Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
2006-08-16 19:36:52 · 26 answers · asked by Brother Andrew 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have read all of the answers so far, and seen one apparent Bible believer.
The rich man said, I am tormented in this flame. And he wanted a former beggar to be resurrected from the dead to warn his five brethren.
That is not a common grave, as the JWs try to make it. That is not annihilation as many try to say.
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? (Isa 33:14)
Keep it coming.
2006-08-16 20:05:48 · update #1
The bible teaches that "hell" is *NOT* someplace/something we need to fear.
There is no suffering in the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, the death and hell will themselves be destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire
The biblical "hell" simply refers to the condition of being dead; Jesus was dead for three days so the bible says that he was in "the grave" or "hell" according to some English translations.
The Scriptures do not say WHEN Jesus "preached" or "heralded" to the "spirits in prison", or even that Jesus was himself *IN* that prison with the demons. In fact, Peter himself shows that the demons's "prison" is their hopeless state of "dense [spiritual] darkness" and that most certainly is *NOT* the yet-future judgment that the demons must suffer:
(2 Peter 2:4) Certainly if God did not hold back from punishing the angels that sinned, but, by throwing them into Tartarus, delivered them to pits of dense darkness TO BE RESERVED FOR JUDGMENT [caps added]
The 'preaching' there was Jesus proudly heralding Jehovah's victory over Satan (in that Jesus had been faithful to death and successfully provided a ransom).
(1 Peter 3:18-20) Christ died once for all time concerning sins, a righteous person for unrighteous ones, that he might lead YOU to God, he being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive in the spirit. 19 In this state also he went his way and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 who had once been disobedient when the patience of God was waiting in Noah’s days
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2002/7/15/article_01.htm
2006-08-17 02:41:24 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I follow what God has said is the way to live a holy life before Him through the teachings of the Torah. By living a holy life that is pleasing to Him, they it will be His decision whether to give me salvation or not. According to His promise in Torah, to obey His commandments one would receive His blessings.
I won't be going to the Christian hell because I obey God's commandments from Torah.
2006-08-17 03:25:50 · answer #2 · answered by Reuben Shlomo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm depending on me being dead by that point, and thus unable to feel or experience anything as existential as "hell".
I'd also like to point out that much of the common ideas about hell come fro Dante's "Inferno". It wasn't about hell at all. It was about purgatory.
2006-08-17 02:43:36 · answer #3 · answered by Entwined 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looking at some of the answers on Y answers, I think I would prefer hell. Where else can you get permanently hot weather, and less Christians?
2006-08-17 02:49:45 · answer #4 · answered by guhralfromhell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only Christians go to Hell. It's a Christian Afterlife. I belong to an entirely different spiritual system, so their judgements and Afterlives have nothing to do with me.
2006-08-17 02:43:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
To still be here on earth when Jesus comes back. That is the only way any of us will avoid Hell, because we are all going. Hell is man's common grave and we will all die. Don't take my word, look it up.
2006-08-17 02:41:49 · answer #6 · answered by GraycieLee 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
For George Bush to retire, or resign immediately.
2006-08-17 02:41:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My faith in God, Knowing that He is my Lord and Savior.His Son Jesus was made flesh to die for the sins of the wold. I also believe in the Holy Trinity
2006-08-17 02:41:53 · answer #8 · answered by hawleysangel 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This suggests there is one...but I am convinced we are working it out right we are...and we will be spared...however, as a precaution :) I will never deliberately hurt another person...and this makes sense to me regardless if there is one or not...as we often reap what we sow.
2006-08-17 02:45:50 · answer #9 · answered by riverhawthorne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mapquest.
2006-08-17 02:42:04 · answer #10 · answered by Don M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋