Am I going to "hell"?

Question

I try to do the right thing all the time. I help everyone possible at all times. I put anybody that needs something before me. I give money to several charities and do community service every weekend. I do all this to try to help our beautiful world. I don't do it for a god or so I could get everlasting life as most people do. So if god is real will I go to hell? Or because I wont kneel and worship the tyrant I wont get in?

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To the people who said they would pray for me I thank you but please don't. I don't want your god doing anything for me instead pray for the helpless children of this great world.

Answer 1

Well I dont decide. According to the Bible I would say yes. Works dont get us into Heaven. Believing in Jesus Christ is the only way. You will kneel and worship one day. Every knee will bow and tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. You will bow one way or another. Peace out..................

Answer 2

According to some fundamentalists, yes. According to those who take organized religion with a grain of salt, absolutely not. I think you're right, organized religion makes God out to be a Tyrant. I don't believed this was how it was intended to be portrayed as. I think over time, the ideas associated with God evolved to serve the various purposes of those in power. "Meat is not to be eaten on Fridays" was an order mandated by the church in an effort to increase fish demands. " Priests shall remain celibate" was the churches effort to gain the inheritances of the priests without the complications of having heirs. The rules and regulations associated with organized religion has changed dramatically. In my opinion, if Heaven does exist and God is willing to let those power hungry past-time Popes enter heaven, then I think you should be fine. Be who you are and lead a good life. That's more than anyone could ask from you.

Answer 3

I am a Christian. I am sorry that the experiences that you have had with Christians has been so negative. There are actually relatively few Christians who believe that anyone who doesn't do life exactly like they do are going to hell. (Though you wouldn't know it on Y!A)

No act of kindness ever goes unrewarded by God, no matter how we feel about Him, or whether we believe in Him. And going to hell is the result of cruelty to others.

Unfortunately you have been deceived. The God you describe is known as Satan. The God of this world is a loving, caring Father who would never cut off a child who doesn't know Him, and yearns to let each of His children know His love.

Those who claim to know Him and treat other people with rudeness and cruelty with have to answer to Him for their actions.

Answer 4

I don't know that. It's not for me to say.

I'd recommend reading the chapters that interest you in "The Case for Faith" by Lee Strobel (particularly the one on hell), chapter 8 of "Mere Christianity" (great for everyone, not just Christians), and the first chapter of "A Scandalous Freedom", and of course, Jesus' parables and some of his other words, even if you would never even think of "kneeling and worshipping a tyrant". I just think from your question that there are a couple things you don't understand about Christians and the way it works. It's not really about being perfect anyway.

Good luck. I hope you don't go to hell.

Answer 5

lol, well, calling Him a tyrant certainly won't help. He tells us in His Word that without faith, good works mean nothing. Yes, doing kind things for others is good, but when it comes to salvation, the only thing that can allow us to know God and spend eternity with Him is to ask forgiveness of our sins, turn from them, and ask Christ into our hearts. God will then begin to reconstruct our hearts and change our lives for the better.

Since God is pure and holy, He can have no part of sin, which is why in order to know Him, we must cleanse ourselves spiritually by asking His forgiveness. He is slow to anger and quick to forgive.

Now, this doesn't mean we stop sinning altogether. Even the most holy Christian backslides from time to time. However, when we ask forgiveness, God wipes the slate clean. In His eyes, we never committed past sins.

Since He can have no part of sin and we must be spiritually clean through His forgiveness to know Him, anyone who hasn't turned from their old, sinful life (however good a person they believe themselves to be), they can't possibly know God nor join Him in Heaven.

There are only two places to go- Heaven or Hell. Now, those who choose to live their lives without God will obviously not join Him in Heaven, so they end up being property of the enemy. That would be Satan.

As a Christian, I have absolutely no right to tell anyone they're going to hell because I have no idea. For all I know, you or someone else might experience some sort of tragedy or awakening in your lives that causes you to confess your sins to God and ask forgiveness. At that point, you are saved and will be with God on the day of judgement.

I'm no scholar, but I hope I was able to help.

Answer 6

Absolutely not, Joe:

There is no such thing as Hell--it was invented by Greek Mythology and called Hades untli baptized and introduced into the Christian Church.

Hell is much hotter than you think, because there is a fire that consumes--it burns up the wicked--and SATAN, too.

To your question, Joe: Good deeds and right doing is a prerequisate to entering the Kingdom, and those inclinations are gifts of God. Let me quote a verse from Jesus, right after the famous John 3:16: 'He that does truth comes to the Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God" (John 3:21).

With your attitude, you will be a believer as evidence is presented to you, unfortunately, the "truths" presented from pulpits, like the BURNING HELL, makes more athiests than believers. Yes, I was one, too.

For a start, Joe, read a on-line publication that breaks a hidden CODE, for people like you. See: www.revelado.org/revealed.htm

See you in the Kingdom, Joe, One-Way

Answer 7

Hell is reserved for those who desire to have no relationship with God. Of course, after you die you will understand perfectly that what your greatest desire is to have a personal relationship with God but that option will no longer be available to you.

So be happy, the "good" things that you do now you do for your own gratification and you have no desire to humble yourself, recognize that you are a sinner and enter into a personal relationship with God. Why would you ever complain that God would give to you what you have explicitely declared that you want? And does that really sound like a tyrant to you?

Answer 8

This question is in my mind all the time also!But logician,god created people to use their minds.We are living in a modern world and I believe everyone has a mission in this earth,try to be your best by everymeans,be good one not bad,and pray to him to the things whichs given by him,make your mind cool.this world is heaven and hell together.noone went to hell or heaven and noone can describe what will happen after death among the living creatures.Except prophets ,noone can comment any idea.

Answer 9

Dear Heart, There is no Hell(except being on Earth)and neither you or anyone else is going. God is love. Read The Disappearance Of The Universe by Gary R. Renard.

Thank you for all the wonderful things you do.

Answer 10

By calling God a tyrant you probably nullified you Heavenly Bank account's holdings!

Well, don't worry about hell. It simply refers to the grave. The God of the Bible does not torment dead ones.

Rather "the soul that sinneth, the same shall die. "(DRC) Eze 18:4
And Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. (KJV)

If you want to see the scriptural evidence, look here:
http://bythebible.page.tl/
subjects:
Soul[Immortal & Animal, What?] Man’s Spirit
Condition of the Dead:[ One & Two, Special Scriptures ]
Sheol and Judgment

Links:
http://bythebible.page.tl/1-.--Dead__the-condition-of--.---.---.--.htm
http://bythebible.page.tl/Judgment-%26-Sheol.htm

Answer 11

Does the Bible indicate whether the dead experience pain?

Eccl. 9:5, 10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol,* the place to which you are going.” (If they are conscious of nothing, they obviously feel no pain.) (*“Sheol,” AS, RS, NE, JB; “the grave,” KJ, Kx; “hell,” Dy; “the world of the dead,” TEV.)

Ps. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts* do perish.” (*“Thoughts,” KJ, 145:4 in Dy; “schemes,” JB; “plans,” RS, TEV.)

Does the Bible indicate that the soul survives the death of the body?

Ezek. 18:4: “The soul* that is sinning—it itself will die.” (*“Soul,” KJ, Dy, RS, NE, Kx; “the man,” JB; “the person,” TEV.)

“The concept of ‘soul,’ meaning a purely spiritual, immaterial reality, separate from the ‘body,’ . . . does not exist in the Bible.”—La Parole de Dieu (Paris, 1960), Georges Auzou, professor of Sacred Scripture, Rouen Seminary, France, p. 128.

“Although the Hebrew word nefesh [in the Hebrew Scriptures] is frequently translated as ‘soul,’ it would be inaccurate to read into it a Greek meaning. Nefesh . . . is never conceived of as operating separately from the body. In the New Testament the Greek word psyche is often translated as ‘soul’ but again should not be readily understood to have the meaning the word had for the Greek philosophers. It usually means ‘life,’ or ‘vitality,’ or, at times, ‘the self.’”—The Encyclopedia Americana (1977), Vol. 25, p. 236.