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Question

You believe hte BIBLE is true, you believe everything I'm guessing. Now, why believe it? Would you believe the book "Alice In Wonderland?" It's literature too. Who agrees with me, this is also needed, why do people who don't believe in Jesus need to burn in hell? It makes no sense, I would like someone to tell me with this without using the Bible as a reference.

Is God asking you to be perfect? Do I have to dismiss Muhammad and Ghandi? Why does Jesus have to send us to hell for the most part SILLY mistakes we all should go to hell. Don't just say that God will do this for and not for that person because you were better behaved and listened.

Answer 1

First, Alice has not knocked on the door of my heart (mind/soul) and saved me from my downward spiral of a life. Secondly, you do not go to hell for not believing in God. I wish I had a nickle for every time every unbeliever stated so. I would be rich! You will go to hell because of your sins if you trust not Jesus. Are you sinless? If not then the penalty for your sins is the second death. It don' t matter how little or much there are. One sin = second death. Jesus died on the cross to pay that second death for you, so you don't have to.

Face God with Jesus = heaven
Face God without Jesus = hell.

Answer 2

Its a good question. Too many people try and support the Bible solely with the Bible as evidence. The same goes for the Quran. All that quotes from the book itself support is that the book is coherent. "Coherence" is an essential aspect of any system that hopes to be true but it does not establish that truth. We have the Bible that claims to be the word of God, we have the Quran that claims to be the word of God (and no I am not going to listen to claims that the "true" Bible supports the Quran). How are we to choose between the claims? We must look outside the two books for support (much like Newcovenant0's answer that, accept it or not, has a perception of God outside of the Bible).

The poeple who say things like "Alice in Wonderland doesn't claim....." spectacularly miss the point. Sorry to say you've probably got the wrong example. "The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster" (and the Quaran) DO make the same claims and are historically accurate.

Answer 3

I see were you are coming from I too had a hard time believing then the Lord showed me the way. Although I do not believe you are sent to hell for petty things. I think the only thing you would be eternally damned for is the lack of believing in the Father and the Son. I believe you are saved by sin from the blood of Jesus Christ. When you accept him his Holy Spirit will guide you in the right direction. The only unforgivable sin is the sin against the Holy Spirit, which to me means denying God's active force. So if you do not believe, that's fine but in the end you better hope you are ACTUALLY right.

Answer 4

I believe the Bible because of the numerous evidences that support its authenticity, accuracy and Divine inspiration. The Bible has over 70 ancient manuscripts that verify its accuracy; it has been verified as accurate in regards to history, science, geography and many other areas by archaeology and other sciences.Secular history has confirmed many parts of the Bible. Homer's Iliad has only about a dozen manuscripts to support its accuracy and authenticity yet no one questions it. Shakespeare has even less proof but it's accepted as authentic and as having been translated, copied and recorded accurately. No other books from ancient history come even close to the Bible for manuscript support -Homer's Iliad is a distant second. Specific prophecies of the Bible have been fulfilled with 100 percent accuracy, 100 percent of the time. Unbelievers go to hell because they choose to go there. Honestly, do you seriously think anyone who rejects God and/or hates God would want to spend eternity with God? Don't you think they'd be far more miserable in Heaven than in hell? God gives the unbeliever what he/she wants. If you are serious about exploring evidence in support of the Bible I will list some references for you. Either look them up and read them or prove that you simply refuse to believe and merely wish to mock believers in Christ

Answer 5

The Bible claims Divine Inspiration, and offers true prophecies to back this claim up. "Alice in Wonderland" didn't claim any inspiration, nor does it offer prophecies, or eternal life. The Roman Catholic Church has a doctrine known as "Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus" - Latin for, "Outside the Church, there is no Salvation." I believe this to be true. However, this isn't limiting non-Catholics and non-Christians from Heaven. Remember, Christ is the head of the Church, and therefore reserves the right to decide who is and is not saved.

Answer 6

The bible you refer to is a collection of various social laws and repeated history of the early church. Many religions have a holy book such as the Bible. So Christianity is not unique in having a book for reference.

The amount of understanding you have of what is in that book is determined by how much of it you have actually read, and studied. Belief may or may not come, but
reading and understanding is key to being able to discuss the book in any way shape or form. So, hard as it may
be to read some sections of the book, I recommend that you read the entire text before you attempt to criticize it.
i think you will find a number of well thought out guidelines for peaceful living in society within its pages.

For me, the various threats made by religions against non believers or against those who renounce a particular faith are challenges to the weak in spirit, aimed at bending them to the will of the church, which ever church you wish to consider. If you have enough guts to go against the church and do something else with your life...Hey, it is your life. Move on and don't look back.

Now that we have aired this question and you have several answers from other poeople, can we please move along to something more specific like:

What are you doing to help poor people in your country?

What are you actually doing to feed those that are starving?

How much time did you volunteer to give to helping
the aged, the infirmed, and the sick this week? How
much time will you give to helping them next week?

Have you considered giving any help to Motherless, or
fatherless children in your town this Christmas?

Have you thought about getting a better education for
yourself?

Answer 7

The Bible can be historically documented as factual. Alice in Wonderland cannot. All events in scripture occurred in real life. It's the Truth, the absolute Truth concerning human existence and can be backed up with proof.

Answer 8

Lets just say God created Heaven and Hell-so why would people who don't believe in Him or don't want to give their lives for Him get to live with Him in His kingdom? This isn't the '60's where people get to do whatever makes them feel good (although most people think it is).

And no-you don't have to be perfect. I'm not perfect. I have the same temptations as anyone does-I just have Jesus on my side to help me fight off the urges. What you have to understand is that God is not asking for perfection-He's asking for your love.

Answer 9

The root of most of your mental torment and suffering lies in childhood self-doubt. Resentment towards your father's failing is no doubt behind the vicious cycle of worry affecting your health. If your father fails you then you may also think that God has failed you.
Spiritually speaking, the father you can see represents the Father you cannot see. Dad has a very heavy responsibility as a heavenly bureaucrat. The faith in his indwellinggoodness ought to be a positive influence, a roundabout way of confirming the faith in what you were born to believe. Resenting your father always negatively impacts that faith, severing the connection from the unfolding inner heavenly nature. “Doubting oneself,” is the term we use to describe this life-changing traumatic event. This struggle between faith and doubt is perpetuated your entire life through rebellion against authority, or, through trusting, putting too much faith in others, hence setting up a special someone to save you. Eventually, resentment toward their emerging faults reinforces the old self-doubt that came from resenting your dad. Resentment in the present towards all those “father’s” you can see, continues to separate you from the Father within that you cannot see. That is what your anxiety and despair is all about.
There are two reasons for the perpetuation of self-doubt, one that springs from the other.
The first one is resentment toward look-alike people, places, and things, especially lookalike father figures. The second reason is trusting in another person to save you. This is what leads back again to resentment and despair, because, as you must know by now, they will always fail.
The problems that rise from doubt are extremely complex and dangerous. Fortunately, the cure, if you can grasp it, is extremely simple: forgive your father. You achieve forgiving your father and retrieving faith in God through dropping resentment towards those parent substitutes in the present. Therefore, stop placing your hope for salvation in anyone, because that guarantees cruel disappointments.
Giving up resentment is also pivotal to letting go of past judgments, including the judgment upon your judgment of others that turns into self-judgments. You call it being too hard on yourself.
When you doubted your self as a child, you became wrong and that wrong is ashamed and loath to admit it is wrong. You want so badly to be right.
Well-meaning people, who help build your confidence, only cause more self-doubt, because they are helping you believe in a self that went wrong.
Once upon a time when you believed the lying accusations that you were stupid and crazy, when you really were not, that is when the confusion was planted. Now, when people ridicule or support you they only compound that original confusion. What follows you now is a conscience that says there is something wrong, but you do not want to listen, because you want to be right so badly. Fortunately, your conscience is not the enemy… it only wants you to awaken.
Because you connect doubting to losing faith and causing everything to go wrong in your life, doubt has become a bad word, for which reason you are afraid to doubt a second
time. However, you do need to doubt again, this time to believe that you are wrong, simply because it is the truth that will set you free.

Answer 10

Yes, Im lovin it someone else who sees it for the way it is. Its just a book written the way they talked a long time ago. Church is the biggest scam man ever made. Plus heavan and hell is peoples imagination. We made it all up. If all this crap was true there would only be one religion and one type of person. Not blacks spanish chinese all that crap. So dream on dreamers. And all the bitches that violated me yesterday your goin to hell LOLLOL. Have a wonderful day in the realistic world.