The best possible system that God can set up is where 66 percent of the world's population who is not Christian will be burned in Hell forever when they die even if they are good people.
Do you agree?
Ultimately, the most important thing is to believe in the correct version of God. That comes first, because you can be a good person and give to charity all your life and be a good family member, but if you happen to believe in the wrong version of God even though there is no emperical evidence of which religion is true, you have to go to Hell forever along with murderers.
I can think of no better system. Can you? Didn't think so. This logic is well thought out.
God can ACTUALLY see into the future. He knows for A FACT that certain people who he creates will die without ever being Christians, but be good people and thus burn in Hell, yet He created them anyways.
If you aren't Christian, God does NOT send you to Hell, you VOLUNTARILY send yourself there.
Agree?
2007-12-10 08:40:43 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, no, & no
"God can ACTUALLY see into the future. He knows for A FACT that certain people who he creates will die without ever being Christians, but be good people and thus burn in Hell, yet He created them anyways." Do you know how SICK that sounds?
2007-12-10 08:43:52 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
This is actually where a lot of preachers do a lot of harm, because the version of "how things are" that you've quoted is flawed, and I think you are aware of it.
Think about this: if it is true that you are created in God's image, and you don't want an unfair system to rule and a lot of people to be destroyed, then would it be logical to conclude (and that's the good side of you talking) that God doesn't want those things, either?
Forget quoting misinterpreted versions of an antiquated book that has been misquoted and misconstrued numerous times through the ages. Yes, I love that book, but I don't love what some people make of it.
If people misquoted the Declaration of Independence as often as they misquote the Bible, it might help us understand just how silly and mixed up the ministers are in their assessment of the world.
Start with the evidence. The world exists. Since it is impossible that something such as this world and solar system could have always existed indefinitely, it had to have a beginning. And from its precise alignment and unique ability to host life, it is highly probably that the existence had a cause, and that the cause was intelligent. Starting from here, it gets a lot of the junk and useless goo of religion out of the way. Starting from here I can breathe and think more easily. I hope you can, too.
2007-12-10 08:51:13 · answer #2 · answered by Poet G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoa!
The God I got to know in parochial school and at Mass is nothing like what you are describing!
We have free will, and yes, he created us . . . but ultimately, we make the choice AND, if we truly feel remorse for our wrongs, He forgives us and doesn't toss us on the trash heap.
What's with the "right version" of God? He either is or isn't. I choose to believe he is. God is God, whether we call him Buddha, Allah, Great Spirit, whoever. (I hate to say this, but what you wrote about that makes you sound like a very narrow-minded Southern Baptist -- and yes, I know many Baptists who aren't narrow minded. Also makes you sound like the Muslims who take a turn and get offended if someone tags a teddy bear with the name of Muhammad.
Get real, find a Bible and start talking with a spiritual counselor. Also, saying that 66% of the world's population will burn in hell, period, because they are born into another religion, faith, creed, whatever, is pretty dogmatic.
If you're looking for validation and backup, don't look at me!
2007-12-10 08:49:45 · answer #3 · answered by confidentgal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's kind of confusing, and who says christianity is the right religion? There are many religion, none of them have any REAL proof (as in scientific evidence, what people in general would consider real). Also, it's confusing cos you say
"but if you happen to believe in the wrong version of God...you have to go to Hell forever"
then you say
"If you aren't Christian, God does NOT send you to Hell, you VOLUNTARILY send yourself there."
makes no sense...
2007-12-10 08:48:51 · answer #4 · answered by Sean G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer not to try to figure out how God's making these decisions at all. It's not really up to me, and I have nothing to do with how it works, so I really don't care to spend that much time pondering it and deciding how I think it works, because in the end, wrong or right, it doesn't matter what I think. I'll just concentrate on living life the way I believe God wants me to, and you concentrate on living life the way you believe God wants you to, and everyone else can concentrate on living however they want to, and we'll see how it works when we're on the other side.
2007-12-10 08:45:32 · answer #5 · answered by Chelsey M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible does not say that exactly the technical verse your looking for is it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle then for a person who does not believe in God to get into heaven. That still means that most of them will burn but at least 1% will be saved.
2007-12-10 08:48:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well according to the Bible it says people who do not believe in Him will go to hell, not people who aren't Christains will go to hell.
And I don't know if I agree because I'm going to leave the deciding of who goes where up to God.
God can see into the future. He know what you're going to say/do before you say/do it.
If you're not a believer in God, I guess you could say that you send yourself to hell because you did have a chance to believe in Him. But yet he does send you to hell.
But a believer in God could be sent to hell too. Because I could just be like "Yeah I'm a Christian I LOOOOVE God" and then go and kill everyone and sin, sin, sin without repenting. So in believer's eyes, what the difference: being a Christain and acting like an Atheist or just being an Atheist???
2007-12-10 08:47:52 · answer #7 · answered by sports fan 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You either receive Jesus or you reject Jesus. I don't know how every person is given this opportunity, but I do know all will be given the opportunity.
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life, and no man comes to the Father except by Me."
Matthew 7:13,14
"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it."
John 6:44 Jesus said
"No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day."
2007-12-10 09:10:16 · answer #8 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, because I don't believe in a place called hell or the Abrahamic God (I think those are a prerequisite for this question). I think hell can be used as a metaphor for what we put ourselves through by making poor choices for ourselves and ignoring opportunities to better our lives. But that's something very much in our own control. Therefore the latter part of this question is somewhat applicable and I'd agree that people put themselves in hell.
2007-12-10 08:46:03 · answer #9 · answered by swordarkeereon 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Even in the word, has anyone in the present ever been to heaven or hell and come back to tell about it. We know the difference between right and wrong, the catch is to make the decsion to do right before we do wrong. Not afterwards.
2007-12-10 08:49:39 · answer #10 · answered by 876boogie@sbcglobal.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋