Friends with an unbeliever?

Your Jewish friend had nothing to do with the death of Jesus. Should you be punished for the sins of your ancestors?

God will not send you to hell for associating with Jews and non-Christians. In fact, you should associate with them. We are all God's children.

Peace and blessings!

You're misled and mistaken if you think God will have you tortured for eternity for associating with a Jew? The Jews are amazing people with an amazing quality of endurance to them. The ones existing now didn't kill Christ, and Christ associated with ALL people, holy, sinners, Gentiles, Jews, etc, so why would God condemn what Jesus Himself taught? As for the sad old argument that the Jews killed Christ... it was all a part of God's Divine Plan, so you can't blame them!!!

Sheesh.

Well, here's your problem - a lack of biblical comprehension. IF you read it, you find that the jews did NOT kill Jesus, but the ROMANS - who were the government in that area and the military force - killed Jesus. Pontias Pilot was a Roman, the soldiers who hung Jesus up were Roman, and so forth.

And perhaps you should take a real good look at jewish history and all the wrongs done to them by Christians - jewish ghettos, pogroms, even mass killings more than once throughout history.

All because people don't read their bibles clearly.

God isn't so petty as to send you to hell for befriending your fellow man - that's your hang up, nt his.

huh? just a moment here- we all killed Jesus- if it was not for all of us, Jesus would not have saved you. And remember Jews are God's chosen people. anyone who hates Jews are an enemy of God- and since Christ saved you, at least that is only by impression here, you stay friends with that guy- by the way- wouldn't you want him to be a jew who believed in the true Messiah. Jesus ate with unsaved people. we should be likewise. Cannot believe these questions- no wonder non-christians want nothing to do with us.

Are you serious? So God sends everyone who associated with non Christians to Hell? If that were the case its safe to assume were all going to Hell. I think you need to read the Bible again, specifically the part about tolerence.

God doesn't send you to hell for associating with others. where did you hear that. and non christians aren't monsters they are just misguided and have the hope of becoming christians. hmmmm stay friends with this person and tell them of Christ.

The Romans killed JC.

Boycott the Olive Garden.

Hey I'm kinda cute... definitely not monster material! And Hell doesn't bother me, being as I already work in a place that's hotter than hell *bakery*.

To answer your question, just be friends with the guy!

Did your friend personally kill Christ? No.

And don't forget that the Jews are God's chosen people. they get to go to heaven first, so maybe if you are friends with him he will let you cut in front of him.

A true christian would not say that non-christians are monsters.You are right that the jews did kill jesus,which means he was killed by his own people and the jews of today still fall in that same line of people.

The bible says at 1Corinthians 15:33 "Do not be misled.Bad association spoils useful habits." So if you feel like hes misleading you in anyway then i wouldnt encourage you to spend alot of time with him.

Since the dead have no conscious existence, hell cannot be a fiery place of torment where the wicked suffer after death. What, then, is hell? Examining what happened to Jesus after he died helps to answer that question. The Bible writer Luke recounts: "Neither was [Jesus] forsaken in Hades [hell, King James Version] nor did his flesh see corruption."* (Acts 2:31) Where was the hell to which even Jesus went? The apostle Paul wrote: "I handed on to you . . . that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, yes, that he has been raised up the third day according to the Scriptures." (1 Corinthians 15:3, 4) So Jesus was in hell, the grave, but he was not abandoned there, for he was raised up, or resurrected.

Job prayed for protection in hell

Consider also the case of the righteous man Job, who suffered much. Wishing to escape his plight, he pleaded: "Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell [Sheol], and hide me till thy wrath pass?"# (Job 14:13, Douay Version) How unreasonable to think that Job desired to go to a fiery-hot place for protection! To Job, "hell" was simply the grave, where his suffering would end. The Bible hell, then, is the common grave of mankind where good people as well as bad ones go.

Hellfire—All-Consuming?

Could it be that the fire of hell is symbolic of all-consuming, or thorough, destruction? Separating fire from Hades, or hell, the Scriptures say: "Death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire." "The lake" mentioned here is symbolic, since death and hell (Hades) that are thrown into it cannot literally be burned. "This [lake of fire] means the second death"—death from which there is no hope of coming back to life.—Revelation 20:14.

Fiery Gehenna—a symbol of eternal destruction

The lake of fire has a meaning similar to that of "the fiery Gehenna [hell fire, King James Version]" that Jesus spoke of. (Matthew 5:22; Mark 9:47, 48) Gehenna occurs 12 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures, and it refers to the valley of Hinnom, outside the walls of Jerusalem. When Jesus was on earth, this valley was used as a garbage dump, "where the dead bodies of criminals, and the carcasses of animals, and every other kind of filth was cast." (Smith's Dictionary of the Bible) The fires were kept burning by adding sulfur to burn up the refuse. Jesus used that valley as a proper symbol of everlasting destruction.

As does Gehenna, the lake of fire symbolizes eternal destruction. Death and Hades are "hurled into" it in that they will be done away with when mankind is freed from sin and the condemnation of death. Willful, unrepentant sinners will also have their "portion" in that lake. (Revelation 21:8) They too will be annihilated forever. On the other hand, those in God's memory who are in hell—the common grave of mankind—have a marvelous future.