If you believe in hell

[Anonymous]

Does it concern you that other people may go there? What about people who have never had the chance to learn about God?

[Anonymous]

Does God account for people's knowledge of Him when judging them?

[Anonymous]

“The fate of the unlearned, also known as the destiny of the unevangelized, is an eschatological question about the ultimate destiny of people who have not been exposed to a particular theology or doctrine and thus have no opportunity to embrace it. The question is whether those who never hear of requirements issued through divine revelations will be punished for failure to abide by those requirements.“

That question is not easily answered. Great and learned theological scholars labor to do so.

I have a problem myself answering this question, because a lot of it hinges on the fact that as a Christian, I am limited in sharing the Good News with people around me. I can’t do so easily without being accused of trying to “convert” people. My love for my fellow man and my belief that we all are welcome to embrace the redemption of Jesus blood and live in everlasting peace in paradise with Him is viewed as intolerance, even though that’s exactly what Jesus taught and commanded us to share. I want to share the Good News. I want my fellow man in Paradise with me, with our Lord and Savior, for eternity. But having a simple conversation with a stranger or friend or neighbor about that would be viewed extremely unfavorably a high percentage of the time IRL.

In short, if you are a Christian and want to tell people about salvation, you are seen as a whack job. If you respect the fact that other people aren’t Christian and don’t want to hear the Good News, you are a cruel bigot who wants people to go to Hell.

* please consider opening your heart to Jesus. He Loves you and will never leave you. You don’t have to be perfect, and all you have to do to claim His amazing gift is this:

“Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior.“

Amen.

[Anonymous]

People already know about your religion and aren’t interested.

You’re ‘Good News’ sharing is to make YOU feel good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People already know about your religion and aren’t interested.

You’re ‘Good News’ sharing is to make YOU feel good.

“Sooner would a camel go through the eye of a needle than a rich person go to heaven.”

I do tell wealthy evangelicals that, but they’ve made up some lies to deny the literal Bible text. It’s sad to watch them vote to help the wealthy — vote for the GOP, the party of billionaires— as they themselves sin. Jesus gave us this word.

[Anonymous]

I am Hindu. I believe God is a wonderful, omnipresent and omnipotent power and our souls are a part of God's soul.

God is perfect and in his infinite wisdom he has created the world as He thinks fit without making mistakes. To try and convert people or thinking that their beliefs or their Gods are in someway inferior, is disrespecting God.

I am happy to think that my Hindu God did not make any mistakes and made Muslims, Jews, Christians and people who don't believe in God. I don't have to convert the other people. I just have to live my own life with love towards all Humanity and living beings (except ticks and mosquitos).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People already know about your religion and aren’t interested.

You’re ‘Good News’ sharing is to make YOU feel good.

“Sooner would a camel go through the eye of a needle than a rich person go to heaven.”

I do tell wealthy evangelicals that, but they’ve made up some lies to deny the literal Bible text. It’s sad to watch them vote to help the wealthy — vote for the GOP, the party of billionaires— as they themselves sin. Jesus gave us this word.

Serious question: if you were a ruler in the ancient world and needed to find a way to get the masses to acquiesce and stop squabbling and chafing against taxes, etc, isn't this exactly the kind of ideology you would disseminate among them? That it is noble and good to be poor and lowly, and that while you may be poor and miserable in this world, you should accept it because you will have big rewards after you die?

Opiate of the people, and all that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People already know about your religion and aren’t interested.

You’re ‘Good News’ sharing is to make YOU feel good.

“Sooner would a camel go through the eye of a needle than a rich person go to heaven.”

I do tell wealthy evangelicals that, but they’ve made up some lies to deny the literal Bible text. It’s sad to watch them vote to help the wealthy — vote for the GOP, the party of billionaires— as they themselves sin. Jesus gave us this word.

Let me guess. You can't read Latin or Ancient/New Testament Greek, let alone Hebrew or Aramaic, right? You're a just-read-it-in-English type of person who thinks that it is possible to accurately translate the the specifics of ancient texts written in other languages and cultures into your basic, straggling contemporary English?

Lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People already know about your religion and aren’t interested.

You’re ‘Good News’ sharing is to make YOU feel good.

You are partially right; I feel good about the action of doing as I believe Jesus said to do. But it’s for His Glory and the salvation of another human. What kind of a-hole would I be if I believed that paradise was available to all and I refused to tell others? A big one. Sharing the Good News is something we are all called on to do and it doesn’t reflect upon us as better. Glory to God.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People already know about your religion and aren’t interested.

You’re ‘Good News’ sharing is to make YOU feel good.

“Sooner would a camel go through the eye of a needle than a rich person go to heaven.”

I do tell wealthy evangelicals that, but they’ve made up some lies to deny the literal Bible text. It’s sad to watch them vote to help the wealthy — vote for the GOP, the party of billionaires— as they themselves sin. Jesus gave us this word.

Let me guess. You can't read Latin or Ancient/New Testament Greek, let alone Hebrew or Aramaic, right? You're a just-read-it-in-English type of person who thinks that it is possible to accurately translate the the specifics of ancient texts written in other languages and cultures into your basic, straggling contemporary English?

Lol.

So people need to be able to speak AND read Latin, Ancient/NT Greek, Hebrew AND Aramaic, to speak about salvation and the Bible?



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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People already know about your religion and aren’t interested.

You’re ‘Good News’ sharing is to make YOU feel good.

Also, you are welcome to your opinion on this topic, but please do not speak for me or put words in my mouth. It’s just authentic and polite to ask why someone does what they do and not make statements for them, especially if you have never met them and do not know them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People already know about your religion and aren’t interested.

You’re ‘Good News’ sharing is to make YOU feel good.

“Sooner would a camel go through the eye of a needle than a rich person go to heaven.”

I do tell wealthy evangelicals that, but they’ve made up some lies to deny the literal Bible text. It’s sad to watch them vote to help the wealthy — vote for the GOP, the party of billionaires— as they themselves sin. Jesus gave us this word.

Let me guess. You can't read Latin or Ancient/New Testament Greek, let alone Hebrew or Aramaic, right? You're a just-read-it-in-English type of person who thinks that it is possible to accurately translate the the specifics of ancient texts written in other languages and cultures into your basic, straggling contemporary English?

Lol.

So people need to be able to speak AND read Latin, Ancient/NT Greek, Hebrew AND Aramaic, to speak about salvation and the Bible?



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Yes, stupid, if you want to actually know what the Bible actually says, you need to accept that you are getting a broad-brush-stroked outline, filtered through a tunnel of many, many translators' interpretations and language choices, a bit like the children's game Telephone. You don't actually know your primary source very well at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People already know about your religion and aren’t interested.

You’re ‘Good News’ sharing is to make YOU feel good.

“Sooner would a camel go through the eye of a needle than a rich person go to heaven.”

I do tell wealthy evangelicals that, but they’ve made up some lies to deny the literal Bible text. It’s sad to watch them vote to help the wealthy — vote for the GOP, the party of billionaires— as they themselves sin. Jesus gave us this word.

Let me guess. You can't read Latin or Ancient/New Testament Greek, let alone Hebrew or Aramaic, right? You're a just-read-it-in-English type of person who thinks that it is possible to accurately translate the the specifics of ancient texts written in other languages and cultures into your basic, straggling contemporary English?

Lol.

So people need to be able to speak AND read Latin, Ancient/NT Greek, Hebrew AND Aramaic, to speak about salvation and the Bible?



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Yes, stupid, if you want to actually know what the Bible actually says, you need to accept that you are getting a broad-brush-stroked outline, filtered through a tunnel of many, many translators' interpretations and language choices, a bit like the children's game Telephone. You don't actually know your primary source very well at all.

Also, I find it interesting that the majority of scholars I know who can actually read the text are atheists. It is the poorly educated people who can't even read the book they claim to follow who are the most enthusiastically religious. Weird.

But your religion was invented to control people like you, so...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People already know about your religion and aren’t interested.

You’re ‘Good News’ sharing is to make YOU feel good.

“Sooner would a camel go through the eye of a needle than a rich person go to heaven.”

I do tell wealthy evangelicals that, but they’ve made up some lies to deny the literal Bible text. It’s sad to watch them vote to help the wealthy — vote for the GOP, the party of billionaires— as they themselves sin. Jesus gave us this word.

Let me guess. You can't read Latin or Ancient/New Testament Greek, let alone Hebrew or Aramaic, right? You're a just-read-it-in-English type of person who thinks that it is possible to accurately translate the the specifics of ancient texts written in other languages and cultures into your basic, straggling contemporary English?

Lol.

So people need to be able to speak AND read Latin, Ancient/NT Greek, Hebrew AND Aramaic, to speak about salvation and the Bible?



image uploader

Yes, stupid, if you want to actually know what the Bible actually says, you need to accept that you are getting a broad-brush-stroked outline, filtered through a tunnel of many, many translators' interpretations and language choices, a bit like the children's game Telephone. You don't actually know your primary source very well at all.

The first to insult or become angry is the obvious loser of the debate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People already know about your religion and aren’t interested.

You’re ‘Good News’ sharing is to make YOU feel good.

“Sooner would a camel go through the eye of a needle than a rich person go to heaven.”

I do tell wealthy evangelicals that, but they’ve made up some lies to deny the literal Bible text. It’s sad to watch them vote to help the wealthy — vote for the GOP, the party of billionaires— as they themselves sin. Jesus gave us this word.

Let me guess. You can't read Latin or Ancient/New Testament Greek, let alone Hebrew or Aramaic, right? You're a just-read-it-in-English type of person who thinks that it is possible to accurately translate the the specifics of ancient texts written in other languages and cultures into your basic, straggling contemporary English?

Lol.

So people need to be able to speak AND read Latin, Ancient/NT Greek, Hebrew AND Aramaic, to speak about salvation and the Bible?



image uploader

Yes, stupid, if you want to actually know what the Bible actually says, you need to accept that you are getting a broad-brush-stroked outline, filtered through a tunnel of many, many translators' interpretations and language choices, a bit like the children's game Telephone. You don't actually know your primary source very well at all.

Also, I find it interesting that the majority of scholars I know who can actually read the text are atheists. It is the poorly educated people who can't even read the book they claim to follow who are the most enthusiastically religious. Weird.

But your religion was invented to control people like you, so...

In addition, citing “people you know” as a source of knowledge doesn’t carry weight.