that if I don't except your definition of Jesus that I won't be saved?

Also what about the people that have never had a chance to hear of Jesus or the bible on this life. What happens to them? I know this is a mormon question and they have the "answer" for it but I can't find any christians that have a good answer.

in the earth being 6000 years old?

man being around for 6000 years?

a global flood?

that you need to be baptized?

that sex before marriage is a sin?

It is a possibility that every person on Earth might be saved, Jesus' work makes that a possibility. But I do believe in libertarian free will, which means that not everyone is guaranteed to make that choice. Going to hell will be an individual's choice, not God's. This is what C.S. Lewis was getting at when he said that the doors to hell are locked from the inside.

Aristotle, are you saying that you simply don't know whether or not everyone will escape Hell?

That it's possible that everyone (including Judas Iscariot, of whom Jesus Himself said, "it had been good for that man if he had not been born") might repent and therefore make it into Heaven, but that it's also possible (as far as you know) that there might be some people who end up spending the rest of eternity in Hell?

Also, how intense is the suffering people go through in Hell?

Is it true for every person that ends up in Hell that "it had been good for that" person if s/he "had not been born"?

no. Regarding sex, gay Mormons are really screwed aren't they? What an evil demon the Mormon God is, to make gay people, then condemn them for how he made them.

I suspect that not everyone will escape Hell, but it's not my decision to make.

What good does God accomplish by letting that someone keep existing, if all s/he is going to do is suffer in Hell?

It's the Biblical Christian God, not the Mormon one, that condemns people for things they have no control over. The Mormon God takes all things into consideration, and judges each person accordingly.

Assuming, of course, that He really judges people at all. I am of the opinion that the real harsh judge for each individual is the individual, and that God is more a spiritual physician, treating people for spiritual diseases, than He is a ruthless magistrate. Hell is not so much a place of torment as it is a state of mind; people are in Hell because their consciences put them in Hell, and because those people are reluctant to take God's medicine that will cure them; and they will only stay in Hell until they can bring themselves to accept that medicine.

I'm also not convinced that God did consciously make gay people. I tend to think God started the Universe going, but I'm aware of no compelling argument that God can afford to micromanage the Universe so completely that He can determine who's going to be gay and who's going to be straight.

I do not know how Christ will save non-Christians, but the Catholic Church makes it clear that God can do it. God desires everyone to be saved and has the power to save everyone, so obviously God can do what he desires whether or not we understand it. We at least can hope for the salvation of all, but I can't control whether or not an individual person actually turns to God. Catholics believe a person has to come to God before death. What happens in those last moments between life and death is a mystery -- some have speculated that Christ comes to everyone just prior to death with one last opportunity to follow Him whether they have accepted Him or not up to that point. If a person simply has the desire to be saved at death and turns to Christ, Christ will do the rest. I suspect it is possible that some might reject that invitation, but I'm not sure why they would. That doesn't mean they receive a get out of jail free card -- all of us will have to go through purification to the extent we haven't prepared ourselves to enter God's presence. I actually tend to believe in Christian Universalism, but my belief is more of a hope than a certainty.

The rest of your questions don't cause me much concern except I do believe that sex is meant to be limited to relations in a marriage between one woman and one man. Most of us fall short of the ideal at one time or another.

“SPE SALVI facti sumus”—in hope we were saved, says Saint Paul to the Romans, and likewise to us (Rom 8:24). According to the Christian faith, “redemption”—salvation—is not simply a given. Redemption is offered to us in the sense that we have been given hope, trustworthy hope, by virtue of which we can face our present: the present, even if it is arduous, can be lived and accepted if it leads towards a goal, if we can be sure of this goal, and if this goal is great enough to justify the effort of the journey. Now the question immediately arises: what sort of hope could ever justify the statement that, on the basis of that hope and simply because it exists, we are redeemed? And what sort of certainty is involved here?

that if I don't except your definition of Jesus that I won't be saved?

Also what about the people that have never had a chance to hear of Jesus or the bible on this life. What happens to them?

I know this is a mormon question and they have the "answer" for it but I can't find any christians that have a good answer.

in the earth being 6000 years old?

man being around for 6000 years?

a global flood?

that you need to be baptized?

that sex before marriage is a sin?

I have played with that concept, but I don't consider it to be relevant to how I live my life, so I just let it be.

I'm glad you acknowledge that the Mormon God and Christian God are different.

You can be a openly gay Christian. You cannot be an openly gay Mormon.

What God wants, God gets. God doesn't make mistakes, but Mormonism teaches its members that God screws up all the time, which is why their doctrine has to change. To say God didn't consciously make gay people is a ridiculous position.

If one can't know that a good deity would cause the souls in Hell to cease to exist, if said deity had the power to do that, then what can one know for sure about a good deity?

If a person, believing in the fires of hell, chooses to repair their life, and later makes it to the point that their motivation is to be with God and please and honor God, how can you say that belief in the fires of hell is the same thing as believing in an evil God?

My God is a just God, and judges all according to factors which we only understand dimly.

Of myself, I know very little at all. Many things I simply have to accept on faith.

Well, if you want to get nasty about it, I don't believe in the Mormon god. He is an evil imposter.

I had no intent to "get nasty"; I just wanted to get at the truth.

If you believe "the Mormon god" is an evil impostor, then I've got to ask you, what has "the Mormon god" ever done that convinced you he's evil? Has he ever done something that caused more damage to the souls of men and women than letting them spend the rest of eternity in unbearable agony, when he had the power to cause them to cease to exist at any time?

I'd have to answer no to this question.
On the basis that it really isn't clear that the God of Mormonism has done much of anything at all.

Nonetheless, it's better for one to do nothing than it is for one to let a single soul suffer unbearable agony forever, when one has the power to cause that soul to cease to exist.

I don't personally believe the God of Mormonism has done nothing; I believe He's done a lot. But one thing you can't accuse Him of is unnecessarily prolonging the suffering of the unsaved.

I'm more than happy to acknowledge that there are vast differences between God as Biblical Christians understand Him and God as Latter-day Saints understand Him.

You can be an openly gay Mormon. You just cannot be sexually active without risking your membership in the Mormon Church.

What's so ridiculous about it? Why should I believe that what God wants God gets? What God wants is people who will use their free will to choose to follow Him, but the LDS Church teaches it's impossible, even for God, to create intelligent people out of nothing, so God has to content Himself with the intelligent people that actually exist in spirit form. God cannot create out of nothing people who will use their free will to follow Him, so God doesn't always get what He wants.