would you have given you soul to jesus if there was no hell? think about it.
2007-01-19 09:45:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When I consider what Jesus did for me by His death I would give Him my soul a thousand times over regardless of Hell.
2007-01-19 09:50:19 · answer #1 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Hell was invented to scare people into conversion
Collier’s Encyclopedia (1986, Vol. 12, p. 28) says concerning “Hell”: “First it stands for the Hebrew Sheol of the Old Testament and the Greek Hades of the Septuagint and New Testament. Since Sheol in Old Testament times referred simply to the abode of the dead and suggested no moral distinctions, the word ‘hell,’ as understood today, is not a happy translation.”
The meaning given today to the word “hell” is that portrayed in Dante’s Divine Comedy and Milton’s Paradise Lost, which meaning is completely foreign to the original definition of the word. The idea of a “hell” of fiery torment, however, dates back long before Dante or Milton. The Grolier Universal Encyclopedia (1971, Vol. 9, p. 205) under “Hell” says: “Hindus and Buddhists regard hell as a place of spiritual cleansing and final restoration. Islamic tradition considers it as a place of everlasting punishment.” The idea of suffering after death is found among the pagan religious teachings of ancient peoples in Babylon and Egypt. Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs depicted the “nether world . . . as a place full of horrors, . . . presided over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness.” Although ancient Egyptian religious texts do not teach that the burning of any individual victim would go on forever, they do portray the “Other World” as featuring “pits of fire” for “the damned.”
2007-01-19 09:57:28 · answer #2 · answered by papa G 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If there was no hell God would have my soul anyway. There was no hell to go to when Adam and Eve were in the Garden BEFORE they ate the apple.
Giving your soul to Jesus is about re-acquiring eternal life. We had that until we chose to eat from the Tree of Righteousness and shut God out. Big mistake.
Christ is necessary because there is a hell and God does not want us to go there.
2007-01-19 09:52:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am a Christian, I don't believe in hell or any other eternal torture. It's Catholic from a mistranslation in Revelations. You either get life or death when you leave this world. Everyone that is evil will be thrown into the "lake of fire". This is the "second DEATH". So yes, even though I have no fear of hell, I still gladly give my soul to my Lord and Savior Jesus.
2007-01-19 09:51:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Hell=Grave
2007-01-19 09:48:49 · answer #5 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
As Thomas- G said, we dont believe in Jesus to avoid hell but to gain heaven..
2007-01-19 09:51:16 · answer #6 · answered by Lorene 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yes because Jesus is infinitely lovable and good, so He is really worthy of the love of everyone, regardless of heaven and hell.
2007-01-19 09:49:55 · answer #7 · answered by carl 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
THIS IS hell....my soul is prepared for Jesus to rescue me from the uselss roaches that spread bad news about Him.
2007-01-19 09:52:28 · answer #8 · answered by joe_on_drums 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
if there was no hell there would be no need for Christ to have saved us in the first place. Hell is separation from God (and maybe a place, but i doubt it). Since we screwed up God had to bail us out and send His son to save us, which wouldn't have happened if we hadn't screwed up in the first place. <><
2007-01-19 09:55:26 · answer #9 · answered by ichthus607 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course I would. I am not a believer in order to avoid Hell I am a believer in Order to Gain Heaven.
2007-01-19 09:49:16 · answer #10 · answered by Thomas G 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋