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Can christians do this without being heretical?

• Damnation.

  I come from a long line of faithful Christian followers. I have quite a few relatives who are preachers or ministers as well. I myself am not one. But I've heard other Christian people talk and i have some knowledge of beliefs. Some Christians though think it's their right to damn the disobediant. Isn't that being heretical to their own religion where God has the final determination of a soul? Do they really have the right to say that because you don't believe you're going to burn? I don't think that Christians really have this power but they insist on telling me that I'm going to Hell if I don't change my ways.

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    keyman7
    May 5, 2006
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    No. Neither Christians nor any other mortals have the right to condemn anyone to hell. The old saying goes "Don't tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make them," and it is true. The only person who can send you to hell is the same as the one who can send you to heaven. However, when a person tells you that you are going to hell or that they believe you are going to hell,understand what they may mean. If I see you standing on a ledge and say that you are going to fall, then it is based on my beliefs of your position that I say this. I'm not going to make you fall nor am I going to pretend to have control of the situation. The same is true for many Christians. We see a person who is a professing nonbeliever in Christ and believe that apart from Christ, that person is not saved. Added together, these two things are a signal of a hellbound soul. Often enough, we recognize our own former selves in that person and identify our former condition of unsavedness to their quite possibly current one. But anywhos, in conclusion, Christians cannot condemn anyone to hell and are wrong if they think they can. Often when Christians say such things as "Repent lest ye be cast into the furnace of eternal fire!!" they merely mean that according to their perspective of life and the world, that is the place you or whoever they are speaking to is headed in terms of their religious script or dogma.
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    Makessenseright
    May 8, 2006
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    I agree, I don't want you to go to hell, and I'm trying to warn you that that to cliff you're running toward.
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    frndofyaweh
    May 13, 2006
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    I agree also

    Generally speaking; Most Christians only wish to warn others, of the consequences of personal choice. Hell is not forced on you. Hell is absence of God and If we choose to, not aknowledge Him as Lord in life; then we get our wish to not experience Him in the after-life also. We should never tell another, "you are going to Hell!" But we should only explain that consequence to those who ask for council in such matters.
  • BEP-lover16
    May 26, 2006
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    Hmmm...

    Well, I'm christian, but I think that certain christians, FOrget the bible passage "Dont pass judgenent to others" and more want to save everyone, and dont accept other ppl for who they r, and it ok to make yr point, but some just dont know when to stop, true. Accepting change, is that not just the battle of the world...

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