Christians, who will answer for my being hell-bound?

Question

My grandmother is religious, but was never strict with me on religion when I was growing up. My parents do not practice what they preach. I went to church for a few years, but the lady who drove me kept switching churches because she caught the congregation in the first church talking about her behind her back. Several years and miles away, I went to church on my own and quit going because I heard some of the church-men cursing on the church steps. This church was eventually abandoned by the ministry anyway. My mother bought me my first tarot cards and witchcraft books. My dad always put down religion in front of me. Who will answer for my being hell-bound? Me, my grandma, my parents, the church gossipers, or the men cursing on the church grounds?

Answer 1

sounds like you might be coming to the summerland with me, not hell! LOL

Answer 2

God wants us to come to him when we are ready to have a relationship with him, same as with any other relationship, Even though your family members are supposed to set the example for you, You alone ultimately are responsible for your spiritual well being. When the judgement day comes each of us must account for our own actions. God would like us to fellowship with other Christians, but when that's not an option, you can read His Word on your own, or tune into a service on tv or the radio. I ran into that problem, hypocrites in church, but you know you can't worry about what everybody else is doing now, because none of that will matter later. I'd say get a Bible and read on your own, get a basic Bible with cliffnotes that will help you understand things you read, and don't forget to pray. Prayer keeps the communication lines open with God, and can be done in private, whenever, wherever you want to do it. Pray for a study partner or a church home where you need for spiritual food will be satisfied. All the best.

Answer 3

Sorry to say, but you and only you will be held responsible for being "hell bound", yes, parents, your grandmother and church gossipers/cursers, have probably played a part in the direction you have went in, but the will be held accountable for their own sins not yours. If you feel as if you are hell bound then it is time that you step up and take responsibility for you before it is too late. God bless.

Answer 4

Nobody answers for you! You answer for yourself! It's not which church you go to that gets you where you seem to seek to go but rather your intent/actions that dictate what happens to you in the future.
Fear not death if you approach it with a loving heart. You cannot be blamed for the mistakes of others, I too have been fed up with gossip-mongers and such in churches...
Remember:
To err is Human, to forgive - Divine!
Get what you can from the churches you choose to attend.... I only attend for the music when I go... not so much the message or community...
It's my chance to sing praise...and that's good enough.
Why should someone else answer for your path? All they did was light a lantern to one possible path option... you are intelligent enough now to answer for your own footsteps.
Blessed Be!
With Harm to None - Do What Thou Wilt!

Answer 5

Suppose you had a very serious illness, and you went to the doctor and asked him to treat it. Then suppose he gave you a prescription that would cure your illness—but you refused to take it. Who would be to blame if you failed to get better—the doctor, or you? I think you know the answer.

In the same way, the whole human race has a very serious spiritual "illness." It is a disease of our souls that the Bible calls sin. It is so serious, in fact, that it has put us on the road to eternal separation from God—which is what the Bible calls hell.

But listen: God loves us—and because He loves us, He has provided the remedy for our spiritual disease. The remedy is Jesus Christ, who took the punishment we deserve when He died on the cross for us. This is why the Bible says, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23). Yes—salvation is a free gift!

But what if we refuse it? What if we fail to accept the remedy God has provided? Who, then, is to blame if we continue on the road away from God? The answer is clear: We are. In other words, God doesn't send us to hell; we send ourselves. Don't gamble with your soul, but by faith accept Christ so you can know—beyond doubt—that you will go to be with Him in heaven forever.

Answer 6

You won't really know what the after-life is until you die. Religion like the other humanities is just all speculation. It is mostly gray, not black and white. Just go with what you believe and if there is a God then hope that he reveals himself to you. Faith is belief without proof. At least with science and math, you can prove something beyond a doubt.

Answer 7

Well The Lord will not be too please that some have swayed you away from Him. However going to church will not save you and get you a ticket to heaven and no meer person can save you either. Only accepting Christ as your Savior will save you. And this is something you can and will have to do on your own. Only Christ saves you in the end and you must have faith in Him.

Answer 8

You.

G-d is not about church. You know to seek Him in your heart. A personal relationship and being born again is the only way to heaven. (John3:5) With this knowledge, the onus is now on you.

Answer 9

earlier Christ Jesus there have been some human beings that have been obedient to God and the unique sin that became because of the fact of mankind's disobedience in direction of God have been forgiven them. in case you examine the Bible there are a number of verses that help this such because of the fact the Patriarchs Abraham, Moses, Issac, Jacob, Elijah, and etc. despite if, in reality a lot of human beings would desire to no longer enter Heaven because of the unique sin of Adam. So what God did He separated the dominion of the ineffective into 2 sections. The abode of the Righteous ineffective (aka Bosom of Abraham, aka Limbo for the Fathers) the place people who had died with unique sin, yet have been with out own sin lived in a state of organic happiness. And than there became Sheol/Hades (aka. Hell) that's have been the depraved have been sent to suffering in torment for their own sins. After Christ Jesus died upon the bypass He descended into the abode of the Righteous ineffective, the place He preached to those souls and extra them into His Kingdom while He ascended into Heaven. the clarification why Christ Jesus freed those souls is using the fact they did no longer know of God. The jap Church to on the instant nonetheless believes that souls enter the abode of the Righteous ineffective. The Western Church believes that Christ Jesus closed the abode of the Righteous ineffective while He extra the souls out with Him. i in my opinion have faith that the abode of the Righteous ineffective nonetheless is receiving souls and those souls are waiting for the 2nd coming of Christ Jesus to be judged on the final Day. you may desire to assert I help many of the Western Traditions and somewhat a number of the jap Traditions. I do have faith that a guy or woman desires to have self belief and desires to be Baptized (removal of the unique sin) with a view to have Heaven open to them. yet I even have faith that each and every physique human beings such as people who're Baptized are decrease than the judgment of God in accordance to their habit.

Answer 10

you will, for it is by your choice to not listen to God, you allow these people and incidents to give you an excuse. Sorry that wont fly! Your sins and the sinfill nature that you are filled with sends you to Hell, for not asking God to forgive of your sins, and then asking Him to fill you with His Spirit to crucify the sinful nature and put it to death.

Answer 11

You and you alone. Sorry...
No one else is responsible for you and your own decisions.
Besides, we are all hell-bound until we accept God's provision to save us... His Son, Jesus Christ.
And that, as they say, is just the way it is.