Is the common idea of hell really biblical? Aren't there contradictions?

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Read
John 5:28-29
Romans 2:7
Jude 1:7
Revelation 20:9

Fire comes from heaven and Earth becomes hell for a while. Then the New eArth is formed and then it's "heaven"

Nepesh and Psuche often are translated as "soul", but the bible clearly states that it can die and it alsways refers to the physical being.

Answer 1

Rev.1:7 He comes with the clouds and every eye shall see him, even they who pierced him. Luke 23:34 [ Father forgive them for they know not what they do [those that pierced Jesus, he said, they know not what they do];

Acts 2:27-35; Jesus was resurrected out of the sepulchre hell, cave, tomb or grave he was placed into 3 days before John 19:38-42;
Rev.20:1-6 [ The heavenly body, first resurrected, is already in the new heavens ] 12,13 the resurrections of the earthly body out of sepulchre hell, the sea and even death [Rev.21:8 the lake of fire is the second death for those deserving it ] all this
takes place until the earth is cleansed at the end of the 100 year reign Rev.20:7-10 [ only Satan is put in the lake of fire ]; Gog and Magog are consumed.

Jude 6; 2Pet.2:4 angel that do not die Luke 20:34-36; are not being tortured alive in tartarus hell, but are confinrd there to the judgement day 1Cor.6:23 to be judged by the saints. Matt.25:31-34 and 41 or 46 the fire is everlasting, but dead is dead.

Answer 2

I think those who are wanting there to be no hell, because they want to live in sin while on earth and not submit to God ( who is loving and merciful and has done great and marvelous things- and it breaks my heart that people cannot see that!)
And so they search for error in the Bible- when there is no error! There are things many will never understand, as the bible tells us that there are mysteries of God- However when being led by the Holy Spirit, the truth is revealed more and more- and OH how much sense it really makes! It reminds me of what God says in Jeremiah 33:3 "Call to me and I will answer you, and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know" ---

Here is a verse on Hell, being a place of torment, and I know you dont want to hear that- but God does not allow sin into heaven remember?

Revelation 20:10
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.


--Now think about this--
If you were to be a judge here on earth- and a man came in and had murdered someone- would you let him go free? Would you say "Well I forgive you, go now" --NO! That is not Justice! God is JUST! Not only is he LOVE, MERCIFUL, GRACIOUS and HOLY- but he is JUST! And he is giving you a FREE PASS now in this life, through his Son Jesus Christ- who died for you, so that you could be set free! It is like you committed a crime, and the judge was going to tell you you had to spend the rest of your life in prison- BUT THEN a man steps in and says "I will take his punishment, and you can let him go free"

--how would you feel towards that man?

Answer 3

The old testament talks about a place called Azazel. The high priest of the Holy Temple would take two goats on the day of Atonement (Yom Kippur in Hebrew). He would sacrifice one, and send the other off into the wilderness destined for this place called Azazel. Many biblical scholars have associated this place with a hellish image or pergatory. In modern hebrew "Lech Le'Azazel" means go to hell.

Answer 4

Joshua 23:14
This day I [Joshua] am going the way of all the earth.

Job 7:9
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

Job 14:10. 12
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? ... So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung.

Psalm 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

Psalm 88:5
The dead ... whom thou rememberest no more.

Psalm 115:17
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast.

Ecclesiastes 9:5
The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
For there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Isaiah 26:14
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased they shall not rise.

Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Answer 5

People who believe in Hell are already there.

Answer 6

yes hell is biblical and no there aren't any contradictions with your scriptures.

Answer 7

yep, and nope