Say you're living life and doing all the things you think are right. Turns out God/Allah/Buddha/Jehovah/Other thinks you totally screwed up and sends your butt to hell or something like it.
My true question is: Do you believe in your beliefs because you hold it true in your heart or because it's the "rules" in order to go to "heaven".
Supporting arguements are encouraged! =)
2006-12-05 10:31:33 · 20 answers · asked by §чﺀﺀчβчﻯ†a 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you beliefs are wrong. Would you go to hell because you truly believe in them?
2006-12-05 10:36:18 · update #1
My belief system is based on going with my heart and my own personal experience with God and the world. I'm not scared of breaking the rules because to me they are mans interpretation of Gods rules, which doesn't necessarily make them accurate. I attempt to live in a way in which I feel at peace with myself, therefore I try to do little harm to those around me (sometimes people feel harmed no matter how hard you try). If it turns out that I am wrong, then so be it. I am just living the best I know how with what I know now.
2006-12-05 10:37:52 · answer #1 · answered by Semi-charmed 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I came to my present beliefs because I was seeking the truth. But I did take in my heart the stand that if I am going to be judged, and my fate in the next life is at stake, God would have to have a way to let me know what He wanted from me.
It was with that as my expectation that I came to the place I am today. It has been quite a journey, and I'm sure it's not finished, and I believe God has guided me. At least, to the degree that I'm paying enough attention to what He's showing me.
And regarding Heaven or Hell, I don't think the next life is as simple as eternal bliss or eternal damnation. At least, the next step in God's plan once we leave this life.
2006-12-05 10:41:12 · answer #2 · answered by dave 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the way I do because God has shown me the truth. Part of me tries to do what I believe God taught because I know it is the path to "heaven" and part of me does it because I know it is also the means of being happy in this life. Now, I don't always follow what I believe, because I am not perfect, and am actually very far from it. If all things were perfect I would be free of all self-satisfaction or the world, but I am not. My flesh is weak, but I try.
2006-12-05 10:44:19 · answer #3 · answered by straightup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, in my religion there is no punishment after death. Punishment for wrongdoing comes back to us in this life via Karma basically. I also think dead is dead - so... Most people who share my religion believe in reincarnation - but there are no definitives there.
I feel that I am true to my beliefs. Without there being a threat of punishment for being untrue - then I guess a Daemonolator either believes because he holds it true in his heart - or he's not a Daemonolator and believes something else.
2006-12-05 10:43:59 · answer #4 · answered by swordarkeereon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I try to live my life according to the Bible's teachings. I am firm in my beliefs and hold them firmly in my heart. But whether I get to Heaven or not will be up to God after I am judged.
2006-12-05 10:38:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all you need to have conviction in who you believe, and you need to live according to those beliefs. If you do what is right in the eyes of GOD than why should you go to hell?
Jesus is the truth, the way and the life!
2006-12-05 10:35:55 · answer #6 · answered by St. Mike 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i believe because i know i am wrong in my thoughts words and deeds yet i am still given more life to try to achieve.
my faith is such that i hope that if i am wrong even in the fires of hell i will praise the lord
my faith is such that it seeks no prove yet it finds it all along the way everyday .
my faith in God is such that i am aware that if i accept him repeat and ask for forgiveness i will be forgive as i have forgiven others.
i do want to go to heaven but i will go to where the lord sends me because it is right to do so . when asked i will answer when called i will come when sent i will go when told to wait i will wait
there is no limit for my faith comes from the seed he planted and i know i am fertile soil and he shall provide the rain so that my life continues for ever with him .
i hope that all people believe in the lord Jesus Christ not as i do but better then i do. i fear the lord and i trust the lord to forgive me and all who come to him and accept him as one in the holy trinity
2006-12-05 10:45:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hold true to my beliefs because they have been tested out in my life and they are true. I have no doubt about their veracity. God has given me the faith and I have leaned on it the way a man leans on a crutch and discovers it will support him.
2006-12-05 10:34:49 · answer #8 · answered by epaphras_faith 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not expecting to go there. I'm not expecting to find my name in the book of life. Why allow myself a let down. I'll be shocked if God wants me there.
I do what I do because I do it and think it's right, not for some reward.
Do YOU only DO things for REWARDS!
You're a bounty hunter!
2006-12-05 11:02:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses preach a message of "good news", and leave all judging for Jehovah and Jesus to perform "on the last day".
(Acts 10:36,42) Declare to them the good news of peace through Jesus Christ: this One is Lord of all others. ...this is the One decreed by God to be judge of the living and the dead
(John 11:23-25) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” 24 Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life.
(John 12:48-49) The word that I [Jesus] have spoken is what will judge [a person] in the last day; 49 because I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment
(John 8:16) if I do judge, my judgment is truthful, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me
(Matthew 12:36) They will render an account concerning it on Judgment Day
(John 5:22,27-30) [The Father] has committed all the judging to the Son... 27 And he has given him authority to do judging, because Son of man he is. 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out... I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
(Acts 17:30-31) God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. 31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man [Jesus] whom he has appointed
In addition, Jehovah's Witnesses are quite famous for teaching that "hell" does not exist as Christendom has taught it; God has *NOT* arranged for any such place of fiery torment for sinners in some netherworld. The original Hebrew and Greek words most commonly translated as "hell" actually refer to the common grave of mankind; the Scriptures point forward to a time after Armageddon when humans will live forever and death and "hell" are themselves destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/20000622/article_03.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20041201/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm
2006-12-05 13:39:31 · answer #10 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋