Mark 9:43-47, and is only one part, if you look you find much more.. I respect your religion but I am just cuious of your point of view....
2007-03-31 08:00:40 · 16 answers · asked by ILSE 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
“Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused through the early translators of the Bible persistently rendering the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades and Gehenna by the word hell. The simple transliteration of these words by the translators of the revised editions of the Bible has not sufficed to appreciably clear up this confusion and misconception.”—The Encyclopedia Americana (1942), Vol. XIV, p. 81.
Translators have allowed their personal beliefs to color their work instead of being consistent in their rendering of the original-language words. For example: (1) The King James Version rendered she’ohl´ as “hell,” “the grave,” and “the pit”; hai´des is therein rendered both “hell” and “grave”; ge´en·na is also translated “hell.” (2) Today’s English Version transliterates hai´des as “Hades” and also renders it as “hell” and “the world of the dead.” But besides rendering “hell” from hai´des it uses that same translation for ge´en·na. (3) The Jerusalem Bible transliterates hai´des six times, but in other passages it translates it as “hell” and as “the underworld.” It also translates ge´en·na as “hell,” as it does hai´des in two instances. Thus the exact meanings of the original-language words have been obscured.
Think about! Is there eternal punishment for the wicked?
Jude 7, KJ: “Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”
(The fire that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ceased burning thousands of years ago. But the effect of that fire has been lasting; the cities have not been rebuilt. God’s judgment, however, was against not merely those cities but also their wicked inhabitants. What happened to them is a warning example. At Luke 17:29, Jesus says that they were “destroyed”; Jude 7 shows that the destruction was eternal.)
2007-03-31 09:20:36 · answer #1 · answered by papavero 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jesus used the metaphor that humans are in a sleep "like" state.
John 11:11 - Our friend Lazarus sleepers; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
However it clear that the body and mind are dead (destroyed as you will) at the time of death.
Psalm 146:4 - "His breath Goths forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish."
Compare Gen 2:6. Dust is made up of the body and life is given from God's breath (holy spirit).
Therefore Hell is the grave the location of the body that goes back to the earth.
The bible uses another metaphor to show at the time of judgement people who are deemed "worldly" will be destroyed by having their lives taken away with no possibility of a resurrection thus the metaphor of "gehenna". A fiery trash dump of Old Jerusalem where trash and other items went in but never came out. So the JEWs knew what was ment when they heared someone would be distroyed in Hell/Gahanna.
2007-03-31 08:47:00 · answer #2 · answered by keiichi 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well, *all* holy books are susceptible to different interpretations, and the Bible is no exception.
Just look at Judaism. They share a great part of their Torah with the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. But even between different Jewish sects there's no consensus on the existence of hell, devils, heaven or angels. So why would Christians be an exception? Just look at all the different opinions on Purgatory and Limbo, and how the teachings in different Christian sects evolved in time!
The answer? Look for what you have in common, and learn from history.
2007-03-31 08:15:07 · answer #3 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They thought the world was going to end at the new millenium, why aould you worry about anything they believe? According to them, they're not supposed to be here anymore. Plus, you can't just take one part of the bible and interpret it to be the answer to everything. It is a complete manual, not a reference book where you get a brief definition and a picture. The bible is a manual for living your life, that is misrepresented 99% of the time, which is the reason for all the conflict in the world right now. Everyone thinks that THEY are right, when we're ALL WRONG.
2007-03-31 08:07:37 · answer #4 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
We do, but not as a place of torture. That goes against God's nature of being a loving, merciful Creator.
Hell or hades is mankind's common grave. Hell (graves) will soon be gone forever. Jesus will resurrect all the dead who are in hell (the grave) and these will be given the wonderful opportunity to come to know the true God. That is why the book of Revelation tells us that Jesus has the keys to hell. He will use those symbolic "keys" to empty all the memorial tombs.
PSALM 139:8--"If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." ( no torture shown here)
PROVERBS 15:24--"The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath." (even the wise are in hell (grave) and are able to depart from it.)
JONAH 2:2--"And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heard my voice." (the fish would have been Jonah's grave (hell) had God not rescued him)
AMOS 9:2--"Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down" (kinda hard to "dig" into fire)
Satan loves it when God is made out to be a cruel, unloving and heartless God. That is why many stop believing in him.
The hellfire doctrine is one of the many tools the devil uses to turn people away from worshipping God.
2007-03-31 08:24:52 · answer #5 · answered by Micah 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
hell is just the common grave or the coffin. the devil wants people to think that Jehovah will harm us in a hell. Jehovah is a loving Father and would never ever harm us.
2007-03-31 09:02:46 · answer #6 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you believe in Voldemort when it is so clear in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix? Just read one part of it - page 812?
A book says it's true, so it must be! The Dark Lord will smite you!
2007-03-31 08:10:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well I feel that you and Jehovah Witness need to get a life and don't worry what each other believe in.
2007-03-31 08:09:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Here we go again, my bible is more right than your bible. Why you are at it ad Mormonism to the list and many others. They don't believe in hell as your do as well.
2007-03-31 08:08:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
hell isn't a literal place of torture for bad human souls.it is the common grave of mankind.
2007-03-31 08:16:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋