Some Christians say there is a Hell some don't, some say god is one in three, some say the three are separate

Question

how do you ever know what to believe as every scripture is open to so many diffrent interptations?

Answer 1

Picture GOd in your Head. Now do you think anyone else on earth has the same picture in his head? God trancends human thought. Scripture is supposed to be a guide for our journeys with God.What kind of God do you have? Does he put his children in fire? The God you pick is the God you deserve. Choose wisely.

Answer 2

Jesus, who is God said there is a hell:
Luke 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

The Trinty Is a bible Fact:
John I 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one

Peter II 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:

Answer 3

Behind all these differences are individual understandings, personal opinions, organizational creeds, poor or false teaching and rulers of spiritual darkness in high places. The problem you see has only two serious sources.

Written words are subject to many different interpretations. Since Scripture is living; it is much the same. For example, your relationship to Person A will be different in many ways to my relationship to Person A. This is natural.

The answer is simply that one must have the Spirit of Truth to guide in revelation. In turn Scripture will agree and interpret itself, without personal opinion, and be verified in spirit and experience. This should tell you that not all 'Christians' have the same spirit, while others are quite opinionated.

Scriptural interpretations are like leaves in the wind and leaves on the ground. Leaves on the ground rest under the sun. Leaves in air prove wind or storm. Do not compare leaves to leaves but see their position.

Thousands of individual statements in Scripture contain revelations, which apply over a time and times. People who make their own interpretation; usually wind up seeing only one statement and miss three or seven or more revelations. This holds true for proclaimed Christians as well as critics. This is also why we see people argue the same position over and over again over ten thousands of years.

Answer 4

Morelions r, this is an important question. The first part of the answer is that it doesn't matter what "some Christians" say, but only what Jesus says. Thus, on the question of hell, Jesus' biographers (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) record dozens of teachings about hell. For example, Matthew 5:29: "If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." If you reject the idea of hell, you reject the authority of Jesus.

Where things get stickier is in interpreting scriptures. The idea that only scriptural evidence counts, and that anyone can decide for himself what scripture means ("sola scriptura") is a fairly recent misunderstanding. Jesus did not teach it, and almost no one believed it for the first 1500 years of Christianity.

We have many other ancient sources for learning about Jesus, the most important of which are the Fathers of the Church and the Councils of the Church. For example, it was the Council of Nicea about 300 that examined all Jesus' teachings about God and concluded that there are three persons in one God--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Answer 5

If you have a bible check it out. The bible teaches both heaven and hell if missing one it is not Christian, THE Bible does say that God is a trinity it just doesn't use the word. It does contain verses that state Jesus saying that he is the father on earth the SON OF GOD he also states that he will send his spirit on this Earth. Logic would interpret that there is a trinity. A good viwpoint on scriptures is this. If it does not glorify god and Jesus it is false, if it does not teach heaven and hell, it is false. If it states Jesus did not rise from the dead, it can not be Christian, because that is the basis for us as Christians.

Answer 6

The Bible is read and understood as a whole, not one scripture. That the problem with the different religions. If an interpretation does not coincide with the whole Bible, it's wrong.
Some people says the Bible contradict itself. Not true. They have interpret a scripture wrong. Some people says you can't understand God and His ways. That's also untrue.

Answer 7

Don't go by what other people say, read the book and decide for yourself.

If any verse is open to different interpretations then read the whole chapter to see what it was actualy talking about and to whom it was being said, the correct interpretation will be what it means in context and how that fits in with what the entire book says.

But the Bible (and any other religious book) should be put to the test and not just taken on faith because anyone can say anything and unless it can be tested how are we to know if they are reliable or not?

Some ways of testing it would be:

Had the Book proven itself historically accurate?

Have any historical records disproven the book's account of people, places and events?

Has the Book proven to be archaeologically accurate?

Has any archaeological evidence been unearthed that disproves the Book's account of people, nations, cities, civilizations and cultures?

Has any archaeological evidence been unearthed that supports the Book's account of civilizations, cultures etc?

Has the Book proven itself prophetically accurate?

Are there compelling reasons to believe any eye witness accounts in the Book?

Did they have anything to gain by giving the testimony they gave?

Could they have been deceived?

Did what they witnessed change their lives?

The one with the most evidence would be the obvious one to go with!

Answer 8

The bible surely talks of Hell .Any person that calls theirselves Christians that says their is no Hell is not a true gospel reader.Anyone who has read the gospel knows there is in fact a place called Hell.Where the wicked are punished.
And as to your second statement the bible says there is one godhead - with three separate beings( father , son, holy spirit)
Now to the question: do not go by what others believe - read the bible for yourself. Pray first and ask God to reveal what it is you need to learn from his word.And he will open your eyes and heart to his word.

People tend to leave out what they don't want to follow or don't like when reading God's word - so they change it to suite their lives.Doesn't change what it means at all.Just makes them look stupid.

Answer 9

The matter of hell is fairly easy to understand. This must be taken in consideration with the state of the dead. Compare what different churches say with the Bible.

On the subject of the nature of God, please do NOT expect to find a simple answer. After all, how can/does a mortal understand God? Philosophers and theologians have been debating this for centuries.

On the other side of the coin, there is much that we do understand and agree on.

Answer 10

Scripture is "open" to different interpretations, but that doesn't mean that they are all correct. The true interpretations of the Bible will come from the Messiah, because the Bible is correctly called "Messianic Instruction," or "Torah," as it names itself. Until he shows up and explains it, we are just supposed to preserve it, as we try to figure out what it means.

Several religions have been founded on it, and most claim that he has come and gone. If he had, then a lot of death and destruction would have happened, and we would be living in a peaceful world. So we know that he hasn't come and gone, yet.

Regards,

Chris J

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