2007-05-01 03:43:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not "bad" people only those that do not accept Jesus as their savior. Hell is the punishment; the true pain comes from complete separation from GOD.
2007-05-01 03:46:25 · answer #1 · answered by ALEIII 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
TRUE CHRISTIANS do not.
They believe what the Bible says that all people who die are asleep. They have no thoughts or work; take no actions, neither suffer or feel delight.
Hell or Hades is the common grave.
False christians can not adjust their minds to all the lies coming together. A loving God creating a place of torment? If all people go to heaven, why was there an earth? If the soul continues to feel after death, why does it say in Ezekial "the soul that is sinning, it itself WILL DIE"? Then they get into the suburbs of hell--purgatory and limbo. It is nowhere to be found in the Bible. Maybe that is why an earthly pope can dismiss limbo, because God never had anything to do with it in the first place?
2007-05-01 13:35:11 · answer #2 · answered by grnlow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The punishment of Hell is a complete separation from God. Hell is an effect of a life lived rejecting God not a punishment for bad things we do. Everyone does bad things even Christians. The differences is a saving faith in who God is, what Jesus did and all of that comes through the Holy Spirit.
2007-05-01 10:48:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If all 'bad' people were to be punished in hell then there would be no one in heaven praising God for saving them. We are all bad people. No one is perfect and we all deserve hell. But God is so good that He made a way so all bad people don't have to go to hell. Through Jesus anyone can be assured of a heavenly home when death arrives at their door. That's why Jesus came. None are good. Oh, we might do something once in a while that seems good, and maybe, it really is good, but that doesn't mean we are good. We have all done things wrong. We all lie, we have all taken something that wasn't ours, even by accident, we have all set God aside at sometime in our life, we all gossip. In short, we all sin and require a savior. You are not required to take your reservation in hell. Jesus paid for your way out. Take the free gift. You'll be glad you did.
2007-05-01 10:52:31 · answer #4 · answered by CaTcHmEiFuCaN 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its interesting to note that satan deceived Eve by lying to her and telling her she would not die (Genesis 3:4) now most religions in the world teach that after your body dies that you go on living in some other realm... that you do not die...
Most of the world's religions still believe in satan's original lie. You will find very few religions that believe YHWH who gave Solomon the wisdom to write Ecclesiastes 3:19, 20 & 9:5, and David to write Psalm 146:4 and Moses to record what YHWH told Adam at Genesis 3:19 telling us exactly what happens to us when we die. And when is the resurrection of those who are asleep in death?
Yhshua tells us at John 5:28, 29; John 11:11
And before that Daniel was told by YHWH to write Daniel 12:2. All these Scriptures expose satan's first deception that "you will not die" as the lie that it is!
Now, about “hell”
there are 3 words in the Bible which are translated as "hell"
Sheol
Gehenna
Hades
Sheol = the grave
Gehenna = a literal place where trash was burned into ashes in Biblical times
Hades = the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word Sheol
God is Love and He created everything
He would not create a place of eternal suffering and torment for humans
there is the symbolic "lake of fire" but if you think about it, what would happen to you in a lake on fire? you would drown beneath or burn above... either way you would be dead, not eternally suffering, just dead... non-existent
agape!
2007-05-01 17:52:37 · answer #5 · answered by seeker 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. That's not what Christianity teaches.
Christians believe that people who do not choose to make Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of their lives will go to hell.
Actually, lots of "good" people will be in hell too. To be "good enough" to go to heaven, you'd have to be perfect and 100% sinless - Only Jesus has done that.
2007-05-01 10:48:12 · answer #6 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, if one would do the research and teachings of the Bible, they would find that hell doesn't even exist. Think about it: if God is a loving God and provides all of these beautiful blessings, then why would he create a place of eternal torment? Why did Jesus go to hell? Why did Job?
2007-05-01 10:48:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The old English phrase: "helling potaoes", merely refers to the storage of potatoes underground, or in a cellar. It has no connotation of heating or roasting them, NOT for any length of time.
"... they [apostate Israelites] built the high places of Ba′al that are in the valley of the son of Hin′nom, in order to make their sons and their daughters pass through [the fire] to Mo′lech, a thing that I did not command them, neither did it come up into my heart to do this detestable thing,..." --Jeremiah 32:35
"The Children Are Delicate"
(discusses pagan practices of child sacrifice, in 1st par.)
http://watchtower.org/library/g/1999/5/22/article_01.htm
Christ himself did not believe in hellFire, nor does his father condone such a hideous practice, therefore his *footstep followers* don't do either...
What Has Happened to Hellfire?
- What REALLY Is Hell?
http://watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_01.htm
The reference --in Revelation-- to the "Lake of Fire", AKA the "Second Death", is symbolic of everlasting destruction, from which there can be no resurrection. It is not applied not only to unrepentant persons, but to Satan, the wild beast (man-made government, in opposition to God's heavenly Kingdom government), the false prophet (false religious institutions), death & hades (mankind's sinful state, & common grave).
"... fire came down out of heaven and devoured them. ... the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire & sulphur, where both the wild beast & the false prophet [already were]; & they will be tormented day & night forever & ever. ... And death &Ha′des were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire. Furthermore, whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled into the lake of fire." --Revelation 20:7-10,14,15
2007-05-01 11:17:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christians who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
2007-05-01 10:46:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
They believe everyone who doesn't believe what they want them to believe will burn in Hell.
2007-05-01 10:45:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋