I dont understand 'my' religion/God?

Perhaps you never clearly understood th message of the Gospel.

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Ok...

1) If you have really read the Bible you would see that there is no speciffic mentioning of Hell in it (actually, it does mention few times, but as a place for punishment for Satan, not for people). God is forgiving, but forgiving of God shouldnt be mis-used. The purpose of forgiving is to make that person better, not opposite.

2) First - heaven will be closed for a lot of people which didnt behave properly. Second - there is (obviously) some vage how much good you have to be. Even in human justice you cant compare some guy who stole a DVD player and killer. With your logic you would ask the judge "well, they both commited felonies - why dont you convict the killer on same punishment as you did to guy which stole DVD?"

3) Who told you that God is taking innocent lives (I dont know what you have in mind)? Who is "innocent"? Why do people are taking innocent lives of other people?

4) Same as number 2. You have to try to be the best you can be, and you will probably end up in Heaven if you furfill that.

5) Who said he must be created? He probably existed forever, it is just our perspective which sees that as something which is hard to explain. In physics you have a question - how the matter is created, and if it is created in Big Bang, what actually exploded in it (if matter didnt exist in that moment).

You are not stupid, you just have smart questions. Glad if I could help you. Oh - btw - that friend of yours is stupid because he mixed up different beliefs (Christians dont have speccific time when will "end of the world" be, 2012. is just a last year Mayans calculated a long time ago (probably because they got tired of writing down of all the calender years).

God doesnt sucks, but todays understanding of Him are total wrong, and it is expected that artist like Lady Gaga are turning on the "Darks side". Interesting thing is that Bible predicted that kind of behaviour as "the beggining of the end".

When I was your age, I was mulling over the same questions. Here is a youtube video that shows how I reasoned it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profil...

You certainly have a lot of questions:

1. Don't feel bad about not understanding the Bible. I have been studying it for 30 years now and I still don't understand all of it...in fact, I learn something new every time I pick it up.

2. I have a different understanding of life after death than you do. Hell....is more of a holding place. I had an experience with this. The mode of communication there makes it necessary to seperate us from one another. Imagine being forced to live in the same room with Hitler if you could hear his every thought and intention towards you.....especially if you were Jewish.

3. As I said...I have a different understanding of Heaven and hell. Even the lowest place in God's Kingdom would be a place that you would kill yourself to get to if you could see it.

4. Innocent lives? Most of the time it is not Him doing the taking but men taking each others lives. The two most precious gifts He has given us are life and the power to direct that life (agency). He won't interfere(except in certain cases) but there will be consequences.

5. How we are getting to Heaven.....that is why Jesus Christ came to the earth. Because of what He did, we can get there.

6. God was not created. He is.....as He told Moses when Moses asked His name... I am what I am.. He told Moses to tell the children of Israel that "I am" had sent Him to them.

7. You definitely are one of His children. He will let you in but you decide exactly what your condition will be when you get there. Jesus said, there are many houses in my Father's Kingdom. Which one are going to choose? Or will you ignore it and let Him assign it to you?

You're not stupid....just young. There's a big difference. :)

IM me if you'd like to talk.

Okay, so maybe people would give me a low rating for this but---what the heck, this is what I think. ;)

Hell, heaven, God--according to some these are just concepts that have been created by man so as to serve as guides. Hell and heaven came into existence so that people would be motivated to do the right thing (if heaven is so great, anyone would be scared to do anything bad if the consequence was to go to hell). On the other hand, God was created so that people would still have that one thing to hold on to when all else fails. Although he cannot be seen, the mere thought that somebody as great as him exists (no matter how 'weird' his acts may be), brings hope to those who are troubled.

About your questions. For someone so young, it's amazing how you've been able to come up with such queries. Somehow...I feel that you already have the answers to those inquiries. :)

1. there is Hell because some of his children don't want to be in Heaven with him. would you let someone into your house if all they did their entire life was curse your name and deny your existence?

2. He does understand that. that's why he sent Jesus to die for us, so that we can be saved. however, we have to accept that for ourselves.

3. God doesn't take innocent lives. people take innocent lives. but compared to God, no life is innocent except a baby's or a young child's. if those die, they go straight to Heaven because they are not old enough to understand yet.

4. We get to heaven through a belief in Jesus Christ, the son of God, who died to save us from our sins.

5. God doesn't need to be created, his very nature is that of existence. Only physical things need to be created, and God is a spiritual being. He also exists outside of time and space, as a 10th dimensional being (basically, he sees and understands every possible beginning to every possible universe with every possible end and every possible action involved at once). He started the universe because he exists outside of it.

6. the guy at your school is stupid. the world wont end in 2012 :)

what you described is exactly my situation. only i haven't technically told anybody, though some may have inferred. one guy actually asked me this, but i denied it since i barely have any fellow atheists in the state let alone my class ( no one from my whole school is atheist). also, they probably would have bothered me about it and made it a big deal and lots of other unnecessary complications may have been created, including them somehow telling my family, which i do not want as of now. and no, you may be young but not foolish. you've made the smartest decision ever. and as far as 2012 goes, i'll be unbiased and say that the claims of 2012 being the year of the 'rapture' have not originated from christians. certain people have inferred from the mayan calandar combined with the prophecy about the 'rapture' in the bible to come up with the 2012 thing. still, the 'rapture' is of christian origin, though no date has been specified as to when it would occur.

and to all your questions about christian beliefs - all of the beliefs are insensible.

cheers, hope i helped.

the two faith is justified via philosophy, or we've not have been given any reason to have confidence it. specific, philosophy is exactly the attempt to comprehend the fact and is the attempt to stay a good life. A philosophical recommendations-set is to be accurately open minded and skeptical. while you're no longer philosophical, then you extremely develop into gullible or dogmatic (closed-minded). Philosophy would not require us to reject God or faith except the thought in God is unreasonable. regardless of if this is unreasonable, then it may be absurd to think of God and faith could allow you to stay a extra advantageous life (via definition). non secular persons have not have been given any selection yet to comply with be philosophical or to easily have an unjustified opinion. I actual have written approximately this on my website. See the link below.

it is normal to be confused according to your family, surrounding and so on.

i dont understand the bible either because it is sound ...... whatever.

why hell? because there people like you (no offence - like you said) who dont believe in god and think every possible exuse to deny the truth. but you know you cant hide the sun with you thumb. the fact that you dont believe that doesnt mean that he didnt exists. this is just your opinion and the opinion of many other people but there are just people who want to not see it. there is no such a blind like the one who dont wanna see. you cant just enter the heavan. you have to deserve it. god creates us to live here on earth to test us whethr or not we fit either of thw two places. the main thing is the belif. if you really believe that god exists , but not like some kind of power or some nonsense but really, and do many many good stuff that he requests until you die and wait for the judgment day you may enter the heaven. i said you may cause no one except him knows that so you just have to pray to belive and hope for his mercy. whoever do not show all of this well..... you know your favoritve hell ;) im kidding.(i mean about your fav place).

we are not perfect - yes, but that does not we cannot ask for forgiveness and try to be better. what do you think that you just will do whatver you like with the excuse the you are not perfect and then

"oh what the hell i dont care whatever im not perfect nobody is" you see for yourself that this is one lame excuse for avoiding the problem. this easiest way to ignore everything but when you realize that not everything is ignorable then you have to face with it. it is your choice whether to believe or not into him. you have to face the consequences not him. he is the creator you are the creature.

ok for you may be he sucks but you say that just because ..... reason reason reason you can think of so many excuse that the whole wouldnt be enough to say them all.

remember this whatever you do it is just for yourself no matter what others talk.

good or bad it is for you.

good luck!

Hell was not meant for people, originally I mean. It was meant for the devil and eventually for anyone who would not obey God but obey the devil.

God is forgiving when one prays to Him and is sincerely sorry and would not want to hurt God's feelings again. God loves His children that is why even though we deserve to be punished because of our disobedience from day to day, He still allows us to live here and have a good future later if we make Him the Lord of our lives. He understands perfectly that we are weak and prone to sin that is why He sent Jesus to die as our substitute. All those who would believe in what He did for us, He is inviting to come to Him and receive Him humbly in our hearts. Then He would help us live a life that is worthy of entering Heaven.

God is God, and nobody created God. It is He who created us and continues to hold all things together. He sustains your life and it would do you good if you would come to Him and accept Him as your Lord and Savior; He is the only One who could save you from eternal punishment because Jesus is the Messiah.

if you were 'raised Christian' someone did a lousy job of giving you the 'basics' of what it is to be Christian. Hell was made for the angels that turned away from God. Hell was set up to separate the angels from God, and is also used to as a punishment for people who choose not to believe in God, continue in sin, and not ask for forgiveness, and not accept Christ as their savior. God does not want to send people to hell, it is their choice. God does not take innocent lives, there is sin in the world that has brought about illness and the kind of people that take innocent lives.

'All have sinned and fall short,' but all people have to do to enter heaven is confess that they have sinned and ask God to forgive them and ask Christ to be their Lord and Savior... That means that you let God lead your life rather than being selfish and sinful... You have to choose to quit sinning.

God was not created. God is and always has been, that is what makes him God!!!

Don't worry about 2012, worry about today. Ask God to open your heart and lead you to the truth, then open up the bible and start reading it for yourself, then you will understand it. You don't have to listen to what someone else says the bible means or says, you will know for yourself. Try reading the book of John.

Don't judge God, if you don't know anything about him.... You don't want him judging you, THAT SUCKS just as much!!

God does love you, but it is up to you to accept Him, He won't force you.

okay freindo, if you refuse to believe in hell, then convert to a different religion, budhism doesnt believe in hell, and makes you a better person

about how he was created, god created everything, including time, he doesnt exist inside time, and so doesnt have to play by what he created, and so doesnt need a creator, for he is creation himself,

i have seen the afterworld, and know he exists