“There is no compulsion in religion.”"let those who wish to believe it do so, and let those who wish to reject it do so"\n\n“Did you think you would enter the Garden without God first proving which of you would struggle for His cause and remain steadfast?” \n\n"Leave those who reject this revelation to Me: We shall lead them on step by step to their ruin in ways beyond their knowledge; I will allow them more time, for My plan is powerful” \n\n“The disbelievers should not think that it is better for them that We give them more time: when We give them more time they become more sinful – a shameful torments awaits them”\n\n“Should We treat those who submit to Us as We treat those who do evil? What is the matter with you? On what basis do you judge?”\n\nMost of them “say inwardly, ‘Why does God not punish us for what we say?’ Hell will be punishment enough for them”“The evildoers…will have a share of punishment – they need not ask Me to hasten it”\n\n"You (believers) HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR"
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well i think is a  nice poem and i don't think it is a contradiction but a consistency through all of it . i also think that it is important for God to be chosen and not imposed this is what free will is all about . let those who chose Him to do so and let those who reject Him to do so too . i see not problem whit that . at the end we will get what we look for .\n plz let us know where u get it from .
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It is written, judge not lest you be judged. I will never say a person is condemned to hell, for we never know what God is doing in another persons life to bring them to savlation. I will on the other hand try to point out through  scripture that the direction, one is taking will lead them to hell, they always have opportunity to change their life.
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Links posted by sinthya gives quotes from Quran regarding hell punishment for those who delibrately disbelieve God. Yes, Quran has warned about severe punishment in hereafter life for rejecting God. What that has to do with violence ? A person who believe in Hell punishement will be more tolerent and just because he knows will be accounted for every deed he do in this life. \n\nSee this answer also\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006012302108
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Apology accepted.\n\nI commend you.\n\nNext time you get upset at hearing that you are going to hell,\n\nGet mad at God, and talk to Him about it.\n\nWe are just repeating what God told us, and we just happen to believe Him!!!
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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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"Be it that, you warn them or not warn them, it will be the same to them -- they will not believe."...Surah-al-Bakara, Qur'aan.\n\n"Recite: Oh, Disbelievers!  I do not serve that which you serve nor, do you serve Him who I serve.  I do not worship that which you worship nor, do you worship Him who I worship.  To you, your religion; to me, mine."...Surah-al-Kafirun, Qur'aan.\n\nMy Response to the Question: "Because they do NOT wish to understand since, they have ALREADY made-up their own CONCLUSION about Islam."
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Scriptural references are needed to explain:\n\nRomans 8:29-30\n[29] For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.  [30]  And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.  (NIV)\n\nHebrews 10:35-39\n[35]  So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.  [36]  You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.  [37]  For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay.  [38]  But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."  [39]  But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.  (NIV)\n\nThere are those who shrink back… and they will be destroyed.  Nonetheless, your own soul tells you whether you are one of them or not.  Do you desire to shrink back?  Or did God call you?  There are Christians who choose Christ… and there are Christians who are called.\n\nAs in Jesus’ own words:\n\nJohn 6:66-71\n[66]  From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.  [67]  "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve.  [68] Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. [69]  We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God."  [70] Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"  [71] (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)  (NIV)\n\nThere are numerous passages that I can refer too.  Basically, predestination and the human being’s freewill are tied together and are complicated. It depends whether you delight in wickedness or whether you hold on to the truth.  If a certain practice that you partake in becomes genuinely revealed as wicked… Will you abandon it to hold on to the truth… or will you ignore?  Satan tempts and deceives… but he cannot effect your will.\n\nGalatians 6:7-8\n[7]  Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.  [8] The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.  (NIV)\n\nIf a Christian never seeks to please the Spirit, but only pleases his sinful nature, he will not reap eternal life… he will, instead, reap destruction.\n\nSalvation is in three phases:  Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification.  \n\nThe Process of Salvation Defined:\n\nJustification – Declared righteous – I am saved.\nSanctification – Ongoing growth – I am being saved.\nGlorification – Future without sin – I will be saved.\n\nTo be justified is to be saved… confessing that Jesus is Lord… believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead.  Some people, sadly, stop there.\n\nBeing sanctified is described in these words:  \n \n1 Corinthians 6:11\nAnd that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.  (NIV)\n\nSanctification is done by the Spirit of God… it is being refined by him.  The Spirit of God is the Counselor… and yet so many deny that God speaks.  To be sanctified, a Christian must have a true growing relationship with God.  And how can one have a relationship without communication/fellowship with the Spirit of Jesus?  A true maturing Disciple is not easily outwitted by Satan’s schemes… because he or she knows about his scheming.\n\n2 Thessalonians 2:11-12\n[11] For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie [12] and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. (NIV)\n\nThe fakes will no
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God's goodness demands that He punish evil. But it does not restrict Him from taking that punishment upon Himself, in the form of His only Begotten Son, the Messiah Jesus.\n\nHowever, if you only want to continue in your sins, there is no point in bringing you to Heaven, where there is no sin (Revelation 21:8, 22:11; John 3:16-21).
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Ro 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. \nRo 12:20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. \nRo 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. \nASK ALL THE QUESTIONS YOU WANT TO OK.
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1- if you choose the wrong belief, you will end up in hell.\n    {there is only one true religion that you should follow.}\n \n2-yes, I thought :what if I was wrong? and there is another belief  \n   which is right .\n\n3-if I'm truly convinced that I 'm on the wrong path , I 'll change it ,\n   no matter  what the risks are.\n \n4-I spent years and years searching for the truth,and thanks to \n   Allah Almighty that I found the right path.
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I would never question the right of anyone to practice whatever religion they wanted (as long as they didn't interfere with someone else's ability to have the same freedom).\n\nAs a non-Christian (and by the way not all non-Christians are atheists, it doesn't break down that way) we understand that your 'hell' is the worst place imaginable.  The ultimate punishment for the worst crimes against humanity.  Am I right?\n\nWhy wouldn't we be offended if you hated us enough to tell us that we are going there?  How would you feel if I told you that you deserved the worst kind of punishment in my social club just because you don't belong?  Its not because we believe in hell, its because we believe that you believe in hell.  \n\nI'm pretty comfortable that I'm not going to hell anyway.  Just because I interpret the bible differently than you do doesn't make me evil.  There are people who read and learn from the Bible who don't call themselves Christians and I'm one of them.   I believe that God accepts all forms of love.  \n\nThere are some wonderful people who call themselves Christians but Christianity is neither the only kind of love nor is it exclusively a loving bunch of people.\n\nAfter all, isn't that the real message.  Love.  Peace.  Brotherhood.  Isn't that what Jesus' teachings are really all about?  I just can't get into the 'my-group-is-better-than-your-group' way of interpreting the great works of religion.  It only spreads hatred and Jihad and Hell, right here on Earth.
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This is an excellent quote and an excellent point.\n\nChristians are way too afraid of the dark.  In fact, the Bible in one epistle preaches against having such rules as "Don't taste; don't touch".  \n\nHowever, we are human, and even humans with the brightest light can be tempted into the darkness.  That's what forgiveness, learning, and wisdom are for.
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Interesting question. A lot of people say that in order to avoid hell, you must accept (insert religion) as the truth. To them, I say, if God can't understand why I have my doubts about (insert religion), he's as stupid as...well, you. (You, meaning them, not you.)
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For Muslims:\nThe Disbelievers\n\nIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.\n[109.1] Say: O unbelievers!\n[109.2] I do not serve that which you serve,\n[109.3] Nor do you serve Him Whom I serve:\n[109.4] Nor am I going to serve that which you serve,\n[109.5] Nor are you going to serve Him Whom I serve:\n[109.6] You shall have your religion and I shall have my religion\n\nSo let them live and live in peace....
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Believer: "I prayed for a new job, and God provided me one!"\n\nSkeptic: "How do you know it wasn't just coincidence?"\n\nBeliever: "There are no coincidences--everything happens for a reason, and when I pray, it is answered."\n\nSkeptic: "Every time?"\n\nBeliever: "Well, no, not every time. Sometimes it is not God's will that I have what I ask for."\n\nSkeptic: "How do you know it isn't God's will?"\n\nBeliever: "Because he didn't answer my prayer!"\n\nDo you see how this works? It's circular reasoning at its finest. It's also a matter of counting the hits and discarding the misses. Every coincidence simply reinforces the believer's conviction that prayer (or spell castings or whatever) works, while the unfulfilled wishes are simply brushed off with, "Oh, it wasn't God's will."  If I want a new job, and I set out to get it, and I actually get it, I don't attribute it to the workings of some higher power. A believer, in the same circumstances, would do so, and there is no good reason why they should.  Coincidences happen a million times a day, all over the world, to believers and unbelievers alike. It means absolutely nothing.
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Counter-Example: \n\nSo if I'm so angry with someone that I feel hate towards them and want to kill them, should I simply go ahead and murder them -- since I've already sinned and wanted them dead in my heart? \n\nOf course not.\n\nLooking at the context of the verse (Matthew 5:28), Jesus was dealing with men (Pharisees) who commonly thought it was okay to look lustfully at a woman as long as he didn't physically touch her. They made a distinction; God doesn't. He doesn't think it's okay to "use" someone internally, while just avoiding the pretense of sin on the outside.\n\nIt's a matter of the heart. God wants a good heart -- good motivations toward other people -- not JUST good external behavior.
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"there are none righteous; no, not one"\n"all have sinned and come short of the glory of God"\n"I am the way, the truth, the life.  no man comes to the Father except through me."