You wish there was no Hell fire but in reality you wont get off so easy. Dear Lord don't these poor souls know? If the brain offend the pluck it out and cast it from the. It is far better to go to Heaven a complete idiot with no brain than to be cast into Hell with half a brain where the worm never dies and the flame is never quenched. Amen.
2007-02-13 05:41:15
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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The name of the religion is "Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses". Its adherents can be called "Jehovah's Witnesses" or simply "Witnesses". Witnesses believe the bible to teach that "hell" is *NOT* a fiery place of torment, but is actually the common grave of mankind.
There is no suffering in "hell", or the grave. Sometime after the resurrection, 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 ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire
2007-02-13 10:20:37
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answered by achtung_heiss 7
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Betty Boop has it right there is hell fire and it is in the form of a fiery gate and it's flame will never be quenched. Believers must pass through but can only do so if they have enough faith in Christ's forgiveness . It is then that we are deemed righteous . and what is meant by " the worm never dies " is if we refuse to at least try to enter , then eventually we are put in the lake fire and are gone forever. The worm never dies means we will be dead forever. Hell is not a place but rather a result
2007-02-13 06:03:47
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answered by swindled 7
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Honestly, if you are going to believe in Christianity, the Witness definition of Hell, is the only one consistent with the belief in a Loving God. Would a loving God send his creations to burn for eternity while their friends and family sit in heaven worrying about them.
Not very loving if you ask me.
Thats not to say that all the JW doctrine makes sense, but that one seems to work.
2007-02-13 05:45:04
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answer #4
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answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7
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If there were a burning hell.
The government would own it. And they would send people to it.
Sorry folks, but the bible wins again.........Ain't no such place.
There is a symbolic lake of fire for the spirit bad people such as Satan, the bible also confirms that.
And It's Jehovah's Witnesses. A little respect for God's name please.
2007-02-13 05:57:45
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answered by Anonymous
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There is no hell fire. The Bible indicates the dead experience no pain.
Eccl. 9:5, 10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol,* the place to which you are going.” (If they are conscious of nothing, they obviously feel no pain.) (*“Sheol,” American Standard Version, Revised Standard Version, New English B, Jerusalem B; “the grave,” King James Version, Kx.; “hell,” Dyinton; “the world of the dead,” Today's English Version.)
Psalms 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts* do perish.” (*“Thoughts,” King James Version, 145:4 in Dyinton; “schemes,” Jerusalem B; “plans,” Revised Standard Version, Today's English Version.)
Revelation 20:13, 14, King James Version: “The sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell* delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.” (So the dead will be delivered from hell. Notice also that hell is not the same as the lake of fire but will be cast into the lake of fire.) (*“Hell,” Dy, Kx; “the world of the dead,” Today's English Version; “Hades,” New English B, American Standard Version, Revised Standard Version.)
The Bible say the penalty for sin is death, not eternal torment in hell fire:
Romans 6:23: “The wages sin pays is death.” After one’s death, a person is not still subject to further punishment for his sins, Romans 6:7, “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin.”
Eternal torment of the wicked is not compatible with God’s personality.
Jer. 7:31: “They [apostate Judeans] have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.” (If it never came into God’s heart, surely he does not have and use such a thing on a larger scale.)
Illustration: What would you think of a parent who held his child’s hand over a fire to punish the child for wrongdoing? “God is love.” (1Â John 4:8.) Would he do what no right-minded human parent would do? Certainly not!
What is the origin of the teaching of hellfire?
In ancient Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs the “nether world . . . is pictured as a place full of horrors, and is presided over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness.” (The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Boston, 1898, Morris Jastrow, Jr., p. 581) Early evidence of the fiery aspect of Christendom’s hell is found in the religion of ancient Egypt. (The Book of the Dead, New Hyde Park, N.Y., 1960, with introduction by E. A. Wallis Budge, pp. 144, 149, 151, 153, 161) Buddhism, which dates back to the 6th century B.C.E., in time came to feature both hot and cold hells. (The Encyclopedia Americana, 1977, Vol. 14, p. 68) Depictions of hell portrayed in Catholic churches in Italy have been traced to Etruscan roots.—La civiltà etrusca (Milan, 1979), Werner Keller, p. 389.
But the real roots of this God-dishonoring doctrine go much deeper. The fiendish concepts associated with a hell of torment slander God and originate with the chief slanderer of God (the Devil, which name means “Slanderer”), the one whom Jesus Christ called “the father of the lie.”—John 8:44.
If you would like further information or a free home Bible study, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall. Or visit their official web site - http://www.watchtower.org
2007-02-13 07:07:45
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answered by Jeremy Callahan 4
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Well, seeing as no one has been and come back, so to speak.... it is not something anyone can answer with any certainty.
I do however feel the whole concept of either heaven or hell or any afterlife is very far fetched... but that is just me.
2007-02-13 05:42:36
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answer #7
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answered by HP 5
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no they are wrong sincere but wrong, Hell exists, IT burns
and the vast majority of all the people that have ever lived,
those alive now, and those yet too be born are going there.
For eternal torture, and torment for the sin of having been born!
Darryl
the heretic
2007-02-13 05:47:33
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answered by Darryl 2
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Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10
Tells you the condition of the dead.
2007-02-13 05:46:25
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answered by Here I Am 7
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This question is part of a test to determine if you are a confused moron. Circle the answer that is true. There is a hell; yes no
2007-02-13 06:01:12
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answered by estwyng 1
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