What if the most rightious person on earth is Buddhist? Hell?
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I don't believe in the idea of a petty God with vindictive rules.\n\nSo the answer is no, you wouldn't go to hell if you're a Christian and it turns out that Buddhism was the One True Faith because even then, you'd be forgiven if there is a God.  Just live your life the best way you can and be good to yourself and others.
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As a whole, there is none.\nChristianity does not recognize Buddhism as anything but a cult of meditators who try to achieve nothing.\nBuddhism, with the "many fold path," accepts all religions, so obviously they have no problem with Christians...or anyone else for that matter.\n\nChristians are sorry that Buddhists will go to Hell, but that is about it.
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If there is a God and this God designed you and me with a brain designed to think, use logic and reason to solve problems and determine truth, then he would expect us to use it.  How in heaven and on earth could a just God punish us for questioning what is very illogical and very unreasonable?  To believe in something that we can't see and that which can't be proven.  Would God punish us for using the brain he gave us?  I don't think so.\n\nSo, if I am wrong about not believing the God described in the Bible, then it is just as well.   Because he would be a cruel joker to give me a brain and then punish me in eternal fires of hell for using it.  And how about all the good Buddhists in the world who don't believe in the God of the Bible.  He's going to damn them to hell also?\n\nThat would be a cruel and unjust God.  Right or wrong, I don't want any part of the Judeo-Christian God.
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Interesting question. According to the bible, you have to accept Jesus at the time of death and then you will be forgiven and allowed to paradise.  However, I find it very hard to believe that someone like Ghandi is going to hell. You can never do wrong by being a good, honest and kind person.
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Very interesting question...I would be surprised if Hitler was in heaven and if Mother Teresa were not.
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You sound more like a taoist than a christian, in which case the concept of hell is irrelevant :)
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I think that God's teachings tell you what is right and if you truly follow the heart of say the 10 commandments, and love everybody, you will choose to do what is right. Your conscience is God's gift to us to help us in our free will. People will always be tested and will not always pass their tests with the "best" answer or response. Your belief in God and your faith is a matter between you and God. The outward appearances that people put forth are a reflection of what they want other people to think, and cannot accurately show what is in somebody's heart. That is between a person and God. You can live a good life and lose it all in the last breath, or live a terrible life and realize Faith at the last moment. Who are we to judge people's characters?
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you're not suppose to worry. everything is happening as it should. There's nothinig you can do about. so really, there is no "evil" because it's being done according to a divine destiny. "good" and "evil" are illusions, and heaven and hell in the after life are illusions too. the bible says god is the alpha and omega, the first and the last, so we are born from God and we go back to God, regardless of what others and we may think. FACT. do the resaerch and you will learn that hell was put into the bible by constantine and the church to control the masses. Live every moment as if it's your last.
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If you believe in heaven and hell, then you'd believe that you have to do good things to get into heaven, and bad things to get into hell. If you indescriminately nuke people then you'll probably go to the hotter one of the two.
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it depends on what religion you believe in. \n\nif youve seen the movie what dreams may come with robbin williams it has a pretty interesting view of things.\n\nif you're buddhist, then your soul is "recycled" and based on your actions in this life, you'll be placed into a new body to live again accordingly. for example, if you were a good person, you'll get a better life in a rich and loving family. if you're a bad person, you end up being born in a bad family or even as an animal.\n\nif you're christian, then there's the whole thing with purgatory and then heaven or hell.\n\nif you're into the whole greek myth thing, then you'll go down into the underworld and if good, go to elysian fields, but if bad, suffer for eternity.\n\npersonally im not sure what happens. i also think that we shouldnt be too concerned with things. if you think too much about what happens after death, you may wind up regretting once u died that u had never really lived....
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Buddhist follow the eightfold path that governs thier acts. That goes for the physical and spiritual sense of self and well being. I wil try and copy thier morals which can direct itself if questioned.\n\n\nRight Viewpoint - Realizing the Four Noble Truths (samyag-dṛṣṭi, sammā-diṭṭhi) \nRight Values - Commitment to mental and ethical growth in moderation (samyak-saṃkalpa, sammā-saṅkappa) \nRight Speech - One speaks in a non hurtful, not exaggerated, truthful way (samyag-vāc, sammā-vācā) \nRight Actions - Wholesome action, avoiding action that would do harm (samyak-karmānta, sammā-kammanta) \nRight Livelihood - One's job does not harm in any way oneself or others; directly or indirectly (weapon maker, drug dealer, etc.) (samyag-ājīva, sammā-ājīva} \nRight Effort - One makes an effort to improve (samyag-vyāyāma, sammā-vāyāma) \nRight Mindfulness - Mental ability to see things for what they are with clear consciousness (samyak-smṛti, sammā-sati) \nRight Meditation - State where one reaches enlightenment and the ego has disappeared (samyak-samādhi, sammā-samādhi) \n\n\n*note* I have studied these principals before and each path to cleanse sufferring has deep details involved. I actually have a notebook that I made that breaks down most religions. And the details for these paths can be further explained. Basically, use Right Thought. This is from wikepedia.
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The "hell" is a christian concept.  I was a christian for many years.  In my desire to become more enlightened I find that I'm more spiritual than religious.  I've looked into some pagan religions.  The idea is about finding peace and a spiritual path. (I would like that for all of us)
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God- all loving, but has the unfortunate characteristic of not existing.\n\nJesus- taught a lot of good things, but also taught many things which I believe were harmful\n\nThe Colonel- since i'm vegetarian, i'm not inclined to give it to him.\n\nBuddha- Buddha had a lot of wisdom, and most importantly taught good values and reasoning and disdained dogma and doctrine.  He is my choice.
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I was raised by atheists, and am agnostic. I have studied religions comparatively for over 40 years. Most are utter rubbish. Superstition for the ignorant who cannot face their own mortality. Buddhism has the best ethics but it in its uncorrupted form is not a religion. A real religion would have to be stand up to scientific analysis.
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Hell is also eternal seperation from God. Knowing the truth, but unable to change your decision to turn away from Him.
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Yeah, no one knows what is a person's heart before death.  God alone knows.  What if the man repented?\n\nHave a good one!
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no one, hell doesn't exist.  It is a figment of imagination which was created to keep people in line and force them do do what their 'masters' wanted.