I previously asked what was the cut off age between innocent children and innocent adults in terms of going to hell. A Christian had written that no kids go to hell. The average age for this "cut off" between being being spared and going to hell was 13. So, by that reasoning, an adult who has lived in the jungle all his or her life and has never seen a missionary will go to hell? If so, why? It is not his or her fault that this information was not available.
2007-05-24 13:13:01 · 15 answers · asked by Lady Morgana 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've asked Christians this question before. If they've sinned they go to hell. Apparently (according to the christians I've spoken to) god "works" on everybody, and he even works on people isolated from christianity, so if they sin and die unexpectedly, they go to hell. This sounds like complete BS, but it's an answer nonetheless. I'm not buying it, you decide.
2007-05-24 13:20:57 · answer #1 · answered by grl235 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
to respond to your question, no i does no longer convert. I strongly position self assurance in my faith. on the problem of the first part of the question, the Bible says that the 2d Coming gained't take position till the completed international has heard the know God. The pastor that instructed you that those who have not heard of the truth will be kept become partly incorrect, and partly ideal. those who died and by no potential had the probability to understand God would take delivery of a danger to settle for him at the same time as they're resurrected on the 2d Coming, yet like I stated in the previous, anybody it extremely is ALIVE can must have heard the truth before Jesus will come decrease back. To confront the 2d part of your question, there in basic terms isn't eternal suffering. in case you study the Bible, you'll learn that Hell is an theory, no longer an section. there is no longer an section that folk will burn always. Hell=demise, elementary as that. The few places contained in the Bible that talk about eternal suffering are extremely symoblism, no longer reality, and they are meant for pretend prophets and the antichrist, so even with if it were actual, the overall man or woman does no longer might want to agonize about it.
2016-11-27 00:36:09 · answer #2 · answered by pegues 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe there really is a cut off age for who is innocent. To God, we are all like children and as Jesus said in the bible everyone like a child will be able to live pass destruction. People who had no knowledge of God aren't held responsible. Those who had knowledge of God but ignored what was asked of them are held liable for their actions.
Example: A father has two children, one who was outside playing and the other who was at school. The father tells the playful child not to eat the cake on the table. He did not get a chance to tell the child at school because they are not at home. The father leaves the house and hours later both children are at home. Both children eat the pie. Who is held responsible? The father will not punish the child who was at school because the child did not know. The playful child did know but did it anyway. What is worse, the playful child did not even tell the child from school.
God is a loving and fair God. He is not cruel to destroy even those who did not know about him. Hopefully, good Christians spread the news about him as he said.
Mark 10:13-16
2007-05-24 13:33:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all about seeing the big picture, which is far greater than any one of our life-times. Our journey isn't one from neutral to either good or bad, but rather from our soul-source (call it what you will) down through the higher realms, the physical, into density where we are completely cut off from our soul-source, and back up through the physical and higher realms to eventually become one with our soul-source again.
In Esotericism density is the closest spiritual approximation to Hell, as you have no contact with the divine, however as the physical plane is the only one where pain as a physical sensation exists, it is seen as a kind of hell.
Oh, and before anyone suggests I'm some kind of Pagan nut or something equally offensive to both me and those that really are of the persuasion some might wish to label me, I'm an Esoteric Christian Mystic.
2007-05-24 13:25:46 · answer #4 · answered by Taliesin Pen Beirdd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, hell is really mankind's common grave where the dead are not concious of anything.
Second, God realized some died without knowing about Him long before we thought of it. He promises a ressurection to a paradise earth for these people to learn about Him and His purposes.
Many have never heard of this and thought they were taught in Christian religions all their lives. Never the less, this is what the Bible teaches.
2007-05-24 16:16:04 · answer #5 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romans 1:20 says that God's attributes can be seen in nature, so that we are without excuse. People who don't hear about God may not have as deep an understanding as those who do, but God does make Himself known to them in some way, it's what they do with the knowledge available to them that they'll be judged on.
2007-05-24 13:19:57 · answer #6 · answered by STEPHEN J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ "died for the sins of the whole world". I know what I have to do to be saved because I have been told about Him; I have to believe. No one can answer for God about anyone else, that is Gods business only. I would think that anyone who has heard the gospel and rejects it is lost, but I surely don't know. Our work is to tell the gospel to all who care to hear it, not say who is or isn't going to heaven.
2007-05-24 13:20:51 · answer #7 · answered by expertless 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry...i dont know enough about the christian rules and regulations to be able to answer that question.
Personally, i do not believe in a "HELL" per say. I think that we put ourselves through hell on this earth until we finally learn the life lessons we were put here to learn.
But i guess it's all on perspective....
Bless You All!
Blessed Be!
2007-05-24 18:18:29 · answer #8 · answered by trinity 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. This is in the Bible, although the exact reference escapes me. I believe it's one of Paul's letters. If you have never heard of God/Jesus, you are not judged by that, rather you are judged based on what's in your heart; whether you were a good person.
2007-05-24 13:21:28 · answer #9 · answered by zngcat369 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. God does not judge those who are not aware. They remain innocent in God's eyes as do children who have not yet reached an understanding of who and what God is...regardless of their age.
2007-05-24 13:18:17 · answer #10 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋