If you knew there was no hell would you still believe in the rest of the stuff?

Answer 1

I guess it depends on what you mean by "hell".
As a Christian, I was raised to believe hell was a place of torment.

Recently, I did some research and took some courses on human language.

It seems someone made a mistake in reading or translating the Bible, because the original Hebrew word that identifies with our word "hell" actually means "sepultre", or grave/tomb.

Which actually makes a lot of sense. In the Bible, it says that even Jesus had to spend time in hell (and according to the New Testament, he did), where we will all go when we die (duh) - and then we are supposed to await the Heavenly War and Judgement.

So now it becomes more clear to me that hell is the grave, not a place of fire and torment - I always had doubts about it because I couldn't understand why God would send his son to hell, when he should have went to heaven.

So now I'm in the process of trying to figure out the rest, in a new light, by looking for the true translations.

So far, I've found a lot of interesting things that I didn't understand before - and in my opinion, most of it is just history and tradition rehashed and passed down. One of the most interesting stories I've found is the one in Ezekiel that describes how we were visited by extraterrestrials. It actually tells what the ET was wearing and describes the ship he came in. This interests me.

There's plenty of stuff that makes no sense at all, it's like someone was trying to make the story bigger than it actually was, or adding stuff later to try to explain a previous contradiction.

Although I find it hard to believe in "hell" due to my new information, I still comprehend a lot of it as fact or history, only because it's been coincided with other (more) ancient writings. If anything, the Bible could be a reference to compare other history books.

I think most of it was made up to make us afraid of something, to control us; sort of like when parents tell thier kids that if they don't go to bed on time, the boogieman is going to get them. For some, it works. For others, it makes them scared to the point that they can't sleep. I for one, as a child, stayed awake and refused bed just because I WANTED to see that boogieman. He never came, I grew up, and found out it wasn't true (my mom said it's because God protected me, so now I'm investigating him!).

I don't believe that the dinosaur bones we found are the remains of giant Philistines, simply because there is no mention of them having 6ft-long teeth and long tails, which would have been something unusual for a human, and it would have been mentioned in the Bible.

Unicorns are mentioned in the Bible. Hebrew word meaning "ox", and due to the area, they probably meant rhinocerous, which is not a mythical creature.

By and by, I am having a hard time keeping to Christian faith by blindly believing what I've been taught all these years. The past few months, on my own, I have learned more about the literal Bible than over the past 30 years in fellowship. Some of what they told me is not only not true, it's not even mentioned in the Bible - and what is mentioned has been twisted to confuse me, when confronted with passages I found, they told me that my Bible was not the "right" one, and quickly offered me thier version; or else they just told me to bring my question to Jesus - which, if he did answer, took over 20 years, and he answered by making me wise enough to separate from my fellows and do some individual research.

Hell is not a place of fire and torment, people - the original scripture shows it is the grave - and everybody goes, not just the evil unbelievers - just look at the cemeteries. If you want a fiery hell, you need to be cremated, and even then, it's considered your grave(hell), you will just be carbonized a little faster than nature intended.

Answer 2

Hell or no hell... heaven sounds like a pretty cool place.

But to answer the question...
The Bible describes hell not just as a metaphor but as an actual place. If I knew there was no hell, then I would know that the Bible was not the inerrant Word of God I now believe it is. Therefore, I would not be able to have any serious faith in the credibility of the rest of it.

Answer 3

If the Bible is suppose to be the word of God, and God is infallible, then the entire Bible must be true. If there is even a single part of the Bible that one doesn't believe to be correct, that casts doubt on the entire Bible. I believe that is why there is a need for some people to cling to the belief that the Earth is only about 6000 years old. If these people accept that the Earth was formed at least 4.6 Gya, then in their minds the Bible would be proven false, and therefore not the word of a god. It may even mean there is no god.

Answer 4

THERE IS NO LIVING DEAD HELL

I believe the bible from Genesis to Revelations and Jesus was resurrected out of the bible hell Acts 2:27-31; Just as people are Rev.20:12,13;
There is no such thing as the Babylon or Pharisee hell of the living dead as Jesus read the hearts of these people that could treat Lazarus bad just because of that belief, Luke 16:14-31; Jesus and Abraham told them how to find the truth Luke 16:16,17,29,31;
Jesus said the words he speaks will judge John 12:47,48;
Dead id dead. Dead is dead until Jesus resurrects. John 5:26-29; Dan.12:2; Acts 15:24; 1Cor.15:22-28, 51-53; 2Cor.5:10; Rom.14:9-12; Philip. 2:5, 9-12;

Answer 5

This would depend on the reward. The Christian heaven sounds fairly boring. There are streets of gold, nice real estate, pearly gates, and a stair case with the almighty at the top. Then you spend the rest of eternity singing and praising him. All for a life of lackluster living. hmmm. Even at my most pious I never thought the idea of heaven was all that attractive. So hell is a necessity for those of Christianity.

Islam, however gives you in death what you could not have in life. Fields of grain, women, wine, and wealth to do with as you please for all eternity. Their hell is less menacing and not often mentioned because it is reward, not fear, based.

I am a conformed believwhatever and now an atheist. So I guess this is about as non-bias as you are going to get.

Answer 6

As a matter of fact I believe there is no hell and also believe to the rest.

Answer 7

If a big part of the story is wrong, it surely casts doubt on the people who told me the rest.

However, if Christians decided to interpret the Bible to say that there is no Hell, which they easily could, it would make their story slightly more morally supportable (though not any more factually correct).

Answer 8

I personally don't believe in anything. There is no heaven or hell and no such thing as angels. Just like kids grow up and stop believing in the easter bunny and santa clause, I grew up and stopped believing in the fantasy that some God loves us and will take care of us.

Answer 9

I don't believe there is a hell, but I still have my own beliefs.

Druidic pagan

Answer 10

Probably. The Bible is true through and through, picking and choosing isn't really an option. In answer to your' question, I would say that IF the Bible taught that there was no everlasting punishment, but something else (say, probationary periods of differing lengths), than I would believe it because the Bible taught it.