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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I absolutely believe in hell and Satan.  But I believe that hell is reserved for the truly evil.  Simply being uncertain of God's existence is not evil, in fact, I would say that it's pretty human to have doubts. God isn't going to send you to the depths of hell for having doubts about his existence. If you are otherwise living a good and decent life - you will be o.k.  At the same time, I don't believe that simply showing up to church every Sunday is enough to save your soul from hell if you are attending church just for appearances - to make yourself look good.  What you do when no one else is looking is just as important.  God knows what is in your heart.[/quote]

You not the previous pp then?  The one who said "Don't forget the many, many people who believe in god(s) who do not believe in hell(s)"

At any, it still sounds iike you're making up your own religion -- saying what God does and does not do.

As for "having doubts" - many people who had doubts and struggled with them for a long time, don't have doubts anymore -- they studied and pondered and arrived at non-belief. They do not believe in god.  I know Christianity embrace people who doubt, but it does not embrace people  who have gone beyond doubt to non-belief.

According to Christian beliefs, those people  will not have eternal life and will go to hell.  It's not a matter of what you believe  god will do, it's a matter of what god made very clear in the religion on Christianity.[/quote]

To clarify, I was not the pp who said that many people who believe in God do not believe in hell.  As far as struggling with doubts, having some sort of shattering of faith and/or just never having been taught about religion to begin with - yes, that happens.  Some people over time might work through that conflict and some people die before they can resolve it.  God isn't going to kick a good person into hell just because they had doubts or even denied his existence.  In the other hand, God is not going to put up with someone who worships God in appearance only.

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