Why do you go to Hell for being atheist?

Question

I'm really not looking for a theological debate but I'm confused about something. Is your entire life taken into account when you die? What if you spend most of your life as a Christian but then you become atheist and die a week later? Does the Bible say what you believe when you die is all that matters? Of all the atheists in the world, a few of them will become Christian eventually. But what if you killed those atheists before they became Christian? Do they just have bad luck? Are they going to Hell for procrastinating?

Answer 1

If you're a real atheist, you don't care. Because you know there is no hell.

Answer 2

Who tells you this stuff? People experience salvation depending on God's mercy,nothing else. As far as taking your whole life into account,well,yeah,that's always been the assumption. What's wrong with it,sounds reasonable to me. I can't imagine somebody going to hell for being a non-believer; I think you would have needed to do something very,very bad to deserve absolute condemnation. Many people don't even get a chance to hear about Christ,or they're brought up to other faiths - several of which really aren't that different from Christianity. Just be a good person to the best of your ability. Let God decide what your soul is worth when your time comes; He will anyway,so what can you do? Other than trying to be a good person,which I'm sure is all He really expects.

Answer 3

Because they do not Believe in God. or what he stands for.

if you spend most of your life as a Christian but then you become a atheist and die a week later?

You will not go to Heaven.- reason, because you have turned your back on God and all he stands for. you would have thrown him away. all his rules, and him. so why would he take you in? he would not have any reason.

is what you believe in when you die all that matters? "No"

it is a lot more to it than that, you must believe in God, go to his Church, learn all you can of his Bible and be baptized.

if you die an Atheist, they do not go to Heaven. and I feel luck has nothing to do with it. I see it this way, if they were to become a Christian, they should have already became one. it is all about free will. because they could have became one many years ago, but they did not. so if they die before then, that is their fault. and they will not go to Heaven.

Answer 4

That's the problem with hell, its so finite. What if a man lives a wicked life until the age of 60 where he has a change of heart. That man should be allowed to enter heaven (according to christian law). Now lets say that the same man dies at the age of 50, before he's had the chance to repent. He's screwed. Life is about learning and growing, going to a place where the punishment is eternal makes no sense. It gets in the way of the learning process.

Answer 5

If you die and no longer believe in God or Christianity, why would you be entitled to go to heaven just because you once believed? Either you believe or you don't, and that really is all GOD is interested in. That is like saying "well I was kinda of good, so I think I should be rewarded. You should honestly look into why you are having so many doubts and questions, as you are worried, and you know that you still believe that there is a GOD.

And who is killing atheists before they become Christians? As for proscrastinating about becoming a Christian? That is why it is important to not do that. We never know when we will draw our last breath.

Answer 6

Okay what human has not thought is there a God??? Or who or what created us and everything around us????

I have questioned and still question: Who created all the other galaxies or forms of life other than earth/what we call earth????

Who created the creator???

What made the creator create humans????

What made him make everything around us and allow us to have a choice in life???

Why would Jesus want to die for our sins????

What happens to those people that were born prior to Jesus??? Are their sins covered by his blood too????

Is there a heaven???? or is this all there is????

Is this all an illusion that we all choose to be a part of???

Is God watching everyone all at once??? How is God in all places at once????


Why is there evil in the world if there is a God????

If we are made in likiness of God then how is he invisable???

Why do scientist think they know creation when the world was here prior to them being created????

Dinasours... okay if God made all of creation and us on the seventh day then what happened to the dinasours?????

So, many questions and we won't know the answer until we die.... and is dying all that bad??? Where do we go or do we just die and that's it????

If indeed people have died for a moment and came back then is that really possible for second chances at this life????

No one could answer my questions but the creator....

Answer 7

Well you do have a chance. If you cannot work yourself into the kingdom, YOU CANNOT WORK YOURSELF OUT. This means that if you truly accept Christ you are forever in the Lamb's Book of Life, no matter what you do. No, what you believe when you die does not matter, as long as you have truly accepted Christ your okay. This doesn't mean you can say I will accept Christ just to keep on sinning because God knows your heart and He knows if your faking. God will give everyone a chance to become a Christian. The next thing I'm going to say I do not know whether it is biblical. I think that if God knows someone will come to Him if they are allowed more time, He will give it to them.

Answer 8

"Is your entire life taken into account when you die? " Why wouldn't it? A lot of people have this vague idea that life is just live and be happy. But what if it's live and learn? Your eyes capture everything we do, recording every deed. And it becomes a "bit" of information, or advise to ones self. And we all have the good and the bad. So when you die, I guess, that is the full you.

So for everything we do, we have to answer for, or explain as to why you made that choice.

Answer 9

This world is just a obstacles task for human faith. People have a short life. There a life after dead which is called a forever lives. (In Heaven or Hell)

There was a Prophet Musa (Moses) and he ask his people to believe him as a God messenger and Allah is their God while Prophet Muhammad is the last God Messenger. Some of his people didn’t believe him and become a Buddha and Hindu.

After Moses there was a young boy call Prophet Isa (Jesus) and he also and he ask his people to believe him as a God messenger and Allah is their God while Prophet Muhammad is the last God Messenger. Some of his people didn’t believe him and they become a Christian and also try to kill him. (He is still alive but not in Heaven yet because all living thing must feel the dead).

Prophet Muhammad is the Last God messenger and Allah is their God. Who ever believe in him, there are Muslim. Muslim mean peaceful and clean (No crime, drunk, free sex killing, stealing) So non-believers that time don’t like this changed so they torture all Muslim people till dead or changed their faith. And they also make this world to hate Muslim people. Now it is become a trend to Muslim people being torture.

So Faith and patient is a key word to all Muslim people. Life is short.

Answer 10

hey! I'm a Christian and I do not think that you are going to hell just coz ur an Atheist. Pfft...don't let extremists tell you stupid things. basically, you go to "hell" if you lead a sinful life and i do not think not believing in God is sinful as such because God wanted everyone to be happy and not believing makes you happy i assume so therefore it is NOT a sin. being a bad person (always being negative, being prejudice against other religions/beliefs, races etc.) will get you a one-way ticket to hell though. Btw...i don't think hell is a huge, burning abyss in the ground...hell is more like passing on and not being with God when you do. that is my idea of hell.

Answer 11

The neat thing about the Christian god is no sense of proportionate justice. If you don't accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, you get eternal burning torment in hell because two really young, inexperienced kids, Adam and Eve, took fruit they were told not to take. Like if you took a cookie without mommie's permission when you were a toddler and mommie corrected you by popping you in a pre-heated oven FOR ALL ETERNITY!!

But if you're a mass murderer who accepts Jesus on the way to the gas chamber, you get eternal bliss, except you have to flatter their god continuously for all eternity, which doesn't sound like much of a reward to me. To me it's a choice between two hells, one is physical and psychological torment and the other just psychological torment, but both are hell.

Now doesn't that seem reasonable to you? And are you any longer amazed that many Christians are arrogant and hateful? They have nothing to lose after all. They have a get-out-of-hell-free card. But you, you can live like the saint of saints in terms of ethics, morality, decency, charity and compassion, but being an atheist, you have to burn forever for not flattering their god correctly. You see, he has a fragile ego and the temper of a two-year-old on steroids.