Question about Heaven, Hell, and Life on Earth?

Question

If you never knew God, but you were a good person ( kind to everyone, to tried to be compassionate and understanding towards people, you helped the sick and the poor, clothed the homeless, etc.) would you still go to Hell? Say you never met God and no one tried telling you about Him and His love and for us or about Jesus Christ dying for our sins. You just never had a personal relationship with Him. Where would you go?

to Phil: Ya but say they tried to do those things.

I know it's not for us to decide but God's decision on that person's fate. But I had to ask...

I'm not talking about me... Im Christian.

I'm just wondering bc I just can bet that there is someone out there who doesn't know God or prays to Him or knows his love but their hearts are good.

to Fireproof: you're prolly right they would hear about God sometime throughout their lives and that means they didn't take the time to get to know Him. Oh so my question was pretty much very hypothetical then oops

To Mythman: You're right...life w/o God IS hell...

Answer 1

Anyone that lives their lives by the Seven Noahide laws.. They'll have a place in Olam Haba (The World To Come)..
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Jewish views of Religious Pluralism:

General classical views on other religions
Traditionally, Jews believe that God chose the Jewish people to be in a unique covenant with God, described by the Torah itself, with particular obligations and responsibilities elucidated in the Oral Torah. Sometimes this choice is seen as charging the Jewish people with a specific mission — to be a light unto the nations, and to exemplify the covenant with God as described in the Torah. This view, however, did not preclude a belief that God has a relationship with other peoples — rather, Judaism held that God had entered into a covenant with all mankind, and that Jews and non-Jews alike have a relationship with God.

Biblical references as well as rabbinic literature support this view: Moses refers to the "God of the spirits of all flesh" (Numbers 27:16), and the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) also identifies prophets outside the community of Israel. Based on these statements, some rabbis theorized that, in the words of Nethanel ibn Fayyumi, a Yemenite Jewish theologian of the 12th century, "God permitted to every people something he forbade to others...[and] God sends a prophet to every people according to their own language."(Levine, 1907/1966) The Mishnah states that "Humanity was produced from one man, Adam, to show God's greatness. When a man mints a coin in a press, each coin is identical. But when the King of Kings, the Holy One, blessed be He, creates people in the form of Adam not one is similar to any other." (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5) The Mishnah continues, and states that anyone who kills or saves a single human, not Jewish, life, has done the same (save or kill) to an entire world. The Talmud also states: "Righteous people of all nations have a share in the world to come" (Sanhedrin 105a).

A traditional Jewish view is that rather than being obligated to obey the 613 mitzvot of the Jews, non-Jews should adhere to a list of commandments under seven categories that God required of the children of Noah, (i.e. all humanity, ten generations prior to the birth of Abraham and the origin of Judaism). According to Jewish law, to be considered morally good, gentiles need follow only these laws, and are discouraged from converting to Judaism.

According to the Talmud, the seven Noahide Laws are

to refrain from bloodshed and murder Shefichat damim
to establish laws, and courts of justice Dinim
to refrain from idolatry, Avodah zarah
to refrain from blasphemy, Birkat Hashem
to refrain from sexual immorality, Gilui arayot (traditionally, incest, sodomy between males, bestiality, adultery)
to refrain from theft, Gezel and
to refrain from eating a limb torn from a still living animal, Ever min ha-chai
Any person who lives according to these laws is known as "the righteous among the gentiles". Maimonides states that this refers to those who have acquired knowledge of God and act in accordance with the Noahide laws. In the 2nd century a sage in the Tosefta declared "the righteous of all nations have a share in the world to come." (Tosefta, Sanhedrin 13)

Prophets of the Bible, while they repeatedly denounced the evils of the idolatrous nations (in addition to their denouncing the Jews' sins), they never call the nations to account for their idolatrous beliefs (i.e. worshipping multiple deities), but only for their evil actions (such as human sacrifice, murder, and miscarriages of justice).

Answer 2

The Lake Of Fire.Universalism is antichrist.Arguments can be made about the fact that children and retarded people are clearly saved.But everyone goes through Jesus Christ on Judgment Day.Everyone!And noone can say the Gospel hasn't been spread across the globe by now.God's Laws are written on the hearts of all humans.Those hypothetical scenarios are simply no excuse to reject Jesus Christ.Christ will sort out those who haven't heard the Gospel,but followed His Laws as best as possible.But remember this:Only Jesus Christ was able to keep the whole of the Law.Being good doesn't change the Adamic sin nature.

Answer 3

For starters, the people who DID encounter God, but didn't tell others about Him, would be doomed for worse than that person...or should be....and that's not me making judgemnets, as i'm probably one of them. I doubt they'd go to Hell - how unfair would that be?

If they flatly denied God when they got "there" that might be a different story, but He seems a pretty loving guy, i don't think He'd condemn them. Probably far the opposite.

Then again, that's just my take on it. I really am only guessing - I don't know what God is going to do, and anyone who claims to know his decisions....should maybe take a reality check.

Answer 4

The bible clearly says everyone will have a chance to invite jesus into the heart I honestly do not think its possible to not hear about God, However I do believe to more you do no the more acountable you will be. Jesus says the only way to heaven is through him so yeah you would go to hell

Answer 5

This is a very good question. I would have to say that I don't believe that anyone like that exists, but for the moment, let's assume that they did. This is exactly how Christ told us to live. I am not the judge of humanity, but I know of God as compassionate and caring for His creation. Mercy and Grace cover many things.

Answer 6

Life without God IS Hell!

God IS NOT just some "Hank Williams Jr. in a Cloud," He is the Divine Presence in EACH AND EVERY CONSCIOUS BEING! That's not to say that you should 'worship' everything, but rather that everything which earns your praise IS YOUR CONNECTION TO GOD.

Jesus didn't die for our sins ... He didn't just stand up one day and say, "Okay, if I say I'm greater than the Roman emperor, will you smite me and crucify me?" No! Jesus LIVED to help us SAVE OURSELVES from the stupidity that leads us to sin!

So, to answer your question, you would go to the same place your friends and family go!

Answer 7

hi dad here you would go to yahoo answers and have to anwsers questions till everyone on the world wide web heard about GOD if you did good to one of these people you did it to me JESUS christ amen the holy spirit was giveing to all men and woman and the word of the living GOD and preachers check out markgungur.com brains www. laughyourway.com whats on a mens mind and what women think very funny luv dad

Answer 8

Only those who come to God in The Way He prescribes will enter Heaven... all others will be left out and will be eternaly seperated from God..... being a "good" person dose not earn anyone entry into Heaven

Answer 9

All who have died without a knowledge of this gospel, who would have received it if they had been permitted to tarry, shall be heirs of the celestial kingdom of God;

Also all that shall die henceforth without a knowledge of it, who would have received it with all their hearts, shall be heirs of that kingdom;

For I, the Lord, will judge all men according to their works, according to the desire of their hearts.

And I also beheld that all children who die before they arrive at the years of accountability are saved in the celestial kingdom of heaven.

Answer 10

According to Christian Mythology, you will go to hell since you didn't accept Christ. But I find it hard to really figure it out since in the old testament God was a relentless, jealous, genociding psychopath. I find it difficult to find his mercy.

Answer 11

Sounds like you know everything GOD wants us to do to go to heaven!You have to know,pray,and worship him and believe as the bible says to go to heaven!There is a heaven,I have been out of my body n your soul comes out of your body and you see bright lights,but,I was pulled between the two and prayed as it happened to come back to this Earth.I wasn't done!