Hitler is in hell for killing 6 million Jews, but Jesus condemning tens of million to eternal damnation is ok?

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because they haven't accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. So they survive the horrors of Hitler's Holocaust only to find it's a cakewalk compared to what Christianity has in store for them.

How can any good Christian worship a religion that sends 4.5 BILLION of their fellow planet dwellers to roast in the fiery pits of eternal hell for having a difference of opinion? Okay so it’s imaginary – it’s still not a very nice thing to do, even metaphorically speaking. I'm not trying to be rude. Just confused as to how a religion that speaks of compassion, brother love, “turning the other cheek”, "love they neighbor" can not cry out at this injustice. Where is your humanity? Can somebody please explain this in civilian, (i.e. non-religious) terms

"God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race."
— Robert Ingersoll

"It is setting a high value upon our opinions, to roast men alive on account of them."
— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Please, I beg you, come up with something that shows your humanity - something other than - robot voice - "It's God's will - he works in mysterious ways", or telling me the Jews deserved it for disobeying God's covenants. Think about what your beliefs are doing to the rest of the planet's citizens - your friends, your neighbors, your fellow humans on this tiny blue dot.

Blaming God is a cop-out. Will any of the Christians out there take responsibility and accountability for this travesty? It is not God's doing. It is man's. Man has free will after all.

I am sickened by some of the Christian's responses. I can't believe the stepfordlike reciting of scripture I'm hearing. Maybe your indoctrination is too deep. Maybe there really isn't any hope for humanity after all.

"Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man."
— Joseph Lewis, (1889-1968)

It is truly ironic that the godless atheists show more love towards their fellow man than the god-fearing Christians.

This question peels back the ugly veneer of Christianity and why it's a cult of Jesus and shuns humanity. The way the bible worshipers casually dismiss their wholesome "god" doing so much evil is they REMOVE all responsibility from "Him", and from themselves & place the blame on the innocents. People who've never even heard of JC, the cultists tell us freely CHOSE to ignore his eternal salvation & thus deserve hell. As for the illogic of those that claim - "well if you don't believe in hell, what's the worry". If my neighbor has a gun that I know has blanks, but he thinks has real bullets & he shoots me in the face, I'd be just as upset as if they were real! The fact that he wanted to kill me is the salient point people.

Maybe it's time for a global intervention. Stop and think for yourselves. Open your hearts - not to JC but to your fellow man.

Answer 1

"They send themselves there" what a joke. If there is a God, are we really at fault for not believing in him, considering he has provided us with no evidence as to his existence? What about people who grow up in another part of the world where they have never heard of God? Are they going to hell too? So what if it turns out we were wrong and there is a God. Innocent mistake. Is that really worth sentencing us to eternal suffering? Apparently God has never heard the phrase "let the punishment fit the crime"

Answer 2

This has to be one of the one of the most intelligent questions I have come across on Y!A.
I notice that some Christians have responded by stating that you have "free will" wherever (AND WHENEVER! WHAT ABOUT IF YOU LIVED BEFORE BEFORE CHRISTIANITY?) you are born; therefore, you had your chance, you unbelievers who happened to have been born in another culture with another religion.
Yes, apparently, you had exactly the same chance to become a Christian (and join the heaven rather than the hellfire club) if you were born as Rashida in Pakistan as if you were born as Stacey in Texas.
Hmmm....does logic tell you there is something wrong with that reasoning?
Tough sh*t if you narrowly missed the mark by being born into the wrong denomination - you had even less excuse for not being a follower of the true faith because you were so much earlier! But ooh, which one to choose? Which one IS the real one? Why should I have to pay for choosing the wrong option? Or not choosing any of the options, but choosing to follow humanistic principles and do my best to benefit my fellow man (and woman and child) wherever possible?
I grew up in different cultures, and boy does that help you to sort the wheat from the chaff in terms of what is human and what is divine - guess what? It's all chaff. It's all human. People should have no right to say they can impose, .e.g, foreign policy on us simply because they believe that it's God-given; we need ANOTHER Enlightenment - come on - let's stick up for OUR beliefs (which are based on far more rational precepts than religious ones).

Answer 3

You bring up a perfect point, and one that does not have an easy answer. In fact you see just how hard the answer really is, from the various Christians responding to you. The fact is, that all the horrible answers you are decrying, those are the people being honest about their faith. As much as it pains liberal and moderate Christians to admit it, the "crazies" that they decry, the fundamentalists, are just being more honest with their belief as based on the bible. The truth is, that the bible does have a concept of eternal punishment, and you will go there for not believing in God. Romans 3:10-30 confirms their viewpoint. Any Christian who does not admit that that is what their bible says, is in denial. They either have to admit that the bible is wrong, or that their God is cruel.

As to their responses, let's look at the idea of what they call "free will." They, and I've talked to a number of preachers on this, define free will as having a choice. But do you really have a choice when there is an all powerful creator? Consider the fact that the Creator, all mighty God, created everything, with full knowledge of the past, future and present. From the second God created Adam, he knew Adam was doomed to sin. He knew that Adam, by virtue of his very creation by God, the all knowing, was going to fail. And because God knows the future, God knew that Cain would kill Abel, that because of Original Sin man would be born flawed, and that for thousands of years man would be with sin and no savior. God Created everything, all the world and everything in it, and everyone. God created Adam knowing that 6000 years later (by their timeline) there would be a guy named Skalite5 who would not accept the salvation that was offered. In creating Adam, God knew for a fact that all the souls created after who were going to go to hell, were going to go, and he created them to do so.

This can be demonstrated by assuming that God, creator of all, has ultimate knowledge. Their are two things that make us who we are, nature and nurture. Our genetics effects our intelligence and our thought patterns, how we process information. Our experience effects all the information we process and develops neural pathways that become our "self" as we progress. All that we are is just those two things. God created our nature, of that there can be no doubt and that requires no proof. God also, however, created our nurture. If God created all, and everything with comeplete foreknowledge, then God created the world knowing that x would effect y, creating z, cycling back to A which then caused B and so on. God, by his very creation of the world, knew everything that was going to result from his creation. Therefore, God created every situation you've ever experienced, everyone who will ever influence you, controled every thing you will ever think, and thereby lead you to your fate. It is like God created a maze, with billions of twists and turns, choices you could make. However, he gave you a prediliction for cheese, and a fear of the dark. Therefore, he has controlled the situations where you smell the cheese, but will not go towards it if the path is dark, so you'll choose another path. Multiply this by infinity, as God's mind is infinatly big, and there you have the fact that there is no one who is sent to hell that God did not send there by creating him/her and the world around them.

As horrible as it is, that is the Christian God. He is not a God of love if he does this, or if this is not the case, and people are sent to hell, then God is not all powerful or all knowing. God then is not God, but just a superpowerful child.

Answer 4

My way or the Hell Way.

Hell is seen as a place of fire and brimstone underneath the earth because throughout history men saw volcanism and perceived it to be a place so vile that to be condemned to spend eternity there would be the worst punishment possible.

Conversely, man saw the birds able to escape earth bound dangers by simply flying off into the lovely blue sky, a place of complete safety and tranquility.

It isnt a stretch to see where the concepts of "Heaven" and "Hell" came from.

The reason that this is so hard to grasp is that mankind needs to feel that there is more to this world than struggle, disease and finally death, death as the final act in the tragedy.

Answer 5

The religion does not send anybody to Hell. It is a person's choice to enter Hell by rejecting what God has said. You can either take the free gift or spit in the face of God the choice is all yours. God does not have to save you, man already made the mistake that causes the separation from God, but he chooses to because he loves mankind so much that it breaks his heart that anyone should suffer separation. He loves us so much he sent his son to die in the most horrific way possible.

You also cry out against justice. What do you know of justice? God is the perfect judge and judges perfectly and without error and yet offers a way at redemption. All you have to do is take it and if you do not who's fault is that, not God's he did all he can to help you.

Christians in this care very much for their fellow man, that is why we send out missionaries to try and help those who want to understand and take the gift of mercy.

Answer 6

I'm a former Christian. Part of my decision to no longer practice Christianity was that Jesus taught a spiritual path (not religion) and was outspoken against dogmatic religions not to mention other governing institutions. Jesus/"God" would not send people of different beliefs to Hell nor do most Christians believe this.

Answer 7

If hell is an imaginary place, the fact someone else has a belief that you will be going there should not bother you in the slightest. Those are their beliefs. If suchandso dogma is upsetting, don't practice it but when you go off calling other people's beliefs "mean spirited" you appear a little concerned for your own fate.

Answer 8

Well, I hope this isn't robot sounding....but I'll try.

You and I and everyone else that has ever walked this planet have a debt that WILL be paid. The debt is sin. God loves us, so He made it possible for our debt to be paid, thru the blood of Jesus Christ. The other way to pay this debt is an eternity separated from God.(Hell).

If you and I are standing in a room together and I tell you that the $1000.00 bill lying on the ground just came from my pocket and you can have it, it's not actually yours until you pick it up and hold on to it.

It's the same with salvation. God has made it possible for every human to go to heaven, but it's up to us to make the decision.

In my opinion it's good that you are asking these questions, but for your eternal homes' sake, don't turn off Jesus from your life until you have gone over all of the facts!
God bless you.(I mean it)

Answer 9

God will only Judge us , our sins will send us to hell . A sin is any thing against Gods word ( A bad thought , swearing ,disobedience,murder ,rape ,doing illegal drugs ,drunkenness , etc )being a nice person will be irrelevant , would you tell a judge in trial " I'm a nice person , let me go ".All earthly humans that has learned from right and wrong cannot live a perfect life and have has sinned against God. Through Gods infinite mercy he gave us his only begotten son to be sin for us on the cross . He suffered a wrongful death , shed his perfect blood , and died on the cross for our sins .And was raised three days later for our justification . One must hear the word of God , and accept , trust and believe in Jesus as your savior and try to live by his words , then Jesus blood will cover your sins .One cannot keep living the same life after saying they accepted Jesus ,because there won't be payment for your sins then .

Answer 10

Any God that claims to be kind, loving, forgiving, and does the things described in the Bible, and the things he threatens to do, is not worthy of being worshiped, if in fact, it exists. I would be an atheist even if this God did exist.

People do not deserve to be punished for how they think and believe. That's insanity.