Thread: Do unbelievers deserve to burn in hell?

Originally Posted by Stopandthink

your whole viewpoint is based upon an unjustified negative predisposition towards God. Apparently, these views of God have been gathered by focusing on either false, incomplete, or inaccurate half truths that further your own agenda. The Bible as a whole illustrates that God is a perfect measure of love, justice, wrath, mercy, and peace to name a few. He is not more of one attribute than he is another. We cannot fully comprehend how perfect His Being is. A quick illustration of this is the fact that God cannot tolerate sin. In a sinful world filled with sinful people, being the creator of all His wrath over them is just. But also, the fact that He has given Himself as

God is Love.

Originally Posted by reefedjib

God is Love.

How do you know that God exists in the first place?

Originally Posted by JustinS

How do you know that God exists in the first place?

I assert it and fill that conceptualization with love and truth, together known as faith, which creates God. It is simply a tautology.

Originally Posted by MKULTRABOY

Christians can't give a consistent answer...to most things... I don't see the point of asking.

And you have evidence of this, and maybe even evidence that the consistencies and inconsistencies of Christians are noteworthy compared to the entire population?

Originally Posted by JustinS

How do you know that God exists in the first place?

Is that a requirement?

Originally Posted by JustinS

How do you know that God exists in the first place?

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Wrong forum for that particular question. Try Philosophy.

Originally Posted by MadLib

Obviously, with crimes such as murder, rape, and pedophilia, most Christians would agree that the sinners got what was coming for them. But how about unbelievers? If a person is moral and ethical in every other way, many Christians would say that they would still burn. The question is: do they deserve it? Is the "crime" in not believing what is normally just a different culture rightfully punishable by eternal torture?

Actually if you read what God says, everyone deserves to burn in hell.

So yes.

We actually need to use gas and matches they never could find a god or a hell.

Originally Posted by JustinS

I voted yes, because the question is so utterly unbelievable and offensive that I am unwilling to give a serious answer.

I didn't vote because it's not up to any of us to decide who is "deserving."

Originally Posted by nota bene

I didn't vote because it's not up to any of us to decide who is "deserving."

I didn't vote because there is no such thing as a moral unbeliever. If God is not given the glory for the good, the good that was done was not from a sense of morality, it was done from a sense of self-importance. It is self-worship, therefore, the unbeliever has already been rewarded.

Like Bob Dylan said, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.