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| View Poll Results: Did Hell Influence Your Conversion? | |||
| Yes, the fear of hell definitely had an affect on my decision |
   
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6 | 14.29% |
| No, the place of hell had no affect on my decision |
  
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18 | 42.86% |
| Some. The fear of hell had some affect on my decision |
  
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5 | 11.90% |
| Can't remember. I've been a Christian so long I can't remember if it did or not. |
  
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1 | 2.38% |
| Would you get over this hell thing already Buttercup!?! You're driving me freakin nuts! |
  
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12 | 28.57% |
| Voters: 42. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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#1
09-25-2006, 07:23 PM
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Christians or Former Christians: Did Hell Influence Your Conversion?
As you were contemplating becoming a Christian, did the thought of ending up in Hell influence your decision to become a Christian?
Was part of the reason you converted to Christianity because you were fearful of being sent to Hell if you didnt accept these teachings? I know for many of you this will be a hard question to answer because youve been a Christian so long you cant remember. All I ask is for you to take a truthful look at your reasons for becoming a Christian and answer if the fear of Hell was one of them. Poll to follow......Thank you!  
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#2
09-25-2006, 07:38 PM
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Hell has never influenced my life as a Christian. My household was a very liberal Christian home and my father believed (and still believes) in hell but always taught us it was empty. I have gone a step further and at this point don't believe in it at all.
It usefulness as a myth has long since past. It is now simply an excuse for people to divide the world into the saved and the damned. And usually the ones doing the dividing perceived themselves as God chosen ones. I have no doubt that we all meet the same end regardless of what our beliefs may be.
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Give them not hell, but hope and courage. Preach the everlasting love of God. – John Murray
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#3
09-25-2006, 08:02 PM
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Being a former Christian, the thought of Hell never scared me, because I was raised as a Christian, so I never really converted to it.
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Before all hell breaks loose I'll say Before the hangman's noose I'll say It's a good day to die, a good day to die 
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#4
09-25-2006, 08:30 PM
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No. I didn't really comprehend hell until after I became a Christian and it still doesn't affect me.
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<3 Savannah Last edited by sparkyluv; 09-25-2006 at 09:15 PM.
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#5
09-25-2006, 08:31 PM
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As a former Christian, the concept of Hell had some influence (but not sole influence) on my decision to reject the Christian faith, but it wasn't a fear of Hell so much as it was a dislike of the concept of Hell - that those that never heard and accepted God's word would be damned, that a so-called loving God would damn any of his creation when he created the world in the way he did, etc. However, what made me ultimately reject the Christian faith was looking at it with a more critical eye.
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09-25-2006, 08:35 PM
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First of all.....just cuz you're my friend, Alyssa I gotta give you the smack down for your answer in the poll.
 Ok, I feel better now.  The fear of hell had some influence in my decision to become a Christian all those years ago. I can distinctly remember worrying about it prior to accepting Christ.
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09-25-2006, 08:42 PM
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09-25-2006, 08:45 PM
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Yeah, like we haven't discussed violence within Islam enough on RF.  I'm thinking this thread may not get the responses I've had in my recent other threads.
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09-25-2006, 08:47 PM
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