I want to know the truth...
2006-12-31 21:03:44 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What is your idea of free thinking? Do you assume that everything outside of God's law and guide is free thought and everything inside is slavery?
Why do people who think they are above God and above his guide call themselves "open minded" "free thinking" and "liberated". It's your perception that you are free.
In God's eyes and any believer, those who think they are free becuase they are outside of His law, are actually enslaved. So you may need to reconsider what freedom really means and what slavery truly is.
Am I free if I can murder someone and not be enslaved by jail or someone's idea that I've done wrong?
Is it freedom to cheat on a spouse because I decided that I needed to try out other people?
Basically, people need to figure out what their priorities are. There is no such thing as freedom in those who make their own rules, they are only free as far as they perceive, and are blind to the consequences of so-called freedom.
Heaven and Hell exist, Christ taught us this. But unless you belive in Christ and what He says, you will neither believe in Hell. So, does your "free-thinking" lead you in the direction of Hell according to what sins Christ has stated would do so? Or does your free thinking lead you to follow the truth? As Christ said "The truth shall set you free". Sin is not freedom, it is slavery to the self. Harming both the sinner and those around them.
If free thinking means you feel anything goes, that adultery, fornication, homosexuality, murder, pornography, abortion etc, is a person's right, then you are "free" to choose any of those things.
Christ however condemned them and more. One only has to read the bible to see and then make their choice and use their "free will" to do so. So you are already free, free to choose which way to use your free will.
Nobody will ever be able to say they were not told, or they had no idea.
2006-12-31 21:20:14 · answer #1 · answered by Gus 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm a free thinker. I don't believe in hell, so I guess I can't exactly go to hell. The only hell I see is the one people make for themselves.
2006-12-31 21:05:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Being that no man has the freewill to decide what he wants or who he becomes, one must realize that we are born on a set path. If there is a Hell and you are going there... you were doomed from the start. Is this fair? That is up to the individual to decide but I would contest that so-called crimes against nature exist within nature and follow the sequential order of things. If you believe consciousness is a result of natural selection then what judgment can God make from it? Why are the Hitlers and Stalins punished for being born at their place in history?
2006-12-31 21:23:59 · answer #3 · answered by Sifting 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then you must learn what hell & death really are ...
What Has Happened to Hellfire?
- What Really Is Hell?
- - Life After Death?
- - Unending Torment or Common Grave?
- - Hellfire--All-Consuming?
- - Hell Emptied!
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_01.htm
Is There Life After Death?
- Do You Have an Immortal Spirit?
- - What Is the Spirit?
- - "To Dust You Will Return"
- - The Spirit "Returns to the True God"
- - A Sure Hope!
http://watchtower.org/e/20010715/article_01.htm
There are many myths surrounding the subject of death & afterlife. For several of the details, I suggest reading ...
Should You Be Afraid of Death? :
- What Is Your View of Death?
- - Baffled, or Alienated by Death?
- - A Subject to Ponder
- A Closer Look at Some Myths About Death
- - Myth 1: Death is the natural end of life.
- - Myth 2: God takes people in death to be with him.
- - Myth 3: God takes little children to become angels.
- - Myth 4: Some people are tormented after death.
- - Myth 5: Death means the permanent end of our existence.
- - Compare Some Common Myths with What Scriptures Say
- - Be Free From Fear
http://watchtower.org/e/20020601/article_01.htm
2007-01-01 05:07:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think everyone is a free thinking in a certain extent. So the appropriate question is "If I chose to reject religion/God/Jesus or whatever, will I go to hell?" Well the answer would be, "If what you are rejecting is really the only way to heaven, then obviously you wont be sent to the Good Place" If its wrong though, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about.
2006-12-31 21:44:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who can answer a question like that? And what do you call a free-thinker? Do you think that Christians have no choice what they believe? Who is NOT a free-thinker? Or is "free-thinker" just slang for "atheist"? Since atheists maintain that a belief in God illogical and irrational, aren't theists the free-thinkers?
2006-12-31 21:06:45 · answer #6 · answered by NONAME 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Everyone's after life will need to go for judgement, so hell is the 1st place that you will go for your judgement, even for free thinkers. So if you don't even beilive in hell or heaven, you will still need to go hell for judgement.
2006-12-31 21:55:53 · answer #7 · answered by Henry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free thinkers have original thought you have deminstrated none. But yes you are qualified for sheol. Hell is the name of a angle sheol is the lake of fire.
2006-12-31 21:09:23 · answer #8 · answered by Thomas A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans are born with freewill; I disagree with anyone who thinks otherwise. If I am a Christian, but do not choose to become one willingly, then what purpose has God accomplished by creating me to be an unwilling follower of his son, Jesus? Likewise, even the angels have freewill, after a fashion; Lucifer chose to disobey God and was/is cast out.
If human beings do not exercise freewill as it relates to worshiping God/Jesus, then the whole concept of the Christian religion is a sham. God might just as well have made us mindless automatons that worship him day and night, mouthing empty platitudes that please his ear, but in the end, signify nothing.
Another point I am trying to make here is that people cannot just choose to become Christians, the choice is mutual. We ask Jesus to enter into our hearts and make a covenant with us, correct?
Furthermore, God/Jesus are long suffering to uswards; not because we deserve special treatment, but rather because he/they are unwilling to see any perish and be sent to hell, even though we deserve it.
Feel fortunate, friend; if you ask him into your heart, Jesus has already died for your sins, that you may be found blameless in the eyes of God.
2006-12-31 22:00:30 · answer #9 · answered by bongfuel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well....if they do...your already damned just for thinking of that question. Live your life to the fullest of whats good. Why live any other way.....why? God wants you to be a happy person, hes certainly not out to catch you or trap you so you end of in hell. Try thinking of him as a good friend that never betrayed you. And most of all...think as far as your mind can take you.
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2006-12-31 21:09:15 · answer #10 · answered by mark M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋