Christians say we are sinful by nature and deserving of hell. We were born that way. If we were born that way, then how is it our fault?
2006-12-05 17:11:29 · 17 answers · asked by Heron By The Sea 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Don't Christians underestimate human worth and good? Are we really so evil that we automatically deserve to be tortured in hellfire forever?
NO ONE deserves such treatment on earth. Far less would anyone deserve it for eternity.
2006-12-05 17:13:22 · update #1
person - I'm a religious studies major. Try me.
2006-12-05 17:20:58 · update #2
DEAR HUMAN:
NO...not ALL Christians believe we are hellbound from birth. I am one who does not. I do think we are all sinners, but only us Christians cause if you do not believe, you cannot believe in sin. So no matter what some Christians think...or you think they think...you have over generalized and in fact...its NOT YOUR FAULT.
GOD LOVES US ALL
2006-12-05 17:19:09 · answer #1 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not your fault. You should live life to your own personal set of values and principles. If you want to do something and it hurts no one but yourself, how is that a crime? I am not personally a Christian, so I'm not sure how it all works. I believe in harmony and compassion and living life to the fullest. I do not belive in living someone else's life, you will find peace, perhaps not as a Christian.
The only heaven or hell that you will experience are the ones you create.
2006-12-05 17:15:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
sin travels through the human race because of adam's sin. since adam, we are all born in sin. true, at birth we did nothing that could be "our fault" but as soon as we come into existence we inherit the sin nature. we are way short of God's perfect standard. He did not leave us stranded in our sin though, He sent Jesus so that we would not have to remain in our sinful state. besides, even if we don't do anything deserving of hell when we are born, it surely doesn't take long for us to start being disobedient. it's engrained in us.
2006-12-05 17:18:07 · answer #3 · answered by Yee Haw 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think that humans are not hell bound from birth...
The hell fire is made must on those who do sin.
A child is not a sinner....
the same child, when is brought up, & he come in his senses to understand what is right & what is wrong, THEN, if he does SINS he is hell bound.
Just analyze what SIN can a baby child do????
SEX???
Or Murder??
NO!
Nothng.!
Just nothing...
so if a child dies, before he is able to understand difference between righ & wrong, he is just a heaven member....
every one is not a sinner from birth...
it is just that the statement
" JESUS died for our sins"
is taken wrongly.....
they say Jesus has died for our sins so why we worry....?
We can do whatever we want....
& when that thinking comes in mind, people think they can do whatever they want , & most of what they do are sins...
like cheating/fruad, having illegal sex, prostitution, stealing, smugling, drugs killings etc....
which are also called crimes as they are not good things to do....
& religion tell not to do them....
Jesus said not to do these things.......
So why do they do these things......
Coz they themselves want to go to hell.
yes....
it is not human nature to do sins...
it is just people think, just this is the life, & we must enjoy it as much as we can...
& mainly emjoyment comes from money or sex..
& for that the people just cheat or do fruad with others to gain money & have sex with the persons they like...
If they think the will still go to hell if they do sin,[however Jesus died for their sins], they can controll all their desires, the lust, the love for power/ money etc...
& if they stop doing sins they will not go to hell....
Simply!
2006-12-05 17:33:24 · answer #4 · answered by just curious 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not our fault. Blame it on Eve (well, Adam too).
But, in defense, our idea of good & God's idea of good are two different things. Simply put, since He's the One who made the rules, what is the problem with following them?
2006-12-05 17:16:37 · answer #5 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually............it's this chick named Eve's fault(gosh darned women), who convinced Adam(stupid men), from eating a piece of fruit that God created and put in front of their faces and told them not to eat, but then a snake(that god also created) that used to be an angel told Eve to eat of the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE(god likes em dumb-explains his affinity for southern states-J/K) and that's how we all got to be born evil muderous beings!
Our forgiving lord imposed a sin on all of us because of what mother eve did with the apple and the tree, so he nailed his son to the cross(really just an alter ego of himself), and if we believe that this happened without evidence(because knowledge is no bueno), then we will get to sit next to god forever near his throne and worship him for eternity.
2006-12-05 17:17:17 · answer #6 · answered by chicalinda 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the question lies...
If one does not understand or know the law yet breaks it, can he/she be held acountable for that which he/she breaks?
If God created the Law to be broken in order to point a way back to his Son Jesus then why should we be held in contempt?
here is the Logic basic first premice...
1. God knew that the Law was too hard for man to obey
2. Man did not ask for this law in the first place
3. Why then is Man to blame for breaking this Law...
well...
First there is a little passage in the Bible that will also bring some things to light... lol...
You first have to understand some basic things first:
--John 19:11 ".... he who has delivered me to you has the greater sin"
there is great talk about degrees of sin...
There are many places in the bible that say that "You are held acountable by WHAT YOU KNOW...." This is mentioned Acts 17:30 "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent," (cf. Rom. 3:25)
1 Timothy 1:13: "though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief."
The Logical "we cant be held acountable because of our nature" arguement has mistakes...
#1 first... Yes you have a Sin nature however, that is not what you are Judged apon when you enter Judgment...
#2 second... You are Judged upon what you know and understand.
#3 Third... Upon writing this question you have full understanding of the Laws you have broken...
#4 fourth... You then have no excuse for you could have chose to obey rather than break those laws...
Your choyce is depended upon your knoledge... thus the "knoledge of good and evil"
this brings up a NEW arguement... Its Adams fault then and not ours... Adam ate of the tree of KNOLEDGE of good and evil... so then he brought upon us SIN and with sin came these silly laws... HOWEVER, you are forgetting one thing... GOD GAVE US A WAY OUT...
You now have FULL KNOLEDGE OF THIS WAY OUT THUS, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE....
by understanding and moral thought you must realize that "YOU DID THIS TO YOURSELF"
When you die you CHOSE to go to hell... IT WAS NOT YOUR NATURE... it was your choyse that took you to hell...
you see--> true christianity is not based upon HELLBOUND HUMANS... because you really are not hellbound--you do not have the truth in you however, it is bye your CHOYCE that you are Judged... NOT YOUR NATURE...
Chirstians are going to hell still containing a sinful nature... however, they are PARDENED by God threw what Jesus did on the cross....
**YOUR SINFUL NATURE DOES NOT LEAVE YOU.... UNTIL YOU GET YOUR NEW BODY...OR UNTIL YOU BECOME A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST...
however, even though you strugle with a sinful nature even though you are christian you still can enter heaven threw the blood of Jesus Christ...
ITS THE ACCEPTANCE OF JESUS THAT GETS YOU IN TO HEAVEN NOT YOUR NATURE....
This is the conclusion: YES WE DESERVE HELL BECAUSE WE BROKE THE LAW.... If you broke the rules you should be punished... "if some one punched you in the face you would want to punish him by hitting him back... lol..."EYE FOR AN EYE...We broke the rules we desurve punsihment.... YES we are born that way.. we are born SINNERS... IT IS OUR FAULT WHEN WE KNOW WHAT WE DID WAS WRONG YET WE STILL DO IT... THAT IS THE FAULT.... it becomes our fault with the knoledge of good and evil... the thing we inherrited with Adam and Eve... That is what condemns us... when we were little we did not know yet we broke the law... WHEN YOU GET OLDER YOU KNOW--YOU HAVE THE POWER TO OVERCOME SIN WITH JESUS--YOU KNEW THAT YOU HAD THAT POWER TO OVERCOME YET YOU CHOSE NOT TO ACCEPT JESUS AND USE THAT POWER TO OVERCOME TEMPTATION AND SIN... NOW YOU ARE JUDGED BECAUSE OF THAT.... and not your sin nature....
did you understand?
Thank you for reading this...
I tried to keep it short...
John
2006-12-05 17:43:45 · answer #7 · answered by johnblessed01 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because we trace back 2 adam and eve and they sinned. ever since then we have naturally sinned. we r related to adam and eve who were jews...and the jews agreed to kill jesus who died for our sins. ever since then we have to die because we sinned. death is the punishment of our sins.
we do not go to hell or heaven. we are made from the dust of the earth.
in the bible there is a reliable quote to stand his up---From dust we are made and to dust we will return.
i am not a christian but i am a different religion that u wont know.
2006-12-05 17:16:08 · answer #8 · answered by funny.bones 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Believe it or not, this year was the first time I ever heard about original sin...which sounds pretty nonsensical to me!
2006-12-05 17:18:07 · answer #9 · answered by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
O.K. it is not your fault - but have you ever done anything wrong since birth?
God only likes perfection, so I guess we are all hell bound, unless there is a scape goat somewhere
2006-12-05 17:14:03 · answer #10 · answered by Slave to JC 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋