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If I decide not to believe in Christianity or any other God based faith, will God send me to an eternity in hell?
The whole thing just seems absurd. I didn't ask to be born into this life but according to Christianity, that was part of God's plan.
So now that I'm born, I'm given 2 choices -
- Believe in God and honor him for which he'll reward me with an eternity in Heaven
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- Not believe in God which means he'll make me spend an eternity suffering
...sort of makes God seem a bit vengeful and vindictive
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An hour with the Old Testament will answer your question far better than I could.
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So he won't punish you if you don't believe in him?
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An hour with the Old Testament will answer your question far better than I could. In my opinion,..a coupla hours in the New Testament would be much more informative.
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Can we logically believe that any human can answer that question? Only God himself could tell us that, although many(most) religions will tell you they have the exclusive written word of God and will answer your question based on those writings. Really though, why do you care what any person has to say about the idea? What makes their idea any more valid than your own?
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Ask Gus...he seems to have a better grip on REALITY...lmfao...
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If I decide not to believe in Christianity or any other God based faith, will God send me to an eternity in hell? No....its not about believing in christianity or God based faith...its about believing and worshipping God and his son Jesus who are one. The whole thing just seems absurd. I didn't ask to be born into this life but according to Christianity, that was part of God's plan. In order for him to be a God he had to have worshippers. So now that I'm born, I'm given 2 choices -
- Believe in God and honor him for which he'll reward me with an eternity in Heaven Kindof.....believe in Jesus Christ be baptised in his name....not no dumb trinitarian name and live and worship him. or
- Not believe in God which means he'll make me spend an eternity suffering Wrong....Hell was created...cant be eternal. ...sort of makes God seem a bit vengeful and vindictive Makes him a just God.
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In my opinion,..a coupla hours in the New Testament would be much more informative.
Is that where he says, " ahhh screw it, everyone gets into heaven".?
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What makes their idea any more valid than your own? I dunno.
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If you don't have a driver's licnse, the traffic laws do not pertain to you.
The Mayans had it right. If you�re going to predict the future, it�s best to aim far beyond your life expectancy, lest you wind up red-faced in a bunker overstocked with Spam and ammo.
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Well,...not really.
I'm not really open to indepth discussions of a religious nature,..but it's my opinion that it's a developmental thing,..and it has very little to do with what many people associate with it.
As fort God punishing people,....I think that misses the point.
It's a choice an individual makes for themselves.
A person starts out having nothing,...and if they refuse to accept what's offered, they will end up having nothing.
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There's a fair amount of smotin' and cursing, wailing and nashing of teeth. Enough so that I just say "yes Sir".
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...sort of makes God seem a bit vengeful and vindictive Makes him a just God. Makes him a pretty mean God if he'll send you to hell for not worshipping him. The whole idea of God needing or wanting to be worshipped seems pretty silly as well. I mean, did he create all of us so he could have a bunch of people telling him how great he is? What does he care if people spend time telling him how wonderful he is?
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If I decide not to believe in Christianity or any other God based faith, will God send me to an eternity in hell?
The whole thing just seems absurd. I didn't ask to be born into this life but according to Christianity, that was part of God's plan.
So now that I'm born, I'm given 2 choices -
- Believe in God and honor him for which he'll reward me with an eternity in Heaven
or
- Not believe in God which means he'll make me spend an eternity suffering
...sort of makes God seem a bit vengeful and vindictive Sin, confession, Eucharist, eternal life. If it sounds to good to be true it probably ........ Council of Nicaea determines this life after death thing is definitely marketable, taxable too!
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As fort God punishing people,....I think that misses the point.
It's a choice an individual makes for themselves.
A person starts out having nothing,...and if they refuse to accept what's offered, they will end up having nothing.
Bristoe nailed it on the head.
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A person starts out having nothing,...and if they refuse to accept what's offered, they will end up having nothing.
Seems they have little choice.
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Makes him a pretty mean God if he'll send you to hell for not worshipping him.
The only thing that stands between total destruction of man and God is Jesus Christ.
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If I decide not to believe in Christianity or any other God based faith, will God send me to an eternity in hell?
The whole thing just seems absurd. I didn't ask to be born into this life but according to Christianity, that was part of God's plan.
So now that I'm born, I'm given 2 choices -
- Believe in God and honor him for which he'll reward me with an eternity in Heaven
or
- Not believe in God which means he'll make me spend an eternity suffering
...sort of makes God seem a bit vengeful and vindictive [bleep] troll 
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...a little too deep for me.
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