Who goes to hell?

Question

I am Christian but I do not take the Bible as the do all end all. In it, it is stated that those who do not believe that Jesus is God and Jesus died to save us from our sins will go to hell and those that do will go to heaven. But how can someone like a Hindu who was born and raised Hindu, has lived a good life, has never hurt anyone go to hell just because he does not beleve in Jesus. If that was so, why did God allow so many people to live just so they may burn in hell for how they were raised? If you think about it, most of us were born into our religion- our parents were sending us to Church when we were five- how can someone go to hell for growing up and believing someting because that's what their parents taught them?

Answer 1

That's why Christianity has too many flaws to be the one true path. Personally, I think that all religions exist. You go to the place that you believe in. There wouldn't be so many other religions if there was only one that was true; it would be a foolish and ignorant notion to think that your beliefs are the only right ones.

Answer 2

842 The Church's bond with non-Christian religions is in the first place the common origin and end of the human race:

All nations form but one community. This is so because all stem from the one stock which God created to people the entire earth, and also because all share a common destiny, namely God. His providence, evident goodness, and saving designs extend to all against the day when the elect are gathered together in the holy city. . .331
843 The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved. Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as "a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life."

According to my Church even a non believer who live according to his conscience and a good life is saved by the grace of God. So why wouldn't a Hindu be?

Answer 3

Without any proof, how can anyone believe anything anymore, especially when humans are imperfect themselves and have been involved in writing various religious books and documents like the bible? How can anyone take any document seriously that contradicts itself within its own versus? I am a Satanist because I have been subjected to a lot of really crooked inhumane things because of people who call themselves Christian. If human written documents are so unreliable because of crooked people, how can we identify immorality, ethics, and laws in society that are fair to everyone? One argument I think that may help is that people feel bad when something is wrong- so the "gut feeling" scenario may help. However, what if other people take advantage of other people in order to make them feel bad? From my questions, you may be able to derive some practical solution that identifies that a wrong exist because someone feels bad and then further investigate with factual evidence to prove why and if this is because of the person in question or because of other people who are cruel and corrupt. How could any god judge someone to go to a Hell, like you say, who was raised by a different religion? How could a book that contradicts itself be reliable in setting laws when it's own commandments can be contradicted within itself? Though Shalt not Kill; yet, kill lambs and spread their blood on doors as a sign of the passover or every first born child shall be killed even though they do not have the knowledge or are guilty of the crimes committed like by the Pharaoh in Exodus? Who goes to Hell? Who the ???? knows!

Answer 4

People who don't have complete faith (meaning saved) in Jesus go to Hell.

Now, you ask why seemingly good people go to Hell. Well, I've thought about this, too. Before everyone was conceived in the womb, they didn't exist. God at least gave people this life to cherish, even if they don't ultimately go to Heaven. He loves everyone and wants them to believe in Him so they might be with Him in Heaven.

If someone doesn't believe the Bible as it is written, then what authority are they going by? If it's themselves (or any of man's opinions), they didn't exist until they were born.

Spreading the Gospel is one way to save people.

Question everything, but don't delude yourself in the process.

Answer 5

The Hindu wont go to hell god would not put a good man in hell.

Answer 6

All people are accountable to God whether they have “heard about Him” or not. The Bible tells us that God has clearly revealed Himself in nature (Romans 1:20) and in the hearts of people (Ecclesiastes 3:11). The problem is that the human race is sinful; we all reject this knowledge of God and rebel against Him (Romans 1:21-23). Apart from God's grace, God would give us over to the sinful desires of our hearts, allowing us to discover how useless and miserable life is apart from Him. This He does for those who reject Him (Romans 1:24-32).
In reality, it is not that some people have not heard about God. Rather, the problem is that they have rejected what they have heard and what is readily seen in nature. Deuteronomy 4:29 proclaims, “But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.” This verse teaches an important principle: everyone who truly seeks after God will find Him. If a person truly desires to know God, God will make Himself known.
The problem is, “there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God” (Romans 3:11). People reject the knowledge of God that is present in nature and in their own heart, and instead decide to worship a “god” of their own creation. It is foolish to debate the fairness of God sending someone to hell who never had the opportunity to hear the Gospel of Christ. People are responsible to God for what God has already revealed to them. The Bible says that people reject this knowledge, and therefore God is just in condemning them to hell.
Instead of debating the fate of those who have never heard, we, as Christians, should be doing our best to make sure that they hear. We are called to spread the Gospel throughout the nations (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8). The fact that we know people reject the knowledge of God revealed in nature must motivate us to proclaim the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ. Only through accepting the Gospel of God’s grace through the Lord Jesus Christ can people be saved from their sins and rescued from an eternity apart from God in hell.
If we assume that those who never hear the Gospel are granted mercy from God, we will run into a terrible problem. If people who never hear the Gospel are saved…we should make sure that no one ever hears the Gospel. The worst thing we could do would be share the Gospel with a person and have him or her reject it. If that were to happen, he or she would be condemned. People who do not hear the Gospel must be condemned, or else there is no motive for evangelism. Why run the risk of people possibly rejecting the Gospel and condemning themselves – when they were previously saved because they had never heard the Gospel?

Answer 7

As for who goes to hell, it doesn't matter at this point. There are more than two religions out there that say if you do not believe as they do you will go to some type of "hell" to live in the absense of god. So in short everyone is going to hell it cann't be stopped. It is the fate of all to go without the presense of god when they pass on.

Answer 8

Good works don't get you into Heaven, read Ephesians 2: 8-9, KJV. We are saved by grace, its God's gift to us. They have the opportunity to know about Jesus, really do you know how many Christian missionaries there are in the world? My church supports 39 around the world. Please, people can't use the "I didn't know" excuse to get out of Hell.

Answer 9

The questions you've asked are some of the same ones that make it impossible for me to accept Christianity. A person's "eternal salvation", ultimate punishment or reward for their lifetime, should be based upon HOW they lived.

I cannot accept any philosophy which states that eternal reward is based upon stroking the ego of a supernatural entity, especially when bad deeds are all simply "washed away" after repenting of them. What incentive is there to be good? And, in the end, doesn't that reduce the doing of good deeds and abstainment from bad deeds to self-serving acts intended to earn yourself a ticket to paradise?

Answer 10

Christ originally taught that hell was a place that people go temporarily for their very bad karma. No one goes eternally. One has to understand Karma and Reincarnation to understand the unlimited mercy and love of God which Christ originally taught and King Constantine changed. For the Original New Testament go to gospelofthenazirenes.c Then you will really understand Christs love.