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| It Is A Scary Thought That People Are Going To Hell Just Because They Don't Believe In God's Salvation |
| I am extremely burdened on this subject and I want to know how others feel about this scary thought!!! |
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I feel the same. Something so simple , people make so complex for no reason. |
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Well, if you have figured it all out then what are you worried about? |
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Scares me. I think Heaven should just be the default setting for everyone, with hell being for like
Hitler. Or if you were kinda bad, you do some time in hell--like a year or so--and then go to
heaven. |
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Scares me. Especially for my loved ones that are not saved. Another scary thought is that I did
not do all I could to help them before its too late. |
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All you have to do is believe in his son and him. Whats so difficult?
Or are you just afraid of losing your argument? |
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Yeah it is scary. But I believe it is true. God mercifully gave you a choice, so take the right one.
Don't waste God's gift to you.
It says in His Word "believe that Jesus died for our sins, got buried, and rose again three days
later, and you shall be saved" :) |
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Yeah it's a shame of that because Satan has some folks minds warped into thinking all kinds of wild
stuff so that he can have people suffering with him of those who are not believers. |
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I think its quite insulting to be of the religion condemning people to hell and then to slight our
afterlife as "a scary thought"... But you are right it is scary... However that fear is lifelong and
something you come to grips with over time and through different... Now detracting momentarily, i
don't think there is any version of eternity that is feasible that isn't scary... You telling me
that my afterlife is hell isn't exactly scarier than any other version what i feel is truly scary is
the moment that is after the moment you stop thinking about what your thinking about... That moment
in life we all go through and we tell ourselves 'its ok its ok its ok' maybe you say eternity is
just god;s light, or the devil's fire so you hope you will be in the light because those two ideas
seem like logical opposition... However, how is something just good forever or just bad forever...
Like life i feel the afterlife will fluctuate... You can disagree but that doesn't mean that you
know... It just means your happy which, all cynicism aside, is awesome... I just grow skeptical of
your representatives who have potentially thought it out further than you have and have further
reaching goals and expectations than chilling with god and his flashlight forever and ever and ever
and ever an,,,,,ver and ever and....r and ever and ya know... Ever |
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It’s scary, yeah. But I don't think your getting it all. Hell is not only a fiery torture
chamber, but worse its eternal separation from God. All those who strived to separate themselves
from God, get what they always wanted. Where as Heaven is being with God, allowing yourself to
praise Him every moment. That's what this really is. It’s all about where you want to be...With
God or without God. I expect to get some sort of comment about how daft I sound, but that’s ok.
I had friend die and I most likely tell you where he is right now and for the rest of eternity. I
could have tried to do something about it, but I was too scared of what he would say or do. So I
sat by and watched until it was too late. I will never again take the sidelines, no matter what
others say. It’s that important. One thing you will never be able to do in Heaven is witness.
There will be no one there to witness to. I'm not giving up the chances God has given me, the
people He made are too precious. |
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Once you die and go to hell there is no way of getting out and you will burn in the firy pitt for
all eternity!!!! And just think that if you were to accept Christ as your personal Savior you can
have an eternity in heaven where there are streets of gold and mansions that Christ has prepared!!!! |
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I don't believe God will dam that many people, especially if they're relatively good people
otherwise. God loves us all, no matter what. |
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If i had to choose heaven or hell i would choose hell. Its seams more fun and exiting. ^^
In Heaven you would still have to be good but in Hell you can be evil >=D |
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Well i'm an atheist, but i don't expect to go to hell! Neither do i expect to go to heaven. I expect
to go into a coffin and then either be cremated or buried. Because Heaven, Hell, Paradise, God does
not exist. But i will try to be a good person =) |
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One trick that some pedophiles use to get kids to be cooperative is to buy two pets and let the kid
become emotionally attached.
Then the pedophile kills one pet in front of the kid and says, "Do what I want or I'll kill the
other one." The innocent child, wanting to protect the pet, capitulates to the pervert's sexual
depravity.
That's the same thing that the godbots do: Instill sickening fear into children to ensure they
remain obedient to the religion and never leave, even after they become adults.
Edit:
NotSoSlyOne may choose to be ignorant, but I choose to be educated and widely read. |
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 K9  06 Nov 2008 15:53
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It's a scary thought that people can take imaginary things like 'God' and 'Hell' to extremes! |
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Well i believe in god so I'm OK......but that statement......not true |
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God I love how people talk about God giving people salvation, ONLY if they completely believe that
they are the worst things ever to be created and that he is here to cure them of their self
inflicted disease…
Please, just because you were probably raised with a silver spoon up your butts your whole life,
doesn’t mean you understand how the world works or how God works. A person’s faith comes into
jeopardy when they are met with the hell that this world dishes out, and a lot of people grow up in
a society or a situation where they cannot find Gods love. The problem with the majority of
Christians today is that they are all filthy rich, white, or they have been brought up in a family
that has been there for them.
Try growing up as an orphan in the middle of a crack house.
Try growing up as a person who never found love.
Try living on the street as a child or even in a orphanage or in a foster home.
Become addicted to drugs as a child or become mentally unstable. Then tell me where is this God
everyone keeps talking about…
Where is this God everyone talks about as they sip 5 dollar coffees in their heated homes while
watching high def TV growing fatter and fatter …
Try growing in your teen years and one day find out that you can’t find a single attraction to the
opposite sex… Tell your family you are gay and then get kicked out of your home, you go to your
church to find out they don’t love you anymore.
Try growing up with the world’s hate unleashed on you…
Basically people grow up without even knowing about the bible, or grow up without ever understanding
God’s love. So what about those people who grow up without understanding God? It isn’t their
fault they were dealt harsh lives, and in response may have lost faith. . .
People that believe one is going to hell because their faith is in jeopardy are not only completely
ignorant to how the world works but are also incapable of even understanding a different life than
that of their own. Those people disgust me.
(PS: I am one that does believe in God, but when people act like God gives everyone the same life
and chances they are just plain ignorant and disserve to get this completely emotional response that
I just vented >.>) |
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I'm okay with it. Put your mind at rest at least as far as I'm concerned. If hells the price then
I'm prepared to pay it for having the freedom to choose my own path. |
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"...but some people don't exactly know what happens after death..."
ALL people don't know what happens after death. But I suspect it's just like before birth.
You say you are extremely burdened by this. Don't you see that that is a false burden placed upon
you by religion? |
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So basically here's what it is:
Here's a man.
He's a very kind man.
Everyday when he gets home from working at the nursing home, he donates half his money to
charity.
He gives all the money in his pocket to every homeless person he sees.
He goes to donate blood and donates too much and passes out and dies.
He goes to hell because he can't blindly believe in God.
How could God do such a thing to such a kind man just because he doesn't believe in him? |
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You're a lunatic. Hell is a choice, and they just don't know better. You're a fundamentalist, aren't
you? |
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 Mark 08 May 2008 00:27
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Well, as long as you follow your faith blindly, you have nothing to worry about. Ask yourself this.
If your so scared of being burned eternally in hell and doomed to suffer forever, ask God to
un-make hell for you. Simple. Or not, because Hell is not a place where the nonbelievers get
punished (First circle of Hell: Limbo reserved for the faithless and the ones who believed in other
Gods. Allegedly). Its a fabrication designed to make little Christians be good. Like the Boogeyman,
but more graphically scary. |
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People aren't going to hell. Hell doesn't exist same with heaven it is mystifying that so many
people still believe in religion. If there were a god he wouldn't let so many people die in his
name. Who is to say that there god is better than my god. The Bible is just a fictional witting when
people didn't know the difference between fiction and non-fiction. When you die your brain just
shuts off and you rot in a coffin! |
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Jesus died for his beliefs and Hell is allegedly worse than death so if people are going to Hell
because of what their beliefs, wouldn't that logically make them more admirable than him? |
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Well I'm a Catholic and the way i have been brought up is that God is Forgiving. But there must be
exceptions to this for cases like Hitler and Benito Mussolini, but generally if you don't commit a
serious crime or repeatedly break the 10 commandments I think that you shall have no-problem with
getting into heaven!!
I wish a priest would make a debate point here...... |
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Unfortunately that is not how god-lover was taught. It all boils down to teaching as there are
rarely bad students without bad teachers. Whomever instilled this version of Catholicism on him did
a huge disservice to those who are understanding of others and different belief structures. Without
proof you may not tell other that they will suffer because you or who taught you say so. How narrow
minded has this country become? |
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If you listen to fire and brimstone sermons on a regular basis then I can see how you might view
hell and damnation as scary subjects. I recommend, however, that you take a different approach. Hell
is not a physical place, there is probably no fire, no burning pits, no red lighting and none of the
sinister imagery that Christians have often been taught to believe. Heaven and Hell exist outside of
time and place. Try to imagine heaven as full communion with God, and hell as complete separation
from Him.
I also don't think that you, I, or anyone else can know who will receive eternal life and who will
not. Everyone lives their faith in different ways and it is very difficult to evaluate someone's
personal relationship with God. |
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Christians, take a moment and consider exactly what it is Christianity is telling you (in church, in
the bible etc). What it is saying is "if you don't believe in god he will punish you for all
eternity in a massive place where there is always fire burning you, but if you do believe in god he
will allow you to live in a place called Heaven where there are angels with pure white wings and
streets paved with gold, and you can eat grapes all day on clouds with your lost relatives". Can you
honestly not see the similarity between that and "Now little Jimmy, if you are naughty I will send
you to your room without supper, but if you are good I will buy you a nice big ice-cream". I know I
will get a comment saying how ludicrous this sounds, but think about it - you even call 'God' your
'Father'! Christianity is an extreme version of the parent-child relationship!
Sorry to rant; I don't mind people believing what they want to believe, but so many Christians have
given me lectures of why I am going to the Bible's 'naughty-corner' (hell), I am starting to get
extremely angry with how pathetic it all is.
I am sorry to sound so offensive, but I truly believe all Christians are brainwashed by their
parents from birth. The sooner this world is free from the clutches of this dangerous belief we call
religion, the sooner the world's suffering will end. |
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I don't believe in your god, and neither am I scared of going to "hell". Why? Cause I don't believe
in it.
Therefore it's not a scary thought to me, hence I vote against. |
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I think it is pretty scary to think that people think this way. In this day and age. |
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You know what's even scarier - the thought of there being absolutely nothing after death!! But it's
what I believe.
But don't worry though, because you and I, and everyone else on this forum won't even know about it.
Our brains will simply stop working - we have evidence for that! |
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No, I think it's a scary thought that people are so delusional that they have to believe in an
invisible friend when they're supposedly adults.
Grow up and face reality already. |
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As I’ve stated before, I’m surprised that some people believe the Christian faith is the only
theistic viewpoint that there is. What leads you to blindly believe, God-lover, that your particular
idea of “God’s Salvation” is the one everyone else has to accept in order to be “rescued”
from eternal damnation? It’s quite foolish, and insulting to others, to assume that your opinion
has a higher value than anyone else’s when addressing such a matter. If you didn't judge others by
what they believed and simply accepted their decision to have their own personal opinion on subjects
like this, you probably wouldn't have anything to be burdened with. |
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There isn't any god or hell so you needn't trouble yourself. However, the fact that you even think
about something like that shows that you have some residue of goodness in you, even though you
probably hate homosexuals and vote for war, death and torture at every opportunity.
So let me ask you this : Are you really saying that if a person was virtuous and kind, never did a
wrong to anyone in his or her life, but simply was not a practitioner of the Christian faith, or
perhaps had never even heard of it, that he or she would be sent to hell for eternal damnation? The
formal acceptance of a religious doctrine outweighs the living of a virtuous life? |
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