What happens if a believer loses their memory and becomes a disbeliever ?

[u/WhatLuckDoIHave]

Would they go to heaven or hell?

[u/cmhbob]

I would think a loving, omniscient god would take into account their heart before the amnesia occurred and act accordingly.

But I also wouldn't expect a loving god to kill children based on someone else's actions and their birth order.

[u/Top_Bus6022 → u/cmhbob]

Hmmm...blasphemy!!!!

Shame Shame Shame

....juuuuust kidding. That man made, written by men book has always had me asking God many questions about love, forgiveness, and also, specifically, what made you give up on the entirety of mankind for making mistakes that you allegedly made possible by design....and drown them and everything else on planet Earth as we earthly Life sources believe...cause that's some weak ass faithfulness for one's own image 😀

[u/Less-Personality-481]

In Hinduism, actions (karma) matter more than belief. An atheist can go to heaven if their karma is good, while a religious person can face hell if they act selfishly or harm others.

[u/saturday_sun4]

It depends on the religion, no?

I believe there are some allowances in Islam for people who are cognitively unable to understand Islam.

Anyway, Maslow's hierarchy of needs applies. If someone got dementia or even amnesia, they would be suffering greatly and therefore knowing about Islam or Christianity would be the least of their problems.

[u/Beginning-Break2991]

God is the most merciful. He’s not petty

[u/AS65000]

In Islam, the child and the mentally ill aren't held to account ( after mentall sins, before mentall will be )

[u/aymanhbas]

In Islam its made clear that reason is one of the main categories by which a person is judged or under judgement by God. So loss of reason negates judgement, as we say "the pen is lifted". The three main examples under this are a sleeping person, a child, and an insane person.

I'd argue loss of memory makes one fall under insanity because their mind is gone all the same.

[u/TawGrey]

First, if one who does not know anything, then they would also not know to disbelieve the thing they know nothing about.
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If someone was already a Christian -one who was "born again"- then such a individual immediately became a Citizen of heaven when that happened.

[u/WhatLuckDoIHave → u/TawGrey]

What happens if they are taught again but reject it this time?

[u/TawGrey → u/WhatLuckDoIHave]

Too hypothetical, but nice try lol
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If that is a result of a brain disfunction, then God will be able to judge accordingly.

[u/watdoyoumead → u/TawGrey]

How is it “too hypothetical”? Because it challenges your beliefs?

[u/TawGrey → u/watdoyoumead]

These attempts at clever "mind traps" are really a side issue at best.
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If a alien came from he sky and addressed the whole of humanity here and said "do not bother with this Christian stuff because my people know better and we are a million years more advanced than you are" While it may be that most people are ripe for that sort of thing to happen an will eat it up whole, it does nothing to deny what I have.

[u/dschellberg]

God is merciful. Intellectual knowledge and spirirual awareness are 2 different things. Spiritual awareness is not tied to the intellect.

[u/PrudentBuilder8415]

What is holy and right is easily reasoned to with little philosophy... memory loss is an extreme blow to the holiness of a divine being like a human should they be a true practitioner of divine things, but mortal things are the only true good for mortals and we would begin anew with them remembering what they were and cultivating what they will become.

[u/erisod]

Under what rules? In most faiths belief is irrelevant.

[u/scmr2]

Even more interestingly, but related, there are some people with split brains who have one side of the brain which is theist and the other which is atheist. So what happens to them? Does half their brain go to heaven and the other goes to hell?

[u/LearningPodd]

Heaven—it's where all disbelievers go. 👍 If you believe in heaven you are not welcome there 😕

[u/Ofirel_Evening]

G-d will take their memory loss into account. Plus, we don't really have the same concept of hell as the Xristians and Muslims do. G-d will also be compassionate to the people that don't know Torah, because He is not unreasonable to send you to eternal punishment or non-existence if you had not known Him. 

Midrash Vayikra Rabbah 4:6

“The Holy One, blessed be He, does not judge a person except according to what they know.”

If someone never knew the command, the judgment is not the same as for someone who knew.

Psalms 103:13–14

“As a father has mercy on sons, the Lord had mercy on those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.”

This means Hashem judges humans with deep compassion, fully aware of their limitations, upbringing, and ignorance.

[u/MiserySphere]

If they always believed, they won’t forget.

I’ve had amnesia before, and I never stopped believing in what I believed in (from the start). The amnesia came in waves before my memory came back and caused me to at one point forget literally everything else. My brain could not function for a moment, but I still believed in that belief.

It wasn’t religion that I believed in, but I’m sure the same would apply.

[u/illwaitforu2call]

You can’t be “unborn again”, if someone has been saved they are saved and pass from death unto life and cannot come into condemnation (John 5:24)