As a Christian, do you personally believe 4 of the 6 billion people in this world, who arent Christians, are going to burn in hell for eternity?



As a Christian, do you believe every religion is wrong and only Christianity is the true word of God?



As a Christian, do you believe there is only one God and only one Heaven?






Serious questions.

Honestly i do believe that unfortunately all those people are going to hell but they aren't burning from what i have read in the bible burning and gnashing of teeth is imagery Jesus used to try and convey how bad hell is and i believe that hell is a place where people go and are eternally separated from God and any benefit from his existence because God is love and because of that being eternally separated from him you no longer have the ability of love which i believe is that worst part of being in hell you can not show feelings that we as humans are created to have

No i do not believe that Christianity is the only way to God i believe that Jesus is that only true way to God i feel like that there is a difference because people put so much faith into the building that is the church it is more about the people within the church (the body of Christ) i believe that the bible is the true word of God

As a Christian i believe that there is only one God but i feel like a cannot even fathom what heaven is going to be like or what it is going to consist of

Great answer... especially love that you said the church is not the way!...Christ is the way!



Question 1: He who believes in Him (Jesus Christ) is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18)(NASB)
So yes they will be judged if they dont believe...
Torment will not end for Unbelievers:
And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. (Revelation 20:10)(NASB)

This is the destiny of the people who rejected the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God who was sacrificed for their sins. Do not be an unbeliever. Look for the Bible, read and believe the words of God to be saved. Tell all your friends, relatives, colleagues and all people. Tell them about the Lord Jesus so that they may be saved and may not go to that place of torment.

Question 2: I believe in reading the bible....I believe in god and jesus christ. I dont believe a certain religion. I just read the bible and try to live by Gods words...because his words are true and holy.

Question 3: There is Only One TRUE GOD!....I am not here to say how many heavens there are or what they will be like. I just want to be with God forever. That is my heaven. I am his...and he is mine forever. I know many peoples answers will be different.. But for me to say what heavens like or how many there are will only make me feel like Im only believing in God and Christ Jesus so that I may get something out of it....So in a simple response, I just want to be with God. He has loved me and I would like to be with him forever cause I love him back with all my heart.

So if god is love, I assume that love is part of god. Ok, if i take this as a fact, i could now asking myself if no believers can love, thing that is very plausible because love is a human feeling expressed by many people. If i take as exemple a non-believer that is a good human being, i mean a person that expressing loving people, helping them in their life paths, using virtues principles and valors to accomplish his potential. This non-believer is using much factors that been used by Jesus-Christ himself and do his best to dont be corrupted by the mind conditionning of our actual societies like vices and others conformities that is negative to the human evolutions. Eliminate the dogmas and preach the autonomy of thinking to people that he's meeting. Probably, that this type of non-believers is more accurate about the reality than many Christian believer and more effective in the well being of the humanity, not to confronte class of people in this at all. Does it make him a false prophet? Just don't understand how that type of person can be judged and burn in hell because of their differents personals believes. He's acting good in life.

i dont think all of the people will but a majority will be...
I kinda believe that if you act in a manner thats consistent with the Bible but never had a chance to be welcomed into the faith their will be forgiveness...

I beleive Christianity is the only correct Religion and the others are wrong/false and many of them really dont mean much...

And finally YES there is only one God and Heaven...

So if you arent saved please look into the faith more and do what you need to because you obviously have the chance to be a Christian

Love isn't just a part of God God is love he is the embodiment of love. The reason that nonbelievers can love is because God has given us the ability to love but in the end they will be eternally separated from God losing the ability to love. It's not about good things that you do because "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." romans 3:23-24 we NEED Christ's sacrifice to take away the sin that we have committed no matter how small we have sinned against God and turned away from him. It doesn't matter if you do good things it's about being reconciled to God through Jesus.

So for the hundreds of religions in this world, Christianity is the winner? No matter what?
How do you tell a group of religiously different people that.

And what did Christ have to say about being a Jew?

it's not about religion it's about knowing Christ and having a personal relationship with him where his spirit is moving through you to the benefit of others and i mean it's awkward to tell people yeah but i mean it's what i personally believe is the truth i will definitely try and share with them the truth i believe in and if they want to share with me what they believe is true ill listen

Jesus said jews are supposed to have to opportunity to know him before others but seeing how most of them refused him he allowed the gospel to be preached to gentiles (non jews)

a lot of these questions are answered in the book that i am reading called The Reason for God (Belief in an Age of Skepticism) by timothy keller

This post was edited by lingaojing on Aug 11 2010 12:50pm

One of the better threads in a while. I am sorry that I have no orignal thoughts on this; as all have been covered allready.

But...

Good news:
Jesus saved me
Jesus can and will save you
Wanna know how? Feel free to contact me
Do not want to discuss this online? We do own these new things called phones, and I can get someone in your area to speak to you face to face

In the bible it was written that the only way to get to heaven is through faith and good deeds. Faith comes first because it is most important and good deeds will follow after TRUE faith. If anyone got into heaven without have these two things there would not be justice and as the bible says "God is just"

an analogy i like to use is that believing Jesus for who he is is like a key, if you believe in him you get the key to open the door to heaven, if not the hell is the only other option