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If you are a Christian who thinks I am going to hell because of my non belief in Jesus as messiah, ex pain thi

When did this start? Really? At what point in history, did anyone who did not believe in Christ as the son of G-d start going to hell? Did everyone before your messiah go there? Did it start the day Jesus died on the cross? The day he rose again? The next week, month, year, decade, century or when?

Of the 90 billion souls that have lived on earth in all of human kind, did only the 10 billion or so Christians get in to heaven? Are the other 80 billion just waste product in hell?

When did the "only way to the father is through me," take affect?

Update:

Marple---I asked "If you are a Christian who thinks I am going to hell" I was not lumping, I was excluding people like you.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    The thing I find astonishing is that according to what Christians seem to be saying, Jesus himself will end up in 'hell' since he lived and died a practising Jew :)

  • 1 decade ago

    We proclaim Christ as the only way because that is the message God gave us for today. In the past, before Christ, God spread a different message. You can read Jude and find out what salvation message Enoch preached before Christ came. The message back then was a message of repentance. In our increasingly secular society, many people cannot comprehend what a God-centered life might by like, so if it is impossible to believe now, then what must it have been like in the past?

  • 5 years ago

    a million. The Messiah is meant to have descended from King David, by using the line of Solomon. Jesus fails to fulfill this standards. The relatives tree in Luke lines Jesus's Davidic lineage by Nathan, no longer Solomon. The relatives tree in Matthew does hint Jesus's lineage by David by using Solomon, yet interior the path of the line of Jeconias, whose line became into cursed by using G*d (Jeremiah 22:30). 2. The Messiah is meant to rebuild the 0.33 Temple. we are nonetheless praying to the ruins of the 2nd Temple. 3. The Messiah is meant to discovered a non violent worldly kingdom with its capitol in Israel. have you ever seen Israel these days? 4. With the arriving of the Messiah, Jews are meant to nicely known the Torah without learn. I want that have been so now, in spite of the undeniable fact that that isn't any longer. 5. Nowhere interior the Tanakh is a "2nd Coming" ever pronounced. that could be a fabrication of the Christian Church to conceal Jesus' Messianic short-comings.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    read the bible for yourself ... receiving Jesus as the Messiah is in the old testament. Jesus is declared the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. He came into the earth at the end of the old testament let Himself be killed, go into hell for all mankind and raise from the spiritually dead, so that a person can receive Gods nature. In the old testament the people were spiritually dead, separated from the life and nature of God ,this included the Israelites. By following the laws of God including the blood sacrifices of innocent animals to have God passover their sins, they were Gods servants... when they died they went into what was called Paradise... you can read the story of Lazareth of the old testament and the certain rich man... when both died they both were in paradise. one side there was torment the other side peace. Apparently no person went to heaven or specifically hell until Jesus rose from the dead. He took the people in the peaceful side of paradise to heaven and the others were turned into hell. I certainly don't understand it all but i do know from personal experience that when i received Jesus there was a definite change in my heart... to be reconciled to a lifelong enemy... my mother... we were reconciled and now she is with the Lord.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Hell has been around ever since God cast Satan there when he had fallen. Yes, the ones who did not repent of their sins were sent to hell, but it was different--in the Old Testament, they needed to sacrifice clean animals as a sign of repentance. Ever since Christ died and became the Ultimate Sacrifice, we no longer needed to sacrifice the animals because he had taken care of it. We still need to repent, but only by asking (and meaning) for forgiveness, trying not to return to the sinful ways, but most important trusting/acknowledging/believing that Christ did that for you and that he did rise again. It really only takes 2 things to get there- belief and repentance. Keep in mind, only God can judge you and your eternity. :)

  • 1 decade ago

    Your question is based on false religious beliefs.

    There is no hell. Not all "Christians" go to heaven. Most people who died, even atheists, will be resurrected:

    "and I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked."

    Acts 24:15

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well.........

    To my Christian brothers and sisters..........

    Are you saved? Are you really saved? Think again Christian! Christians are so fond of saying their salvation is 200% guaranteed, that they have nothing to fear at all, and that they will be in heaven soon, but is this true? No, as usual it is not, it is a fake myth based on their flimsy desires, Christians WISH that their salvation is 100% guaranteed, they WISH paradise is waiting for them right after death, yet wishing for something doesn't make it a fact, but Christians wished so bad they turned the wish into a fact!

    Let us quote Jesus who will smash their wishful thinking, as Jesus says:

    whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire

    (Matthew 5:22)

    So as you can see, Jesus said that if Christians call their brothers in faith a fool, they will be in danger of the fire! Now imagine if a Christian called so many other Christians as fools, well that would basically mean they would be in hell! Everyday Christians are insulting each other, with worst insults than ?fool', in fact the Catholics call the protestants as fools, and vice versa!

    So the fact is most Christians are actually going to hell because they swear at each other! And I didn't say that, your Lord Jesus did!

    And Allah Knows Best!

  • 1 decade ago

    The salvation plan has been in effect "Since before the foundations of the earth were laid".

  • 1 decade ago

    OK enough for today, I'm getting tired that every simple religion based on Christianity is being put in the same boat. I am Christian and I DO NOT have that belief and many other Christians do not either.

    EDIT: Sorry Song....I re-read your question and you're right.

  • 1 decade ago

    You got to Understand that this ideology was developed in middle east where 2 major religions in the world were created..ISLAM and Christianity. Both religions believe in their superiority and truly believe that if you don't follow their path..you will burn in eternity.

    It is not belief of every one.

  • 1 decade ago

    I would say before Genisis 1:1

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