If you break one of God's 10 commandments, are you doomed to hell?

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• you are correct. but we are expected to make a response to this belief ie to follow Jesus with our whole life. :-)

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 28th, 2007

• and yet he knows we are backsliders - and still is all merciful and forgiving

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  by Bleu723 on March 28th, 2007

• yep...we have been washed totally...just need the feet washed regularly...

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 28th, 2007

• How disappointing for god. No screaming wailing and nashing of teeth.

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  by The Devils Own on June 29th, 2007

• Not disappointing. God wants everyone with him.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on June 30th, 2007

• Don't kid yourself. God likes to find reasons to torture people. He gets his jollies on it.

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  by The Devils Own on June 30th, 2007

• No, it is Satan that gets his jollies from pain and suffering. God wants all of us to be happy.

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  by Glenn Blaylock on July 13th, 2007

• I agree with singwell and Glenn Blaylock on that. God says in His holy Word, the Holy Bible, that He takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.

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  by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on October 5th, 2007

• Why does God want everyone with him?

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  by Scooot on May 16th, 2008

• Why does a loving parents want there children to be with them?

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  by Glenn Blaylock on May 16th, 2008

• correct, Glenn.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on May 16th, 2008

• If that were true everyone would be in hell and Heaven would be a waste land. How many people do you think haven't broken one of the ten commandments?

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  by Dave2222 on September 4th, 2008

• DAve, that is why Jesus was sent to earth. Without his death (which paid for the sins of the whole world, past present and future), heaven would, indeed, be a wasteland. But God has made sure it is not. He suffered so we would not have to.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on September 4th, 2008

• Well then if God wants all of us to be with him, couldn't he of just make us all be born straight in heaven?

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  by Scooot on September 8th, 2008

• He wanted to give us a perfect earth. Wouldn't that have been nice? In the early days, there was no separation between heaven and earth in that God walked with people in the Garden. IT was only after human rebellion (=sin) that the two were separated, and death became a reality far beyond just physical death.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on September 8th, 2008

• Human rebellion? I thought it was something to do with Adam and Eve?

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  by Scooot on September 9th, 2008

• Hell is going to be overflowing with people.

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  by Dave2222 on December 23rd, 2008

• Maybe not. God's spirit talks to people in ways we cannot know, even in the last moments of their lives.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on December 23rd, 2008

• Hell will be overflowing. Unless they accept Christ with there mouth as the bible tells us, They can call Hell home I'm sorry to say.

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  by Kristafr on December 29th, 2008

• I understand what you are saying, but I will leave the decision to God. He is much more merciful than we are, and will be trying, while there is still time, to save as many as He can, by His spirit speaking to them, even when we cannot.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on December 31st, 2008

• We can decide where our home will be. If we accept Christ, we will live in paradise. If not, hell is ours. These are the rules and there are no accepteions. God gave us hi message, that is his mercy, Now we must listen or be damned.

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  by Kristafr on January 7th, 2009

• Well if you believe the Bible, no...because the hell-fire doctrine is not taught in the Bible.
  
  This idea clearly contradicts the plain simple statements at Eccl.9:5 “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol,* the place to which you are going.” (If they are conscious of nothing, they obviously feel no pain.)
  
  And Ps. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts* do perish.”

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  by vew573 on September 21st, 2009

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• that is sad, though, becuase they have not read that the bible teaches forgiveness through the death of Christ, not only for individual wrongs, but for the whole of sin (=disobedience towards God/rebellion against God) which all of us have.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 28th, 2007

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• So says the Prince of lies.

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  by BondiHarry on January 19th, 2008

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• D/Red +6

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  by Jen-Jen on May 22nd, 2008

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• Thanks for answering Tony.

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  by Anonymous on January 28th, 2008

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• Anonymous, Christ taught that if we have the sin in our heart, we are guilty of the sin. Many people are familiar with if you've lusted after a woman in your heart you've committed adultery; the Bible also teaches that if we hate our brother we are guilty of murder. The sad truth is we really break ALL of the commandments. But thankfully God will relieve us of our sins if we do repent only know this, if we don't have a new relationship with sin when we 'repent', we don't have a new relationship with God.

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  by BondiHarry on January 23rd, 2008

• I understand with what you are saying. I was quite brief with my comment on the answer and you did see it. I know that if there isn't a new relationship with the sin, then we don't have a new relationship with God. We must not take for granted of how it is that we repent sin. If we do, then it is like taking God's love for granted in which he as forgiven us. We have to understand that we must learn of the sin it is that we have committed and change from it.
  
  Thank you

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  by Anonymous on January 23rd, 2008

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• Actually, it does not depend of your faith. God has only one plan. There is only one way by which we can return to live with him. This path back to Him is not dependent on the faith to which one belongs. What is dependent on your faith is how you will be told to get and stay on the path to God. However, since the various religions can't agree on this, not all of them can be right. As a matter of fact, at most only one can be correct. I am not interested in arguing about which is that one correct faith. We have been arguing about that for thousands of years and gotten no closer to universal agreement. I just wanted to point out the the true answer to this question is not dependent upon the faith to which a person belongs. The answer one gets to the question may, but the correct one does not.

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  by Glenn Blaylock on January 6th, 2008

• why does god want us to live with him?

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  by Scooot on May 16th, 2008

• Why do loving parents want to have their children around them?

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  by Glenn Blaylock on May 16th, 2008

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• Amen.

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  by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on June 13th, 2007

• Sure. God loves to torture people. Its how he gets his jollies.

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  by The Devils Own on June 30th, 2007

• Devil: I have a problem with the whole "Hell" thing too, but I was just answring the question. As to wheather or not it's a parable I'm not sure but I would hope so. I can't s a loving God doing the torture thing either.

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  by Abbyguy on June 30th, 2007

• The Bible is clear that hell and the lake of fire are places of torment(s), but God doesn't want any of us there. He created it for the devil and his angels. Man sends himself there by sinning. Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, died in our place on the cross so that He could buy our salvation with His own sinless, perfect blood. Thanks to Him, we can be saved from hell and the lake of fire by putting our faith and trust in Jesus Christ and Him alone as our personal Saviour.

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  by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on June 30th, 2007

• Sinner:
  The bible also says: (in Revelation) that death and hell will be done away with so it cannot be a place of "eternal" torment. I have heard that being cut off from God is like hell because there is no hope. Fire is a symbol of cleaansing and hell is the perfect parable for this. The rich man and Lazurus was also an analogy, if you thik about it if heaven is perfect then why would there be viewing of people in hell and watching them in torment?

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  by Abbyguy on June 30th, 2007

• Thank you, Abbyguy. Hell(Hades=the abode of the dead)) will be cast into the lake of fire (Gehenna= the place of burning). Thus hell will only be intesified because the lake of fire is also described in Revelation as a place of torment and no rest day nor night forever and ever. In Luke Ch.16, Lazerus and Abraham were in Abraham's bosom (a temporary place of paradise for the saints, next to the tormenting hell for the lost, until Jesus did the work of atonement). We will not go to Abraham's bosom because Christ has already died on the cross for us and rose again and now we that are saved will go to heaven at death. I don't think we will watch anyone suffer in hell because the lake of fire is a place where the lost are eternally seperated from God. We will be with God and in His eternal presence.

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  by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on June 30th, 2007

• Yup, god likes torment.

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  by The Devils Own on July 2nd, 2007

• No, He wants us all to be saved, we choose our destiny by not choosing salvation by means of His son Jesus. I believe that Hell is an analogy of sorts anyway....just not sure for what.

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  by Abbyguy on May 13th, 2008

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• you are correct. God is not a celestial schoolmaster, waiting with a big stick to catch you up on one slip of the tongue...he is just and loving...while he cannot let sin (general) into heaven, he himself provided the way to be forgiven and purified, by the death of Jesus and his resurrection.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 28th, 2007

• If he created everything, why would he even need to create jesus to do all those things for us? A truly omnipotent being would have been able to create things right from the start.

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  by snakebarber on December 10th, 2008

• it has to do with wanting love, not demanding it.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on December 11th, 2008

• Why would someone with the power to create the universe need an ego boost from a bunch of humans? A god with self-esteem problems???
  
  When you really examine religion, you see a reflection of MAN all over the place. (AKA religion was created by men alone)

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  by snakebarber on December 11th, 2008

• God doesn't have self-esteem problems any more than humans do when they want to be loved. It is about relationships.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on December 14th, 2008

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• Agreed. Its only after they know the truth, and know wrong is wrong...and willingly go against their consciouse that they go to hell.....becuase they are wronging themselves.

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  by schmee2369 on May 10th, 2009

• right on.

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  by Randoley on May 10th, 2009

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• Thanks for bringing that up. I also pondor on this too. What type of God would let us burn eternally? I thought I was the only one. Thank you for your answer AnonymousGirl.

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  by Anonymous on January 5th, 2008

• You're welcome. :)

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  by A on January 5th, 2008

• I'm not so sure the Bible says the damned will burn for eternity. There is much to suggest they will in fact be destroyed after God casts them from His presence. Not that that would be a light punishment after a life of sin ... after meeting God in His glory, separation from Him will be unbearable. Whatever hell is it will be just punishment.

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  by BondiHarry on January 20th, 2008

• Death is not a light punishment if you think about it. Let's think about it this way, BondiHarry.
  
  Let's say there are two girls: Lily and Natalie.
  
  Lily and Natalie get lost in a cold, dark forest full of bugs. The wasps and the bees are bothersome.
  
  Along comes a boy named Jeffrey. He is told that he can only take one of the girls back, and the other girl he has to leave there to die with no hope of someone coming to save her from the darkness of the forest.
  
  Jeffrey chooses to bring Natalie back to the land of the living because Natalie is the purest of the two. She would not have been pure before if no one had suffered for her. Lily is the unfortunate one. She had so many goals and hopes and dreams. She was really rich back in her town. Everyone knew her name. Natalie was so kind, she even asked Jeffrey, "Is it possible for you to take Lily instead of me? I am nothing. She is actually something." Jeffrey said no, and frisked her away to the land of the living, leaving Lily in

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  by A on January 20th, 2008

• the cold dark forest. Natalie got a place higher up and her thoughts of her past vanished and she was a whole new person. She wasn't her old self anymore. She was happy. What became of Lily? Well, she died. She didn't earn anything. She just became nothing. Is that a light punishment? Not really. Do we all deserve it (in my opinion)? Yes. I hope this story makes sense. I totally made it up myself to illustrate how I understand things. Your comment is really good though, and now that I've read it over, I realize that you have made your point quite well. :)

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  by A on January 20th, 2008

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• Amen.

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  by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on October 5th, 2007

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• No not at all. It has nothing to with which one, Cod sees all sin as equal, weather it be murder or a lie. He says we all fall short of His glory and need redemption through His son Jesus, so there is only one way theolgicaly speaking to avoid the "Hell" thing. That is to be saved by Jesus.

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  by Abbyguy on March 28th, 2007

• correct

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 28th, 2007

• I love eating Cod. I repent. I have been committing such a tremendous sacrilege.
  I've will miss these delicious fishes :>

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  by Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today on April 21st, 2007

• Nevets: that is why the atheist couldn't eat fish: he didn't believe in cod

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on April 21st, 2007

• For Cod's sake this is getting too silly :)
  Am I being blasphemous if I take the name of Cod in vain.

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  by Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today on April 21st, 2007

• Man, that's funny. What a stupid mistake....LMAO!!! Bwwaaahhhaaaahhhaaa

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  by Abbyguy on April 21st, 2007

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• yes!

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  by chamelio salamander on July 20th, 2008

• yes you agree? or yes you are doomed?

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  by miRi hates social norms and regulations on July 20th, 2008

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• Precisely. That is why Jesus came. Because we cannot atone/pay for sin.

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  by singwell-is off researching a lot on May 11th, 2008

• What? Anontastic is saying the commandment not to murder applies to animals, and Singwell is saying that that's why Jesus came? What, to save the animals? Neither of you is making sense anymore.

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  by TShilo12 on May 15th, 2008

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• Do ordinary men walk on stormy seas, cure incurable diseases, raise the dead or turn water into wine? They don't in my neck of the woods.

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  by BondiHarry on January 19th, 2008

• well AIDS, cancer, and many other diseases still exist. Many people raise the dead it's called necromacy(I've never practised, I watched one once)anyone who is good at practising magick can turn one liquid into another

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  by DiSTurBiA on January 19th, 2008

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• Perhaps you need to reread what the 9th one says (and probably the rest as well...)

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  by TShilo12 on May 15th, 2008

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• My understanding is that the word "eternal" is considered a very long time.It takes a while to pass but eternal is finite.The Word Everlasting means without end.

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  by CrookedContractor on June 23rd, 2007

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• Break just one? I suspect most people break all ten in thought if not in deed (I know I have). God will judge our hearts and just as if we've lusted after a woman (in my case) we've committed adultery, the Bible also says if we have been angry with our brothers/sisters we've committed murder. If a sin is in our hearts, we're already guilty of that sin whether we carry it to fruition or not.

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  by BondiHarry on January 20th, 2008

• Every week, Christians violate the Sabbath, so I don't know why they fret about the rest of the commandments. Why questions like this are even asked is beyond me... The law was given to Jews...if you want to concern yourself with keeping the 10 Commandments, why not adopt the other 603 as well, and become Jewish. Then you'll realize that "Hell" is a pagan concept anyways, and you'll see that this question is silly...and most of the responses to it are even sillier.

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  by TShilo12 on May 15th, 2008

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• Because we have broken the Ten Commandments, we are by our sins and sinful nature doomed to hell, but Jesus Christ--God come in the flesh and the only begotten Son of God shed His precious blood and took our punishment for us by dying on the cross of Calvary for us. Three days later He rose again and if we just believe in Him as our Saviour then we will be saved and go to heaven(John 3:16-17, Romans 10:9-13).

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  by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on October 5th, 2007

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• That's why He sent His Son to take the payment for us. All we have to do is accept Him into our hearts and lives as our personal Saviour.

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  by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on June 13th, 2007

• So true.

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  by Anonymous on June 13th, 2007