straightNnarrow
Everything to Gain
All people are wrong-doers (sinners) so it's not a matter of just not believing. But what you believe and Whom you accept as your Savior determines where you spend eternity.
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Afterlife of the non-believer in your faith
- Thread starter dacx
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All people are wrong-doers (sinners) so it's not a matter of just not believing. But what you believe and Whom you accept as your Savior determines where you spend eternity.
Didn't he die for everyone? I didn't realise he was selective.
Engyo
Prince of Dorkness!
Only if you follow Christianity.
Harmonious
Well-Known Member
Interesting.
straightNnarrow
Everything to Gain
He died for everyone, but only those that accept Him as their Savior spend eternity in Heaven. The others...?
GiantHouseKey
Well-Known Member
That's contradictory. You can't die for everybody but only some people. That isn't everyone is it?
GhK.
Vile Atheist
Loud and Obnoxious
How horrible. Even if your God exists, I would not subject myself to bowing to such a proud and vindictive dictator.
Vile Atheist
Loud and Obnoxious
I believe that all non-non-believers will spend an eternity in Hell. Some of you may know it as the State of Utah.
Herr Heinrich
Student of Mythology
Wouldn't it be nice if humans could answer the question of an afterlife? 
First off, I'll say that I do not claim my beliefs about the afterlife to be factual; I do not and cannot know for certain exactly what happens after death, if anything.
You go back and try again, and what you do in this lifetime will influence what happens to you in the next, as well as the kind of person you will be.
This is not limited to the so called "non-believer." (Personally, I loath that term.) Anyone who does not attain God-conscious/realization/enlightenment/nirvana/whatever-you-want-to-call-it will be reincarnated. My specific path of choice is also not required for such enlightenment, and I do believe that atheists can attain this as well. (Remember that Buddha was an agnostic atheist.)
Autodidact
Intentionally Blank
Same as for those who share my belief: dead.
bp789
Member
Since I'm Hindu, I don't believe that people of other religions go to hell. I don't believe in hell anyway. If they try to live a decent moral life trying to please God, then they will get salvation. If you are a good human being, but not religious, you can be reincarnated to a better life. It's a better to be a moral atheist than an immoral Hindu.
Actually no person can say who is going to hell and who is not. Because in the end it is God's and only God's decision.
BruceDLimber
Well-Known Member
Greetings!
Essentially the same thing that happens to the believer!
We ALL go on to the Next Life, but Heaven and hell aren't different places, just spiritual conditions:
Those who in this life have acquired the spiritual virtues needed both now and then will be in Heaven, which is the condition of nearnes to God; those who haven't will be relatively separated from Him, the definition of hell).
Our scriptures do assure us, though, that God will aid everyone eventually to draw near to Him (Heaven), even those initially in the worst sort of separation!
And it's also important to note that Heaven and hell exist here and now as well as in the Next Life: indeed, every one of us is in one or the other at every moment as a function of where our heads are at!
Best regards,
Bruce
Essentially the same thing that happens to the believer!
We ALL go on to the Next Life, but Heaven and hell aren't different places, just spiritual conditions:
Those who in this life have acquired the spiritual virtues needed both now and then will be in Heaven, which is the condition of nearnes to God; those who haven't will be relatively separated from Him, the definition of hell).
Our scriptures do assure us, though, that God will aid everyone eventually to draw near to Him (Heaven), even those initially in the worst sort of separation!
And it's also important to note that Heaven and hell exist here and now as well as in the Next Life: indeed, every one of us is in one or the other at every moment as a function of where our heads are at!
Best regards,
Bruce
Evee
Member
I believe that the closer you are to G-d in this life, the closer you'll be to Him once it's over.
Like Harmonious said, reincarnation might be an option. I guess if you don't get close enough this time 'round, you get another chance to try again. Possibly the explanation for "Why does G-d let babies die?" too.
Or maybe they don't get another chance and they just hang out, dead, until Moshiach comes, when they get ressurected and shown G-d. Believers get to spend the time between their death and Moshiach chillin with G-d, while non-believers just black out.
I don't think we can really know. But those are my guesses.
Like Harmonious said, reincarnation might be an option. I guess if you don't get close enough this time 'round, you get another chance to try again. Possibly the explanation for "Why does G-d let babies die?" too.
Or maybe they don't get another chance and they just hang out, dead, until Moshiach comes, when they get ressurected and shown G-d. Believers get to spend the time between their death and Moshiach chillin with G-d, while non-believers just black out.
I don't think we can really know. But those are my guesses.
Evee
Member
In case anyone wants to print the page out, they won't have to worry about destroying G-d's name if they later recycle it, or spill coffee or something. It's not wrong to write it out or anything, just more convenient not to because you don't have to worry about what happens to it.
Sometimes, when my touch-typing isn't top-notch, I'll write out G_d or G0d by accient.
Sometimes, when my touch-typing isn't top-notch, I'll write out G_d or G0d by accient.
Vile Atheist
Loud and Obnoxious
In case anyone wants to print the page out, they won't have to worry about destroying G-d's name if they later recycle it, or spill coffee or something. It's not wrong to write it out or anything, just more convenient not to because you don't have to worry about what happens to it.
Sometimes, when my touch-typing isn't top-notch, I'll write out G_d or G0d by accient.
Why would you have to worry about it? What is the punishment for, say, urinating on a Xerox that has in big, capital letters "GOD"