is it just people who don't beleive in the christian God who go to hell?
806297
the god myth is a delusion of our culture, bordering on a type of mental illness that clouds the learning and curiosity of our young. for the love of god, get your head out of your ***.
673247
I've found that when it comes to homosexuality, most "Christians" become very un-Christian-like.\n\nI was raised to believe that no matter what people have done, or who they are, we are to love them, and accept them into Christianity.  You're fine in my book.  Maybe we're both going to Hell...lol.
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It doesn't. All go to hell at death including children and Christians.The original Hebrew word was Sheol and the Greek word was Hades, properly translated they mean: the grave or a pit.Another word also translated as hell was Gehenna(Greek),this is an actual place now known as the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem. This is a place that always had a fire and they burnt trash, animal carcasses, and live babies were sacrificed to molech the great owl god.Look at a map.In Psalm 16:10, & 49:15 David knew he was going to hell (grave) and would be resurected from it.Many of the older Bibles such as Geneva properly translated these words as grave or pit. It is impossible to have three totally different words and translate them all as hell. In the 1600's when the KJV Bible was made ,the meaning of the word hell was to put in the ground so when they changed the wording to hell they understood what it meant.If you look up Gehenna in Websters dictionary today you will see it tells you the same thing I said. Apparently its to difficult for most Christians to actually look up the meaning of a word, they prefer to listen to the lies that their preacher spews from the pulpit. My God will put you in hell when you die,the grave, and regardless of your beliefs or how you lived you will be resurected for judgement. To receive eternal life you must know Christ as saviour, if not you will be thrown into the lake of fire Rev. 20:14,this is the second death, where people are consumed instantly and permanently. No eternal suffering and torment.I am a Christian and I think its a shame that churches use these kind of scare tactics to keep people in church.
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I don't like that certain Christians tell me that I'm going to hell because I don't believe exactly what they believe.  If someone lives on an island, has no other people around, knows nothing of society, can you honestly think that this person will spend his afterlife in a fiery pit of despair and pain?  It sounds just like a Sunday School tale to scare children into behaving.  Old fairy tales such as Little Red Riding hood, Cinderella, etc, didn't turn out as happily ever after, they were to teach children to behave, and have good manners.  I respect Christians, they can believe whatever they want, but please I am happy with my own beliefs, and don't want to believe what you do.
542834
No, this is not true.  What about Christ or mother Theresa, do you think they are in hell?  What about Saint John the babtist? Or the apostles?  Whoever told you this was wrong.  You go to hell by your own choices.
407664
Correction: It's not fair to think that people who commit suicide go to hell.\n\nThe upper being of whichever deity you believe in ultimately controls who goes where, not the thoughts of people. No one knows who is going where and, though there are speculations, no one is in control.
752754
Why would KISS go to Hell??\n\nIt's so strange that those who claim to be the most loving and "tolerant"(christians) are so very intolerant of those who disagree with their religious beliefs.
235271
hm, it's kind of hard question.  They say that u will go to hell or heaven, but somebody beleives in it and others don't.  I don't know what to think.
998254
No, they are not condemned to go to hell\nbecause you call them by all these rude and\nhurting words. It is not a sin to be who you are.\nHowever, if you do not love thy neighbor\nas the ten commandments say, then you are \ncommitting a sin. God created us all in his\nimage. Are you saying he made a mistake\nand has not fixed that yet? What is Hell?\nFor allot of these people living in to days world is hell.\nAnd all the the righteous and Strong Christians etc,\nshould not point fingers at other people and say they\nare sinners before they have checked out their own\n'LAUNDRY"
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A very good question.\n\nNobody likes to think their loved ones are bad people or that their own heaven will exclude the things or people that they love. It is a no win argument, either the God/Gods will punish the wrong doers and in the process do evil to the person who did no wrong, or the God/Gods have to forgive everyone for their crime and heaven will be open for everyone even if they don't believe.\nMaybe there is a true God that does not punish and the Gods we all hear about are all just the Devil, making threats and forcing people to follow them. Even more radical would a true loving God exclude anyone? or even judge people?
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People usually use Hell to inspire FEAR.  If you do not believe in Jesus Christ, don't worry... When you get to hell, you will know he is real...
349998
Yes they are. According to my religion, you have to be a christian to go to heaven.Since they are not christians, they are going to hell
342927
yes,you are right the one who create the Sun can also Create the Hell...i feel pity and really so sad for the people who laugh at you....of course we must not believe in God just because we are afraid of Hell...but human beings have a lot of differences..there are sort of people you can not stop them of doings a bad thing except if you show them the punishment.....this is why there are prisons .we can see a lot of people in our life do not do crimes just they afraid of going to prison not because crimes are bad....but the not Smart bad people who insist on doing crimes even they know they could go to the prisons but they just laugh at...so the Prisons in all the countries are full of these sort of people..and for that too the Hell will be full of people who laugh at....God help them with his mercy .....\nand at the end like you said if these people have blind hearts to find God...they should think of it by mathematical mind (probability of existence theory) if there are 0.0000001% Hell and God are true ..what they will do?so it i prefer to believe in God than find nothing, than to not believe in God and find Hell.
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I would say that people that do not understand God or Jesus, or choose to reject Him, are sinning, and in their egocentric world, hell would be on Earth.  It is arrogance to believe man is the highest form of being and that there is no God.  It is arrogance to believe man can do whatever he wants, as if he were a god.  It is arrogance that sent Satan into Hell, which is not place but a state of being.  It is beyond a 3 dimensional place, it is state of being outside of time and space.  \n\nBut in human linguistics, we are limited to vocabulary and meanings of words we have.  So "hell on earth" is a phrase that may be literal to those who reject God/Jesus.   \n\nI personally believe that suffering in human terms feels like "hell" but the real state of Hell will be worse than any and all suffering we can imagine.  It will be the torment of being separated from God, our Creator.
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I AGREE W/ WHAT YOU SAID 100%. BASICALLY HELL IS FOR THE DEVIL, GOD DOESN'T WANT US TO GO THERE BUT SOME PEOPLE WILL. ONE DAY GOD WILL THROW THE DEVIL IN HELL! PRAISE GOD! THAT WILL BE A GREAT DAY. AND HE WILL SPEND ETERNITY THERE. SO THAT'S WHY HE MADE HELL TO BEGIN W/.
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Well technically YES, because fire and brimstone hell as has been preached in the past is false doctrine. The bible says that when people die, the are concious of nothing and feel nothing (pain, joy, sorrow. etc. ...) So 'hell' as referred to in the bible is simply the grave. So yes those people did go to 'hell', but they are not burning eternally!
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Lot's of people have.  They obviously don't think their lives are bad enough already that they are tempting God to send them straight to hell!\n\nI'm an Atheist and have nothing to do with the whole affair, if God exists then he surely admires my honesty and will send me straight up!