If you were God, would you require someone to believe in you and worship you before you let them into a Heaven?

Question

Personally, if I were a God, I wouldn't require or expect this. If someone was a good person in general - had a good heart, never intentionally hurt others, and tried their very best - I see no reason why that person would have to love, accept or worship me to go to a Heaven. I just wouldn't need it to reward them for being a good person.

What about you? If you were a God, would you require worship before you sent a good person to paradise? Or would you not, and you would judge people differently?

Bonus Q: What type of person would you send to Hell? I would probably go for cold-blooded serial killers, peadophiles, rapists, and people like Hitler. If someone killed in defence, I would probably let them into Heaven after considering the sitution.

I would also make the punishment fit the crime. These evil people would spend an amount of years equal to their lifetime in Hell, and then I would put them in a different afterlife, that was neither Hell nor Paradise.

Answer 1

You wrote:

"If someone was a good person in general - had a good heart, never intentionally hurt others, and tried their very best - I see no reason why that person would have to love, accept or worship me to go to a Heaven. I just wouldn't need it to reward them for being a good person."



You see that the world has a desirable plan. That loving is better than not loving, that not hurting others is better than hurting others, etc. You very well see that we ought to strive to achieve that plan. Not only that, but you expect that everyone else ought to help achieve that plan also.



In reality, you accept the plan but reject the Planner. The fact that you understand that there is a plan ought to drive you to seek God who is the Planner. To not seek God after you realize that there is a plan is the same as rejecting God.

Answer 2

Actually your Idea sounds good but if any of us where God we would see things from a different perspective that we as mortals cannot possibly comprehend.



If I were God there would probably not be a black and white,heaven or hell but many shades of gray in the afterlife, levels of hell, levels of heaven and levels of limbo. They would have to have enough love in them to be capable of being grateful to their creator to get to heaven, unloving but basically neutral people to limbo and hateful people to hell, hell however would not be eternal, after paying the price, I would mercifully end their very existence.



Yes I suppose they would have to believe but I would make myself know in such a way that there would be little room for doubt.



Only the blackest of hearts would be sent to hell a formerly sadistic person who changes their way could at least make limbo, or even possibly heaven depending on how radical the change was.Obviously Hitler and Stalin would be lost.

Answer 3

I would have just created people with such an overdeveloped sense of empathy that they'd be unable to be awful to each other without literally feeling the other person's pain. Since causing suffering is about the only thing that I would keep people out of Heaven for (assuming incorrectly that I would institute such a silly reward system in the first place) this would pretty much make Hell a non-issue. As for the other commandments, I obviously have a more developed sense of humor than Yahweh, since I'd have weekly "Take My Name In Vain" contests, with big prizes for the most creative blasphemy and profanity.

Answer 4

I agree. But I think people are too strict that way. God is supposed to be righteous right? Would a righteous God send a little kid to hell because he followed the wrong religion? I don't think so. I think there is too much indoctrin. I don't believe in God but think if I'm wrong that God would be righteous and judge under circumstance not by if you were raised to believe or chose to on your own. I don't believe that enough people question their own religion and learn about others.

Answer 5

The person that has no interest in worshipping God has only accomplished revealing their double mindedness regarding an interest in heaven and ultimately going there.

If one does not love God, they should by default, have no interest in dwelling in heaven with God.

What you neglect to state here however is still glaringly obvious - you would expect God in heaven to step aside for you in the same sense in which you have pushed Him aside here.

Every time you ask one of your "questions", you reveal your real intent.



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Answer 6

Yes, I would I think that all worship,praise, and glory. For the mercy and grace he has had on us. God never sends souls to hell. When you reject God that's basically like saying "Yes, Lord I do want to go to hell."

Answer 7

I would require them to feed me chocolates and bring me breakfast in bed. Also there wouldn't be an eternal hell. Hell would be spending time with Richard Simmons, Gilbert Gottfried, and Paris Hilton while listening to Amy Winehouse & Bob Dylan, until they came to their senses.

Answer 8

Objectively speaking, I would destroy everybody different than me at all, because tolerance has no application to the most powerful being in the world. Not even to ensure my power, or to prove it, but because I can.



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Answer 9

The is no God hence I would never lie and tell people I was I would not cause i couldnt send anyone to hell cause it doesn't exist.. God is imaginary get over it.

Answer 10

No - but you must remember that the people who dreamed this up based their deity on the sort of deranged despotic rulers they were used to: arbitrary, capricious and cruel, and full of rules to be obeyed without question.



The whole idea is really terribly primitive.

Answer 11

God is merciful, but also just and powerful.

He reads hearts and looks for the good in each one of us.

The Scriptures make it very clear that those who practice vile things will not inherit God's kingdom.

This Kingdom in not only in heaven, it's rulership is over the earth.

Just because someone practices murder, adultery or any other vile thing and on their death bed confesses Jesus is not going to be allowed a place in heaven.

As far as a Resurrection in Paradise, that is God's decision, not ours.

As far as judgment benefiting the crime, Jehovah is a merciful God and he does not torture anyone, rather eternal death, no conscience thought, no existence forever, is enough punishment from God's point of view.

We need to have Jesus mentality regarding Jehovah's view point on maters to prove we are a true disciple of his

Answer 12

No one desrves hell.. not even pedophiles, an eternity of agonizing pain is just unfair.. maybe a few million but not forever.



If i was god, i would use logic and sense to dictate who would get into heaven..not this garbage that is written in the bible.

Answer 13

I would demand everyone kissed my @ss.



I'd have a virgin sacrificed (to mah schlong) every weekend or I would send the plagues.



I'd only send Paris Hilton to hell.

Answer 14

If i were god, i wouldn't even want to create the whole universe with all the devils and sufferings!!!!!

Answer 15

A better question would be, Why create the earth for man to live on for eternity, if they were to eventually live in heaven?

Answer 16

I like grilled cats with horseradish sauce.

Answer 17

if i were god, i will throw the sun onto the earth.

that would be fun.

Answer 18

Salvation is like a marriage contract offered to mankind by the Savior YAHOSHUA. Take His name, follow His rules (Torah) you become His ‘bride’ and He saves you. If you and He have become one, His mind will be in you , and you will choose to do those things that please Him, and you won’t break His commandments. How could He be more generous, without violating His principles of righteousness?

Answer 19

How can you be in a position to say what you would do if you were God? You would have to have infinite knowledge, and have been around for all eternity. you are in no position to say what you would do to who.

Answer 20

Not me and nor does God.

Answer 21

A better question is - why does everyone blame God for what they do wrong. God gave us directives to guide our lives so it will be better than serving Satan. He even sent His Son Jesus to die for us. What more could He do for us?

Answer 22

I am not G-d ,nor could I grasp the reality he Knows .

Answer 23

No

Answer 24

BUT IM NOT SO MOOT POINT....

YOURE WRONG....WHAT HE WANTS IS REPENTANCE...IS THAT TOO DIFFICULT FOR YOU?? it isnt hard at all..