Who didn't go to heaven or hell?

Answer 1

• Jewish saints from the Old Testament

• Non-Jewish [gentile] saints from the Old Testament

• Christians

• Messianic Jews

Only converted people go to heaven - it is no good just believing- that will not get you out of hell:

James 2:19

You believe that there is one God, you do well; even the demons believe and tremble.

Hell is going to be full of good people. It may seem discriminatory but it's God's call and He sets the rules.

Atheists don't go to hell either. See related question: "Where did heaven and hell teaching originate?"

It would be easier to ask who does go to hell. All those who have had a Testimony that Jesus is the Christ, given to them by the Holy Spirit, then willfully deny the existence of the spirit having once received it. Also all those who commit murder. All others will receive a reward that they have earned for themselves while here upon the earth.

There will be very few who will go to hell, irrespective of what some have already stated.

Hell is a place reserved for Satan and His angels, and all those who have committed murder, and those who having once received the Holy Spirit, and then blatantly deny of His existence.

Few of us will have gained sufficient knowledge to have us understand the principles of the gospel, who God is and who His son is. Though we cannot be saved in ignorance, this life is for us to prepare to get to know God and His son Jesus Christ.

As God is a just God He will not send us anywhere after the final judgment, to a reward other than what we have earned for ourselves, and then he will give us the best that He can.

Sorry,I don't want to sound too intolerant, but

(1). Re "Atheists don't go to hell":-

If you don't even believe in God, then how can you possibly get accepted into heaven?

The Bible plainly says atheists go to hell. :-

Rev 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (King James)

(Another later translation may make it clearer:-

Rev 21:7 The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.Rev 21:8 But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death." (NET )

Regarding the web site "Where did heaven and hell teaching originate?":-

When you are talking about life and death you cannot rely on consensus judgements, majority support, or ignoring what you don't like: everybody is going to die - that is an absolute guarantee (after all, that is what Life Assurance companies are based on!) . When you die, you are going to either heaven or hell, and as you're going to spend eternity there you'd better make the right choice.

Hell is specifically mentioned quite early in the Bible:-

Deu 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.Deu 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. (King James)

"Lowest hell" mentioned in verse 22 is certainly not the grave: other translations render it

"the world below", "the deep parts of the underworld", and "lowest Sheol":-

Deu 32:22 My anger will flame up like fire and burn everything on earth. It will reach to the world belowand consume the roots of the mountains. (GNB)

Deu 32:22 For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains. (BBE)Deu 32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains. (NET)

There are a lot of other verses , and Jesus had quite a lot to say about hell: check it out.

(2). Re "There will be very few who go to hell":-

Jesus Himself said the way to hell is wide, easy, many go there, and only a few don't:-

Mat 7:13 "Go in through the narrow gate, because the gate to hell is wide and the road that leads to it is easy, and there are many who travel it.Mat 7:14 But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who find it. (GNB)

The same verse in another Gospel account:-

Luk 13:23 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved [or "have salvation" BBE] ? And he said unto them,Luk 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. (KJ)

Satan and his angels are going to be in hell:- Mat 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

There is quite a list of those crimes that keep a person out of heaven:-

1Co 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,1Co 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (KJ)

Another version may make it clearer:-

1Co 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexualpartners,5 practicing homosexuals,61Co 6:10thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive,7 and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God. (NET)

Now, after reading who won't go to heaven, Go to Hebrews 11 and find out who will:

Jacob was a liar and a swindler, Moses was a murderer, Rahab was a harlot, and if anybody was eligible for hell, it was King David : he was an adulterer and a murderer, yet the Bible says he was a man after God's own heart:- Act 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

God is not going to send someone like Himself to hell.

It is not a case of 'one strike and you're out' of heaven because God can change people's character if they ask Him , and He forgives all sin that is repented of. Some of the people in the Bible are pretty nasty pieces of work, yet that does not stop them going to heaven. What stops people is their character and attitude toward sin. Suppose you have done (whatever) : if you have been saved, God forgives it on your repentance; if you are striving to battle and overcome (whatever) and you fall flat on your face yet again, God will forgive you again and again. (Just remember that the forgiveness of sin does not remove the consequencesof that sin.) . It is not your actions that are the important thing - it is your attitude and mindset:-

Mat 18:21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

Mat 18:22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.Eph 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Now go back to the list of long-term attitudes that kept people out of heaven, and then read the very next verse:-

1Co 6:11 Some of you once lived this way.8 But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ9 and by the Spirit of our God. (NET) 1Co 6:11 And such were some of you....(KJ)

The people of Corinth were a pretty lawless and licentious bunch , so what do you do?

Act 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Another opinionAtheists say they will not go to hell because they say there is no hell. And like everyone else, they do not really have souls. I know it says otherwise in Revelations, but atheists are not required to believe what the Bible says.

What happens to both Atheists and Christians alike is determined not at all by what they believe but by cold hard reality. If the Christian view is not empirically true then neither the atheist nor the Christian will go to hell, since it doesn't in fact exist. On the other hand, if the Christian view is correct then not just atheists will go to hell, but every person who pretends to be a Christian but isn't.

Thus the ultimate to the question is whether hell is a real place and whether God not only means what He says about judgment but that He has the power to send people to hell. If hell is a real place (and I personally believe it is) then my believing it or not believing it is not going to change anything. People disbelieve all kinds of things that later turn out to be true.

The terrible consequence eternally of not believing in something that turns out to be true is unimaginable. Not believing it will not make it go away. Believing it will not bring it into existence if it is a lie.

There is every reason to believe what God says is true. So the issue according to the one who sets the rules is whether or not one meets God's criteria.

Wiccans and pagans.

Answer 2

Everyone who dies either will go to Heaven or Hell.

Elias and Enoch were both taken by God so they never actually died. They would be in heaven as they were taken by God.

Roman Catholic AnswerThe world, and everything in it were created by God. When we die, this veil of this world is torn away and we can actually see our state. In other words, there simply is nothing outside of God and His creation, we just do not see clearly here. Hell is just the eternal privation of God. In our inmost self, we have chosen our self over God. Everybody makes this choice, whether consciously or not, and everybody goes to heaven or hell; or more realistically is already living in that state now, to an extent. from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994Hell

1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves: "He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (1 Jn 3:14-15) Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren. (Cf. Mt 25:31-46) To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell."1037 God predestines no one to go to hell; (Cf. Council of Orange II (529); Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum (1965).; Council of Trent (1547): 1567.) For this, a wilful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of her faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God, who does not want "any to perish, but all to come to repentance"... (2 Pet 3:9)

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Heaven. The place and condition of perfect supernatural happiness. This happiness consists essentially in the immediate vision and love of God, and secondarily in the knowledge, love, and enjoyment of creatures. Until the final resurrection, except for Christ and His Mother, only the souls of the just are in heaven. After the last day, the just will be in heaven in body and soul. Although the same God will be seen by all and enjoyed by all, not everyone will have the same degree of happiness. The depth of beatitude will depend on the measure of God's grace with which a person dies, and this in turn will be greatly conditioned by the merits that one earns during life on earth. Heaven is eternal because it will never cease. It is continuous because its joys never stop. It is communal because the happiness is shared with the angels and saints and the company of those who were known and love on earth.

Answer 3

Atheists will not go to hell because they say there is no hell.