Is it because they don't understand the difference between damning & warning.
Jesus Christ warned of hell fire when he walked the earth as one of us.
It is just a case of falsely accusing Christians by exageration. Saying they are damning someone to hell, when if anything, they are warning of hell or just informing of hell.
When someone yells, "Damn you to hell.". That isn't a Christian. That is a person who is cursing. I never say that. And I am a Christian.
2007-10-31 08:25:48 · 19 answers · asked by t a m i l 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have never heard a Christian tell someone, "You are going to burn in hell.". Maybe warn people there is a hell to be avoided.
2007-10-31 08:47:00 · update #1
ABB, If someone writes this to others in a different section, why do you think Christians are damning anyone to hell. I have never wrote this. I might write that fornication is a sin. But that is the truth. This truth isn't damning anyone to hell. The wages of sin is death. Everyone sins & spiritually, then physically dies. To see the Kingdom of God, one must be born from above & spiritual again. Whole; body, soul & spirit. To go to heaven you need your sins atoned for. Even one sin will keep you out of heaven. People have all their life on earth to receive Gods Grace, the atonement for their sins.
2007-10-31 08:51:55 · update #2
Writing this isn't damning anyone to hell. It is warning of hell somewhat. Because if you don't go to heaven, where do you go?
2007-10-31 08:53:19 · update #3
pixi pa, Jesus warned of hell. He said that if one calls his brother "Stupid blockhead!" he is in danger of hell fire. Now. Hell fire is a sort of discipline. It isn't eternal. Since this is a Christian calling his brother stupid. One is a brother when one is abiding in Christ. I have heard other Christians call a Pastor who was preaching the Word of God, stupid. And there are conscequences.
So when a Christian tells someone who denies Jesus Christ that they will go to hell. They mean that they will go to hell if they don't confess Jesus Christ their Lord & Savior & believe in their heart He raised from the dead. Their whole life, even on their death bed. That is a warning. Christians don't want anyone to go to hell & to damn someone to hell is just cursing someone. It is just being demonic.
2007-10-31 09:05:42 · update #4
Kailee, So you have a question with no answers that write what is in your answer. Are you trying to make a point? Do you mean false accusation? Writing Christians write this & that yet not evident?
2007-11-01 02:51:45 · update #5
Christy, Damning someone to hell is cursing someone. There is power in what we say when we have faith in what we say. That is everyone, not just Christians. And Christians are suppose to mature in Christ. And Christians have cursed me. And I just do the same to them as I do with any non Christian who curses me. I imagine a boomerang come my way dipped in Gods love & returned to sender. Curses are a reality. And people (Christian & non Christian) curse. But then God disciplines His children when they do this. Sometimes they die early. Jesus said to bless those who curse you. So? As a Christian, the boomerang thing is blessing those who curse me. But I don't keep the curse. The blessing overcomes the curse.
2007-11-01 02:56:31 · update #6
magix, Christians aren't perfect. They are just born of the Spirit, cleansed by His blood. But we are still in a corruptible body & we need to renew our mind in the Word of God. It seems like your Pastor wasn't the best Pastor for you. I wouldn't go to a Church where the Pastor preached I was going to hell all the time. I go to the http://www.riveroflifefellowship.org & the Pastor preaches 'victory in Jesus'. He has preached some hell fire sermons, but not too often. I don't remember them.
2007-11-01 03:00:17 · update #7
Nadine, I haven't told any Jew they are going to hell if they don't accept Jesus Christ. But, that is because of the biblical verse that writes the Jews are blinded in part for the fulness of the Gentiles to come in. (To come into the faith of Jesus Christ & Yahweh Elohim). There is a time when Israel will know Yeshua is the Messiah. Because this is true. But salvation comes from the Jews to the world. Jesus shed His blood on calvery for remission of our sins. Everyone in the whole world. See? The devil tricks mankind too much. That is why the Savior had to come out of a people specifically chosen of God. Yeshua is the Messiah & the Son of the Living God. He is the Only Begotten Son, born of a virgin (Israel). In the verse following about the fullness of the Gentiles coming in. Is written that Israel will be saved. If the Gospel is preached to one in the Spirit of Gods love & one rejects Jesus Christ then Jesus will reject that one before the Father.
2007-11-01 03:09:21 · update #8
if I tell someone not to walk across the busy freeway because they will get hit by a car and they still do it , and they get hit by a car, Did I make them get hit by a car? NO!!! If I tell someone that their actions can damn them to Hell, and they still do it and go to Hell did I damn them? NO!! Same answer for both situations, Christians don't damn people, God doesn't damn people, people's choices and actions damn them.
2007-10-31 08:39:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Okay, next time a Christian tells me (as a Jew) that I will go to Hell because I don't accept Jesus as my "savior" (because I don't care what you say...in my experience, it has happened many times), I'll just say "okay, as long as you aren't "damning" me to Hell". What tortured reasoning! I don't need any more warnings! How many times do I have to be warned? You said it...okay....now drop it, won't you? It doesn't work, you know. I wonder how many atheists and Jews have been converted by this kind of nonsense?
2007-10-31 16:22:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The word 'damn' is a curse word.
Hell is not, even though people today are trying to relegate it to that status.
No matter how you use the word, it is offensive. Especially to those who do not believe. In a weird way, if you tell them they are going to Hell then they feel like you have cursed them out.
2007-10-31 15:41:02 · answer #3 · answered by realchurchhistorian 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many so-called Christian here have in fact told unbelievers that they are going to hell, that they will burn in hell, and that they were damned to an eternity in hell. If that is not condemning someone, please inform me. I use to go to church, but it was too depressing to hear from the preacher week after week that I was a horrible sinner and surely going to hell. (That was the sermon every week) So, Christians do condemn others, some just don't want to see it.
2007-10-31 15:40:42 · answer #4 · answered by magix151 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, I've seen it a lot in this section. People say things like "Enjoy hell!" or "You'll see I'm telling th truth when you spend eternity in hell" and things like that. It's very unChristlike behavior. None of us has the right or even the qulification to judge another because we have all sinned and fallen short and continue to do so. I'm tempted to say they aren't Christians, but that's a judgement, too, so I just say that their behavior isn't Christlike and leave it at that. It makes me mad because the way people generalize, they lump me in with them, and that's not cool at all!
2007-10-31 15:40:24 · answer #5 · answered by bainaashanti 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The obvious answer is because they do many times a day right here on this forum. But the more interesting thought is that there are actually people like you who honestly claim to worship a God whom you believe would create people and then because those people chose not to worship their creator, tortures them for eternity with fire. Why would you worship such a God? That is incredible to say the least.
2007-10-31 15:44:57 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well I have seen on COUNTLESS occasions a Christian tell someone that they WILL be going to hell.
They often support it with scripture. I guess they feel the bible gives them the authority to know God's judgement on every single person. So if the bible says so and so is a sin. They will point to the person and say, "You are going to hell because you do so and so or you ARE so and so."
Then they say, "Oh its not ME who says you are going to hell. It's God!"
In other words, they think the bible tells them God's mind and current position and feelings on everything and everyone, past, present and future.
2007-10-31 15:38:29 · answer #7 · answered by pixie_pagan 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
If you have never heard it, then you have not spent much time on Yahoo Answers.
Try the LGBT section: it is said, in one form or another, a dozen times a day.
You may be a Christian, child, but I seriously doubt you have any authority to speak on behalf of all Christians.
EDIT:
1) do you think that Christians don't post in other sections?
2) I have not said that you have ever written this
3) why have you started wittering on about fornication?
4) you do understand that not everyone in the world is a Christian, don't you?
What a strange child you are.
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2007-10-31 15:33:04 · answer #8 · answered by ABB 6 · 6⤊ 5⤋
According to the Christian there is power in the tongue, if you tell someone they are going to hell then you are damning them. First off according to the bible all have sinned so who is anyone to tell anoter that they are going to hell, when the fact is everyone sins and all sin is just that sin. No one know who is or is not going to hell if there is such a place.
2007-10-31 15:35:51 · answer #9 · answered by Celtickarma 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Well to the unbelieving/catholic/pagan/etc, you can't say ANYTHING without being labled a "hater", or a "basher", or whatever. It's a ploy they use to try and get you to say nothing at all.
So I don't worry about them, and I continue to say what Jesus said, that if you believe that Jesus, who is God, died for your sins on the cross and rose again, you will go to heaven, and if you reject this belief to your dying breath, you will go to eternal hell.
2007-10-31 15:29:44 · answer #10 · answered by Chris 4 · 5⤊ 4⤋