Why aren't some people who believe in hell worried about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being obsessed and worried and constantly thinking about “going to hell” is a form of OCD.

Some examples of religious obsessions include:

Fear of not having enough faith.
Fear of going to Hell.
Fear of being unclean or contaminated according to the rules of one’s religion.
Fear of committing immoral behavior.

Unlike typical religious activity, spiritual compulsions are often motivated more by fear than faith.

People who are truly religious and have faith in their God and religious beliefs system, whatever it maybe, are not religious because they are “afraid of going to hell.” They find strength and comfort and support in their chosen religion. They are not motivated by thoughts of eternal torment or suffering; they are motivated by the positive aspects of their religion.

Religious OCD is when someone is when someone participates in repetitive, time-consuming activities that the person does not enjoy, and has an overwhelming fear of “going to hell” and the consequences of “burning in hell,” etc.

The poster here who has posted 5 threads about hell and responds negatively about religion and hell could have religious OCD that is negatively affecting their life and should seek counseling or therapy.

How do you know that it's one poster?

Maybe pp IS the poster!

Which PP?

[Anonymous]

I believe in God and hell and they both scare me. I know I should believe God is a loving God but thinking that he can’t burn someone forever causes me to fear him. The thought of being on fire forever is awful and I can’t wrap my head around the fact that God would cause such pain to his children simply because they didn’t believe in him or do as he wanted. If he was a human we would think of him as the worst most awful serial killer of all time. That thinking gives me hope that God would actually burn people forever but I still believe in hell. It causes me a lot of anxiety. I won’t have children because the thought of my child being on fire is something I can’t risk .

Do I worry about others going to hell? Not really because I figure I’ve never been one to consider myself lucky and gather I’ll probably be their right along with them. You never know what could put him over the edge about you . I always try and do the right thing but I fall short sometimes. It upsets me because I didn’t want to be alive, don’t want it now but God created me so I’m here just hoping to die a painless death and either go to heaven or nowhere. Hell is a horrible thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re essentially asking why I, as a believing person, don’t worry God is wrong and exercising poor judgment.

This.

Also, my religion doesn’t teach people who aren’t our religion go to hell. It teaches that people who sin certain horrible sins and refuse to repent go to hell. That can include people in our religion. I could proselytize 24/7 and win converts, but I can’t make someone be a good person.

[Anonymous]

Millions of people are living a version of hell while alive. For example, sex trafficking victims, starving kids across the world, people living in fear of their government or military. Why aren’t you concerned with those people living through hell today instead of focusing on a theoretical future hell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re essentially asking why I, as a believing person, don’t worry God is wrong and exercising poor judgment.

This.

Also, my religion doesn’t teach people who aren’t our religion go to hell. It teaches that people who sin certain horrible sins and refuse to repent go to hell. That can include people in our religion. I could proselytize 24/7 and win converts, but I can’t make someone be a good person.

If you don't mind me asking, what is your religion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Millions of people are living a version of hell while alive. For example, sex trafficking victims, starving kids across the world, people living in fear of their government or military. Why aren’t you concerned with those people living through hell today instead of focusing on a theoretical future hell?

Why do you assume that? I am, to say the least, and I try to help people who are suffering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re essentially asking why I, as a believing person, don’t worry God is wrong and exercising poor judgment.

This.

Also, my religion doesn’t teach people who aren’t our religion go to hell. It teaches that people who sin certain horrible sins and refuse to repent go to hell. That can include people in our religion. I could proselytize 24/7 and win converts, but I can’t make someone be a good person.

Does God make them bad (in the same way, for instance, that he creates them poor or sick), then give them (some of them, at least, depending on where they live) the opportunity to be converted to Christianity and become good?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe in God and hell and they both scare me. I know I should believe God is a loving God but thinking that he can’t burn someone forever causes me to fear him. The thought of being on fire forever is awful and I can’t wrap my head around the fact that God would cause such pain to his children simply because they didn’t believe in him or do as he wanted. If he was a human we would think of him as the worst most awful serial killer of all time. That thinking gives me hope that God would actually burn people forever but I still believe in hell. It causes me a lot of anxiety. I won’t have children because the thought of my child being on fire is something I can’t risk .

Do I worry about others going to hell? Not really because I figure I’ve never been one to consider myself lucky and gather I’ll probably be their right along with them. You never know what could put him over the edge about you . I always try and do the right thing but I fall short sometimes. It upsets me because I didn’t want to be alive, don’t want it now but God created me so I’m here just hoping to die a painless death and either go to heaven or nowhere. Hell is a horrible thought.

Any decent counselor, including a Christian counselor would work to work to disabuse you of these false beliefs. Please seek help.

This thinking is horrendous if true. It sounds like a joke post, expressing the worst fears of a christian believer. If these are your real feelings, please know that it is not christian teachings that are making you feel this way, but your own psychology and warped views of god.

There are plenty of good christians who don't believe in this horrible view of the afterlife. With help, you could be one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe in God and hell and they both scare me. I know I should believe God is a loving God but thinking that he can’t burn someone forever causes me to fear him. The thought of being on fire forever is awful and I can’t wrap my head around the fact that God would cause such pain to his children simply because they didn’t believe in him or do as he wanted. If he was a human we would think of him as the worst most awful serial killer of all time. That thinking gives me hope that God would actually burn people forever but I still believe in hell. It causes me a lot of anxiety. I won’t have children because the thought of my child being on fire is something I can’t risk .

Do I worry about others going to hell? Not really because I figure I’ve never been one to consider myself lucky and gather I’ll probably be their right along with them. You never know what could put him over the edge about you . I always try and do the right thing but I fall short sometimes. It upsets me because I didn’t want to be alive, don’t want it now but God created me so I’m here just hoping to die a painless death and either go to heaven or nowhere. Hell is a horrible thought.

Any decent counselor, including a Christian counselor would work to work to disabuse you of these false beliefs. Please seek help.

This thinking is horrendous if true. It sounds like a joke post, expressing the worst fears of a christian believer. If these are your real feelings, please know that it is not christian teachings that are making you feel this way, but your own psychology and warped views of god.

There are plenty of good christians who don't believe in this horrible view of the afterlife. With help, you could be one of them.

+1 it really does sound like a joke post, or a person that saw something that was “hell” on a cartoon as a child, and that scared them and no adult in their life ever spoke with them truthfully.

What’s even more horrendous is that if true, you won’t have a child and a loving relationship with your own child ever because “God will burn them forever!”

That’s what I mean: people who are this affected by “hell” need to talk to someone!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re essentially asking why I, as a believing person, don’t worry God is wrong and exercising poor judgment.

This.

Also, my religion doesn’t teach people who aren’t our religion go to hell. It teaches that people who sin certain horrible sins and refuse to repent go to hell. That can include people in our religion. I could proselytize 24/7 and win converts, but I can’t make someone be a good person.

Does God make them bad (in the same way, for instance, that he creates them poor or sick), then give them (some of them, at least, depending on where they live) the opportunity to be converted to Christianity and become good?

Why are you obsessed with the idea that converting to Christianity is going to make someone good? If anything, some denominations teach that once you convert, you do not have an excuse for sinful behavior and are actually held to a higher standard. In some communities, people wait until they are very old or on their deathbed to be baptized so that a lifetime of sin is washed away.

Anyway, my particular denomination emphasizes free well. God makes people neither good nor bad. People choose their actions. They can also choose whether or not to repent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re essentially asking why I, as a believing person, don’t worry God is wrong and exercising poor judgment.

This.

Also, my religion doesn’t teach people who aren’t our religion go to hell. It teaches that people who sin certain horrible sins and refuse to repent go to hell. That can include people in our religion. I could proselytize 24/7 and win converts, but I can’t make someone be a good person.

Does God make them bad (in the same way, for instance, that he creates them poor or sick), then give them (some of them, at least, depending on where they live) the opportunity to be converted to Christianity and become good?

Why are you obsessed with the idea that converting to Christianity is going to make someone good? If anything, some denominations teach that once you convert, you do not have an excuse for sinful behavior and are actually held to a higher standard. In some communities, people wait until they are very old or on their deathbed to be baptized so that a lifetime of sin is washed away.

Anyway, my particular denomination emphasizes free well. God makes people neither good nor bad. People choose their actions. They can also choose whether or not to repent.

Does this work? That is, does God accept these late-life conversions knowing that the motive is to allow for a lifetime of sin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re essentially asking why I, as a believing person, don’t worry God is wrong and exercising poor judgment.

This.

Also, my religion doesn’t teach people who aren’t our religion go to hell. It teaches that people who sin certain horrible sins and refuse to repent go to hell. That can include people in our religion. I could proselytize 24/7 and win converts, but I can’t make someone be a good person.

Does God make them bad (in the same way, for instance, that he creates them poor or sick), then give them (some of them, at least, depending on where they live) the opportunity to be converted to Christianity and become good?

Why are you obsessed with the idea that converting to Christianity is going to make someone good? If anything, some denominations teach that once you convert, you do not have an excuse for sinful behavior and are actually held to a higher standard. In some communities, people wait until they are very old or on their deathbed to be baptized so that a lifetime of sin is washed away.

Anyway, my particular denomination emphasizes free well. God makes people neither good nor bad. People choose their actions. They can also choose whether or not to repent.

Does this work? That is, does God accept these late-life conversions knowing that the motive is to allow for a lifetime of sin?

Your heart must believe it. It must be an honest and true choice. It’s not something you can do superficially, and not mean it authentically. Anyone at any time can receive the gift of salvation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re essentially asking why I, as a believing person, don’t worry God is wrong and exercising poor judgment.

This.

Also, my religion doesn’t teach people who aren’t our religion go to hell. It teaches that people who sin certain horrible sins and refuse to repent go to hell. That can include people in our religion. I could proselytize 24/7 and win converts, but I can’t make someone be a good person.

Does God make them bad (in the same way, for instance, that he creates them poor or sick), then give them (some of them, at least, depending on where they live) the opportunity to be converted to Christianity and become good?

Why are you obsessed with the idea that converting to Christianity is going to make someone good? If anything, some denominations teach that once you convert, you do not have an excuse for sinful behavior and are actually held to a higher standard. In some communities, people wait until they are very old or on their deathbed to be baptized so that a lifetime of sin is washed away.

Anyway, my particular denomination emphasizes free well. God makes people neither good nor bad. People choose their actions. They can also choose whether or not to repent.

Does this work? That is, does God accept these late-life conversions knowing that the motive is to allow for a lifetime of sin?

Your heart must believe it. It must be an honest and true choice. It’s not something you can do superficially, and not mean it authentically. Anyone at any time can receive the gift of salvation.

Anyone? Do you have to believe in Jesus Christ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re essentially asking why I, as a believing person, don’t worry God is wrong and exercising poor judgment.

This.

Also, my religion doesn’t teach people who aren’t our religion go to hell. It teaches that people who sin certain horrible sins and refuse to repent go to hell. That can include people in our religion. I could proselytize 24/7 and win converts, but I can’t make someone be a good person.

Does God make them bad (in the same way, for instance, that he creates them poor or sick), then give them (some of them, at least, depending on where they live) the opportunity to be converted to Christianity and become good?

Why are you obsessed with the idea that converting to Christianity is going to make someone good? If anything, some denominations teach that once you convert, you do not have an excuse for sinful behavior and are actually held to a higher standard. In some communities, people wait until they are very old or on their deathbed to be baptized so that a lifetime of sin is washed away.

Anyway, my particular denomination emphasizes free well. God makes people neither good nor bad. People choose their actions. They can also choose whether or not to repent.

Does this work? That is, does God accept these late-life conversions knowing that the motive is to allow for a lifetime of sin?

Your heart must believe it. It must be an honest and true choice. It’s not something you can do superficially, and not mean it authentically. Anyone at any time can receive the gift of salvation.

Anyone? Do you have to believe in Jesus Christ?

In Christianity, yes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re essentially asking why I, as a believing person, don’t worry God is wrong and exercising poor judgment.

This.

Also, my religion doesn’t teach people who aren’t our religion go to hell. It teaches that people who sin certain horrible sins and refuse to repent go to hell. That can include people in our religion. I could proselytize 24/7 and win converts, but I can’t make someone be a good person.

Does God make them bad (in the same way, for instance, that he creates them poor or sick), then give them (some of them, at least, depending on where they live) the opportunity to be converted to Christianity and become good?

Why are you obsessed with the idea that converting to Christianity is going to make someone good? If anything, some denominations teach that once you convert, you do not have an excuse for sinful behavior and are actually held to a higher standard. In some communities, people wait until they are very old or on their deathbed to be baptized so that a lifetime of sin is washed away.

Anyway, my particular denomination emphasizes free well. God makes people neither good nor bad. People choose their actions. They can also choose whether or not to repent.

Does this work? That is, does God accept these late-life conversions knowing that the motive is to allow for a lifetime of sin?

Your heart must believe it. It must be an honest and true choice. It’s not something you can do superficially, and not mean it authentically. [b]

Anyone? Do you have to believe in Jesus Christ?

In Christianity, yes.

well that's not really the answer because you (or some pp) said, and I quote, "Anyone at any time can receive the gift of salvation." So do you have to believe in Jesus or can anyone receive the gift of salvation???