"BUT RATHER, FEAR HIM, WHO AFTER HE HATH KILLED THE BODY, HAS POWER TO CAST YOU INTO HELL; Yea I say fear Him !" -- Jesus (Luke 12:4)
Therefore Jesus believed in Hell....right?
2006-09-02 08:44:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus did not believe in a fiery place of torment. Luke 12:4, 5 reads, directly translated from Greek, not a version of a translation :
4 Moreover, I say to YOU, my friends, Do not fear those who kill the body and after this are not able to do anything more. 5 But I will indicate to YOU whom to fear: Fear him who after killing has authority to throw into Ge·hen´na. Yes, I tell YOU, fear this One.
Gehenna was a trash heap that was constantly lit outside of Jerusalem. Nothing that went in came out. This was the best way he could illustrate the fact that when God does away with evildoers, they will never come back. Ecclesiastes tells us that the dead are conscious of nothing at all (chapter 9 verses 5 and 6).
2006-09-02 08:53:04 · answer #1 · answered by da chet 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The problem is not whether or not Jesus believed in hell. The issue is: When Jesus says hell does he mean the same thing as the Italian poet, Dante does in the 14th century?
You see, your concept of hell is based upon Catholic teachings from the middle ages. If you were alive at the time of Jesus and someone mentioned hell or hades or Sheol it would mean something entirely different. The Hebrew concept of the afterlife was different. They believed that there were various levels of the afterlife: Not just heaven and hell, but everything in between as well.
Imagine that when you die you are in the presence of God. God loves everyone and does not deny his love from anyone. But is is holy, perfect and pure light. Nothing impure can be in his presence. So God is a consuming fire, the angels around the throne are called Seraphim (literally, flaming ones). And we are drawn to the throne. Only it's next to impossible to get near it. Those who's souls are not prepared try and find a dark place away from God's light, but no place is far enough. They are in hell, but they are in heaven too.. Heaven and hell are the same place its only your perspective that's different.
2006-09-02 09:02:26 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. D 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Afraid you have that a bit off the mark, a direct mis-quote.
Matthew 10 : 28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. And yes, Jesus did believe in Hell. Those that go there will not have an eternal existance as most teach either but will be burned up, turned to ashes and die.
2006-09-02 08:49:58 · answer #3 · answered by ramall1to 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What he is saying is that they can harm the physical, but can't touch the spiritual. But then he says there are those who can touch the spiritual, and those are the people you stay the hell away from or they will make your life a living hell. Hell is a state of mind, not an actual place.
A modern saying that means the same thing is, they can kill you, but they can't eat you.
2006-09-02 09:13:03 · answer #4 · answered by Chatelaine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know but Jesus sure said this:
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household." (Matthew 10:34-36 NASB)
AMEN AND PRAISE THE LORD
2006-09-02 08:50:59 · answer #5 · answered by Joann Foxx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes he knew there would be in fact he spent 4 days in paradice which is now hell and took all the belivers into heaven
2006-09-02 08:56:47 · answer #6 · answered by michelle4072003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
okay if you are a cristian you have to belive in hell
god made the devil
the devil tried to take over
god sent him "down there" for eternaty
and now god sends anyone down there thats bad
jesus belived in hell because his father made the devil
god people need to read the bible before they speak or st least know wht there talking about
2006-09-02 08:51:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course. He's the one going to make use of it to destroy the devil one day.
2006-09-02 08:46:34 · answer #8 · answered by jewel_flower 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
YES....THAT IS WHY I'M NOT WORRY ABOUT WHAT THEY SAY BECAUSE WHAT CAN THEY DO AFTER THEY KILL MY FLESH.....NOTHING.......SO THEY CAN HATE AND HATE AND HATE AND HATE.....AND NEVER WILL SATISFY THEM AT ALL.
2006-09-02 08:49:44 · answer #9 · answered by Mei 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, so where are you going with this? We never said He didn't did we?
2006-09-02 08:49:11 · answer #10 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋