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CMV: It doesn’t make sense that good people who don’t believe in God go to hell anyways.

My boyfriend is very religious so I’ve tried to keep an open mind to Christianity. Personally, I think we live in a simulation. Not going to explain all the details since it’s not the subject but it’s not very far from being religious: if we’re in a simulation there is a “creator” and if we’re conscious we might just change realities when we die. So the idea of God isn’t that far fetched especially when taken metaphorically.

I just don’t get the part about Christianity where non-believers are automatically thrown to hell no matter how good of a person they were. I don’t get the “devotion” part of it where it’s more important to believe and pray than to be a good person. Why would God wants to have this place in our lives? And if we don’t do that we’re just not good enough. I feel like it defeats the purpose. An omniscient God would know we have barely any proof to believe in him so he would not really hold it against us would he? But no, for most religions being a good person isn’t enough and you’re expected to do all these things in addition otherwise bye bye. 

It only feels like it’s this way to manipulate people into believing. If there was no fear of hell I bet a lot of people would stop believing. Why would we need to be coerced into believing? 

There are many other things I find not so logical but this one is a pretty big one.
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Alright, hear me out.

In Christianity, hell is for people who screw up. Anybody who has ever screwed up is supposed sent to hell. Which is basically all of us.

Then Jesus comes along, and sacrifices himself to cover the cost of our screwups. Basically each person's sin accumulates a debt, and any debt gets you sent to hell. But Jesus' sacrifice is now like a infinite check. God, through Jesus, mailed us an infinite check to cover our "sin debt" because, you know, he loves us. Doesn't want us to go to hell forever.

God told us about the check. All you have to do is believe that he sent it and go the mailbox, pick it up, and cash it. But we all have free will, and if we decide not to cash this check (or not to believe that we have any debt in first place), that's on us, not God.

That's the gist of the main idea of what Christians actually believe.