1. Have you ever stolen something? Even something little?\n2. Have you ever told a lie?\n3. Have you ever commited adultery with another person? Jesus said that even if you look with lust at a women or man has already commited adultery in his/her heart.\n4. If God judged by these laws would you be innocent or guilty? (IF)\n5. Is it worth eternity in Hell not to trust God just to see if he will forgive you on Judgement Day?\n6. Do you know what God did for you so that you might not go to Hell?John 3:16: For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten Son so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. He gave his life on the cross- the worst punishment possible at the time.\n7. Does it concern you enough that if you don't know Jesus personally you will go to Hell FOREVER?\n8. Please pray this prayer if you wish to know Jesus as Saviour:God, I know I've done wrong.Lord, today I give my life to you. Come into my life today.Amen.\njesserfleming@yahoo.com
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Yes, I am a good person.  I don't judge other people.
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What if it's not about bribery and punishment so much as it is about justice and mercy?\n\nNo one deserves heaven.  We all deserve hell, because that is the wage of sin.  \n\nIf there were no hell or no death, would we really get how serious sin is?\n\nIt's like asking if we would be better citizens if there were no police officers or jail.\n\nIf you read the book of Judges, there is a theme to the book that is repeated in a couple of passages.  "There was no king in Israel, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes."  You can see the sorts of trouble they got themselves into and the decline of the nation.\n\nWithout law and some means of making law meaningful (reward and punishment) anything goes.  That might work for people who feel doing good is important for its own sake, but some people really need boundaries.  Heaven and hell provide that.\n\nI think there is a part of every human heart that longs for perfection.  That is the part of us that longs for heaven.  I don't serve God just to get a reward or just to avoid punishment.  I love Him, so I serve Him.  But heaven makes trials easier.  And hell is certainly not where I want to be.
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Life is evelasting to those who will believe...\n\nWhat God did...\n\nThink of it this way... Imagine you're in a courtroom again, you're guilty of many serious crimes. The judge says, "It's a fine of $500,000, or prison." You don't have anywhere near that amount of money, so the bailiff begins to walk you out of the courtroom when someone you don't even know appears. He runs up to the judge with a check and says, "I've paid the fine for you." Now that the fine has been paid, the law no longer has any hold on you. You're free -- because of the gift you were given.\n\nThis is what God did for you by sending Jesus to die on the cross in your place. So that you wouldn't have to go to Hell, God sent his only Son, Jesus, to die on the cross -- suffering the punishment that justice demands. Then He rose from the grave, forever defeating death! The Bible tells us, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16) If you will repent of your sins and put your trust in Jesus, God says he will forgive all your sins and grant you the gift of everlasting life. Just like the court case we just talked about, if you repent (that means to confess and forsake your sins) and put your trust in Jesus, then you will not have to suffer God's justice in Hell because the payment for your crimes was made by Jesus on the cross.\n\nIf you're not sure what to pray, read Psalm 51, and make it a model for your prayer. The words are not "magical," what God cares about is the attitude of your heart. When you pray, it should sound something like this, "Dear God, I repent of all my sins, such as (name them). I put my trust in Jesus Christ as Lord (to say Jesus is your Lord means you are now making Jesus the master over your life) and Savior. Forgive me and grant me your gift of everlasting life. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen."\n\nNow read your Bible daily, and obey what you read. God will never let you down.\n\nWhat should you read? We suggest that you start in the book named "John," and then read the one named "Romans." Whatever you decide to read, make sure you read every day.
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WoW! Interesting and deep questions...\nI would get on my knees and pray, but not just on my last day; praying everyday is a good thing.\nI would accept it being my last day, because what ever is God's will is fine...and I do believe there is a better life after this earthly, physical life. As for fearing death, I'm pretty sure I would, but again, there is something greater to look forward to, and God says that this life is nothing compared to the afterlife. So...I do believe in Heaven, but not the "mythical" sitting around on a cloud thing that some of us learned in some churches. I believe Heaven to be as you said, "to see the face of God" and Jesus Christ"...and much more than that. Those chosen to be in God's government, ( as opposed to these corrupt, worldly governments that exist now, will be wiped away, along with all the misery and suffering!) will help set up a fair and right government, which keeps God's laws, ( not all these man made B.S. laws!) This new system of living will allow people to learn to live God's way, with peace and happiness. (I'm sure there will be opposition on this!) Many more wrongs of this messed up world, will be corrected...Lots of work to do! No time to just sit on a cloud!\nAs for HELL!!! I believe that, as the Bible says, it is a consuming fire, and that it serves the purpose of burning up those who will not accept God's law, after they have been taught in the future. It will be as if they never existed; so basically, we are all given the chance to learn God's ways, either in this lifetime, or in the next...amd hopefully, we'll accept it, and not be destroyed in hell! There is also the mythical "Dantes Inferno" which influences us to think of hell as an ever burning punishment...I don't believe this is true at all...God is loving and merciful, and will give us another chance to learn how to live, how to love, how to obey, how to be happy, how to live harmoniously with one another, no wars, how to worship etc.....and IF we continue to want to live, as we do now, with Satan's influence dominating this messed up world, that's it! Stick us with a fork! We're done!!!
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Do you notice that Jesus first tells the man that all he need do is keep the commandments?  But the man carries on, feeling that it won't be enough for some reason (even though Jesus just said it would)?  He feels he's still lacking.  Jesus tells him what he must do 'to be perfect'.  Not what he must do to gain eternal life.  I don't know about you, but, I have too many other people in my life to take care of to be 'perfect'.  Even as much as I admire Jesus.
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Who are we to question the actions of god?\n\nDoes not god forgive sins and transgressions?\n\nDid not Jesus seek out the sinners?
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I consider myself Christian, born and raised. My family has never been strict about it though. I don't believe that non-believers will go to hell. I do however believe that if you KILL, rape, or lead a life without morals, that you will suffer in your own hell that you caused others.
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I had to reply to a question that he asked and was deleted, I hope you don't mind:\n\nServing God is a privilege and a great sense of joy and peace.\nIn order to stand up to a world where everything is OK and nothing is wrong; it takes a whole lot of integrity. It takes courage to be different, to stand up for what you believe in, even when doors slam in your face. It takes love for others and coming outside of oneself to make the effort to share what knowledge you have in hopes of giving someone life. How many other things can you do that could give you that joy? All other things that do give some sense of satisfaction are temporary and for the, "here and now." How many things can you do that last forever? Things that can change a person's life and make it better; forever. It is not an easy way out in fact it is dealing with this world's problems head on. And what is this world’s problem?\nRevelation 12:9\n9  So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him. \nSatan Myth Or Sinister Reality?\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/10/15/article_02.htm \nWhat happens to the loyal and the wicked?\nPsalms 37:28, 29\n28 For Jehovah is a lover of justice,\nAnd he will not leave his loyal ones.\nTo time indefinite they will certainly be guarded;\nBut as for the offspring of the wicked ones, they will indeed be cut off. \n29 The righteous themselves will possess the earth,\nAnd they will reside forever upon it. \nWhy do Christians try to talk to people? Not only is it love for others but it is a command from God.\nEzekiel 3:11\n18 When I say to someone wicked, ‘You will positively die,’ and you do not actually warn him and speak in order to warn the wicked one from his wicked way to preserve him alive, he being wicked, in his error he will die, but his blood I shall ask back from your own hand. \nSo what can we do now, whose side are we on?\nProverbs 2:4\n4 if you keep seeking for it as for silver, and as for hid treasures you keep searching for it, 5 in that case you will understand the fear of Jehovah, and you will find the very knowledge of God. \nEzekiel 33:11\n11 Say to them, ‘“As I am alive,” is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, “I take delight, not in the death of the wicked one, but in that someone wicked turns back from his way and actually keeps living. Turn back, turn back from YOUR bad ways, for why is it that YOU should die, O house of Israel?”’ \n\nLearn more use your bible, or contact someone to help you understand the importance of the knowledge available in it.\n\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/
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I would say yes, it is a form of judgement, but I don't want to judge.  :D  BTW, more Christians should read the verse you posted and the verse after that.  It says that whatever whatever judgement you judge, you shall be judged and whatever you meet, (out to someone) shall be measured to you again.  To me, that would mean that if you say, "You're going to hell," you will go to hell if you don't repent.
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First of all, as a fellow brother in Christ, I want to commend you on your commitment to save sex for marriage. Too often we see people today giving into the pleasure of a few minutes, only to suffer a lifetime of pain and hurt in the future.\n\nI don't normally answer questions on here, but the situation you are in is too similar to mine for me to ignore.\n\nI have been a Christian all my life, and constantly seek to glorify Him by living and dedicating my life to Him. I also believe that sex is the ultimate expression of physical love, and is the most special gift anyone can present to the person that they want to dedicate the rest of their life to. If someone commits premarital sex, they are giving that gift away, and tarnishing any future romantic relationships they may have.\n\nNow, obviously, I am a virgin; and am extremely proud of this fact. I cannot wait to let my future wife know that I've saved myself for her. Instead of channeling my energy and resources to fulfill sexual needs, I instead look to strengthen my character and serve others.\n\nBut I've recently fallen for this girl.... She's a born again Christian, who was saved this past summer. However, her previous life was filled with sin, as she drank and had sex with guys before me, enough guys to number on 2 hands.\nI was so devastated when I found out. I was literally torn because I only had one romantic relationship before this point, and had only gone as far as a kiss.\nNeedless to say, I was more than a little hurt. In fact, I don't believe anything or anyone else hurt me as much as she did when she told me that.\nI was ready to just end things at that point.\n\nBut then I remembered. If God, who is the only one who is perfect and holy, can forgive us for all our sins without judgment, who are we to judge others and use their past against them. If she really came to God after her mistakes of the past, and surrendered herself to his forgiveness and mercy, then she is literally, emotionally, and spiritually a new person.\nGod calls us to forgive one another, and if a perfect God can forgive our sins, both past and current, without question (as long as we are sincere!) and love us with the greatest love of all; shouldn't we as Christians (who are also guilty of sin) replicate that love toward one another?\n\nI'm not saying it's easy. My heart aches and burns daily from the suffering that her past brings to me. But I trust that God will allow us to overcome this obstacle, and allow our relationship to prosper. As the first guy she even kissed after God came into her life, I know that she's changed.\nI'm going to continue to trust in God that He will allow me to get over her past; because who she is now is someone who makes me happy and has allowed me to experience love.\n\nIf you really love your girlfriend, pray about it. She's a new person now, she has Jesus in her.\nPlease keep Jesus Christ in the center of your life and of your current relationship. That's the only way that your relationship will be able to reach it's true potential.\n\nBe blessed.\n\nIn Him....
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Hello, \n\nGod is very loving, why would God who is loving and forgiving send us to burn in hell? That goes against everything God stands for, doesn't it? But when we sin he wants to forgive us, in fact 2 Peter 3:8, 9 says, "However, let this one fact not be escaping YOUR notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance." (I welcome you all to look this up in your own personal copy of the Bible) \n\nSo you see, not only does He want us to repent, He is also patent with us. How loving! Don't you think? It goes with His personality in fact we have the scripture at 1 John 4:16 that say "God is Love" which is very straight forward. So again, this would go against God’s personality. But back to your original question on Hell, do you know that after you die you are conscious of NOTHING of at all. Ecclesiastes 9:5 tells us that "For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten." So if all bad people were going to be burning in hell, this would go against what the Bible says, and we know God can not lie. Titus 1:2 says "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began." Then we have the scripture in 2 Timothy 3:16 that says all scriptures is inspired by God.\n\n\nPsalms 146:4 "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thought do perish." So again, here we see that our thoughts are gone. If we were going to burn in hell, don't you think it would make sense that we would be aware of it. \n\n\nEzekiel 18:4 "The soul that is sinning it itself will die." Notice that it doesn't say that it will burn in hell, just that it will die. And as we learned above in Ecclesiastes 9:5 the dead are aware of NOTHING. \n\n\nHell is nothing more than the common grave of mankind. Webster’s Dictionary says that the English word "hell" is equal to the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek word Hades. In German Bibles Hoelle is the word used instead of "hell"; in Portuguese the word used is inferno, in Spanish infierno, and in French Enfer. The English translators of the Authorized Version, or King James Version, translated Sheol 31 times as "hell," 31 times as "grave," and 3 times as "pit." The Catholic Douay Version translated Sheol 64 times as "hell." In the Christian Greek Scriptures (commonly called the "New Testament"), the King James Version translated Hades as "hell" each of the 10 times it occurs.—Matthew 11:23; 16:18; Luke 10:15; 16:23; Acts 2:27, 31; Revelation 1:18; 6:8; 20:13, 14.\n\n\nThe question is: What kind of place is Sheol, or Hades? The fact that the King James Version translates the one Hebrew word Sheol three different ways shows that hell, grave and pit mean one and the same thing. And if hell means the common grave of mankind, it could not at the same time mean a place of fiery torture. Well, then, do Sheol and Hades mean the grave, or do they mean a place of torture?\n\nBefore answering this question, let us make clear that the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek word Hades mean the same thing. This is shown by looking at Psalm 16:10 in the Hebrew Scriptures and Acts 2:31 in the Christian Greek Scriptures. Notice that in quoting from Psalm 16:10 where Sheol occurs, Acts 2:31 uses Hades. Notice, too, that Jesus Christ was in Hades, or hell. Are we to believe that God tormented Christ in a fiery hell? Of course not! Jesus was simply in his grave.\n\nWhen Jacob was mourning for his beloved son Joseph, who he thought had been killed, he said: "I shall go down mourning to my son into Sheo
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Jesus loves you.  He died for you and your sins are forgiven.  God gives you free will for you to accept this.  God id all powerful.  He could make you drop dead right now if he so chose.  He has a plan in store for evry one of us.  Jesus said that the law was written on your heart, now adays this would be called your conscience, telling you right from wrong.  Jesus died so you would be saved from sin.  Looking @ porn is a sin, but I am not judging you because we are all of sin. (noone is rightious, no, not one) and the reason you have these feelings whenyoulook @ this is because God is telling you to come away from Satan's grasp.  The next time you have these urges to look @ porn (or anything else) go grap your Bible and open it to the Book of Psalms.  This book is very comforting and helps me get through tough times,also.  Say a prayer,asking God to fill you with strength from the Holy Spirit, and rebuke those urges in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.  When the little things God does don't get ur attention, God willmake his willclear in an unimaginable number of ways.  Contact me whenever @ starwarsgurl247@yahoo.com and I would love to talk to you.  In the matchless name of Jesus Christ, Holly
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I love the book of John.  This passage particularly.  \n\nYou gave me pause with your question however.  I pray daily, but I do not confess daily.  Maybe I should.
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First, make sure you have indeed asked Jesus into your heart as Lord and Savior.\nhttp://www.calvarychapel.org/?show=TheGospel\n\nSecond read this from 1 John 1,\n\nBut if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.\n\nOK, if you have accepted Jesus, you are His and your position in Him has nothing to do with your strength regarding fleeing temptation. The devil will lie and say you are not worthy. And he is correct, we are ALL not worthy. But God's grace and mercy has taken ALL of our sins and thrown them as far as the East is from the West. So just confess your sins to Him, and believe by faith that He has forgiven all of your sins and you are white as snow and pleasing in His sight.\n\nNow, memorize that passage from John and spend the day thanking Him for His forgiveness and love. While you are at it, memorize this one as well from John 10...\n\nJesus said, "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand."\n\nNo one, not even Sinade! :)
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I was a passenger in my car going down the interstate. My husband was driving bad and I complained a few times. Finally I asked "why is it that just because you are the man, you always drive us? Why don't you just pull over and let me drive." \n\nHe agreed and pulled off at an exit and we changed at the gas station. I had only been driving a few minutes when I got this voice in my head that said "pull over and let Charley drive." I excused it as my own weird thinking and kept going. I then heard it again "Pull over and let Charley DRIVE" . \n\nBy then, I knew God (or his angels) were telling me this. I became upset about it because I thought I was being taught a lesson of submission which I didn't want to learn. I argued with God in my head. A third time, I heard "PULL OVER AND LET CHARLEY DRIVE." \n\nAt that point, I asked my husband "where should I pull over because I don't know why, but God is telling me to let you drive?"\n\nCharley said to just pull to the top of the ramp and we would switch out there. We did so and he pulled back onto the ramp. but no sooner than we got up to speed, we had to stop in the middle of the interstate. There had been a major collision. We sat for about 3 hours and watched news hellicopters, life line, and all kinds of emergency vehicles ahead of us by like a mile. When we finally got through we saw a 3 car collision had happened and they were mangled. There had been deaths. \n\nI knew right away it hadn't been about submitting to my husband at all, but about God or his angels letting me know of the danger ahead. I ws sure glad that I had been prayed up and reading the bible or I may have missed his voice.
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Someone asked this yesterday.  I'll tell you what I told them.\n\nIf I am wrong about being an atheist, and I stand before god, I will hold my head up. I'll say "I looked for you harder than anybody I know. I read the bible in its original languages. I prayed for hours and hours. If you know all, you know how sincerely I looked. If you can chuck me into hell, knowing that, then I go with a clear conscience. Because I wouldn't want to share eternity with a being who could torment ANYone for eternity. Let alone someone who looked for him so hard."\n\nI would rather go to hell with a clear conscience and a pure heart than go to heaven because I chose out of fear.
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Makes sense to me.  Some think they have sinned too much and can't be forgiven when the scripture says flat out they can and will if they just accept the forgiveness and repent.  They doubt God which is exactly what Satan wants you to do.  Think you are too far gone to get any forgiveness.  Is Jesus' sacrifice enough or would He have to hang for longer for you to think it is enough to cover YOUR sin?  Maybe not the best example but could you think of a better one?