, when you have chosen and lived your life in the manner that you chose, then you go to your eternal destiny of YOUR choosing..
2006-10-02 07:32:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That depends on what kind of Christian you ask. The Catholic answer is that it is certainly possible that a person of non-Christian faith who "seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved"; this is a kind of baptism by desire, as effectual, in our view, as a sacramental baptism.
Of specific religions, the Catholic church says that Muslims worship the one God and await the last day as we do, and that Jews are our elder brothers in faith.
That said, we do believe the fullness of grace does lie in Christ and his sacraments.
2006-10-02 07:38:42 · answer #5 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Non-Christian = one who does not believe or accept Jesus Christ as their LOrd and Savior.
No they wont be in hell today, but in the near distant future, upon judgement of their souls.
2006-10-02 07:37:21 · answer #6 · answered by bolo1122 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-10-02 07:33:20 · answer #7 · answered by trucking4656 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. He'd be dead today. On Judgment Day, he'll be judged according to his actions (see Revelations). If he was a bad guy, he'll be chucked into a lake of fire. Presumably the good guys, even non-Christians, get to go to Heaven.
2006-10-02 08:04:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If he died yesterday, from yesterday his in hell, not from today.
2006-10-02 07:42:20 · answer #9 · answered by christian? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Catholic I'm told that God judges your heart. That if you never really new the truth of Christ enough to reject Him, you wouldn't be held accountable for it. But God is *very* merciful and it is that mercy which we need to appeal to.
Ultimately, God is the only who would say where your eternal resting place.
2006-10-02 07:56:21 · answer #10 · answered by Sudy Nim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋