I was four. I told my six year old cousin he was going to hell because he didn't go to my church. Anybody else?
2007-01-09 08:28:22 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My dad's a minister, but steered away from the fire & brimstone, for which I'm enduringly grateful.
I dont' think I've ever thought anyone was going to hell.
2007-01-09 08:32:11 · answer #1 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
When i was a Christian I studied in lots of homes and used only the bible and shared only the bible. I offered no opinion myself. I have never told anyone they were going to hell. Those who do so are judging.
I see a lot of opinions from christians and very little bible knowledge. Lots of quotes, but even that is not from their own study and knowledge but from indoctrination of denominational beleifs.
Okay, I am no longer a beleiver, so condemn me if you want (not directing this at the asker, just a general statement). I stopped believing because I could no longer overlook the errors and contradictions of the bible. But even now I still maintain that if you read the bible with the attitude that it says what it means and means what it says, then you will not beleive most of the man made doctrines out there.
Even if you read it beleiving it is a book of myths, but read it to mean what it says and says what it means, you can see the fallicies of a lot of so called Christian doctrine that has no basis in scripture.
I know I am hard on Christians, but I do respect the ones who by their actions and words show they not only beleive what they claim, but live it. I respect those who have a workable knowledge of the bible. anyone can quote what they hear form their pastor.
2007-01-09 15:53:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
About seven. The religious schools pushed the idea that we were somehow better than the public school students. Since the Catholic school and Public school shared a fence there was quite the conflict. After my first communion I was all over the infidels. I needed a smack and a brush with reality, really. As did many of my classmates.
2007-01-09 08:34:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
During my teenage years when I thought I was always right and my dysfunctional religious family was always wrong (which turned out to be false), I condemned my entire immediate family of 4 other people to hell (usually not out loud though).
It makes me think of the song "I Was Wrong" by Social Distortion.
Do the lyrics to that song ring the same bells in your head as they do in mine?
2007-01-09 12:43:04 · answer #4 · answered by STILL standing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I've ever condemned anyone. If you believe in the Bible it says that we all condemn ourselves.
John 3:18
"Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
But if you mean that I told someone their going to hell then, well, I still don't remember doing that.
2007-01-09 08:37:56 · answer #5 · answered by Alien51 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Shame on you.
Condemning mean you tell some one that thay belong in hell forever no mortal has the right to utter those word you did't value life if you truely said that.
2007-01-09 08:34:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Um, no I never did that..I was supposedly raised in an Orthodox Judaism home & we don't even beieve in hell or heaven.
2007-01-09 08:40:55 · answer #7 · answered by *~SoL~ * Pashaa del Ñuñcaa. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who considers themselves to be a "true" Christian would never condemn anyone. It simply isn't the Christian way. Jesus only condemned hypocrites. Hypocrites and Pharisees. Think about it.
2007-01-09 08:34:35 · answer #8 · answered by Alexandriagal 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I still haven't done that. Not growing up, not now, and I have no intention of doing so in the future.
2007-01-09 08:34:57 · answer #9 · answered by daisyk 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I have ever condemned anyone, what right do you or I have? None.
2007-01-09 08:34:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋