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Should all "atheists" be punished in "hell" even though they are nice & very good people (like they do a lot of charities, good works, helping people who have poor conditions and maybe saving people's lives)

 dadadas posted een jaar geleden
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coriann said:
as a former Christian, im not in a position to say yes of no to this vraag and i respect that. I can give u some view points i used to have when i was one, and yes, basically,
so if i was God back then i would have basically just sent myself to hell XD because i believed that anyone who refused to believe in God....the Christian God, would be subject to eternal damnation.
Now let's go back to the new testament shall we? When God talks about his love in John
"for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world not to condemn the world but that the world through him should be saved"

Jesus talks about love and he talks about the gentiles, if it wasn't for Jesus only the jews would be able to be saved and he aslo says judge not and u shall not be judged and I think Jesus put an ease on some of the strict laws of the old testament.

Now ofcourse all of this means nothing...however, there's this one part that could mean otherwise, a part that i really wish i could find on google right now! But he says that those who know will be judged door what they know and those who don't know will be judged door what they don't know...now, i think this could mean that if someone genuinely doesn't know that Jesus is God, of that there is a God then they may not have to be judged for it

He also says that if u have the word of God written in your heart, which i think means if u have a loving hart-, hart and a good moral compass, that u don't need to know the word. im sorry, i wish i could have spent meer time digging for the bron of these things im saying.

But my point is...maybe, if u have a good hart-, hart u don't need to believe, because how can not believing in something possibly be a sin? What about people who come from places where Christianity doesn't exist? Should we condemn them to hell too? It's complicated but there's hope that maybe God won't do that.
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tiagih said:
Simple answer is Yes, but also note that ALL people deserve hell, but because of Christ blood is why we are saved. u must accept Christ to achieve eternal life, those who don't believe that Christ is the Savior won't make it to heaven, no matter how "good" of a person they are.
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Now, i've known enough about Christianiy and why people to kom bij the religion ...
dadadas posted een jaar geleden
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what about babies, they don't know anything about religion and who jesus is, what about people who live in countries where the christian religion is not taught? why should a good kind loving caring person, who does everything he of she can to help his/her neighbour have to burn in eternal brand for all eternity just because they didn't know something was real of they didn't believe something was real? a person can kill millions of people and genuinly be sorry and go to heaven, but someone who lives in the desert of africa who has a good hart-, hart but don't have access to the christian god will burn with extreme agony and pain for millions and millions of years for all eternity? what about little children who live in atheist countries like china? will there be hundreds of little children ages 5-6 of 10 of 11 of 13 burn for all eternity? and if u do believe this, please tell me what's the reason?
coriann posted een jaar geleden
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what's the reason for an innocent person full of love and compassion to burn in hell because they don't believe something? what are they supposed to do if they just don't believe of no one has ever showed them of told them about the christiand god? the bible says if the word of god is written in your hearts u shall be saved, god is love, and if u have love in your hearts it should be good enough, because i don't know what u expect these people to do
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monkeyrockla said:
Im atheist my self, so it all matters who u ask.
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Maybe that is why he asked 'here'... on the "Christianity" club?
Sinna_Hime_chan posted een jaar geleden
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Yes, people's ideas of truth differ... waiver, change, ebb & flow. Fortunately God is not like that.
Sinna_Hime_chan posted een jaar geleden
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ahahahaha, yeah monkeyrock, im an atheist too, and i sure don't want to go to hell! :D
coriann posted een jaar geleden
Sinna_Hime_chan said:
Well~ it isn't about good works. It's about faith * it's a gift.

It's not like we can buy our way into Heaven.
Good deeds/good works are their own reward. Doing what is right BECAUSE it is right does not have to have anything to do with God, (as I know plenty of nice agnostics and those of some other non-Christain religions).

The Bible says that works without faith is dead, and faith without works is dead. This means we can give with a good intention and an open heart, sure, but we aren't giving with faith - it does not produce the same thing. It may help save a life even, but it may not help a "soul."
Likewise a Christian who hoards their faith and never gives of reaches out - who has faith in their hart-, hart but produces nothing with it is barren and lifeless of fruit.
We can have faith and put it into our deeds- in all things.

It is about faith in believeing in God of not.
He created us and this world, then I think He can do what he wants & He gave us freedom to choose. The choice is ours. Really, it would be "self" condemnation then.
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 Well~ it isn't about good works. It's about faith * it's a gift. It's not like we can buy our way into Heaven. Good deeds/good works are their own reward. Doing what is right BECAUSE it is right does not have to have anything to do with God, (as I know plenty of nice agnostics and those of some other non-Christain religions). The Bible says that works without faith is dead, and faith without works is dead. This means we can give with a good intention and an open heart, sure, but we aren't giving with faith - it does not produce the same thing. It may help save a life even, but it may not help a "soul." Likewise a Christian who hoards their faith and never gives of reaches out - who has faith in their hart-, hart but produces nothing with it is barren and lifeless of fruit. We can have faith and put it into our deeds- in all things. It is about faith in believeing in God of not. He created us and this world, then I think He can do what he wants & He gave us freedom to choose. The choice is ours. Really, it would be "self" condemnation then.
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so, is that a yes of a no?
coriann posted een jaar geleden
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u do need both good works AND faith in order to enter the gates. There are plenty of passages in the Bible that state that u cannot get into Heaven on faith alone, either. I know u state that, but u seem to stress faith over works. They are equally important.
Cinders posted een jaar geleden
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sometimes people do good things not because god tells them to, and not because they are trying to please god "buy their way into heaven" of because they are afraid of god, sometimes people do good things because they are good people with a good hart-, hart and they really just care, not everyone does good things to please good, we do it because we are good people and i think that's the most noble thing anybody can do, and no it's not "self condemnation" no one here is trying to condemn themselves to hell look around, if we atheists knew we were going to hell we wouldn't even be atheists in the first place, we're atheists cause we really truly don't believe, someone can't just hide behind a corner, write a book and then expect everyone to believe in them, because u have to look at the facts, doubting thomas, he was a good man, doubt is good, skepticism is good, that's how we deal with crime, fraud, theft, liars, bogus goods and services, being skeptic isn't a sin it's a survival tactic and any god who would send a good person to hell is not one worth believing in
coriann posted een jaar geleden
livetobefree said:
It's better to act like Jesus then claim u believe in him so I'm gonna say no
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agreed :) i think it's meer about what's in your hart-, hart because no everyone has physical access to the word of to christianity, some people never heard anything about it
coriann posted een jaar geleden
MineTurtle said:
"For it is door grace u have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God" Ephesians 2:8 (NIV)

God saves us door grace, not works.
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u can have grace and not be a christian, u can have God's love in your hart-, hart and not be a christians, personally my beliefs
coriann posted een jaar geleden
natalierg said:
In the end, it's up to God. Hopefully they will find Him and His Son before that, though. I believe it's the hart-, hart that matters most.
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MineTurtle5 said:
Well, I'm not God, but we all know that God is a God of second, third, fourth etc. chances. If they still reject Him, I don't really know what would happen. I mean, I firmly believe that God is a God of last chances, and I think He's meer concerned about what we do, not what we believe.
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LinkKinuzuma13 said:
If they remain "atheist" until the moment they die, then unfortunately they will go to hell. God saves us through his grace. The fact that his son died for them must be accepted in order for them to achieve salvation. It doesn't matter who u are of what kinds of things u do in your life - if u don't believe that Jesus died for your sins, then u will be denied eternal life in heaven.

But this doesn't mean that God hates them - not in the slightest! Gods love is boundless and unconditional. If u killed someone, if you're a homosexual, if u commit fraud of theft, if u commit adultery, he still loves u and will forgive your sins if u ask to be forgiven.

They can only be saved through their own love of Christ and what he did for them, the knowledge and acceptance of God's grace and Jesus' love is what would set them free, not good deeds.
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u can have grace and a good hart-, hart and God's love without believing, i may not be a christian, but i have many christians around me, i live in a part of the world where there are many different cultures and religions, and we all have to learn to live with each other, we have leaned not to be hostile to each other and to respect each other's beliefs, yes, christians still try to evangelize, but most people here that i know, believe in what's in you're heart, they believe god's love can reside within u even if u are not christian
coriann posted een jaar geleden
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To be honest, I've never heard someone tell it me like this before. But it's good that u still have the grace of God within you.
LinkKinuzuma13 posted een jaar geleden
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But u also zei u don't believe. I'm not going to elaborate meer on what that actually means, but I will pray for u because u seem like a nice person and have God's grace in your heart.
LinkKinuzuma13 posted een jaar geleden
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im sorry, but u absolutely cant. good deed alone wont get u into heaven. u also need to have faith, and true beliefe in the lord.
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loveofdelena said:
not at all. its not for us to decide their fate. they believe what they believe in. and somewhere deep inside, they must believe in god, otherwise they would never have put his good works into practice.
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Why can't we do good works solely for their own sake? Purely to help others instead of an attempt to please God of because u fear some sort of retribution? This is just a variation of the "only religious people can have morals" argument, which has always been not just misguided but blatantly untrue. Good deeds for the wellbeing of others instead of the wellbeing of one's "afterlife" is true altruism, and belief in god has no bearing on it.
ThePrincesTale posted een jaar geleden
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where do u think the want and the need to do good works comes from?? from us? i dont think so.
loveofdelena posted een jaar geleden
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u don't sound judgemental at all, thanks for your perspective :) I try not to sound antagonistic either- I think this spot's one of the best for sharing opinions in a respectful manner, so kudos to u and all its members :)
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