Hellfire doesn't exist, it is a religious lie... The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead,” and so forth. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered “hell”; that is, they express them with the letters of our alphabet but leave the words untranslated. What are those words? The Hebrew she’ohl′ and its Greek equivalent hai′des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of dead mankind; also the Greek ge′en·na, which is used as a symbol of eternal destruction. However, both in Christendom and in many non-Christian religions it is taught that hell is a place inhabited by demons and where the wicked, after death, are punished (and some believe that this is with torment).
No, my religion does not teach hellfire because that is not what God teaches in the Bible.
The Bible says that the dead are not conscious at all and that they await an earthly resurrection under God’s Kingdom:
Ecclesiastes 9:5: “For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward, because all memory of them is forgotten.”
John 5: 28, 29: “Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.”
Psalm 37: 11 - He promises that the “righteous” ones are destined to live on a paradise “EARTH.”
The “hell fire” is another doctrine which is part of the apostasy that Christ and the apostles foretold: 2 Thessalonians 2: 3, 7: “It will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed.”
God is love to all those who revere Him as Lord & obey His laws. To those who rebel & violate His laws & trod Him under foot, He is the almighty hand of justice. God is love to those who love Him. If you love Him, you will keep His laws.
Think of God as your boss & you are the employee. If you do the work required you get a paycheck & swell working conditions. You get a sweet vacation & health package with a retirement plan. Now if you refuse to do the required work, how long will your boss continue to employ you ? Will he not fire you & force your removal ? Now that former boss is forcing you to live in the street & eat from the garbage bins because you no longer have a paycheck to buy these things for yourself. It's not your former boss causing this bad living on you. All you had to do was do the required work but you chose not to. You did this to yourself. God gave you a choice. Choose God & live or do not choose Him & the wages of sin is death. You will be paid soon.
Here is something to ponder on. Matthew 10:28 "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell." What does destroy mean?
Sometimes when you read a verse that says hell, the original word there does not mean hell, it means Sheol/Hades a temporary place. This verse above is using Gehenna the real and permanent hell.
In Gehenna the second death happens (what is death?), the eternalness of it could be referring to the fact that no one will be resurrected from this place. Their second death/destruction in Gehenna is permanent while the first death (to Sheol/Hades) is not permanent (resurrection before judgement).
on the one hand the bible teaches a lake of fire. on the other hand, the same bible says that is temporary because death and hell give up their dead to the resurrection of Jesus, and once resurrected there can be up to 1000 years before final judgment comes and then the lake of fire, and those that suffer the 2nd death go on to outer darkness. so basically there are 3 or 4 types of hell in the bible.
My Christian religion teaches that God gives everyone the opportunity to live with Him eternally. If you reject God and His mercy and grace you will be separated from Him eternally.
My religion teaches its easy to go to heaven, but hard to have those UN-imaginable degrees. You can wish for what you like, but how can you wish for what you can't imagine.
That you distort religion with Biblical God and then you twist around the Biblical God to whatever you want, doesn't really mean anything in real life. You're free to believe whatever bologna you want to believe. Just don't expect everyone, or anyone, to go along with it, simply because you think that.
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Hellfire doesn't exist, it is a religious lie... The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead,” and so forth. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered “hell”; that is, they express them with the letters of our alphabet but leave the words untranslated. What are those words? The Hebrew she’ohl′ and its Greek equivalent hai′des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of dead mankind; also the Greek ge′en·na, which is used as a symbol of eternal destruction. However, both in Christendom and in many non-Christian religions it is taught that hell is a place inhabited by demons and where the wicked, after death, are punished (and some believe that this is with torment).
No, my religion does not teach hellfire because that is not what God teaches in the Bible.
The Bible says that the dead are not conscious at all and that they await an earthly resurrection under God’s Kingdom:
Ecclesiastes 9:5: “For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward, because all memory of them is forgotten.”
John 5: 28, 29: “Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.”
Psalm 37: 11 - He promises that the “righteous” ones are destined to live on a paradise “EARTH.”
The “hell fire” is another doctrine which is part of the apostasy that Christ and the apostles foretold: 2 Thessalonians 2: 3, 7: “It will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed.”
http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/wha...
God is love to all those who revere Him as Lord & obey His laws. To those who rebel & violate His laws & trod Him under foot, He is the almighty hand of justice. God is love to those who love Him. If you love Him, you will keep His laws.
Think of God as your boss & you are the employee. If you do the work required you get a paycheck & swell working conditions. You get a sweet vacation & health package with a retirement plan. Now if you refuse to do the required work, how long will your boss continue to employ you ? Will he not fire you & force your removal ? Now that former boss is forcing you to live in the street & eat from the garbage bins because you no longer have a paycheck to buy these things for yourself. It's not your former boss causing this bad living on you. All you had to do was do the required work but you chose not to. You did this to yourself. God gave you a choice. Choose God & live or do not choose Him & the wages of sin is death. You will be paid soon.
No. Like most Christians, I don't belong to a hellfire-preaching denomination.
Here is something to ponder on. Matthew 10:28 "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell." What does destroy mean?
Sometimes when you read a verse that says hell, the original word there does not mean hell, it means Sheol/Hades a temporary place. This verse above is using Gehenna the real and permanent hell.
In Gehenna the second death happens (what is death?), the eternalness of it could be referring to the fact that no one will be resurrected from this place. Their second death/destruction in Gehenna is permanent while the first death (to Sheol/Hades) is not permanent (resurrection before judgement).
on the one hand the bible teaches a lake of fire. on the other hand, the same bible says that is temporary because death and hell give up their dead to the resurrection of Jesus, and once resurrected there can be up to 1000 years before final judgment comes and then the lake of fire, and those that suffer the 2nd death go on to outer darkness. so basically there are 3 or 4 types of hell in the bible.
My Christian religion teaches that God gives everyone the opportunity to live with Him eternally. If you reject God and His mercy and grace you will be separated from Him eternally.
My religion is not an Abrahamic religion.
It teaches neither hell nor the god of the bible.
My religion teaches its easy to go to heaven, but hard to have those UN-imaginable degrees. You can wish for what you like, but how can you wish for what you can't imagine.
That you distort religion with Biblical God and then you twist around the Biblical God to whatever you want, doesn't really mean anything in real life. You're free to believe whatever bologna you want to believe. Just don't expect everyone, or anyone, to go along with it, simply because you think that.