re am i going to hell in article apr geneva rutgers edu tbrent ecn purdue edu timothy j brent writes i have stated before that i do not consider myself an atheist but definitely do not believe in the christian god the recent discussion about atheists and hell combined with a post to another group to the effect of you will all go to hell has me interested in the consensus as to how a god might judge men as a catholic i was told that a jew buddhist etc might go to heaven but obviously some people do not believe this even more see atheists and pagans i assume i would be lumped into this category to be hellbound i know you believe only god can judge and i do not ask you to just for your opinions excellent question timothy i hpoe the answers you get will be satisfactory as we can not understand the mind of god but to attempt to answer you clearly god of the bible has given us humans relativly little about how he intends to judge mankind the first test is those who have beleived that jesus christ is the son of god and that his death and resurrection was sufficent to serve justice for all the acts we commit that are wrong in the eyes of god the bible calls this sin for those who die before the end of the world have already died it is more complicated to explain without lapsing in to cliche god must judge people on the baasis of their works in this world however there is no plus and minus system for god he has declared that he can not tolerate spiritual imperfection thus he can only based your worthiness to live with him on the wrong in your life good people yes even christians are going to constantly sin before god the christian hoever thanks god that christ has given his life for his sin s penalty the proscribed punishment for sin is death just as the proscribed punishment for robbery is time in jail god then cannot ask for anything but punishement for those sins he does not want to condem the bible says in john that god did not send his son in to the word to condem it but that through him it might be saved when i realize that i have sinned and i do with painful regularity i must approach god and ask him to not hold thew sin against me i have that right and privlige only because of christ as for jews they are promised that they must believe on the messiah who would come and dis come in jesus of nazereth muslims i fear have been given a lie from the fater of lies satan they need christ as do us all for those who don t have that right in the view of the bible they stand olone in their defense are you going to hell i can not answer that for you i can only say that perhaps it is eaiser to ask and answer how can i not go to hell that step is much more rewarding stan toney stoney oyster smcm edu my opinions are my own you may borrow them p s stay in touch and keep asking questions not just to us but to god as well he listens too
