Good people go to Hell and bad people to to Heaven?

Question

The Western civilization was for the most part created by Christians and has a high population of Christians. Most of the worst acts of inhumanity have come from the west, eg, slavery, two world wars, the holocaust, the atomic bomb, extinction of species due to pollution and the greenhouse affect because of the technology produced by the west. So, you can say that the West, Christianity has produced most of the most evil things to affect the world, yet those in the West responsible are christians and will go to heaven. Most of the population of the world are not Christian's. There are many, many good non Christian's but they will go to hell.

Answer 1

it's not likely. God makes the final decision. it might be surprising to see who makes the final cut...

Answer 2

Hellfire isn't a Bible teaching however the Bible does say at Revelation 11:18 "But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time for the dead to be judged, and to give [their] reward to your slaves the prophets and to the holy ones and to those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth."

The apostle John wrote that verse many centuries before the Industrial Revolution, which began in the 18th century, and also before the motor car became popular. In 96 C.E. he would have had no way of knowing that mankind would reach a point were the environment would be threatened to such an extent that the earth would be on the brink of ruin. That is unless the Bible was inspired (2 Timothy 3:16).

But it is while the earth is being ruined that God acts, not after it has reached a point of no return. Only now are politicians taking seriously what scientists have been saying about the threat to the environment. Just a thought.

I disagree that the West is the most to blame for the evil that goes on in the world. Look at how China is polluting the atmosphere in the pursuit of economic growth, just one example. Many atrocities have been commited all over the earth.

Answer 3

Christianity is not responsible for all the evils of the world. That people who call themselves 'good christians" clearly violate the moral teachings of Christianity does not mean that the moral teaching rejected orpushed away are wrong and are in any way responsible for the opposite behavior of those who do things in the name of the Christian Faith .

Buddhism and Hinduism teach nonviolence but great violence has been done by Mongols,Japanese,etc who had Buddhism thrown into their religious mix. That people with the Buddhist label murder,etc(even in the name of Buddhism in the Japanese Persecutions of Catholics in the 17th through mid19th centuries). Real Buddhist and hindu cannot be blamed nor can Christian ethics.

I do not believe that a religious label will get one in or keep one out of Heaven.
If I am a Christian and knowingly and willingly do grave evil acts, then I will get aworse hell than someone who did not have the advantage of Christian revelation.

If I think that all i need is some emotive or volitional experience of right belief and claim personal relationship with Christ and that i cannot avoid going to heaven no matter how mortally wicked i become then i am hellishly deluded.

Answer 4

Only in the last 2 thousand years as there been a group called Christians! The preaching of Heaven or Hell after death is far older. and the God, Heaven and Hell of Christianity is that of Muslim and Jew! Slavery and warfare existed long before and Do you think Hitler is sitting in Heaven, The man was after all born a Jew and ordered the Holocaust! He was responsible for WW2. Communism v Religion has killed millions in the West and in the East and Religion v Religion the rest! Will they go to Heaven or Hell?
You are also presuming that being a Christian automatically gives you a free pass to heaven. Re-read your Bible dear! Only the Righteous do! When Judgement day comes just saying I believe MAY NOT be enough!

Answer 5

So you think Pol Pot was a CHRISTIAN? Slavery still exists by black Africans using other black Africans in the 21st century.Did your education ever mention the Latin American Incas who tortured millions of people over centuries as part of a stupid old religion?

China will be the world's biggest polluter later this year and the UK is doing most to counteract pollution.

Non christian countries did not have the technology to make wars like WW2 but that did not make them better than the high tech western nations. and as you say they did not have the brains to invent the A bomb

By the way there is no such place as Hell and no such place as heaven either, the 3rd world will figure that out eventually as well

Answer 6

Have you ever studied the Assyrian culture? Have you ever read about the rape of Nanking or the atrocities committed by the Chinese government against those who dared speak against their communist regime? Are you familiar with the imprisonment, torture and death incurred upon believers in the Muslim and Hindu world? Sin and depravity is not relegated to Western civilization. Christianity spread from the Middle East to the west. At one time, most of those inhabiting what is now Muslim countries were Christians, until the Muslim hoardes decimated them.
Good and bad does not determine salvation, it is a choice of God. God chooses out those for salvation from all nations, tongues, and tribes.

Answer 7

Unless you have been given a new birth, a new life, you are not of God. When you are reborn in the spirit, God lives through you, so it's not your own 'goodness', but His.

If you compare yourself to other men, that is no test. Compare yourself to the one who sets the bar. Then you realize you cannot attain the goal. Otherwise, why would Christ have had to give His life for His chosen?

There are none good, no not one, but God.

Answer 8

You need to back up in that history book of yours.
Materialistic thinking and atheism has shed more blood than all wars combined.Don't believe me.Do yourself a study on Pol Pot,Joseph Stalin,Karl Marx,Hitler,Leon Trotsky.Stalin accounted for over two million deaths just by himself.

Answer 9

Don't believe everything you hear. Our Creator doesn't make anyone go to hell, (negative realities). But our Creator doesn't make anyone go to Heaven either. That is a matter of personal behavior. If you act in a destructive manner. You will be drawn to the destructive, recycling aspect of the Universe. And if you act in a constructive manner. You will be drawn to the creative aspects of the Universe.

Answer 10

People such as you should be required to spend a month in Africa. Then you will be able to speak intelligently about Western civilization. Until then, you are simply regurgitating gibberish!

Answer 11

i don't think non Christians will go to hell & Christians will go to heaven, this is your opinion, in my opinion you're wrong, difference people has difference result because there are not only christians in this world.