is it life ever lasting in h!ll , or is it a consuming fire that only leaves a trace of ash?Malachi 4:1-3
2007-09-14 13:35:10 · 14 answers · asked by Bob d 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's a good question! I've wondered about that myself, I concluded that it could be the death of God's Spirit within us. It's not the physical death, and God's word says that the soul never dies, so that can only mean that which is left, the potential for spiritual life to be cut off.
2007-09-14 13:53:29 · answer #1 · answered by God's Fountain Pen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's known occult knowledge that people experience 3 deaths when they die. The ancient Hebrews knew that and early Christians understood it too. Christ was trying to open up Judaism to the non-Jew. The Qabbalah is the teacings of some mystical sect of Judaism. They know about this. The first death is the body dying. The second death is the mental body drifting off the physical body. The third death is the spirit body, or 'soul', detaching and leaving the body. Sometimes this is seen as a ball of light or orb or something. The ethereal body hangs around for a while longer but eventually decays off. Ghosts are etherial bodies that retain some vestige of the person's consciousness can become detatched from the flesh body and dont decay for some reason, or just replay past memories.
2007-09-14 20:45:37 · answer #2 · answered by St. Toad 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hi, Bob:
It's texts like that that make Christians feel they need a pastor with a masters degree in Greek and Hebrew to explain the Bible to them.
But it takes a degree in theology to make the Bible say what it doesn't. With all their swivel-tongued word flopping, with a few more words telling the congregation how much money they spent on their education, and after making the Saints feel completely inadequate, they allow the pastor to tell them what to believe.
Jesus said of the double-speaking Pharisees, YOU ARE NOT ENTERING THE KINGDOM, AND YOU ARE HINDERING OTHERS FROM ENTERING.
If you take Revelation 20:6 and read it as it says, as well as the rest of the Bible, you will understand that the wages of sin is death, and that is an eternity-long punishment, not punishing.
Shalom, peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshua
2007-09-14 20:48:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The second death is exactly what it sounds like. When Christ begins his reign those who are killed, die the first death. After the thousand years reign, they live again, and after the final war when the books are opened, the evil experience the second death or final death, in which they go to the lake of fire. After the first death they go to hell, the second and final the lake of fire. So when you hear people talking of hell as final they are mistaken.
2007-09-14 20:43:32 · answer #4 · answered by Capri 1230 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell would be eternal separation from God. Hell fires or not.
How would you like to experience the knowledge that God does exist but you by your own doings have created the conditions that you are forever separated from God. No one can claim ignorance. At least none here at YA's. Of course if you don't believe in him, maybe he will have mercy on you and extinguish every aspect of your being. Soul and spirit.
2007-09-14 20:49:05 · answer #5 · answered by Tinman12 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
*NOTE* I agree whole-heartedly with St. Toad + God's fountain pen down below.
Unless you have achieved enlightenment (the christian version of born-again is highly watered down) you will be counted among the living dead and will cease to exist at the end of your after-life (astral life):
Gospel of Philip 7-73: Those who say they will die and then rise are in error. If they do not first receive the resurrection while they live, when they die they will receive nothing.
2007-09-14 20:40:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The latter. That ash shall be trod under the feet of the righteous. The punishment is everlasting. The punishing is not.
2007-09-14 20:40:39 · answer #7 · answered by What? Me Worry? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
“the second death,” which means annihilation, destruction without hope of a resurrection. (Revelation 2:11; 20:14)
2007-09-15 00:02:49 · answer #8 · answered by BJ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When man sins he is separated form God physically ( that is why we get old and die ) spiritually ( If we don't repent of our sins and ask Jesus to be our savior ) we are eternally separated from God cast into hell at the end of the world
2007-09-14 20:42:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The second death is our final judgment, spiritually separating us from God forever.
The first death is physical.
The second death is spiritual.
2007-09-14 20:44:43 · answer #10 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋