Say a person just doesn't make a choice...rather to go with God or not...but their sentenced to hell anyway???
I know God wants us to CHOOSE him. So if someone just didn't make a choice why wouldn't God let them into heaven anyway?
People say Hitler & all those crazy people WANT to go to hell because they chose to do wrong. Why in the world would a person want to go to hell? & why is Hitler more inclined to go to hell than other sinners? Isn't it true that no sin outweighs the other?
I see it like this...as long as I don't CHOOSE Satan I'm in the clear.
2007-11-01 13:24:08 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God knows our hearts & knows that we REALLY wouldn't want to burn in hell for all eternity.
Heck...wouldn't a person would choose to love God anyway if he let them into heaven?
2007-11-01 13:26:16 · update #1
From what I have seen in this forum, most people would rather just be their own gods. They either hate the concept of God Himself or they simply don't like the way He does things. They could do them better they say.
They have a hard time accepting authority - the service factor. They would rather take a chance on hell being real than to serve Almighty God.
So let them have their ways.
The outright hatred for God and things of God I see here every day is sickening and appalling.
2007-11-01 13:32:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not an atheist, but I was for a time. I was raised in a fundamentalist family, church 3 times a week and a school ran by the church. For the most part good people, if not a little set in their ways. Somewhere inbetween 10 and 13 I began to pick up scientific ideas, and ones that made sense unlike 'christian science', this was heavily contested and probably helped me come to the realization that there was no god. Later in my youth more new concepts entered. One in particular is that anything can be doubted barring perception, even that has its questions. And this meant to be be truly scientific about my understanding I had to doubt that there was not a god. Yes, I fear C. S. Lewis' terrible fate as well. So I feel that I have lived a good life, I try my hardest to do no harm, I help whomever I can. If I stood before the gates of the christian heaven and was offered entrance I would refuse, for a few of reasons. Spite, while I hold no animosity towards even my enemies, if the biblical tale is true, then how dare god force sentience and free will upon us then quibble about what we do with it, even so I still thank god for the gifts even with the hellfire punishment. I dislike the idea of being judged, feeling it would taint my actions, so I decided that I would live as moral a life as I could while knowing there will be no reward waiting for me. Also the christian heaven sounds somewhat boring. Same goes for oneness with the universe or incarnating to the top of the coil. I am of this world. I am a seeker of understanding. If I understood it all, what would be the point of existence?
'We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield'
Maybe god will let me do it all again?
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.'
2007-11-01 15:12:41 · answer #2 · answered by thestarelder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Again.... Heaven and Hell are stories for children. They're only dual aspects of the very same thing. Just as we have up or down, in or out, good or bad, God or Devil, we have Heaven and Hell. These places only represent dual aspects of the same energy. That energy resides with what the Hindus call chakras. The lower energy represents the physical realm, sexual energy, hell. As with the higher energy, which represents the cosmic mind or spiritual ascension, or heaven. The stories told in the bible are all allegorical. If the thieves of the Egyptian scrolls and stories understood what they were teaching, I am pretty sure that what we currently have would’ve been changed drastically.
Take a look at the first part of this video to get some insight about what the bible is really about. It’s time for grownups to put away the fictitious stories and live in reality.
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1136412r9FtfQ4X
2007-11-01 13:44:20 · answer #3 · answered by Venom Spartan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's funny that the people who choose not to believe in God are the ones who can't understand why he won't let them into heaven. All they have to do is believe in him and by choosing not to day after day after day they are making a clear choice to be separated from him and by all rights just slapping him in the face time after time. Then they ask " If your God is an all loving God why would he want to be separated from me and send me to hell?" That doesn't make any sense to me, at all? If there is no heaven so be it, but if there is why wouldn't you want to be there? I know in my heart there is a heaven and I know that although I am not worthy of heaven I will be accepted and for that I praise GOD!!........ GOD BLESS!!
2007-11-01 13:47:24 · answer #4 · answered by Allan C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could not be happy in heaven, if heaven was not similar to this life. I have taught myself to control feeling too good, because it take away the edge I need to survive in this world and feel safe. I would never feel safe, if I wasn't trained to have my senses real sharp, by maintaining constant vigilance. I feel that to neglect this earth and its problems is not a good thing. I would want to always be of service to humanity, and making a world a better place. I would not want to be on the side line without the challenges of this world, that exercise the human soul so well, if the soul knows what it is doing. My God would provide one life after another, so my spirit could stay in the conditions meant for human spirits.
2007-11-01 13:42:06 · answer #5 · answered by astrogoodwin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This Question is Loaded with Speculations. According to the Bible People DO NOT make the Decision as to whether they Goes to Heaven or Not. That decision Lies with God.
2007-11-01 13:39:29 · answer #6 · answered by conundrum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, people don't want to go to hell; either they don't believe in hell, or they are convinced that they are doing good.
It makes to sense to me to say that Hitler was no worse a person than someone who stole a book. The person who stole the book did a smaller wrong; Hitler murdered 11 million people.
Those of us who don't believe in god or heaven or hell aren't saying "I don't want to go to heaven" we're saying "there's no such place."
After all, I'd love to go to Hogwarts; doesn't make it possible.
2007-11-01 13:49:26 · answer #7 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you waiting for? Today is the day of salvation..do it now....make a choice....If you don't choose God,,,you will go where all unbelievers go, to Hell. If you want to go to Heaven,,then get saved. You do not get to straddle the fence,,,you have to choose...
2007-11-01 13:47:11 · answer #8 · answered by dreamdress2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By making no choice we are making the WRONG choice!!!!!! The Bible says we must make a choice for God or not. We will go to Hell if we are not saved-period.
2007-11-01 13:31:36 · answer #9 · answered by paula r 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
better yet why does god send nonbelievers to hell when they dont believe in hell either? if they just didnt go anywhere then okay whatever. but if theyre gonna go to a place that they didnt believe in anyway, it might as well be heaven especially if "not believing or not having faith" was the only bad thing they did.
2007-11-01 13:29:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋