...and He doesn't want ANYONE to go there.
The Father has done everything possible to keep men OUT OF HELL.
So why do atheists keep screaming..."You are only trying to scare us" over and over (ad nauseum)....when in reality God the Father is really trying to PRESERVE us FROM HEL:L....?
You can have eternal life with God the Father; It is simply a choice.
Make the choice FOR Jesus and you live in eternal bliss.
Or make the choice to reject Him...and you get VERY painful consequences.
Will you choose life today...or will you choose eternal death.?
"So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth". - Jesus (Matt. 13:49)
The truth about hell: http://www.av1611.org/hell.html
2007-07-17 12:53:20 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
did you know that you do not have ALL the answers just because you claim to be christian? didnt you ever learn not to believe everything you read?
2007-07-17 12:57:20 · answer #1 · answered by bootleg 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Quote, "Did you know Jesus taught about hell many times as a LITERAL place of excruciating agony for all eternity...and He doesn't want ANYONE to go there."
Reading this standard Fundy declaration, without giving it a thought I remembered years ago in Bavaria, when I was a student in Munich. Ten miles north of the city is Dachau, the first of the German Nazi concentration camps. For reasons I will not explain here, on my first of a dozen visits during my Munich years, the director of the remains of the camp gave me a tour. Next to the ovens there was a marked gas chamber (marked in German). The director was quick to assure me that, yes, the gas chamber was there but IT WAS NEVER USED. I had done my research, I knew it had been put to daily use by the Germans. Why else would it have been there? So, Jesus has a 'place of excruciating agony for all eternity,' but he doesn't want anyone to go there. Why, then, does he have it? Because he loves us so much perhaps? Some god...'excruciating agony'? Christianity, eh?
2007-07-17 20:11:31 · answer #2 · answered by Yank 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Actually, the hellfire doctrine is unscriptural.
Sheol, Hades. Tartarus, and in some versions the lake of fire was mistranslated to the word hell, and the word hellfire.
Why?
That's a lengthy answer for this question, so next time.
How do we know this?
Because the older, more original translations are still with us.
How can a God of Love burn someone for eternity?
Hellfire doctrine is a contradictory church doctrine.
It conflicts with scripture.
2007-07-17 21:35:17 · answer #3 · answered by rangedog 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So you feel that anyone who is not a Christian gets tortured eternally after death?
No offense, but are you really listening to yourself?
If that's true, then God will be sadistically torturing the vast majority of the Earth's population.
2007-07-17 20:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by I'm Still Here 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I would respectfully suggest that instead of repeating what you have been taught, you try finding out the truth for yourself. If what you say is true, and Jesus paid the price for your sins then He also should be spending eternity in fires of hell.
2007-07-17 20:03:18 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Rev 18-22
Matt 25
2007-07-18 01:43:01 · answer #6 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Then if your god existed he would be a very sadistic being to send people to such a place
2007-07-17 20:04:38 · answer #7 · answered by darwinsfriend AM 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Okay, lets turn it around. Why are YOU trying to scare someone that doesn't believe? Not only are you wasting your time, and theirs, but you also fill the other person with resentment. Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi, and in the Jewish religion, hell doesn't exist, so why would he teach about that?
2007-07-17 20:00:11 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
By the Hairy Toes of the Great Horned Father, I am so sick to utter death of this kind of preaching. Can't you get it through your head that people are not interested in this kind of thing? Your punishment myths are even more meaningless to me than your tormented savior figure.
Preach to each other if you want.
As far as I'm concerned, Go. Away.
2007-07-17 19:59:19 · answer #9 · answered by Nightlight 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Jesus talked about a garbage pit named Gehenna.
2007-07-17 19:58:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
What about the Jews??? They going to hell?? Muslims??? Buddhists???
Thanks for saving the world.
2007-07-17 19:57:59 · answer #11 · answered by daBreezemeister 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋