2007-06-27 16:59:33 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He doesn't decide your fate, you do that on your own. What he DOES do is forgive if you repent.
How sad it is that a lot of this opinions reflect a basic ignorance in dogma. If I were to ask a question about the Torahs, or the Koran or the Vedas I would read a little first. To be condemned you need to know that what you are doing is not according to His word and still sin willingly.
2007-06-27 17:03:54 · answer #1 · answered by ΛLΞX Q 5 · 5⤊ 3⤋
No one is good without Jesus. "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Rom 3:23, God gave you a complete choice of whether or not to choose Him. If you don't choose Him, it means you want to be separated from Him;. He simply honors your desire to be apart from Him. The greatest respect He could show a human He created, and could do anything with that He desired.
Even if hell is no flames and heat, as some say, imagine a place without God. No light, no pleasure, no love, no joy, nothing but chaos, and endless repetition of all your mistakes. Flames might be better. If you don't believe in Him on earth, you have that to look forward too. If God didn't honor your wish to be apart from Him, He would not be a just God. We simply choose where to be after death, with Him, or apart from Him.
2007-06-28 00:10:23 · answer #2 · answered by Lazarus 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jesus never sent anyone to Hell. Going to Hell is the choice of all who ever went there or will go there. There are no good people in Hell.
The Bible says that there are no good people on earth either - No not one!
This is made clear over and over including scriptures that tell us that man's righteousness in the sight of God is filthy rags.
Other scriptures tell us that Man, AT HIS VERY BEST STATE, is ALTOGETHER Vanity. Further it states that the heart of men is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
Christ had to die for people who knew they were wicked. He clearly let people know that the "righteous don't need salvation." - and He said that because there were those who were "self-righteous" present who needed to hear that their self-righteousness left them out of the salvation experience.
There are tons of people who go to church and tons who will never go to church who think they are "good" people. The truth is that there was only one truly good person on earth, and He was crucified because men hated Him. His crime was loving them. His name is Jesus.
He came to rescue evil people from sin, death and the Lake of Fire. This salvation must take place in this life because there is no hope of salvation beyond the grave. Rejecting this gift is like going to the doctor's office with a potential terminal illness. The doctor tells you that if you take a certain medication you will live, and if you don't you will die. Christ is the door to heaven - if you come to Him for salvation you will live forever in peace and love. If you reject Him you will lose the only opportunity to have that peace and joy and spend your eternity in a place of eternal torment. 600 billion years of our time will pass and you will be in one place or the other.
JESUS WON'T SEND YOU TO HELL, BUT IF YOU CHOOSE TO GO THERE HE WON'T STAND IN YOUR WAY. IT'S ALL ON YOU!
2007-06-28 00:17:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It doesnt mean that if you don't believe in him you will go to hell. It's like this for example there are two persons who are about to enter heaven. The first one is a christian, he believes in Jesus and his teachings but he is a womanizer, drug lord, and do bad stuff and the other one is a non believer but he does many great things and good things for other people. If you were Jesus whow ill you allow to enter in heaven? God is good. And God is fair...
2007-06-28 00:13:29 · answer #4 · answered by Redfox06012007 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
No one "sent" anyone anywhere. If there are people in Hell, it's because they were too wrapped up in this world, and wouldn't open their eyes and see the truth.
2007-06-28 00:11:58 · answer #5 · answered by KJ 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God wants that no one should perish, but have everlasting life with Him in Heaven. God gave us an opportunity and a way to go to Heaven for eternity. He also gave us freedom to choose if we accept Jesus' salvation, atonement for our sins or not. If not, then we must suffer the penalty ourselves which is eternal separation from The Lord and the lake of eternal fire. If you do not accept the free gift of salvation, then that is your choice. God gave us His manual to live by. If you choose not to read it, then you'll get lost forever. Our God, our choice.
2007-06-28 00:12:04 · answer #6 · answered by connie 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Not one good person has gone to hell..guaranteed.
all, ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God..ALL
2007-06-28 00:16:42 · answer #7 · answered by † PRAY † 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It don't matter how good you are, good deeds won't get you to heaven, only by believing in Jesus Christ shall you go to heaven, who are you to question Jesus Christ about what he does? The question is, "Why didn't the good people believe in Him?" Get the picture?
2007-06-28 00:07:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
If you had read the word of God you would have discovered the truth that Christ paid the penalty for sinners..that none have to perish.
2007-06-28 00:11:42 · answer #9 · answered by djmantx 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
And how many bad people has Jesus sent to heaven because they did believe in him? So that child molesting/rapist who beat his wife and burned cigarettes out on his dog is going to heaven because he believed in Jesus and asked forgiveness? Or that elderly next door neighbor who volunteered at the womens shelter 5 days a week and clipped baby coupons to leave for others at the grocery store is going to hell because she didn't believe? Nice. Real Nice.
2007-06-28 00:07:55 · answer #10 · answered by Mara 4 · 2⤊ 6⤋