fundamentalist idea of hell

[Athene]

Question: How you gonna burn, when you ain't got no body?
Answer: Special magic  fire.....you moron!

Even the lost will have  their bodies resurrected.

GC

Yes. Thanks, GC

Answer: Special magically resurrected body, then forever fire. 

God the Magician, never ceases to astonish and amaze.

[Lemonvariable72]

Countless ancient religions had the ideas of heavens and hells before the Christians came along and adopted them.

You know where the English as well as the German word for hell is coming from? From the goddess Hel and her domain.

Which if I recall wasnt a bad place in Norse mythology.

[Divinity]

There's also Christians who later (in adulthood) converted to Islam. And others who converted to Judaism. How can you be so certain that those people were 'led astray' and that it's not you that's been led astray?

Islam and Judaism and pretty much all religions have the same feelings about their religion as you do about yours. What makes yours any more right than theirs? What claim do you have that they don't? You don't have one.

Do you really think that an all powerful being such as god would care about which religious textbook you follow? Why does he need worship? And why does he need faith? Surely if the Christian God existed, and expects us to follow the bible as written by fallible men, he'd come down here and tell us himself. And don't give me that free will bullshit, because Adam and Eve were capable of having free will while having god spoken to them directly. As did Cain and Abel. In fact Cain slew Abel after having spoken to god directly.

I mean for fucks sake... if the other religions are false, then men had to have tampered with them. Or else the Devil. What stops the same from being said about your religion?

Picking the 'right religion' would be equal to this:

A teacher holds out a series of 10 balls. Each are a different color, but are in many ways similar. Some people have parents who from a young age teach them that green is the right color, while others are taught blue is the right color, and others say red, and so forth. You then have to pick a ball before the last day of class (which you have no idea when that is). If you picked the right color, the teacher takes you out for a pizza and ice cream party. If you picked the wrong color, the teacher sets you on fire.

Your religion is full of so many holes, and yet you claim to have no doubts. Sounds like you've been well indoctrinated by a church who thrives on people not asking questions.

[JuliaL]

If enough cool people go to hell, will the brimstone freeze?

[Drich]

Silly Atheist, we aren't born into Christianity, we elect it. That said Salvation isn't about following one church doctrine or another either. Salvation is a gift from Christ, and it is to Christ's final judgement that decides whether we stand before God for eternity or fall into the pit of hell. To be saved is to be saved by Christ by His judgement and actions on the Cross alone, not by the works or will or title (what you call yourself) Mat 7 even goes so far as to say their will be many on that final day that call out "Lord, Lord didn't we do all these many great and wonderful things in your name?" and He will say "depart from me I never knew you." Why? Because again it is not what we call or identify ourselves with. It is our heart that Christ will judge.

Does this mean Atheist will go to heaven? No. Why? Because of the hardness and condition of one's heart to deny God.
Can this mean that people not exposed to the gospel can goto Heaven? absolutely, just as the thief on the cross was allowed in so to will the rest of us be placed before Christ and judged to our core.

Unless, of course, Buddhism turns out to be THE ONE TRUE FAITH.

so... if Buddhism is the 'one true faith' people are born Christians?