It was invented by the church to frighten their parishioners into compliance
2006-07-28 21:45:34
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answer #1
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answered by Leather M 3
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Acts 2:31-35; John 19:38-42; Jesus was in sepulchre hell. David 1037 years still there.
John 3:13-17; No man gone to heaven but Jesus until at last day John 6:39.40.44;
2Pet.2:4; Jude 6; Angels can not die, they have been in tartarus hell from the time of the flood [ Luke 20:34-36 angels do not die ]; Job 38:4-7; Angels saw earth become the focus for habitation.
LOOK ON THE BIBLE MAP FOR VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM AT JERUSALEM
HELL FIRE
Matt.10:28; Man was putting what ever there, God could get it out.
2Chr.28:1-4; Many a child sacrificed in TOPHET, GEHENNA OR THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM. Jer.7:30,31; 19:1-6; Josiah turned it into a city dump Mark 9:42-49;
Luke 16:14-31; In the years between Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai and zechariah 606 and 443 before christ, the people following them, and the Pharisees
following them had hell ideas and death distorted as Satan made it for Eve,
Jesus followers would have understood the parable Jesus gives to show their ignorance as he put Lazarus where they their Babylonian thoughts would have them be, so as Luke 16:16,17,29,31 says, if you know what the law and the prophets teach, them you know the truth of this parable [ only one of its kind and all must have two or three witnesses ], the religious leaders are the rich man in that Lazarus does not count.
His fancy dress and his fancy beliefs do. Gen.13:2; Abraham was a rich man.
Rev.20:1-6.12.13; Any place a dead person can be he will come forth. 1Cor.15:22-28,51-53; is the same as is Acts 24:15; John 5:26-29; Dan.12:2; Psm.104; 29,30;
Isa.26:19; Heb.9:27; It is appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgement,
2Cor.5:10; Philip.2:9-12; Rom.14:9-12;
2006-07-29 05:10:03
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answered by jeni 7
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The all knowing all powerful master of the universe ..
decides to make a "protector" and goofs up by forming the Devil who becomes his only enemy ..
Then with everyone going to "hell" for unspecified torment except for "believers like you" who are willing to accept the nonsense as real ...
God murders his son so "good" people can get away with doing bad ..
.. the story gets sillier and even less believable at every turn ...
this total reeking immoral nonsense deserves tossed .. (in hell if there was one)
> note .. in response to comment > where in the above statement did I state my beliefs I simply posed a question.
> Where in the above answer did I state these are your beliefs? I simply present an orderly summation of the (quite illogical) biblical teaching on this that most Christian people pretend to believe.
> And the reason God never told Adam about Hell, is that Adam & Eve are from a Mesopotamian fable while the Biblical Hell is based mostly on the Egyptian after life as judged by Thoth, with later inclusion of Greek knowledge that added volcanic molten fire to the somewhat more pleasant Egyptian underworld. ...
> Various versions of hell from an assortment of religions are all incorporated by Dante.
2006-07-29 04:54:13
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answer #3
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answered by PlayTOE- 3
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I believe that if there is no hell then we can do whatever we want,,, i mean it is nut justified that all human being will go to heaven ( the good ones and the bad ones )
as we learn from the universe,,, if u do something there should be a result for every act,, this result might be good or bad,,,
if someone did something wrong the government will send him to jail, or at least will punnish him some how,,, so what do you think about God??? for sure all the bad ones will go to hell that is created by god,, this is called justice,,, specially for the ones who hadn't been punnished for thier bad acts in the earth,, will be punnished from the moment they die,,,
2006-07-29 06:30:30
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answer #4
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answered by Truth Seeker 2 2
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Fine question ..yes ... Satan is only slightly expanded on in Job .. and in the New Testament Gospels we see Jesus confront Satan in the temptations (which could be viewed as an "integration of instincts") .. and then possessing the power to cast devils out of others ...
IMO The Acts and on- from schizoid Saul Paul, and finally schizoid John of Patmos must be considered in a different sense ... as they initiate a battle between "flesh and spirit" that you don't see as defined in the Gospel's teachings ... But John and Paul give a few more descriptions of hell ...
But still from all of these within the Bible ... Satan and hell are poorly defined ... the devil is not described as a goat at all ...
So finally we come to a noncanonised Pseudigraphia of the Intertestamental period called 'The Book of Enoch' ... It is neither Torah .. nor New Testament ... But it had huge influence on Christian Fathers both in the early Church and all through the Middle Ages ...So it was an influentail text upon Thomas Aquinas, and on Dante and Milton .. who liberally sourced from it regarding the "Fall mythos", etc ...which have become more or less modern Christian dogmas despite not being Biblical at all ... yet again- lol, no goat devil ...
I should mention 'The Book of Enoch' describes "multiple Gehennas(hells) ..yet in its context ... it assumes heavens and hells as "temporal places" for punishment and reward ... between multiple lives ... as 'Book of Enoch' has a Qabalistic outlook that assumes reincarnation to exist .. Yet the Christian scholars that sourced from this work ignored this aspect of it ...
As Christianity blended affably as a minority faith with accepting pagan faiths (Visigoths,Goths,Celtics,Norse, Thesalian, GrecoRoman to name a few- and consider some of these have smaller subgroups with distinct languages and cultures ) .. eventually the Gods of these old cultures .. Northern stag and goat fertility cults ... became the "anathemas" that the organised bishops with Latin scriptures began to systematically genocide and extirpate ... Therefore the Christians practically invented "Satan,Devil and Hells" out of what their intolerance made of the perrenial philosophies, and worship systems .. by which pharmacology among other wisdoms managed to descend down to us despite these persecutions ...
2006-07-29 05:09:20
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answer #5
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answered by gmonkai 4
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The Bible states that Hell was originally created for the Devil and his minions. But when men fell into sin and thus falling into the devil's trap, he also received the devil's fate.
God spoke with Adam several times -- many of which was not recorded. If every word recorded, it would be longer than an encyclopedia set.
2006-07-29 04:48:55
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answered by Anonymous
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Since there is no word in the oldest Biblical scrolls, held by the Vatican, which translates as Hell or Hell Fire, than it is a man made idea. Consider also, where did Jesus go while he was dead? He didn't go to heaven as that happened only after his resurrection. He didn't visit the fallen angels, who supposedly dwell in hell, to deliver God's declaration of their final judgment, as that also only happened after he arose. So where was he when he was dead. Was he only sleeping in the grave?
2006-07-29 04:57:32
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answered by Anonymous
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because the "hell" that is generally accepted is a myth (mostly)..contrived and adapted by literature like dantes inferno...
hell literally means in the ground .... the greek word was hades .. gehenna is the biblical "phrase" for damnation... meaning essentially eternal seperation from God ...
also a footnote: soul in the bible refers to any breathing thing (which would include animals) ... there is no mention of an immortal soul in the bible... God made us mortal for a reason--- so that if we were corrupted like Satan, we could be destroyed..
2006-07-29 04:53:27
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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God made hell for Satan and the fallen angels.
Unfortunately, Adam's sin made us all slaves to Satan (just as the Israelites were enslaved by Pharoah, in the Book of Exodus).
Anyone who dies while still enslaved to Satan gets to stay with him, wherever he is, for eternity.
That's why baptism is so important. It's through baptism that we reject Satan, declare our faith in Jesus Christ, receive God's forgiveness and grace, and get adopted into God's family.
Then, when we die, we get to stay with God, wherever he is, for all eternity ... a much better arrangement.
Although it doesn't appear in the plain text of scripture, it's very likely that God did inform Adam, in advance, of all the consequences of his sin. Scripture clearly indicates that Adam was superbly educated, by God himself.
Tempted by Satan, Adam chose to disregard God's warning, and sample the forbidden fruit, anyway.
The rest is history.
2006-07-29 05:44:37
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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Man made "hell". And Man did so to keep other, "lesser"men in line.
There was no "Devil" until the Roman church confabulated him in the dark-to-middle ages. He's just anti-pagan propaganda working on behalf of a very, very profitable multinational corporation. Grow up. Break free.
2006-07-29 04:48:38
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answered by Anonymous
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There are no such places as Heaven or Hell. These are figments of imagination of people. Whatever good or bad we do is rewarded in this life time only.
2006-07-29 04:47:42
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answer #11
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answered by Cool Techie 1
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