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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_Christian_beliefs#Adventist
2006-10-09 12:14:56 · 9 answers · asked by Cyber 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
well, they sort of believe in a hell, but it's not the same thing....
2006-10-09 12:16:55 · update #1
As pagan I found the site an interesting read. If they don't believe in Hell so much the better for them. May I ask you what do you think happens when we die?
2006-10-09 12:27:17 · answer #1 · answered by Tedi 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whoever told you that Adventist dont believe in hell? Of course they do. But they dont believe that hell is a place where a person burns and in agony for years and years and years.
Hell for Adventist Christians is a place where unsaved people go in order to burn and DIE. (II Thess 2:8; )
The unsaved died and were eaten by the beasts (Rev. 19:17-18)
The unsaved when they die like any matter returns to ashes- They will be ashes under our feet - Malachi 4:1
The most popular verse in the Bible John 3:16
Those who believe have eternal life. Those who do not, perish (die)
Also, Adventist Christians do not believe in the immortality of the soul. The Bible plainly teaches that ONLY GOD is immortal
- 1 Timothy 2:16
All created beings are mortal (Ezekiel 18:20, 23, 32)
All Christians believe that god is LOVE. We humans who love less that God, can we punish our beloved children forever and ever. Of course not. How much more with a loving God. If He is really a loving God, how could he punish a person with eternal fire? 1, 000 years in hell? 10, 000 years in hell? 10 million years in hell? If this is true, God is not a God of Love. He will punish, yes ! But those that he punish will be eradicated, burned, vanished from this universe.
Christians quote some Bible verses, that says "they are burned with a fire that is never quenched". The meaning simply is that the fire is not quenched UNTIL it has done its purpose of utterly destroying the wicked. How do we kow this for sure? Well, the Bible says that the cities of Sodom and Gommorah were burned with eternal fire. Are the cities of Sodom and Gommorah still on fire today? Of course not or it would have been a very famous tourist attraction - imagine! - a city that burns and the fire is never consumed.
2006-10-10 00:26:52 · answer #2 · answered by samchaz1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have met Adventists who have knowledge of The Salvation Message and have come to God in The Way He proscribes and received His free git of Salvation... while Only God knows truly who those are. The actions of those I have met fro The adventist sect have demonstrated an understanding only one of The True Faith could.... unfortunatly they continue in that movement... that teaching is just enough off that more are missunderstanding The Salvation Message than are understanding it. I believe that those Adventists who do truly come to God do so dispite the Adventist teaching rather that from it..... it is more their following the Headship of a woman than their position on hell that keeps them from the full understanding of God's Salvation call to them and from knowing how to come to Him as He proscribes.
2006-10-09 19:28:52 · answer #3 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never said that Adventists aren't Christians.Anyone who follows Christ and believes Him to be the Son of God and their Savior is a Christian.
2006-10-09 19:18:10 · answer #4 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as they are not knocking at my door, they can believe whatever they want.
I am Jewish and our concept of "hell" is slightly different.
"Jews believe in the immorality of the soul--an immorality whose nature is known only to God--but they no longer accept the literal idea of heaven and hell. There was a time when heaven and hell were accepted in Jewish theology, but even then, rarely as physical entities. A soul tormented with remorse for misdeeds was "in hell"; a soul delighting in a life well lived was "in heaven." The twelfth-century philosopher Maimonides opposed the idea of rewards and punishments for behavior; the reward for virtuous living, he said, is simply the good life itself. (Maimonides makes this point in his later writings. He gives a more literal interpretation of the hereafter in his "Thirteen Principles," written at the age of twenty. Thus, Judaism can be said to have two concepts of the hereafter--on sophisticated and philosophical, the other relatively simple.)"
2006-10-09 19:17:29 · answer #5 · answered by WendyD1999 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thought that what defines a Christian is believing that Jesus was the son of God and that he died for our sins in order to save our immortal souls. All the rest of the trappings (heaven, hell, purgatory, bishops, nuns, priests, pastors, communion, talking in tongues) separate the different sects but they all fall under the umbrella of Christianity.
Oh, and Wendy, was this a typo?
"Jews believe in the immorality of the soul--an immorality whose nature is known only to God--but they no longer accept the literal idea of heaven and hell."
Did you mean "immortality"? "Immorality" of the soul is an interesting concept, too...
2006-10-09 19:20:27 · answer #6 · answered by fyrfly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think SDA's are some of the nicest, most healthy people I've come across.
Their religious beliefs are a neutral ground between both Judaism & Christianity, & for that I give them credit.
2006-10-09 19:17:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who claims to be a Christian, is a Christian. Christians come in two classes of people, hypocrites and fools.
A hypocrite may know that they are a hypocrite but would never admit it.
A fool would never say he is a fool because a fool does not know he is a fool.
2006-10-09 19:18:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. I think someone is a Christian if they profess to be a Christian. It is not up to me to dictate who is and isn't a Christian.
2006-10-09 19:16:47 · answer #9 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋