Hey Manny,

I’ll try my best to answer your question. As I stated just a bit earlier, I’m still a bit new to things. I did grow up in the church (it was like my second home), though I honestly didn’t pay much attention to it after middle school. But more recently I’ve come back to things and have been learning more and more. So I remember some things I was taught when I was little, but most things feel new to me. So essentially, I’ll try to explain the best I can, but I can’t promise that I won’t be wrong on a part/parts I say. Though I’ll link resources to help you find more knowledgeable people.

(Jump, Downward, and Zilla know far more then me. I’ll try my best with any further questions but, they’re a better bet).

Here we go.

Is it true that in Christianity, atheists and people of other religions go to hell simply because of their beliefs?

Well, it’s not necessarily their beliefs, but more so their rejection of Jesus. According to the Bible, we are saved through Jesus, so rejecting him is the 1 unforgivable sin which leads to hell. By putting your faith in Jesus, and believing in him, that leads to Heaven. Since your sins can be forgiving through him. Granted, that doesn’t mean you can go around committing crime sprees, then do a little prayer and go right to it. If you really believed in God, you would try to improve and follow him. We aren’t perfect, we’re flawed, so we won’t be sin free, but through him we can be forgiven of our sins and improve.

If God is loving, why would he banish his creations to suffer eternally simply because of their beliefs. Most people are raised to believe in a certain religion, and it isn’t necessarily their fault they believe that way. As for atheists, they could have atheists parents who raised them as an atheist…

Well, God is loving, but the reason for hell as stated before is rejecting Christ. One expression I heard I think, while simple, explains it decently well. When you go to court for a crime, the judge doesn’t look at all your good deeds and compare it to your bad ones. They judge you for your bad dead. So if you say murdered someone, they judge you on that murder. They wouldn’t say, oh well, he helps puppies on the weekends. The good deeds don’t out matter since the crime occurred. Though, you can get bailed out. Someone decided to pay for your crimes and get you out of there. And Jesus is your savior who bailed you out. He payed for your crimes and you are saved thanks to him. So by rejecting Jesus, it’s like you’re denying the bail money and staying in jail.

The expression was said better, but it’s just how I remember it, sorry about that. Anyway, God does love you, he loves everyone. He gave us a key known as Jesus. By rejecting him, your rejecting his love, leading to hell.

or they may have become one due to there being no proof whatsoever for a certain religion to be true. And there are many religions anyway, so if religion was 100% proven to be true, there are many religions all claiming to be true, why would he make it so if you choose to be a believer of one besides Christianity you are punished despite not knowing better?

Well, it comes down to one being right. When I was in middle school, I grew away from the faith since my low knowledge of it clashed with what I was learning in school, and in general. I’m a very skeptical person with things, and I need evidence to get behind something if it sounds off to me, as most people are/should be.

But I grew back in faith once I started to learn again. When I first researched, I started to see some things that actually showed up Christianity has evidence for its truth, and how things in the Bible connect to reality. Granted I don’t agree with every piece of evidence out there for certain things, that’s what leads to some denominations. But generally speaking, I’ve seen enough convincing evidence to keep my Christian, and not change religions or go atheist.

I can’t really go through everything due to time and plus there would just be too much to read, but a few things that proved it to me where,

– Jesus’ resurrection had 4 written testimonies, and 500 other stated eye wittinesses. The 4 testimonies were all written by different people at different times and match together.

– 10/12 disciples died brutal deaths for what they claimed to have seen. Not many people would die for something in such painful ways for something they can’t fully say they saw.

– Paul (from the Bible) someone who was against Christianity, and who had nothing to gain, became a Christian based on the evidence he saw

“ For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.”

— Galatians 1:13–14 NIV”

Essentially, if Jesus’ resurrection is true, the rest is. If it didn’t happen, then as stated by Paul, “ and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is in vain . . .”

Also I’ll respond to the reply above there too

So do people who weren’t told of the word of god go to hell or not?

This one I have to do more research on, but from my understanding no. You would be judged based on if you accepted the little knowledge you had/knew in your heart.

I have worded this question very poorly and I’m sorry. And I’m not trying to disprove Christianity or berate it either, I used to be one so that would be ridiculous (though I wasn’t taught anything about it, the religious school I went to just made us color)

No worries man all good. I’m happy that you’re interested and are open to asking questions. I’m a bit upset that your religious school did a poor job at reaching you the word of God. But I’m happy that you’re asking questions on it.

Again as I said, I could easily have made a mistake here, so Jump may have something better to say on all of this. Additionally, the links below should help a ton. If you have any more questions let me know (sorry for any spelling or grammar mistakes).

Links (as a heads up, I have not pre-screened every video, but I generally trust each one regardless of if I’ve seen it or not. Though if you have questions on any I’ll try to either rewatch it or watch it when I have the time).

I’m very bias towards Mike Winger videos as you can see. Inspiring Philosophy is another good one, but he doesn’t have any direct videos on these topics from what I can tell. However, still look him up if you’re interested. He more so debunks bad Christian takes on evidence, while showing better reasoning. As well as the other side of things debunking atheist and other religious false takes on Christianity, and showing what’s true and not.

(Sorry for how long this is, thanks for the question(s) Manny, hope I could be of service).