I Want To Believe

ok here it is in other words.

A person, lets say around the age of 20, worships the devil, because he has grown up around people that worship the devil and tell how good the devil is. Remember that satanics also believe there is a God, and there was a Jesus. So, growing up in a satanic family, being teached only satanic ways, are they innocent, because they do not know, even if they know there is God?

Originally Posted by Seeker6113

ok here it is in other words.

A person, lets say around the age of 20, worships the devil, because he has grown up around people that worship the devil and tell how good the devil is. Remember that satanics also believe there is a God, and there was a Jesus. So, growing up in a satanic family, being teached only satanic ways, are they innocent, because they do not know, even if they know there is God?

My same remarks would apply, minus the stuff about a child.

Originally Posted by Credo_ut_Intelligam

My same remarks would apply, minus the stuff about a child.

What if someone is of a different religion because of how they were raised? Let's say, for example, a Bhuddist who is 20 does not believe in God because of how he was raised. Will this person go to hell? Also, would he deserve it if he does get sent to hell?

I, too, am questioning the stories about God.

[machew]

Seeker6113:
If you are afraid of being deceived, ask God to reveal who Jesus really was. When you pray explicitly say, "I am talking to the one and only true God. I want to truly know who You are. I humbly ask You to show me and to protect me from the deception of the devil so that I can truly know You. I need to know if Jesus is God. Amen!" If you believe in God then this shouldn't be a stretch for you. If you ask Him to show you, He will. It may not be in your timing but He surely will reveal Himself to you. I wasn't sure until I had an encounter with Him. If that is what you need as well, I am sure He will meet you where you at like He did with me :-)


Blessings,

Machew

Originally Posted by BouyertheDestroyer

What if someone is of a different religion because of how they were raised? Let's say, for example, a Bhuddist who is 20 does not believe in God because of how he was raised. Will this person go to hell? Also, would he deserve it if he does get sent to hell?

I, too, am questioning the stories about God.

I still think my previous reply (post #20) answers this.

Usually behind such questions lies the sentiment either that (a) persons are basically good or (b) God, to be fair, must provide everyone with, at the very least, an equal opportunity to be saved (or else it is a combination of (a) and (b)). Both are false.

As I already said, all men have sufficient knowledge of God to condemn them. Persons go to Hell not because God didn't give them sufficient opportunity to be saved, but because they are rebellious sinners. God is not obligated to save anyone, otherwise salvation would not be an act of grace.

No one disbelieves simply because of "how he [or she] was raised," as you put it. Scripture teaches that persons disbelieve because "by their unrighteousness [they] suppress the truth [of] what can be known about God [which] is plain to them, because God has shown it to them" (Romans 1:18-19; my own reconstruction).

[sportygirl]

In the old testemant there were groups of people who were raised beliveing other things than God. These people would fit into your caregory of people who are 20 or more that were raised in a different religion or following satan. These people were against God so in many senses God was against them. In the book of judges it shows several times when the Isrealites go against God and worship other God's, this was something that God did not want.

Than in Joshua 24:20-If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and comsume you, after having done you good.

I think that speaks to worshiping other God's and God's view of it and its innoncence. If you are worshiping satan or any other God you are not innoncent. In my mind there is a certain age, where a person can make their own decesisions about their faith and what they choose to follow before that yes they may be considered innoncent in God's eyes (although I can not say this for certain). But I would say a 20 year old worshipping Satan or any other God is not innocent in God's eyes.

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