If your best friend wasn't the same religion as you, do you really think that they're gonna go to hell?
by 
MiMI
ANSWERS: 14
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Such judgments are not mine to make. They are God's. I would say that someone who is a member of my religion is more likely to go to heaven than someone who is not, but membership in my religion does not guaranty salvation any more than not being a member will insure condemnation.
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Well, I'm an atheist, but if I was religious, than I would think that they had the same chance of going to hell as anyone does.
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Religion is not the issue here, in my opinion. It is whether or not they knew Jesus Christ.
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nope. i don't believe in hell
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You would have to ask yourself if you are not going to hell. Then you would have to determine why. If you are not going to hell because you follow a certain path AND your religion says the path must be followed in order to avoid hell, then you would have to determine that your religion would say your friend is going to hell. I don't make the rules I just follow them.
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Being a different religion isn't going to send anyone to hell. God is the only one who can judge what's in our heart.
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Well, this first off assumes that I'm of a religion that HAS a hell, but I'll roll with that for the sake of the question, I guess. I really think any god worth supporting would be able to look beyond a person's religion and care more about what people do for humanity than how hard they shoved religion down the throats of others. If this is not the case, then the god is a big meanie and we're all doomed anyway. Besides... "heaven" would be none to heavenly knowing my friends in life were suffering in the afterlife for having chosen the wrong name to call the creator by.
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There is no hell. At least that's what some people tell me.
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Well if they were id try to change God's mind. Dont know why i said man....weird
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No, my religion is nowhere -near- evil enough to contain a concept like Hell.
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Miri asks terrific and interesting questions. Can I give extra points for the question?/ If I had a religion, and if I were serious about it, and if there was a dictum that non-believers would go to hell, yes, I would really think that they would go to hell. But as I have no religion my friends are safe.
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Hell is just pretend. We all lie to ourselves to make it through the day; so I'm not going to judge my friend too harshly if he chooses the pleasing fiction of the Bible (or Torah, or Qur'an) as a source of comfort...
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No. Who am I to say who is and is not going to hell or which religion is or is not the "right" one? Didn't the Bible speak of more than one religion...the seven churches..without saying that one was right and the others wrong?
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I'm an agnostic and my beliefs generally revolve around kindness, compassion, and the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. For all I know I could be millions of lifetimes away from knowing whether there even is a deity. Therefore I'm even further away from believing that there is one so omnipotently petty and malevolent that it would sentence a good person to an eternity of torture just because that person (e.g. me) needed verifiable proof of its existence.
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