If you refuse to accept Jesus, it does not matter how good of a person you are, you will burn in Hell forever when you die.
The reason for this is very simple. You are a sinner as all mankind is a sinner, but God so loved the world that He gave his only Son so that He might wash away our sins if we believe in Him.
How can we possibly expect to get into Heaven if we refuse to accept His sacrifice? That's like someone throwing you a floatation device while you are drowning and you REFUSE to accept it. Or like your mother telling you NOT to play in traffic, but you do it anyway.
I do not want anyone to go to Hell and I hope everyone finds Jesus. Let Him touch your heart as He has mine.
It may sound harsh, but I speak the Truth. Sometimes you need to be blunt in order to help people. Read the Bible. Pray. Let yourself feel the Holy Spirit and Jesus.
What do you think?
2007-10-10 20:51:06 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So, hell is that place that people go to who don't agree with you?I have heard that one before and still am not convinced.Hell is pretend and make-believe.It is that place believers vividly describe to non believers in order to scare non believers into believing.Most rational people aren't that gullible.
2007-10-10 20:57:42 · answer #1 · answered by Demopublican 6 · 10⤊ 1⤋
No, I do not believe that Sin exists because I do not believe in the fairy tale of Adam and Eve and a talking snake and a forbidden fruit that contains knowledge.
I also cannot believe that God , being perfect, would have created a being that has the ability to disobey , and as God, not knowing that his/her creation would disobey.
So either God knew Eve would eat the fruit or did not know Eve would eat the fruit. If God did not know, God is not omniscient. If God did know, then God is an evil, evil little thing.
I also do not believe that a loving God would punish a baby born 50 generations after Adam and Eve for a fruit that was taken a bite out of in a fairy tale garden.
So without you proving sin, you have nothing to prove Hell is real. So prove to me talking snakes and magical fruits and fairy tale gardens existed. Also prove to me that all of natural sciences are wrong and that women were created by the rib of a man.
I will be waiting.
2014-05-19 16:25:19 · answer #2 · answered by Dustin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason people don't do it is because they can't see the floatation device. If I'm thrown an invisible floatation device when I'm drowning, I may not try to grab it because I don't believe it's there.
A lot of people don't believe in the bible for various reasons. For example, King James and his exclusions of the things he didn't like in it. Some people realize that there are so many religions that say so many different things. Which is the right one? Why is it the right one? Because in the area we were born that was where it was originated and/or spread to? Because our mothers and fathers told us it was true?
Personally, I'm not sure. I have asked Jesus several times to come into my heart because that's what I was taught to do and I honestly believed it. I didn't feel anything different.
I'm not really an athiest, I do believe there is a god, but it would be dishonest of me to tell someone who I think is God, because I honestly do not know. The bible says there is only one God, but the other ancient holy texts say differently. Which one is right? If you are more enlightened, I'm happy for you.
I don't agree that it is unfair if God asks you to do this and it's under your nose the whole time. In my opinion, it IS unfair to those who have never even heard his name or know of his existance. But who knows? Maybe he's got a special deal worked out for those guys. :)
2007-10-10 21:12:55 · answer #3 · answered by mccard27 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In a cock an bull story,there is nothing like fair or unfair but relevant or redundant.There no proof of what God said or didn't,so why the controversy? If there are anythings like Hell or Heaven,these have to be here,on this earth.We get what we give is the law of nature and being a product of nature we have to be affected by it's laws.How so ever smart a man may be,he can't grow wheat out of the seeds of corn.
2016-05-21 03:52:57 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So I can be a downright terrible person, hating my neighbors instead of loving them, coveting my neighbor's wife, and all that kind of stuff, but as long as I accept Jesus, God will turn a blind eye to the fact that I was a real jerk while I was alive? Your LOVING God would send his children, whom he claims to love, to an eternity of hell and fire and torture, simply for exercising the free will that he gave them? The thought makes me shudder. As for what I think...I think that threats don't work with most people, and I also think that you need to realize that there is a big, huge world out there, and there are more religions than just yours. What are the odds that yours is the right one, when there are thousands and thousands of them? Because some book told you so? Well, those other religions have their own books, and theirs tell them that THEY are right. I think that you should get off your soapbox, and stop trying to force your ideology down everyone else's throats. It does nothing but turn them off to anything else you would have to say. Me...I can't pledge allegiance to any God that would ignore the great things I have done on earth, the people I've helped, the volunteer work I've performed, and my upcoming two years in the Peace Corps, and my counseling of drug addicted teenage mothers, etc. and the COUNTLESS deeds that others have peformed...simply because they didn't accept Jesus. It's an absolutely detestable notion, and if I believed in God, I would pray that you become tolerant and understanding of the cultures and religions of other people. And that you learned to think for yourself and open your mind, instead of resorting to threatening people into believing the way that you do.
2007-10-10 21:03:19 · answer #5 · answered by Molten Orange 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
A variety of religions teach that they know the way to heaven, or some rough equivalent. Many claim to know the True God. Why should anyone believe one religion over another? You say it's because Jesus came to earth to save mankind from sin but how do you know that to be true? Because you read it in a book? If you had instead been born in the outback of Australia you may not have ever encountered this book. Because you have faith and know Jesus through a personal relationship? Others feel the same way about their own personal beliefs. Do you claim that they are delusional and you are not? How do you know this to be true?
Be happy that you have found a faith that you can believe in. But leave others to their own faiths and beliefs, too. If God truly is as you say then they will suffer but I don't believe that any God worthy of the name would make a vast universe that is unimaginably big just to populate one world on the edge of a galaxy and rotating an undescript star with naked apes and THEN would send His only son to a region of the world and leave others of His children without a Savior and furthermore choose a group of people to be His chosen few leaving others of his children to suffer unimaginably.
Perhaps God truly is as you say. I doubt it, though.
2007-10-10 21:02:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
I think what you're saying is more than 2/3 of the world is going to hell, and you expect me to believe a loving God would do that?
I figured out when I was 8 years old that there are similarities between the religions, that we should be tolerant, and that God would not send everyone but the Chrisians to hell.
2007-10-10 20:56:46 · answer #7 · answered by tmerion 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I think you're confusing "truth" with "stupid sh|t you believe for no reason". You're caught in a vicious cycle of self delusion, and it's only going to get worse. I'd say do yourself a favor and snap out of it, but I sincerely doubt you have the ability to do that, at this point. Here, how about if I say Christians are going to hell, because the mighty invisible space gorilla doesn't like them, and he's more powerful than God. Oh? That's a lie? Prove it.
2007-10-10 20:59:06 · answer #8 · answered by Master Maverick 6 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Hell only exists in the imagination of adults who have not grown up and refuse to think for themselves
2007-10-11 01:04:49 · answer #9 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I think your knowledge of theology and the bible is very limited.
Where does it say ALL non christians will go to hell?
You are not speaking "THE TRUTH"
You are preaching your limited interpretation of it!
You have also offended many Christians with this post!
2007-10-10 21:03:24 · answer #10 · answered by J V 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋