Do people who don't believe in god really go to hell

Hey im a christian and I've been pretty much taught that people who are atheist and people who dont believe in god (like muslims and all that) go to hell...but I know a lot of good people who are atheist who dont deserve to go to hell at all...so just...

give me some opinions thanks

Is there anything for which Hell would be a just punishment? No matter what you do, you can only do so much of it while you're alive. If you're sent to Hell, you're going to be punished for eternity.

No matter what way you look at it, Hell would be an infinite punishment for a finite crime. Therefore, by definition Hell would be infinitely unjust. It can't mesh with the idea of a benevolent God.

im atheist... and I dont believe in hell ...I doubt that if there is a hell you wood go there for your beliefs, everyone has the right to believe in whatever they want to

surely they can't, for in the bible it states that those who ask for forgiveness will be allowed into heaven...that's why I don't like christianity...what's the point in being good all your life according to christiantiy if when you die, you ask for forgiveness at the pearly gates, and you get forgiven???

believe that you should be good becuase you are being a nice person and you care about others, not because you're frightened that your gunna burn in hell for eternity!

Good people are good people no matter is they are atheist, Christian, Buddhist, Islamic, etc. Bad people are bad people no matter if they are athest, Christian, Buddhist, Islamic, etc. Bad actions are bad actions and in my opinion, those are the people that deserve hell. However, I do not believe in heaven or hell. I think it is sick and pathetic that people need incentives to do good things or to refrain from doing bad things. People should do good things because they want to help other people, the environment, etc. and these people are real gems and the whole world should be filled with these people.
Peace

The thief on the cross had never done anything good yet he did the one thing that could send him to Heaven - he accepted Jesus, the Way. Us Christians may not know much, but we know this: No matter where we are, no matter what we do, no matter how bleak or frightening our prospects, each and every one of us who believe, each and every day, lies in the same safe and impregnable place, in the hollow of God's hand.

not really fair or christian if so

sooitca makes a good point b good to help others and b a nice person not for fear that ull burn in hell

Even the Devil believes in God - but He refuses Salvation, freely offered (a gift, John 3 : 16) through Jesus Christ.

works doesn get you into heaven, I know a lot of people that are good people who doesn believe in God, you go through the way, which Jesus Christ...the Bible says thats the only way...it isn hard to believe in him...atheist and whoever doesn really have an excuse not to except they just dont want to...we ALL deserve to go, even christians b/c we all come short of him...but christians are his children and we can go to him anytime and get forgiveness, they can do that to only if they'd just believe and sincerely ask...works doesn get NOBODY into heaven, but Christ's blood does

wth was the point of that ambless?

I believe in reincarnation,
I'm also beginning to sway twards the belief of the summerlands,
though I'm also kinda scientific so I'm not to sure about that part.

Most Christians believe that if you do not believe in their God then you go to hell, though God loves you(doesn't make much sense to me). There are some Christians(though people claim shout at them to their face that they're not) that believe that if you don't believe in God are a really good persno you will be giving a secound chance on earth to redeem yourself.
I have Muslims friends that believe that an angel sit on either of your solders, a good 1 a bad 1, each time you do a bad or good deed it's written I ntheir books. Once your life is over, or if you become mentally ill, their books or shut the desision is made whether you go to hell of heaven bast on the deeds you've done. If you done more good than bad you go to heaven, if you do more bad than good you go to hell.

No one knows for sure what happens in the after life,
but since you believe in Heaven Hell do have a religion I would suggiest to you that you seek ansers in your own religion from other Christains.

I've been pretty much taught that people who are atheist and people who dont believe in god (like muslims and all that) go to hell

ok atheists ARE people who dont believe in God
to say atheists AND people who dont believe in God is mildly redundant...
Muslims happen to actually believe in God... so either you dont pay attention, or the people teaching you these things are confused...

as for the rest of it, intolerance is one reason I cant stand religions...

Only a Christian can answer this question. A Christians belief (if they truly understand their faith) is that we are all born into this world without the Spirit of God living in them. Christ's (God's son, God in the flesh) death brought forgiveness to all but not all are forgiven. The forgiveness if found in God's Spirit. It's like a diamond ring is in a box. If you believe the ring is inside the box, open it and reach inside to put it on, then you will always have this treasure. But it is only found in the box, nowhere else. So it is with God's forgiveness. It is found in His Spirit. If you believe that Christ paid the full price for the things you've done wrong in this life and ask Him to live in you, God's Spirit comes and lives in you and you will always enjoy His forgiveness which is found in His Spirit. This is the only way we get to heaven. This God's only for you to even see heaven let alone enter it. So it's not whether someone deserves to go to hell but if they choose to go to heaven the way God will allow. Who should be the deciding factor us or God.

***Only a Christian can answer this question***

WRONG! Actually most Christians (you included) should NOT be answering this question.

There are plenty of good people in parts of the world where Christianity doesn't exist, and never has. So what happens to those people? It's not their fault they haven't slept in a Motel 6, and found a gideon bible in the nightstand. So God sends them to hell too? For not believing in something they had no idea they were required to believe?

*cough* ...loophole...

Yes, most christians believe that all non-believers go to hell. Many believe that applies to those who have never even heard of christianity (see the recent question on the subject). And as cthulhu points out, they believe that their 'benevolent' god then torments them for all eternity for the sin of not believing in something there's no evidence for - or that they haven't even heard of.

On the other hand, no atheist actually believes in hell, so telling us we're going to hell is kind of pointless.

you ask for forgiveness at the pearly gates, and you get forgiven???

Just asking for forgivness will not get you into heaven, you have to mean it.

***I ges not just blievin in sum god..but doig good is too a religion..
and it sure is gona take you up..thats what I think***

Many Christians will disagree with you, but it doesn't really matter. Your believes remain YOUR beliefs, and they don't need to change unless you feel they should.

Your god seems to be suffering from Santa syndrome - a fixation on whether or not people believe in him so great, that it's all that really matters.

Santa syndrome is an ailment of many mythical beings.

Wow what a question . AS A former missionary I should be quoting the bible with if you dont believe you go to hell. but I dont believe that anymore. there are many non christens that are good people who do a lot of good things in this world.

lets be honest are the people who are not christens or do not believe in any higher power different, evil? So say if you gave millions of dollars to organizations built schools helped the homeless and did not believe in God you're going yo hell? To some maybe I cant help to look at people who dont know about Christen beliefs but are generally good. Guess what I am saying is that we all dont believe in the same things and we will never know what will happen in the future so live your life.

Good people dont make us Christians...the bible says even the demons believe and shudder so even JUST believing in God/Jesus doesn't make you a Christian, its BELIEVING God and if we do that we follow Him and those who do not belong to HIM cannot be saved.

another thing...the Bible says that that the only way to the Father(God) is through the Son(Jesus) If someone doesn't believe in God or Jesus, how can they be saved being that is the one who saves and who dwells in Heaven.

puglover: So what about all those people - the majority of humans who have ever lived - who never heard of christianity in the first place? Doomed to eternal torment for the sin of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time? Not very benevolent of your god, is it?