Ancient Egyptians in Hell for not believing in God?

Question

Are Ancient Egyptians in Hell for not believing in God?

Because they believed in Egyptian Gods.

And what if they didnt know of the existence of the Christian god?

Answer 1

yep burning most likely

Answer 2

I think there is a "grandfather clause" - in the rule about who gets in and who doesn't.

If you haven't "heard the word" - you do not go to hell.

So - if you are born into the home of two devout Christians - you have a pretty good chance of learning and accepting God/Jesus.

However, if you are born into a tribe in Africa -and some people come through one day - and tell you a story about Jesus - maybe using a felt story board - you have the "heard the word." If you don't accept it - you go to hell.

I guess it doesn't matter that you only were allowed to be enlightened for a day or two - and the other person had their whole life. I guess it doesn't matter that you are required to turn your back on all the traditions and knowledge that you've gained thus far - and the other person only has to obey their parents and live life as it's always been presented to them. Those things don't matter. You've heard the word. If you don't accept it - burn.

I guess - according to some - God is not a very fair God.

I don't believe in any of that.

My thought is this: God is Love. You can do whatever you want to do with It. It will not judge you. It will not punish you. God is LOVE.

Namaste!

Answer 3

No how can you be punished for not believing in something you never knew existed? Even today Christianity only makes up a percentage of the world. So does that mean that everyone else is going to hell. That doesn't seem right to me.

Answer 4

No. Actually many experts now believe the Jews borrowed from the Ancient Egyptian Ausar/Auset/Heru (Osiris/ Isis / Horus) allegory to make the Gospel Bible story so the very concept probably originated with them. Both accounts are practically the same, e.g. the supernatural conception, the divine birth, the struggles against the enemy in the wilderness, and the resurrection from the dead to eternal life. The main difference between them, is that the Gospel tale is considered historical and the Ausar/ Auset/ Heru (Osiris/ Isis/ Horus) cycle is an allegory. The spiritual message of the Ausar/Auset/Heru allegory and the Christian revelation is exactly the same. Egyptian King Akhenaten actually introduced the concept of one God into Ancient Egypt, predating the Biblical belief in one God. The principal sources for our knowledge of the Egyptian concept of hell are the Books of the Netherworld which are found inscribed on the walls of the royal tombs of the New Kingdom in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes, and then later on papyrus and other funerary objects belonging to commoners. The concept of hell in the ancient Egyptian religion is very similar to those of our modern religions. Those who were judged unfavorably faced a very similar fate to our modern concept of hell, and perhaps even more specifically to the more Middle Age concept of it as a specific region beneath the earth. For the damned, the entire, uncontrollable rage of the deity was directed against those who were condemned through their evils. They were tortured in every imaginable way and "destroyed", thus being consigned to nonexistence. They were deprived of their sense organs, were required to walk on their heads and eat their own excrement. They were burned in ovens and cauldrons and were forced to swim in their own blood, which Shezmu, the god of the wine press, squeezed out of them. The Egyptians produced maps of this world and other worlds, such as Paradise and Tuat, which they left in the tombs of Pharaohs to guide them after death. The ancient Egyptians viewed the afterlife as a continuation of their life on earth (Budge 168). If a person passed the Weighing of the Heart, their bliss was to join the train of Ra and the neteru in the Fields of Hotep, or "Fields of Offerings" (also called the "Elysian Fields"). There, the noble man could live an endless life of peace, grow crops "as high as a man" with numerous canals full of water, and "bread and beer of eternity," which would never grow stale (Bibby 1-3, Budge 165). "In every division of the Elysian Fields the deceased... found some fresh material pleasure, but the heaven of the Egyptians was better and purer than that of many more modern nations which are credited with higher intelligence and better civilizations" (Budge 169).

Answer 5

I think they would be kind of an exception, as would all ancient cultures that dissolved before Christianity reached them. After all, how can an all-loving God send an entire culture to Hell if they never even heard of Jesus Christ? That would not be a God I would want to follow.

Answer 6

God judges, not us. But remember that they did know about God because they held the nation out of Jacob captive for many years. Then Egypt paid the price for it and saw the power of God first hand. All men will know of God and will be responsible for what they did know. You, me and everyone else. Ultimately we all stand before God and give account for what we did know.

Answer 7

peace be upon you
Do you mean ancient egyptians who was before the Jesus?
Their kings was saying we are the gods and force egyptians to worship them and treated them as slaves.
When the God send Moses with Torah and asked the people to obey the one God, and the God supported him with his miracles,and pharaoh died by the power of the God , people follow the one God and become jews.
When Jesus came after Moses , they back to the God and become christians, then when Islam reach egypt , we welcome it as we felt truth in it.
Any one say ,i am the God , is in the Hell.
some people say that ,they was refering to the God and see him in the sun or other things but they was obeying the one God who is the creator .

Answer 8

Their gods differed from God of the Bible. There are reasons why Bible Believers, True Christians enter heaven. Unbelievers do not follow those guidelines and their destiny is based on their choice not to follow them in their entirety. God does not send you to hell, you qualify yourself for hell. A statue/idol has no power, is inanimate, soulless, heart-less. In laymans terms, you have to BUY the ticket to take the ride.

Answer 9

You have stumbled upon one of the major sticking points of the christian religion that the early writers didn't think through. How can they except jesus & go to heaven if they never heard of him?
The problem is you can't impose you religious beliefs on other religions.
To put it clearly:
It's your bible, their your rules, you go to hell.

Answer 10

No, they're in Egyptian Heaven. See, Heaven is divided up geographically, just like earth.

Answer 11

yes the will be in the hell
and not just them
even every one who don't believe in the only god