What religions do not believe in a hell?

Answer 1

ANSWER I will start this discussion by mentioning that Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in a burning hell. I emphasize the word burning because we believe in what The Bible calls, hell, sheol, or hades. We accept the explanation the Bible gives for hell, not the common one found in many religions. One such scripture is at Ecclesiastes 9:5,10, where it says, "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten...All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She´ol, the place to which you are going." Sheol is a place of inactivity, it is the common grave of mankind, not a place of torment according to the Bible. ANSWER All the Eastern Religions line up with the Jehovah's Witnesses and also do not teach there is a hell as the Bible teaches. CLARIFICATION The English word hell is translated from the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek work Hades. JW's accept what the Bible says about Sheol and Hades, which does not always agree with what Christendom teaches about hell, so if there is dissagreement about hell between the Bible and what s popular, JW's accept what the Bible says. Here is a web address to what JW's believe about the subject: http://www.watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm

Answer 2

If by rebirth you mean reincarnation, then Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism.. most of these do not believe in reincarnation.

However if by rebirth you mean something more spiritual, then I would say that most religions in some sense believe in rebirth. However I would say most likely Islam and Judism do not believe in it.

Answer 3

Christians believe in hell as a place of conscious and eternal torment. This they get from the Bible, in numerous places.

AnswerOf the three great monotheistic religions both Christianity and Islam have a heaven and hell, and judaism has only a heaven. Many other religions promise a reward or punishment for belief/non-belief, and of the 2,500 or so gods that have ever been believed in, around 300 of them have some risk/reward scenario similar to hell, though few I would imagine are so "hellish".

Answer 4

When you say 'Hell', do you mean a fiery place of torturethat wicked people go after death? Then Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in a fiery hell. The Bible says at Ecclesiastes 9:5,10--"The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol,* the place to which you are going." (If they are conscious of nothing, they obviously feel no pain.) (*"Sheol," AS, RS, NE, JB; "the grave," KJ, Kx; "hell," Dy; "the world of the dead," TEV.) (These initials are naming different Bible translations) Also, the King James version of the Bible says at Acts 2:25-27: "David speaketh concerning him [Jesus Christ], . . . Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,* neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." (The fact that God did not "leave" Jesus in hell implies that Jesus was in hell, or Hades, at least for a time, does it not?) (*"Hell," Dy; "death," NE; "the place of death," Kx; "the world of the dead," TEV; "Hades," AS, RS, JB, NW.) What does the Bible say the penalty for sin is? Rom. 6:23: "The wages sin pays is death." After one's death, is he still subject to further punishment for his sins? Rom. 6:7: "He who has died has been acquitted from his sin." What would you think of a parent who held his child's hand over a fire to punish the child for wrongdoing? "God is love." (1 John 4:8) Would he do what no right-minded human parent would do? Certainly not! A fiery Hell is a Satanic lie.

Answer 5

• Buddhism
• Jainism
• Sikhism
• Zoroastrianism
• Taoism
• Pantheism
• Confusions
• Mayans
• Followers of the ancient Greek religions

There are many other religions that do not believe in the Abrahamic God, and others which teach an ambiguous supreme God.

The only modern religions that unambiguously do believe in God are Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The word God is understood to mean any of the following Deity, Spiritual Divinity and Supreme Creator the word religion refers to the beliefs and rituals associated with this particular aspect of professed Divinity (God). Therefore all religions adhere to the belief that their Deity (God) is the ultimate power/force that governs the universe.

Answer 6

Satanism - as in the Church of Satan does not believe in the worship of gods/esses.

Answer:

There is also Atheism,maybe Hindu and budda because they worship statues.

Answer:

Technically, I don't believe that Buddhism is a religion... it's a phylosophy.

Answer:

If a is both organized (rules, holy books, cergy) and has supernatural being at its head (God, Thor, Satan, Ahurimazada, etc.) it is a religion. If it does not, it is generally considered a philopsphy or way of life. As a result all religions believe in "god".

Groups which do not have the Abrahamic God as their focus are often described as being godless. Western society has branded many of these philosophies like Buddhism as religions because they do not have another category to put philosophies with spiritual attributes. Atheists, on the other hand, are not a religion (in the same way that not playing hockey is a not a sport) as they are neither organized into a group nor do not have a deity.

Answer 7

A:The earliest religion to believe in hell as a place of punishment is Zoroastrianism, the religion of the ancient Persians, whom the Jews met during the Babylonian Exile, and still practised by a few adherents in Iran and parts of Pakistan and India.

Early post-Exilic Judaism also believed in hell as a place of punishment but this fell out of favour and is no longer generally the case.

Christianity inherited and elaborated the early Jewish belief in hell as a place of punishment. Islam inherited this concept of hell from Christianity.

Answer 8

None. Every religion believes in something after death, though the beliefs vary widely.

(Some answerers have mistakenly posted "Taoism, Wicca" etc., so I researched the subject.)

Answer 9

Muslims. Muslims do not belive in ghost or anything like spirit or devil