Everyone says our soul belongs to God no matter what, but if it does, then why is that he requires us to surrender our lives to him even though, if this were true, they already belong to him. As well, if our souls did already belong to him, then no one would go to Hell. I believe our souls belong to no one accept ourselves. We have the power to chose who we give our souls to. Whether it be God, Satan, or whatever else there may be. It's not logical; if our souls really did belong to him, then he wouldn't have given us the option to chose what we do with our souls, that is Hell or Heaven. As well, if this were true, then nobody would be in Hell.
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This all total crap. Overcome your conditioning and recognise that you have been brainwashed.\n\nDon't you think that if there was a God then after 2000 years and more we'd have just a bit of evidence? By evidence I mean something objectively measurable - not the mumbo-jumbo circumstantial stuff spouted by the Bible-bashers.\n\nWake up and get a life.
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"Life without God or his goodness is hell"\n\nEven if people are not in relationship with God,he is still affecting them. He holds back evil and darkness to a degree that we don't even know about. In Hell, God's power is given way to the Enemies ways. He relinquishes His power to the Prince of Darkness. We all have a choice as to where we want to spend our everlasting life -- we get to choose our "address" of either Heaven in the Kingdom of God or in Hell with the Prince of Darkness.
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I'm not sure where it would say this...\n\nI would say that Satan can't take your life or your soul. \n\nBasically, our bodies will all die (unless you're Elisha or get raptured). That is part of a system that God put in place after sin was introduced into this world. \n\nAlthough our bodies die (corruptable), we all actually live forever. ALL of us live forever. It's a matter of WHERE you will live forever and that is entirely up to you. \n\nWHERE you live for eternity is determined by your beliefs when you die. \n\nIf you believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, that he lived a perfect sinless life and that he paid the price for your sin and if you have accepted his payment for your debt, then you'll live in Heaven.\n\nOtherwise, you'll live it hell.\n\nIt really is that simple. \n\n(God is holy, We are sinful, the wages of sin are death, God loved us so much he sent his only son to pay our debt, all who believe in him shall not die). That's salvation in a nutshell.
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The answer is more simple than it seems - there is sin in the world.  If sin had never been brought into the world there would be no death and no pain.  The other problem with the whole "God mapped out our lives" scenario is that He gave us free will.  Even if He knows what's going to happen to us (which He does), even He can't control how we're going to react to what happens to us because He gave us the ability to make our own choices.  So, combine free will with sin being in the world and now you know why such terrible things happen to such good people.
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God is everywhere and knows everything, so we don't have the power to "throw Him away".   I believe not enough people read God's Word to do their own research and are falling for the humanistic way of looking at things.  It has been a long, long time since I heard a preacher even preach about Heaven and Hell and the choices we make.  A lot of our churches are so politically correct, no real meat is taught to people who come hungry to hear God's Word.  If the Truth is taught, some people get offended but we will be held accountable for what is taught in our churches.
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Good Question, although you got a little lost in your typing there. \n\nI have to agree with your premise though. All in all, I think, and remember this is just my opinion, that you're on the right track. I think it's how a person lives and treats him/her self and others, that really matters. \nIf God really wants everyone to be one religion or another, there has to be some wiggle room in the end for those who just didn't know the difference or who were simply confused over the enormity of it all. \nPersonally I'm a God fearing Agnostic. Meaning I believe in God, but I don't believe in any one specific religious view of God. I know my actions towards others is a reflection of Gods' plan and if I'm cruel then I'm doing evil. \nIf I help someone out of my own kindness then I'm doing God's work.\nI don't believe God watches each of us individually, that's why He gave us free will. \nWe as individuals must look inward to find peace, love and goodness. Each of us must reach that place to pull out the goodness and extend it to our neighbors.
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No,just like people who were raised with a different religion throughout their childhood doesn't go to hell.There is no hell.Everything that we are is the way God intended it to be;If it wasn't,it wouldn't be.Man made the concepts of good and bad,not God.In reality nothing is really good or bad,it's our thoughts that make them so.
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I don't necessarily believe in the whole Christianity heaven/hell concept, but if I did, I would say that where you go after death depends on what's in your heart, not what comes out of your mouth, or where you spend your Sundays. I can't imagine that God would find much good in the hearts of Hitler or the other fellows you mention. I think a good hearted Pagan or Jew or Muslim or Buddhist or whatever has a better shot at heaven than a bad person who states they accept Jesus. I think people worry a lot more about labels (like Christian, or Jew, etc.) than God does.
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Dear Bill, I would Like to explain why a person goes to hell and Howwe can escape the consequences of hell. I would like to ask you a few questions.............\n\nHave you ever lied (even once--fibs, white lies, etc.)? Ever stolen (anything--the value is irrelevant)? Jesus said, "Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery already with her in his heart." Have you ever looked with lust? If you have said "Yes" to these three questions, by your own admission, you are a lying, thieving, adulterer at heart; and we’ve only looked at three of the Ten Commandments. Nothing you’ve ever done is hid from His holy eyes. Will you be innocent or guilty on the Day of Judgment? Listen to your conscience. You know that you will be guilty, and therefore end up in Hell. That’s not God’s will. He provided a way for you and I to be forgiven. \nHe sent His Son to take our punishment: "God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." He was bruised for our iniquities. Jesus then rose from the dead and defeated death. \nYour own so-called “goodness” can’t get you into heaven any more than mine could.  Jesus is the only way to Heaven. He is the "Door," the only "mediator." There is salvation in no other name, and if you will repent (turn from sin) and place your faith and trust in jesus, God will forgive you of your sins and grant you eternal life. A person dosent go to Hell because they are foolish, but raher because they have trasgressed the Law. Please, turn from sin and trust in the savior today.\nGod Bless\nWDJD
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Funny I was Christian for many years, and the concept of Jesus and God were the same just never made common sense.  If God wanted to do something, why not just do it?  Why limit himself to human form?  Further more in the Christian belief, if Jesus was God, why in the world would He let himself be tortured and crucified to a cross?  No not to save everyone from their own sins.  If that were true everyone before Jesus would be condemned to Hell.  Not to mention that is a too easy answer to give yourself permission to sin all you want because Jesus died to wipe out your sins.  According to this, all felons, become Christian you will not be held accountable for your sins in front of God, because God (Jesus) died to wipe your sins away.
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we have all sinned, and therefore all deserve to go to hell.  but that is the beauty of christianity, that it is no doing of your own to go to heven accept for accepting Christ as your lord and saviour.  it is that simple...so whether it is sexual sin, or stealing, or lieing, we have all sinned, and are there for in the same till we ask Christ into our lives...it is that simple.
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Yes, God has the power to predestine or not predestine our lives as He so chooses.  I agree with you in that I believe we have free choice.  I don't understand so easily how you come to know the mind of God.  Everyone is selected for His service, and everyone is blessed.  We need not seek Him, since He is already knocking on the door of our hearts.  All we must do is let Him in.  Yes, because of our freedom of choice, if we choose to follow God, we will be with Him forever in heaven.
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God is Love, he doesn't send any soul to "Hell", we are a part of him. He does not make mistakes and abandon his "original" plan and this earth WILL be paradise one day.
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God's only spoken commandment in the bible is "be you perfect even as I am perfect"\nwhy do you think our souls are eternal? its going to take a loooooooooooooooong time to reach spiritual perfection but it is never too late to start.
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This is an excellent question. If God created life and He is all powerful, why do people go to hell for disobeying his commands? Surely God would create us with a pre-ordained destiny if he is all powerful, hence no freedom of choice. Either God created us to go to hell or he is not all powerful, in which case he is not really God.\n\nAll our decisions are formed by our genetic code and past experiences, it is God who decides this. The laws of nature (including quantum mechanics) are controlled by God. In that sense there is no 'I'. \n\nTherefore, either God does not exist and free will does,\nor God exists and some people were destined from the dawn of time to disobey Him. Which leads us to conclude that if hell really does exist, then it is not the fault of the person but a fault of God that sent him there. He is chastising himself. This again invalidates the law of God being all powerful.\n\nIf freedom of choice does not exist, and God does, then judgement can not. If God doesn't hold judgement over his own creation, he can not be all powerful.\n\nWe must have free choice for God to exist. But God controls the life we have! Its a circular argument.\n\nDoes God not exist, then?\n\nHis ultimate wisdom allows us not to know the truth.
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I believe that God made us in His image and why would he do that if he didn't want us to live on in heaven with him. Then just to make sure he sent His only Son to redeem our sins!  I almost died during childbirth 2 years ago and I don't think that was all there would have been to my life.  We don't only get life after death in heaven but our loved ones here on earth make sure we live every day!  We recall them and they are with us in our hearts.
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sin is not what casts us into the pits of hell. A denial of God's undying mercy is what separates us from Him. Children are born selfish-- as they must be to survive. However, children are also born blessed by the Holy father. and that blessing is what keeps us close to him unless we ourselves choose to cast it away.