All the scientific evidence points towards Christianity being the one true religion. There is NO excuse for not being a Christian. If you are a good person, but happen to believe in the wrong version of God, you deserve to burn for all eternity.
God loves you and doesn't want you to go to Hell, but if you REFUSE to belive in the correct VERSION of God with NO scientific evidence, God is FORCED to allow you to go to Hell for all eternity. When God created you, He knew for A FACT you would die without being a Christian even though you were a good person and thus burn in HELL for all eternity, yet he chose to create you anyways.
It may appear that it is better to never have existed than to be created and be tortured FOREVER with NO END EVER IN SIGHT, but God loves you and even though he knows you won't convert to Christianity, he HAS TO create you because of free will.
Do you agree?
2007-12-11 16:20:14 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh, it seems I have contradicted myself in the above paragraphs. I will resolve this by saying that one part of it was written BEFORE Jesus came and thus the rules and logic no longer apply.
2007-12-11 16:22:04 · update #1
This is confused bigoted hate speech.
Back to the meds, sushine!
2007-12-12 00:13:16 · answer #1 · answered by fooles.troupe 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
How do you know that Christianity is the one true religion? How do you know that Hinduism or Buddhism isn't the correct one?
If you take as the premise that the Christian god is all powerful, and can make himself known to all people, there would be no need for missionaries and religious persecutions. If this premise were true, you would find that all theologies would match exactly. Since they do not match, in some cases they don't even agree on the number of gods that exist, there is only one thing to conclude. God, at least as how all of the Abrahamic religions perceive him does not exist.
That leaves Buddhism, a non deistic religion as one of the more viable alternatives.
Hell was an invention of the early priests to threaten people with if they didn't follow their rules. We really don't know what happens to a persons "soul" when they die, or even if the "soul" really exists.
Although I was brought up as a Presbyterian, and there was some value to the ethics taught, I think that overall religion has been a curse on humanity, with all the wars and persecutions over differing beliefs.
2007-12-11 16:39:07 · answer #2 · answered by robertdr60 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Scientific evidence only points to the existence of Christian followers. Science might lead to the discovery of Jesus' belongings and stuff but it completely leads away from Christianity. Evolution for example, and anyone cans ay "oh evolution doesn't exist" but nevertheless it is science. There are too many contradictions to the Christian faith and to the Bible. They say God loves you but he throws you into hell? God loves you and 6million Jews died in the Holocaust? Adam and Eve story vs. dinosaurs? Science completely trashes Christianity, so you really can't use that as evidence that God exists. By the way, Christianity has taken a LOT of stories from Greek and Egyption mythology. Just take a classical mythology course one day and you'll see. Like many other religions, Christianity is there to give us a sense of hope after death because death seems to horrible sometimes. It's the sense of hope that makes us live moral lives, be nice toe ach other, don't steal, rape, and so on. Basically, the cavemen probably couldn't do it but we people today can live on being nice people without the belief in anything. You're mis-judging the point of Christianity's existence. It's not waht you believe, but how you live your life.
Anyway, I'm not criticizing you or anything but when you preech using tactics like capitalizing HELL and try to scare people into believing, that makes other people turn away and support their own beliefs stronger. If God is so great, why would he want to scare people into believing in him? Are you sure you're doing God's work or are you doing something that's going to get yourself a one-way ticket to hell?
2007-12-11 16:33:59 · answer #3 · answered by Jo 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
There is no evidence (scientific or otherwise) that supports the existence of any god, much less the christian god.
Thank you for telling me that I deserve to burn in hell for all eternity for not believing in your god. Do you think that this behavior will make me want to believe?
If your god knew that I would never believe and that I would burn in hell anyway, why did he "create" me?
This is not congruent with the idea of your loving god.
2007-12-11 16:27:33 · answer #4 · answered by CC 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Are you a closet atheist or agnostic? Because your question is loaded with facetiousness. Incidentally, your statement that Christianity is the one true religion is fallacious. Why? Because each Christian sect, denomination, or non-denomination claims to be the one "true" faith, while all others are false. It's a real propaganda war out there. Example: The Roman Catholic Church claims it is the "true" Christian religion and all other Christian faiths are wrong in the practice of their beliefs. The counter claims are made by the likes of LDS, the Church of Christ, etc., etc. And on and on it goes. It's just too weird.
2007-12-11 16:33:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, thanks for caring and telling me I'm an idiot and will burn in hell.
No, wait, that was a Christian invention - the Jews didn't have Hell.
If God knows I'm going to die without being a Christian and created me anyway, doesn't that make Him an idiot for doing something pointless? Wouldn't he be worried that I would influence others not to be Christians - like my sister and Mother who joined me in heathenism. No, wait, he knew they would follow..... The all powerful God won't prove his existence and end all the doubts...... He doesn't punish Abram for pimping out his wife and rewards Abram for doing it? God will condemn most of the earth to eternal damnation for not believing in him - Petty and twisted.
Pretzel logic - all twisted and not logical!
2007-12-11 16:35:40 · answer #6 · answered by Aravah 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Even as a Christian I don't agree that just because someone doesn't follow my religion they will burn in hell ... My pastor even mocked that threat a few weeks ago as being absurd and doesn't work. Jesus Christ was Jewish, wouldn't that make the one true religion the one he belonged to? Christianity was later and the development of the cross wasn't until the 12th century in the Catholic church. I beleif in my faith but not in trying to force people. Diversity is what our country is built on and I think it needs to stay that way.
2007-12-11 16:26:26 · answer #7 · answered by ~Les~ 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Ah, how LOVING the religion of Christianity is!
The belief that "evil" people suffer for all eternity in a fiery pit--even for minuscule sins, such as sex before marriage or cursing God's name (arrogant, is he?)--is such a healthy belief to have. It's right up there with believing the prisoners on Guantanamo Bay deserve to be tortured.
Edit: Am I the only person who understood that the questioner was being sarcastic?
2007-12-11 16:26:08 · answer #8 · answered by Stardust 6 · 12⤊ 0⤋
There is no scientific evidence to support religion (that is not an area of study)..no evidence to support some giganticc god thingie creator, no evidence to support the existence of heaven/hell/angels/devils/demons/spirits - nor any of the other nonsense. There is no evidence that even one word in the bible is true....There is simply no basis for religion...except in the minds of the believers.
They are dependent upon others, they need a god, they want someone else to tell them what to do, they want something to blame everything on.....
And, many of us don't believe a word of it. If you want to think we will burn in hell; if that gives you comfort in your superiority, good for you.
2007-12-11 16:35:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
I do not agree.
If a child is born severely retarded and cannot grasp the concept of your god, will he or she burn in hell? According to you, yes. If this child is bursting with sunshine and brings happiness into the lives of whoever that child meets, I think there is most certainly a place in heaven for that child.
Are you saying that a wife-beating husband who believes in your god is taking the place of a beautiful child in heaven?
2007-12-11 16:33:25 · answer #10 · answered by Laura J 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I started as a Christian. I am no longer one.
If God KNOWS already that you will not believe and therefore will burn forever then there is no basis for free will in the creation of humanity.
The idea of the "Elect" is predestination not free will
2007-12-11 16:29:06 · answer #11 · answered by Anne Hatzakis 6 · 9⤊ 0⤋