now you are thinking!!!
putting that brain of yours to work, eh?.. lol
I told them all but they didn't believe me, thanks for telling them for me!!.... AGAIN!!
2007-03-29 20:07:13
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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There is a hell created for the devil and his angels. It was not created for mankind.
There are two major false teachings that have been brought into Christianity.
One is an eternal hell for punishment of people.
The other is that people live eternally.
Man was excluded from the Garden of Eden having never tasted of the Tree of Life. He never did have eternal life until Jesus Christ secured it for him.2,000 years ago.
Without the gift of God, which is eternal life in Christ Jesus, no person can live forever in heaven or hell.
Through these false teachings the entire idea of the Christian life and the nature of a loving God has been perverted. This does not mean that God ignores or condones evil thoughts or wickedness in any form. Your last thought about extinguishing evil for good is exactly right.
There is a lot more to it than I have said and some people will be punished for a time, but God looks upon the heart and His judgment is perfect.
2007-03-29 20:53:31
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answer #2
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answered by Tommy 6
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You know there is a tremendous paradox here that bothers me to no end. Let's suspend disbelief and go with the story. Here is this eternal Omniscient, Omnipotent, All Knowing The Alpha and the Omega. He/It/She has been around since at least the dawn of creation 15 billion years ago give or take. We have been around as a species from earliest ancestor so far about 6 million years this works out to be about 0,04% of existence time. It gets worse the human animal even at best does not get much over a century of existence. So for what amounts to less than a millionth of a second of existence I will be judged for eternity. Then there is this other problem. The supreme entity that has created me seems to be incapable of controlling my morals it controls everything else in creation except MAN?
Eternal Happiness? Peace? The land of Milk and Honey? What do these word mean. We are all going to share the same definition of peace or happiness. We are all going to be mindless happy zombies
It is really amazing that despite the fact that we have zero eyewitness reports from both the good place and the bad one, people will give you detailed descriptions of both places. Based on????
The problem with good and evil is that they need each other to exist. they define each other.They can only exist as a duality. Separately they are meaningless. Good can not be defined in the absence of Evil and vice versa.
2007-03-29 20:42:42
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answer #3
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answered by The Stainless Steel Rat 5
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No Hell? Hell no!
There IS a hell because God has told us so. The Bible says that in heaven God will wipe away every tear. You ask how we can be happy when we have loved ones in hell. Perhaps we can also ask why those in hell are upset when their loved ones are in heaven. Whatever your current thoughts about heaven are, the Bible clearly teaches that it will be a place of joyous glory. If you are really concerned about people suffering in hell, you would do better to start preaching the Gospel to them rather than to wish against the truth that there is no hell or that it won't last forever.
2007-03-29 20:12:00
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answer #4
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answered by Seraph 4
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Even the most religious people have not read the Bible completely. My family is very religious so I had to read it top to bottom. If you read it and know the chapters, it makes NO SENSE. Literally. God made everybody. God loves everybody. God made you the way you are for reason. God has a place for everybody on Earth. God has a plan for you. ok, example...GOD MADE YOU, BUT HE MADE YOUR PLACE ON EARTH TO BE GAY SO YOU FEEL THE RACSIM OF SOME PEOPLE EVEN THOUGH ITS A SIN. What!?!? It’s an act of the devil? Bull shi*t. know the feeling and then understand. And all the "believers" out there...Don't even say anything. I grantee I know the Bible more than you do. Go ahead say some stupid chapter that will prove me 'wrong'. If was to look back on this. I will name another that will cross examine you. There is no hell there is no heaven. You rot in the ground. End of story.
2007-03-29 20:20:57
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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YOU are so correct about an everburning hell.. However you are so very wrong about Heaven. No hauman is in heaven and no human is going to be in heaven.
An Italian Florentine poet, Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or just Dante, June 1, 1265 – September 13/14, 1321, created the idea of the hell that is taught to the world. The Catholic Church grabed the concept and ran with it. The protestants appear to take all things which the Catholics tell as truth and they also teach an ever burnning hell.
There is no ever burnning hell where people will be tormented day and night for ever. There are two Greek words translated hell in the Kings James new testament.
Hades {hah'-dace}which means grave. Geenna {gheh'-en-nah} which should have been rendered "Gehenna" or "Gehenna of fire". This was originally the valley of Hinnom, South of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals and bodies of executed criminals of the city were cast out and burned; a fit symbol of the wicked and their future destruction.
God tells us there will be a one time punishment, not an eternal punishing.
Yes, the punishment has to do with fire, a fire that consumes.
Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day is coming, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day thats coming shall burn them up, say's the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Malachi 4:3 And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, say's the LORD of hosts.
Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Notice: A second death, not life and torment in an ever burnning fire.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23
Paul made it crystal clear, the wages one receives for sin is death.....Eternal life for those that repent of their sins.
Jesus is going to set up his kingdom on this earth, not in heaven.
Revelation 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see. Prove all things.
2007-03-29 20:16:02
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answer #6
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answered by popeye 4
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Some people say you don't remember the bad things in heaven. I guess in heaven, you wouldn't think about someone suffering because suffering is no longer a concern. That's just what I've read when others have asked this question. I personally have no idea how that would work. Maybe a person does remember the person burning in hell and just accepts it. I try not to think about things that haven't happen yet. I try to deal with them as they come.
I know there's a few people who I wouldn't mind knowing was in hell. That might very well be my heaven. Knowing that the idiots I've encountered in my life are burning somewhere. lol
2007-03-29 20:08:41
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answered by Anonymous
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For mankind, there is no eternal torment, as far as scripture indicates. Hell is a hole in the ground. Technically Hell is the grave. The Lake of Fire is eternal punishment for all who disobey The Father Elohim's commandments, supposedly. Satan and demons are created immortal so they will know eternal torment, but mankind is mortal so they will know death, eternal nothing. The dead know nothing.
That's the way I read it. Scripture does not contradict what I said about Hell, though. It's hard to trust the accuracy of the Bible, though, since, it's so obiously polluted by man. Like I've said, I'm only sure of one thing. The rest is speculation. All evidence though, points to no eternal torment for mankind. I don't count what mainstream christians say as evidence. It's totally illogical.
Of course since I'm not a Christian, you might not trust what I maintain. (O:
2007-03-29 20:41:32
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answered by Poquah 2
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Do you have good understanding?
After your death you are nothing and you will know nothing, even your love ones, even your friends and relatives but your body flesh will return to dust. In short, you no longer remember of something that exist. The relationship within your love ones to have exist when you were still living.
When judgment come and maybe after your death, you will be judge of what you have done, of what you have sinned or on the sins you have committed while still living. It is God who will judge you whether you will go to heaven for eternal life with him or go the hell for eter
nal life with Satan for punishment of your sins and to suffer heat of the lake of fire.
You can never extinguish Satan for good because he existed to be bad and hell will continue forever because of the power of God who is mightier than Satan.
jtm
2007-03-29 20:25:02
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answered by Jesus M 7
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Well, lets see, we have the BIG BANG THOERY and the STRING THEORY that explains the creation of the Universe. We have thoeries of how we evolved as far back as the one celled organisms and we continue to pollute the very air that we breathe, kill the others of our species because we do not agree who should be in charge, constantly claim a civilized nature and prove it in a barbaric way, we destroy things of beauty in the name of fun or sport and while having a beer at the pub and shooting pool we decided that since we have taken everything that we don't understand and haven't a clue what is outside the magnificant placing of the space station we now struggle to maintain to keep in orbit that until we are just a bit more successful at knowing for sure about what is, and how it came to be we would just accept the description from bible about heaven and hell as it is written, just in case all the other biblical descriptions in conflict with our philosophy happens to be wrong.
2007-03-29 20:16:26
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answered by g_menagerie 3
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How do you know? God says there is a Hell now you want to argue with God. You either believe the Bible or you are going to Hell. You cant just pick out the parts you want to believe. You better change your way of thinking or you are going to Hell.
2007-03-29 20:20:28
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answered by Anonymous
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