Do I believe Atheists are going to hell?

[Catholic_Lady]

The doctrines come from assembling the information we have in the Bible into a systematic, internally consistent framework.

And how was the bible assembled?

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I also wanted to discuss this specifically. Because I do very much see it as still being a chance/unlucky thing.

Let's just be reasonable for a second here. If you were raised a Muslim, believed in salvation through Islam, believed in Mohammed, etc etc... how would you know that you had a moral obligation to examine Christianity in the first place?? How would you be like "Well, I was taught by my parents and everyone I love and trust that Islam is the way to salvation... but someone mentioned something about some Jesus guy today and said I need to be Christian to be saved. Yikes! I better look into it." I mean, do we, as Christians, feel like we have a moral obligation to look into other religions because people of those religions also say you need to be saved through their own prophet? If you and I were raised Muslim chances are we'd both be Muslim today lol.

We all have a moral obligation to seek truth, yes, but we can't discount the fact that people can make honest mistakes and that upbringing and other factors which are outside their control doesn't play a role in their conclusion of the truth.

So going purely by whether or not you've heard of Jesus still seems unfair and unlucky if you happened to be born into a different faith.

CL, can you point that mirror in other directions and realize that things operate the same way, regardless of which religion you're looking at?... Even yours.
Were you lucky to be born in a society that got the right one?... or also unlucky, like all others?
What are the odds?

Yeah, I think I was very lucky. Obviously I know everyone from their own faith feels the same way though.

I have good reasons for believing what I do, but if I was from another part of the world and raised in another faith, I'm not sure that I would have gone through the effort of coming across it and been able to be completely objective/open minded. Of course I'd like to think I would, but realistically I don't think I'm better than most people, and most people dont.