How many people would go to church if not for hell?
2007-01-10 01:19:35 · 15 answers · asked by mullah robertson 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
atleast 1
2007-01-10 01:22:33 · answer #1 · answered by Sean 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm actually going to answer this ridiculous and crude question sensibly. No, it's not, it's the logical result of a world in which some people will submit to a sovereign God, and some people persist in wanting to be left alone. It would be neither just of God, nor would it be fair, to drag people kicking and screaming into heaven. They don't want to be there, they have done and will continue to do everything in their power to not be there. God therefore leaves them alone, in the process taking his guiding and protecting hand off of them. They end up bitter and getting what they asked for all along.
To answer your second question, many. You are assuming what you don't know, which is the idea that most people go to church to escape the fear of hell. There may be some like that, but I can assure you, it's not the majority. Don't let TV and your brief experience when you were a kid fool you. People are there for one of two reasons mainly: because of tradition, and because they truly want to be there to serve GOd and learn more about Him. Fear of hell doesn't show up on the radar for 99% of the people.
Go ahead and give me the thumbs down because you can't understand or argue against my answer. It's the truth, though your limited experience may not show it.
2007-01-10 09:24:53 · answer #2 · answered by Gary B 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Shame, I wonder if you ever learned to read and write. Hell is a reality. remember one thing a ticket to hell is a one way ticket. Hell did not make me go to church ever. God made me go to church. By the way you seem to be the only azz around here.
2007-01-10 09:40:35 · answer #3 · answered by Andre G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree with Gary B. I don't think the vast majority of church-goers are there as a direct result of fearing hell. Far stronger enticements are being part of a community and enjoying fellowship with like-minded believers, tradition, and to experience that special religious feeling that believers call communion with God or worship.
That said, the idea of hell certainly was created to entice and terrify believers to stay in line and follow the dictates of the priests.
2007-01-10 09:33:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's intended to make people do certain things. Imagine how well it worked out in the medieval era, when church and state were one and the same. They told serfs they had to obey their masters and be content with having little, or they would go to hell! How *convenient*!
2007-01-10 09:29:07 · answer #5 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is written in the shimshimhoneyhoneynucknuckyoyuoy.
"Tell them of hell and scare off their thoughts of free will and wisdom, Fill each church with the azzes of the moronic multitudes and prepare them for dinner. As they follow you O' great clerics bishops priests ministers preachers and other liars so shall they follow me when I get there to eat them"
RAmen
2007-01-10 09:27:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nicely said! Let's see the Christians squirm on this one.
2007-01-10 09:23:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes and the greater the tithe the less the chance of getting to it, its a circular argument
2007-01-10 09:33:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My fear is not that I might go to Hell.
My fear is that I may not be worthy of Heaven.
Any place other than Heaven is Hell.
2007-01-10 09:30:11 · answer #9 · answered by jinenglish68 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's one of the ways.
2007-01-10 09:23:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋