How is it fair that people are born destined to go to Hell?

Question

To me the idea of going to Heaven or Hell based on the way you have lived your life on earth is ridiculous. A persons morals, behavior and the life they lead are all due to their surroundings and how they are brought up. A baby born into a family of strong religious beliefs, with parents who are charity workers will grow up to be a good person and lead a good honest life and will therefore be welcomed into the kingdom of heaven. However, a baby born into a family of thieves and murderers with drug dealers for parents will grow up as a violent, thieving drug dealer who will be sent straight to hell.
The idea of Hell is ridiculous, because baby's born into bad families are destined to go to Hell and have no chance of ever going to Heaven. Anyone else agree with me?

Ok, I have other confusion about the idea of Heaven and Hell. Why does a person have to beleive in God to go to Heaven? You could have a good honest man, who did work for charity and helped the poor. Why should this man suffer an eternity of pain and suffering. Also, why should people of religions other than christianity also suffer this fate?

Answer 1

Your social status doesnt determine whether you go to Heaven; we all do. There is no such place as hell, unless in spirit you decide to create your own personal hell.
When you shed your physical body and return to spirit, you are greeted by loved ones who have previously passed from this life time or others.
I believe this is a great time for celebration, and that spirit hold a party; as a welcome home event. You will then have the chance to create your very own heaven. What ever is heavenly for you, this can be created.
From your question you are assuming those born into unfortunate circumstances are destined to have poor lives. I am aware of many who have had dreadful beginings, as adults though they are the nicest people I know. Events in your life make you what you are, and those with a positive outlook will pull themselves out of any negative situation; or have the ability to review it later and say "yes thats why I had to have that experience, it has enabled me to grow as an individual"
When we pass to spirit, no other spirit will judge us, we judge our own lives and how we made others feel. It is then that we have to learn to forgive ourselves, in some cases this will take time.
We choose the life time we want to have before we incarnate to this earth plane. Carefull planning has gone into all the lessons we wish to learn. If when we pass back to spirit and realise that we havent learnt the correct lessons we may decide to incarnate again, until we get it right.
Those souls who agree before they incarnate to do terrible things on the earth plane are usual highly developed. They agree to learn the lessons in the hope others will learn from them; what the developed soul hopes is that the human race will better themselves through negative experiences. This isnt always the case though, we are constantly at war, on a large scale or personal battles. Do we actually learn from history or are we making the same mistakes over again?
Have a look at the following website www.snu.org.uk
It may give you a different outlook on the subject opening up your mind and rid yourself of those pre conceived ideas, that are usually down to the way we are raised.
I offer these words in love and light, and trust you can find what you are searching for; a glimmer of hope that you will not reside in hell, but enjoy the embrace and unconditional love that spirit has to offer.
God bless xxxxxxxxxx

Answer 2

Great question. Hard to answer. My opinion from hearing talks from other more religiously minded than me say that people put on Earth all have choices from freewill. However, the way they obtain these choices comes only partly upon judgement. A sin is a sin, but well, in Buddhism at least, for sin to count to fullest extent there must be these conditions involved - the thought of the sin and knowing it is wrong, the plan and ultimately the act of. If any of these conditions is not met then it is not really a sin, although has traits of a sin. The bottom line is a wrong doing has many factors to play and i think the circumstances are taken into account upon judgement. It's not black and white, much like a judicial system on earth maybe, but not flawed.

Answer 3

Alternatively you can think in this way.
One who is bad now, will come to the earth born-again. Creation happens based on sins and goodnesses of a person. If you agreewith this then try to analyze that the earth could be hell / heaven to him based on the above concept. ;-)

Why only some people in this world are happy? So hell / heaven are not seperate from the earth. Understand?

Answer 4

It is simply not true that children grow up to be like their parents. It is often the case (I won't attempt to estimate percentages) that the child brought up in a strongly religious family finds it stifling and rebels against it. He may be a good person or a bad person, but he will probably be quite different from his parents. And the assumption that all religious households are good people and all non-religious households are not is erroneous.

Children brought up by criminals do often become criminals themselves, but they also may see the problems their parents create for themselves, and suffer under their parents in a variety of ways. This tends to make them want to do things quite differently when they grow up.

The idea of heaven and hell may indeed be ridiculous, but this is not the reason.

Answer 5

The Bible simply doesn't support the idea that good people go to heaven and the bad go to a fire'y torture hell type place.

Irrespective of who we are , where we are born or what religion our parents are , we have during the time that we are alive to show God who WE are and if we are willing to follow and obey him according to the truth as found in the Bible.

Mans purpose , as shown in the genesis account of Adam and Eve , was to live forever in a paradise Earth.
Never were they given by God the opportunity to live in heaven.
In fact , ,it was THAT very lie that Satan used on the first human pair to get them to turn away from God.

So if some religion tells you that you will go to heaven - THEY ARE LIE'ING !
..and they too are telling the same lie that Satan told.

If they tell you that you will burn in hell , THEY ARE LIE'ING !.

Man has the opportunity to live forever in perfect peace on a paradise Earth without ever needing to grow old and die.

The question is , do you want it. ?

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Answer 6

A person is not always responsible for their enviroment or curcumstances.. Only how they choose to react or respond to them.
Quit making excuses for yourself because tehese will not stand up at the Throne of Judgement.
You either accept Christ or you do not. Period.
I DO AGREE "hat the idea of going to Heaven or Hell based on the way you have lived your life on earth is ridiculous" and this is taught nowhere in the scripturees.
YOU cannot live good enough nor can I. That is why we believe Christ came, to take our sins upon him and the punishment of the cross. SO your very question was flawed from the begining..

Fair? NO.. MORE then fair because it is based on your choice to accept or reject, and not on your 'goodness'

Answer 7

Both Heaven and Hell are on this planet. Nowhere else.
From what i understand, no matter what kind of a life we lead we still all end up in the same place. Even Hitler should be up there somewhere having completed the life he chose for himself.
Who can say anything and be sure of it?

Answer 8

I can see kind of where you are coming from. It is a catch 22. People are told they are born with sin and will go to hell unless they devote themselves to the xtian god and hope they can get into heaven. What I really struggle with is that according to xtianity if a baby dies it goes to hell if it hasn't been christened. A child can change its fate if it is from a bad family but the odds are stacked higher against it.

Answer 9

I dont agree..a person can grow up completely different to their parents. Everyone is reseponsible for thie own sins, we cant blame our parents. Just because your family are Christians does not autmatically mean you will go to heaven and vice versa. A place in the Kingdom of Heaven cannot be inherited.
God bless

Answer 10

hoo boy...here we go again...

firstly, good people can come from bad families, and vise-versa...the "preacher's kid' is often likely to become the biggest troublemaker in school, because he will rebel against Daddy (or Mommy).

second, Hell is seldom mentioned in the Bible, Satan is seldom mentioned, and both are metaphors---Hell is the seperation from God and Satan represents the lower, reptilian self in all of us.

Many fundies will disagree w me, that's cool. The Christian Bible is written in largely metaphorical terms, and we who speak English as our primary language have tried to put a literal, Germanic meaning into a metaphorical (but no less true) series of ancient writings. This causes problems.

A metaphor is no less true than reality. As Jack Nicholson said in, was it "A Few Good Men,"? YOU WANT THE TRUTH? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

That is why Jesus spoke in parables. Perhaps the greatest evidence for Jesus being who He said He was is the fact that His parables have weathered the storm so well, the storm being 2000 years and numerous translations.