it is my understanding that Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in Hell?

Question

so do Jehovah's Witnesses believe we need salvation? What's the point?

Answer 1

They do believe in Hell, just not the way many other believe in it. They do not see it as a place of eternal tornment.

Answer 2

Incorrect.

Jehovah's witnesses do indeed believe in hell.

Act 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell

What about salvation by grace?

Do Jehovah's Witnesses deny that? Absolutely not. The Watchtower has always taught that salvation is a result of Jehovah's undeserved kindness.

Psa 85:7 Shew us thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, and grant us thy salvation.

Answer 3

Jehovah's Witnesses indeed do not belive in Hell. That's because the word hell pretty much just means grave, so when it talks about hell in the Bible, it just means the eternal resting place.
Jehovah's Witnesses also do not belive that they go to heaven when they die. They belive that when they die, they are just basically sleeping (without dreaming or anything, 'cause they're dead) and waiting for the new system to come where they will live on a peaceful, paradise Earth.

Answer 4

By all means we need salvation and God provided that through the ransom sacrifice of his son Jesus. The Bible doesn't teach that there is a hell, when they spoke of Hell, Sheol or Gehenna in the Bible the actual Hebrew and Greek words used just meant the common grave not a place of eternal torment. Fire is a symbol in the Bible of annihilation. People shouldn't be scared of some kind of eternal torment in order to serve God. They should serve him out of love for him and all that he has, is and will do for us. Job prayed to go there at Job14:13, he was in miserable pain physically and emotionally. Why would he pray for further torment and forever so? The Bible teaches that the "dead are conscious of nothing at all." Ecclesiastes 9:5. If they are conscious of nothing can they feel the pain of some fiery eternity? What does fire do? It completely destroys whatever it touches, it doesn't keep burning continuously. Most religions have taught that there is a hell to scare their congregation into attending and/or to give lots of money to the church.

Answer 5

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the bible teaches that Hell (English), or Sheol (Hebrew) and Hades (Greek) are the common grave of mankind. That when you die, you are asleep in death awaiting the resurrection.

Ecc. 9: 5 & 10 "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neighter do they anymore have wages, because the remembranceof them has been forgotten..All that your hand finds to do, do with your ver power, for there is no work nor devinsing nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going."

Ps. 146: 4 " His spirit goes out, he goes back to his grouind; In that day his thoughts do perish."

John 5: 28 & 29 "do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming when all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgement."

Acts 24: 15 "and I have hope toward God, which hope these men themselves also entertain, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous."

Also going along with this thought is the bible shows that the soul can die.

Ezek 18:4 "The soul that is sinning - it itself will die."

Why the confusion? "Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused through the early translators of the Bible persistently rendering 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

Gehenna is called the lake of fire or the second death or total destruction. Rev. 21: 8. Death and Hades (Hell) are spoken of as being thrown into the lake of fire at Rev 20: 14 "And death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire." So Hades or Hell are not the same as Gehenna and death and the grave are not objects that can be literally thrown into something, so Gehenna or the lake of fire is symbol for complete destruction or the second death.

We need salvation in order to be one of the meek that possess the earth and live forever upon it. Ps 37: 10 & 11 & 29. However, salvation is a gift from God. As brought out at Eph 2: 8 & 9

We serve God out of love for him and for his Son who died so that our sins can be forgiven and we can have a hope for the future. Not because we are afraid that we will burn in hell forever if we are bad. Should we die, and not be resurrected, we will just remain dead, no change of ever living again.

Answer 6

The Bible teaches that Hell is not what has been taught by most religions. It is not a place of eternal torment.

The true Hell of the Bible is the 2nd death. It is the common grave of mankind. So, those that are judged adversely on Judgment Day will be totally and forever destroyed. They will not be tortured forever in a burning lake of fire.

If you want to see the Bible versus, get with one of Jehovah's Witnesses and they will show you in your own Bible why the term Hell has been misrepresented.

Answer 7

Darcy,initially,nowhere interior the bible does it say that devil is a organic spirit and might't be destroyed. Nowhere interior the bible does it communicate of eternal punishment in hell (and that i presume you're bearing on a fiery hell). a million John 5:19 refers to devil as "The depraved one" and that the entire worldwide is mendacity in his power. Revelation 20:10 states that devil would be thrown into the lake of fireplace as an eternal punishment however the bigger area of the e book of Revelation grew to become into given in indications and symbolisms. Rev a million:a million. The "lake of fireplace" is an emblem of eternal destruction from which there is not any return. Rev 21:8. i don't understand the place you get the theory that Jehovah's Witnesses say "there is not any heaven",in view that's not real. in case you do a splash learn you will discover that we've self belief that heaven is the residing place of Almighty God,Jehovah and his son Jesus which incorporate all the angels. further to those already in heaven are the a hundred and forty four,000 taken from the earth to function Kings and clergymen, Rev 14:3,4. As for "making up our own bible",the hot worldwide Translation of the Holy Scriptures has been scrutinized by utilising bible pupils who're not Jehovah's Witnesses,and has been stumbled directly to be the main precise translation of the unique manuscripts that there is. in case you opt for references to verify that for your self,i visit gladly grant them. i might recommend that in case you prefer to criticise or remark on something,do your homework first.Doing issues that way prevents embarrassment.

Answer 8

Define " Believe" In hell?
The Bible tells us that Hell is the Grave of Mankind. We also read that Jesus went to Hell.
What, then, is hell? Examining what happened to Jesus after he died helps to answer that question. The Bible writer Luke recounts: “Neither was [Jesus] forsaken in Hades [hell, King James Version] nor did his flesh see corruption.” (Acts 2:31) Where was the hell to which even Jesus went? The apostle Paul wrote: “I handed on to you . . . that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, yes, that he has been raised up the third day according to the Scriptures.” (1 Corinthians 15:3, 4) So Jesus was in hell, the grave, but he was not abandoned there, for he was raised up, or resurrected.
Jehovah Witnesses believe the Biblical teaching of hell which is explained above.

Answer 9

Jehovah's Witnesses actually *DO* believe in hell, as the term is actually used in the bible. The bible teaches 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

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Answer 10

We do not believe in the burning hell. The hell is just a place where dead people go, and they are in a inactive state. (Ecc 9:5)