Extreme caution is necessary here! It is possible for a person to understand his position before God, even to be convicted by the Holy Spirit of his need to be saved "Sure of Heaven" and yet remain unsaved "Sure of Hell".
Until a person has willingly and deliberately repented of his sins toward God, he has not been forgiven of them. It would be like a person with definite symptoms of a disease who, although he might permit a physician to examine him and even recieve a proper diagnosis, yet, if he refuses to follow the doctor's instructions, will remain ill.
"REPENT" means "to change one's mind," or, "to change direction." That is what God commands us to do in Acts 17:30. It works like this: The Holy Spirit, in perfect harmony which the Bible, causes us to feel deep sorror for our sinfulness. This sorrow brings us to a spiritual posture where we are willing to permit God to make a change in our destiny and in our life. From out of a sorrowful heart we ask Him to forgive us of our personal sins. Then we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Personal Saviour (John 14:6). That's the only way to escape from Hell's flame.
2007-07-04 13:26:38
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answer #1
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answered by itsme_565 4
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Rev 18-22
Luke 16:19-31
Jude
Matt 24-25
2 Peter 3
1 & 2 Thes
Malachi 3-4
Job 19
Eph 2:8-9
Romans 3,6,10
2007-07-04 14:40:15
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answer #2
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answered by robert p 7
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Those verses are making a comparison. If a Christian's foundation in the faith is not built with fire-resistant materials, if it can't withstand persecution and trials, then it can fail, be destroyed or burned up. That is the fire we all face in life - tests of our faith. If we learn and then teach with Christian qualities like wisdom, discernment, fear of Jehovah and genuine faith based on knowledge then both we and those we teach will withstand any test. The fire has nothing to do with hell and hell has nothing to do with fire. It is simply the grave where there is no life at all.
2016-04-01 07:55:33
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answered by Anonymous
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Jesus was thinking about the Valley Gehenna outside of Jerusalem.
"Gehenna was a well-known valley, near Jerusalem, in which the Jews in their idolatrous days had sacrificed their children to the idol Moloch, in consequence of which it was condemned to receive the offal and refuse and sewage of the city, and into which the bodies of malefactors were cast and where to destroy the odor and pestilential influences, continual fires were kept burning. Here fire, smoke, worms bred by the corruption, and other repulsive features, rendered the place a horrible one, in the eyes of the Jews. It was a locality with which they were as well acquainted. But in process of time Gehenna came to be an emblem of the consequences of sin, and to be employed figuratively by the Jews, to denote those consequences. But always in this world. The Jews never used it to mean torment after death, until long after Christ. The word had not the meaning of post-mortem torment when our Savior used it." (J.W. Hanson's, Bible Threatenings Explained).
Every Bible reference using the word "hell" is addressed to this world. It was also employed in the time of Christ as a symbol of moral corruption and wickedness; but more especially as a figure of the terrible judgment of God on the rebellious and sinful nation of the Jews. It was a place fit only for waste.
Should a Jew, God's chosen people, ever be given a burial in "Gehenna," it would be the most humiliating thing that could ever happen to him. It would be like saying to a Pharisee, that his life, his religious works, his devotion to God were completely worthless, fit only for the dump.
2007-07-04 13:15:41
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answer #4
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answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7
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If Jesus died for your undone sins before 2000 years ago, you could well do all kinds of nasty things in this life. You will live in a limbo between Heaven and Hell. Nice thought, Matthew's vision.
2007-07-04 13:09:25
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answer #5
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answered by RexRomanus 5
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Job went to Hell, and he was righteous in God's eyes.
Job..17:13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Grave=AV - grave 31, hell 31, pit 3; 65
1) sheol, underworld, grave, hell, pit
2007-07-04 13:05:58
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answer #6
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answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7
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Tecnically everyone would eventually end up in the center of the earth due to tectonic shifting. A few billion years should do it and we can have a party of the undead in hell! Woot!
2007-07-04 13:07:35
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answer #7
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answered by ? 5
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Repent, that is turn from your self gratifing ways.
Ask God to forgive you of your sin and recieve His Son Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior
2007-07-04 23:44:16
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answer #8
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answered by ? 4
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Abaddon of the abyss says there is no escape from hell and their angels.
perhaps its because they implanted a radio-like receiver in every childs ear cavity. So when you hear His Voice in the wilderness while alone, it means you're bugged. Also they can read your brainwaves/thoughts.
and as for the rebellion from God, the followers of baseball's three strikes and your out rule: God when ritten in times new roman font spells out the grace of God meaning God=CuTnucilil=CuTODiI
ie strike one means cut nucil (off?)
Strike two(TO) means i I die.
So if you beleive you have a right to 3 strikes, your in a rebellious situation with God, because He has only 2 strikes. So the 3 strikes rule given by the american justice system is a rebellious system, just like the hells angels system that says you get 3 strikes with them is rebellious to God.
Is that why they alledgedly became the worlds largest gang? ie more chances to screw up!
My opinion is to hell with God, God is love is bull****, more like god is love of criminals.
Yes Hell the gang is real but a place of eternal torture is a myth created to scare illiterates. The news paper in my country said over 50% beleive God had a hand in creating the world. To Me that means over 50% of my countrymen are idiots. Man may create the way the world is, but the plants, animals, planets, were not created by the LORD, i personally quarantee that fact, unless you mean a LORD planted a garden or bred animals, ie assistting in creating things that already existed before the LORD even knew how to spell the LORD.
Perhaps those Hells should pool their money and buy the Calgary Flames. Then there could actually be such a thing as Hells Flames.
Also if it's true the future world was prepared for Man not Angels Like Hebrews says, then Man=IVIan(ie IIII I han?) which is Me then Your bible almost predicted a Man like Me.
Then the prophets words in the bible like in John which states:
God glorified HIMSELF in HIM thus also He must Glorify HIMSELF in HIMSELF meant:
God=G+o+d= 7+15+4 =26=2+6=8=H
M=IVI sealed together=IIII I sealed together
SE=pronounced SEE
L=IL (when cut into two letters)
LF= short for LEFT
HIM=GOD I IVI selaed together
HIMSELF=GOD I IVI sealed together SE LF
basically it means GOD is a IVI sealed together and thats why you SE his LF is IVI sealed together.
And if Romans is correct then All glory belong to GOD then even your French stop sign must glorify God. thus that Man with the IVI sealed together is glorified on the I ARRET I (sign with the left edge as an L or I) so His name was pronounced LARRE T.
Even the two words GENERAL and DEATH glorify God meaning in GENERAL we see LARE IV EG (N=IV) meaning God was the fourth EGG fertilized and called LARE. DEATH glorifies GOD because we see HIS name HTAED(ie H. TAED (pronounced TODD) and the H is short for HERR, we gives you part of His heritage.
So if you chose to beleive in GOD and the bible verses should back each other up then you can see their is only one Man that actually fits the description of God should you realize perhaps God is not called JEHOVAH and some early scholar misinterpreted the I AM as sounding like the Hebrew Jahoveh or yawway when it actually Meant I AM=I AIVI sealed together. then words became correct as the letters b and M both glorify Gods body meaning b=DI sealed together (ie appearing like IIII I sealed together and M=IVI sealed together both of which are a glorified description of My body, the glorifed GOD.
so to escape HELLS FLAMES, maybe get allied with bill Gates and buy out those Calgary Flames which Hell should buy for a joke.
2007-07-04 13:36:54
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answered by Lord of all Earth 2
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I don't believe in hell. I don't really believe in god either, but I can not imagine god being so intollerable. I think distance from god is hell. If either exist.
2007-07-04 13:21:35
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answer #10
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answered by alana 5
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