Deathfromtheskies wrote:
You see, Satan knows God exists. He knows that Jesus died for your sins, and because of that, everyone on earth's sins are forgiven.
Only if you're baptized! If you die before you're baptized, you die with original sin still on your soul. ^^ Fun thought, no?
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Now, people still go to hell everyday. Why? Because they did not receive their forgiveness and believe in Jesus. Believing that God exists is not enough, belief IN Him is required. Satan and all of hell believes that God exists, but they do not believe in Him. No one goes to hell now for sin, they go for unbelief.
Actually, no one gets into Heaven right away, according to the Catholics anyway. You go to Purgatory. You have to wait for the second coming of Christ to open the gates to Heaven for you. ^^
And, somewhere in the Bible it doesn't say non-believers go to Hell. All it says, I think, and I don't have quotes to back me up, but I'm relatively certain I'm correct, that if you believe in Jesus as the Saviour, you WILL go to Heaven. But it says nothing about not believing in him meaning you go to Hell.
The way it works, is if you don't believe in Jesus, it then depends entirely on your acts in life and the person you are. Even Atheists, (if there is a Heaven) will go to Heaven if they were good people. Same with Heathens, Pagans, Wiccans, Jewish, Muslims, etc, etc, etc.
(And Jewish and Muslim people believe in the same God (I'm sure we're all aware of that fact), but the former doesn't believe the Son of God has come yet and the latter believes that Jesus was simply a prophet, and not the son of God, and the last prophet was Mohammed. And please, if someone is Jewish or Muslim and I mistated myself, correct me. :)
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So Satan knows that if he can keep you thinking that religion and God are all a fake, a lie, then you will never receive your forgiveness, and you will have the wonderful pleasure of eternal torture along with Him.
Why'd you capitalize Satan as Him? :)
And, see my above for why this is false.
Unless you're a believer in Dante's works, and the circles of Hell, of which one is Virtuous Nonbelievers.
And my question is this.. so, the Mafia believe in Jesus. Most of them seem very religious (at least according to TV movies!). So, even though they kill people all the time (breaing a commandment!) they believe in and love Jesus and accept him as a personal saviour, so they go to Heaven?
Meanwhile, a kindly old woman who has done nothing but good deeds all her life, but just so happens to be Hindu rather than Christian.. she goes to Hell simply because she was brought up by her parents to be Hindu and she made the choice of religion in her adult life?
Or what about sometime after Jesus was born and died, some person in a third world country that never heard of Jesus in his entire life dies, he goes to Hell because a missionary never made it that far into the jungle?
Now, this is my opinion, but I think not. I am Christian, and my God doesn't do that.