2006-12-16 13:56:31 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-12-16 14:05:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
Well children don't go to hell. I don't know what the cut-off age is though. The mentally challenged don't go there either because they are all innocent. Everyone else whether they know about Jesus or not will be judged fairly according to how they lived. If a person who believes in Jesus lives a horrible life, they go to hell and if they don't know Jesus they will be punished also but less severely.
2006-12-16 23:23:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In what my church and myself believe they will have another chance. I'm going to use a example here because if i just say it, it all gets confusing.
When you die you go to a place kinda like a waiting room. Here people wait till the second coming. Some are alive on Earth while some are in this place. When they receive there judgment they can go to hell or one of the three levels of heaven. One represented by the sun. Another by the moon. And the other by the stars. Some will go to hell but we don't believe you go there forever. Just like a punishment should be. Why would God create you just to watch you burn in Hell forever? That doesn't seem right. So myself and my church believe its just for a sertin amount of time. Like a really bad timeout.
I hoped i help and that you can understand a bit. Good Luck finding the answer for yourself.
2006-12-16 22:08:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The path to Heaven is rough, and narrow. The Gate to Heaven is small, and few will choose this path, rather they will chose the wide, easy highway that is traveled by the masses. This highway leads to eternal separation from God in Hell.
The narrow rough path leads to God, while the wide, smooth highway leads to Hell. You make the choice. Choose wisely, because once you arrive there is no turning back.
2006-12-17 01:01:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible teaches that we are only saved by faith in Jesus. So according to the Bible those people are on their way to Hell if they don't repent of their unbelief and turn to Christ.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Acts 4:11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. (12) And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
Christianity is no different from other religions in this respect. Practitioners of Islam say that people who don't follow Mohamed are going to Hell. Other religions have their own set of conditions that must be met for salvation. Since they all disagree with one another they can't all be true.
However Jesus is the only founder of a religion who has been reliably reported to have performed miracles and who was seen alive again after being killed. Buddha and Mohamed and all of the others were died and buried and never seen again. Claims by Buddhists that the "spirit of Buddha" has been reincarnated in various individuals since his death cannot be proved. But the gospel accounts of Jesus pass the only test we can apply to history and that's the rules of evidence used in a courtroom to decide whether or not events actually occurred and what the circumstances surrounding those events were.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/jesus/greenleaf.html
Testimony of the Evangelists by Simon Greenleaf (1783-1853)
Greenleaf, one of the principle founders of the Harvard Law School, originally set out to disprove the biblical testimony concerning the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He was certain that a careful examination of the internal witness of the Gospels would dispel all the myths at the heart of Christianity. But this legal scholar came to the conclusion that the witnesses were reliable, and that the resurrection did in fact happen.
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In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction. There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin. ...
2006-12-16 22:19:41 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
When the coming of the Lord comes, those who do not proclaim Him as Messiah will be forced to take sides. Either accept Jesus as Lord and Savior or be damned. Those who have not decided will have seven years to make a decision if they can live through those seven years. More is revealed in the Bible. The Bible states in Revelation that a large percent of the Jewish community during the tribulation and disappearing will accept Jesus as Lord. Only a third of the world will not revert to Christ and they will be the ones that are damned. You have until the time of the mark to make your decision, your choice then will be eternal persecution or everlasting life in the Kingdom of God. Those who do not accept Jesus as Lord and take the mark of the anti-Christ will perish in hell and live in misery on earth until the time of the glorious appearing. Once the battle has raged and God has claimed His victory, then all of the souls who have taken the mark and all of the living will be forced to the depths of hell to live in terror and torture in the palace of their king. As for non-believers or those of other denominations who do not proclaim Jesus as Savior, they will have to make the choice before they perish. I think it is also said that all of the souls in heaven must also face judgment when the glorious appearing and coming of the Lord happens. But once anyone accepts the mark of the anti-Christ, they are lost forever to God and He will not sympathize for them when they call out His name and ask for forgiveness. It not for any of us to say though what will happen to those who dont believe, God is Judge, by no means do we have the right to do so or condemn others as Christians.
2006-12-16 22:19:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
If they have not believed JESUS is the messiah, have not confessed their sins, and asked JESUS to come into their hearts, then yes they will go to their eternal home(hell)
John 3:16,17,18
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
2006-12-16 22:14:07 · answer #7 · answered by faithful 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
When you die you cease to exist in any kind of stylish worthwhile fashion. If you believe in some sort of afterlife or reincarnation, you're living with a crutch that's going to deny you the ablility to test your limits.
Take a lesson from Crazy Horse. Be a critical thinker and a human being, race and religion are irrelivant.
2006-12-16 22:07:46 · answer #8 · answered by Tai Pan 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes. People like to gloss over or sugar coat what Revelation states but, the truth is that anyone who has not accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior will spend eternity separated from God (or hell as non-believers like to call it).
2006-12-16 22:12:01 · answer #9 · answered by Melissa P 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Wahoo!! T.T, This is What I Believe and Most Native Americans!!!
We are not going to Hell!!!
Each morning upon rising, and each evening before sleeping, gives thanks for the life within you and for all life, for the good things the Creator has given you and for the opportunity to grow a little more each day. Consider your thoughts and actions of the past day and seek for the courage and strength to be a better person. Seek for the things that will benefit others (everyone).
2. Respect. Respect means "To feel or show honor or esteem for someone or something; to consider the well being of, or to treat someone or something with deference or courtesy". Showing respect is a basic law of life.
3. Once a council has decided something in unity, respect demands that no one speak secretly against what has been decided. If the council has made an error, that error will become apparent to everyone in its own time.
4. Be truthful at all times, and under all conditions.
5. Always treat your guests with honor and consideration. Give of your best food, your best blankets, the best part of your house, and your best service to your guests.
6. The hurt of one is the hurt of all; the honor of one is the honor of all.
7. Receive strangers and outsiders with a loving heart and as members of the human family.
8. All the races and tribes in the world are like the different colored flowers of one meadow. All are beautiful. As children of the Creator they must all be respected.
9. To serve others, to be of some use to family, community, nation, and the world is one of the main purposes for which human beings have been created. Do not fill yourself with your own affairs and forget you’re most important talks. True happiness comes only to those who dedicate their lives to the service of others.
10. Observe moderation and balance in all things.
11. Know those things that lead to your well-being and those things that lead to your destruction.
12. Listen to and follow the guidance given to your heart. Expect guidance to come in many forms; in prayer, in dreams, in times of quiet solitude, and in the words and deeds of wise Elders and friends.
2006-12-16 22:01:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Well, there will probably be a lot of Chinese and Indians in hell with me. So, at least I wont be missing my Chinese take-out and Indian curry. Cuz that would truly be hell.
2006-12-16 22:14:25 · answer #11 · answered by aloha damashi 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋