hindupridemn
Defender of the Truth
Do you believe I am going to hell? why or why not?
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Hell
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Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
No. You don't fit the criteria. You haven't denied the existance of God after having seen Him face to face.
Question is do you believe you are going to hell.
hindupridemn
Defender of the Truth
Where WILL I go when I die, according to your beliefs? As a Hindu LDS Jain Baha'i who isn't perfect but has never done anything worse than look at porno and is a strict vegetarian?
Wandered Off
Sporadic Driveby Member
You'll go where ever we take you in our hearts.
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Thief
Rogue Theologian
If you think of it as 'the grave'.....we all go.
If you think of it as eternal torment....that depends on the company you keep.
What if you are devout Christian, and you end up in a Jewish kingdom under the control of a Jewish king?
Would it be all that bad?
But what if they don't want you around? and throw you out?
Then you must deal with anyone passing by.
And how shall you deal? having left this world with nothing?
tumbleweed41
Resident Liberal Hippie
No, if there is some sort of afterlife, I do not believe it would be a reward/punishment phase of existence.
Karmartia
Member
Based upon your apparent unwillingness to accept any particulary spiritual viewpoint (Hindu, Mormon, whatever) you will probably not make it to Hell at all. You will probably end up on the melancholy shore of Acheron with all the cowardly angels, your fear having become desire, which will never be fulfilled.
Metempsychosis
Reincarnation of 'Anti-religion'
No you will not go to Hell.Hell is actually a place of spiritual degeneration.You will be probably reincarnated in higher realms,if reincarnation comes out to be true.
Otherwise,you may enjoying yourself in some christian heaven.
Herr Heinrich
Student of Mythology
My question to you is: are you living in hell now? We create our own hells my friend, and our own heavens. At least that is what I believe.
Thesavorofpan
Is not going to save you.
Sadly yes you will go to hell, because you refuse to obey God's word. Though I don't want to see yu go to hell.
Metempsychosis
Reincarnation of 'Anti-religion'
Can I know what your Gods word is?
jaareshiah
Member
For one to accept that there is a "hellfire" that torments people, there has to be "something" that lives on after death. Many religions teach that the soul is immortal.(literally "deathlessness", Greek, a·tha·na·si´an; Latin, in·mor·ta·li·ta´tem, Hebrew ’al-ma´weth, “no-death." ) Belief in the immortality of the soul is very prominent among non-Christian religions. For example, the most esteemed of sacred Hindu writings, The Bhagavad Gita, specifically refers to the soul as deathless. What though is the soul ?
From the Bible, at Genesis 2:7, it reads that "Jehovah God proceeded to form man out of the dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul." What then is man ? "A living soul". He does not possess a soul but rather is one. As a "living soul", what happens to man when he sins ?
At Ezekiel 18:4, the account reads says that "the soul that is sinning, it itself will die." What can be quickly drawn from this ? That the soul is not immortal, but that it can and does die. That the soul is us as a person, can be seen from several scriptures. For example, at Leviticus 17:10, it says that "whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel....that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people."(King James Bible)
Thus man, as a "living soul" and that 'eats blood', was to be "cut off" or put to death for such a violation of God's law. To further show that the soul is as a person, Jeremiah 2:34 speaks that among the wicked is "found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents."(King James Bible) Hence, the soul is us a person with blood. When we die, we can spoken of as a "dead soul". Leviticus 21:11 says of the high priest, that "he should not come near any dead soul."(Literally, “souls of one dead.” Hebrew, naph·shoth´, pl., followed by meth, “dead”; Greek, psy·khei´ followed by te·te·leu·te·kui´ai, the perfect participle of “decease,” combine to mean “soul deceased”; Syriac Pe****ta, “soul of one dead”; Latin Vulgate, “dead one.”
Ecclesiastes 9:5 says that "the living are conscious that they will die, but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all." Only the living can be tormented, but the dead cannot. To show God's view of burning people in a fire, Jeremiah 7:30 says that " ' the sons of Judah have done what is bad ', is the utterance of Jehovah....And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart." How could God torment the wicked in a fiery "hell" if such has "not come up into my heart" ? Indeed, how can the God who tells us in the Bible that we are to love our enemies wish to torture his enemies for eternity? (1 John 4:8-10) Not surprisingly, some people conclude that the nature of hell simply is not compatible with the nature of God, that this doctrine does not make moral sense.
At Jeremiah 32:35, God called the burning of the Israelite's sons and daughters, an "abomination".(King James Bible) God would be hypocritical if he condemned the burning of the sons and daughters of the Israelites but then he was guilty of it. The ancient Egyptians believed in a fiery hell. The Book Am-Tuat, dated 1375 B.C.E., speaks of those who "shall be cast down headlong into the pits of fire; and ....shall not escape therefrom, and....shall not be able to flee from the flames." Greek philosopher Plutarch (about 46-120 C.E.) wrote of those in the world below: "(They) raised a cry of wailing as they underwent fearful torments and ignominous and excruciating chastisements".
Hellfire does not cause one to love God, but rather to have searing fear of him. The Catholic book Apparecchio alla morte (Preparation for Death), by S. Alfonso de Liguori, says that “Hellfire was expressly created by God to torment the damned soul. . . . He will be immersed in fire like a fish in water, yet the fire will not only surround him but also enter into his entrails to torment him. His very body will become a flame of fire, so that his entrails will burn inside his belly, his heart within his chest, his brain inside his head, his blood in his veins and even the marrow in his bones; each damned soul will himself become a furnace of fire.”
One former Catholic priest, who later came to realize the true meaning of "hell" (Hebrew sheol, Greek hades) as the common grave of mankind, said concerning the above words: "Can you see why thoughts about the eternal torment of hell tortured me day and night? Try to put yourself in the shoes of an impressionable adolescent who has constantly been scared by the concept of a God more like a tyrant than a loving father. I was confused. Why, there were times when I doubted the very existence of God !" Thus, not only have many been disturbed about the teaching an "eternal hell", but some have even turned away from God due to it. Others though, have learned the truth about "hell" from an accurate translation of the Bible.
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Didn't Jesus obey God's word? ____ Yet, Jesus died and went to 'hell' according to Acts 2:27,31; Psalm 16:10.
Since Jesus believed the dead sleep the sleep of death -John 11:11-14- then Jesus would have believed he would be in a deep sleep-like state until God resurrected him from hell. Psalm 86:13.
Daniel (12:2) also believed the dead sleep in the dust of the ground until the time would come when they are awakened from death's sleep.
Job (14:13-15) believed that even in death he could trust that God will call him back from the dead during the resurrection. Acts 24:15; Psalm 49:15
comradesoul
Member
You will go for a time to reside in the subtle astral planes. That could be a heavenly scenario or a hellish one according to the formation of your consciousness. After that on to your next body and set of circumstances (prarabdha karma).
As we sow we shall reap.
We are making our future at every moment so we should always think and act in ways that are spiritually progressive.
I would like to add that calling ourselves Hindu LDS Jain Ba'hai Christiam Muslim etc. has nothing to do with it. Our hearts and deeds are known by God.
Thank you for being vegetarian. Animal slaughters indeed are creating a very bad future for themselves.
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