JW's: Hell?

Question

I know JW's don't believe in the eternal torment of Hell. So what do you believe happens to people such as me. Someone who is a Christian but not a JW? Just to avoid any confusion I am a Pentecostal Christian who knows Jesus is God and believes in the trinity.

Lady of the Garden - I know Heaven is my destination. I am just wondering what JW's think.

Answer 1

There is no hell of fire where the wicked are punished, Let God be True, p. 79, 80.

They quote one verse in Ecc. 9 I think verse 5 that speaks about being unconcious....it's twisted and taken out of context.

They have a problem explaining Luke 16:19-31.

“There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. So it was that the beggar DIED, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also DIED and was buried. And being in TORMENTS in HADES, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
“Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have MERCY on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am TORMENTED in this FLAME.’ But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are TORMENTED. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
“Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of TORMENT.’ Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’” Luke 16:19-31

Answer 2

Since you're a Christian, I would say that you are going to heaven (you should know that better than anyone, if you don't, you're in trouble) , but I don't know about what a Jehova Witness would say. I think they would assume that you are not saved, they're not into the Jesus has followers in more than one denomination thing.


By the way, I'm a Seventh Day Adventist. We don't believe in eternal torment in hell either, but rather we see hell as an eternal death sentence. There is fire, but eventually the person dies and is finished off so that they are not eternally suffering. Still a horrible fate though.

SDA's also believe that Jesus is God and believe in the Trinity.

Answer 3

. The apostle Paul said: “There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.” (Acts 24:15) What does that mean?

What about all the people who did not serve or obey Jehovah because they never knew about him? These billions of “unrighteous” ones will not be forgotten. They too will be resurrected and given time to learn about the true God and to serve him. During a period of a thousand years, the dead will be resurrected and given an opportunity to join faithful humans on earth in serving Jehovah. It will be a wonderful time. This period is what the Bible refers to as Judgment Day.
Does this mean that every human who ever lived will be resurrected? No. The Bible says that some of the dead are in “Gehenna.” (Luke 12:5) Gehenna got its name from a garbage dump located outside of ancient Jerusalem. Dead bodies and garbage were burned there. The dead whose bodies were thrown there were considered by the Jews to be unworthy of a burial and a resurrection. So Gehenna is a fitting symbol of everlasting destruction. Although Jesus will have a role in judging the living and the dead, Jehovah is the final Judge. (Acts 10:42) He will never resurrect those whom he judges to be wicked and unwilling to change.

Answer 4

We believe the punishment for sin is death. Just death. Not eternal torment.

We also believe that when Jesus spoke of a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous that this refers to the time when he will examine the hearts of all those who have died and make a determination as to whether they are worthy of being given a second chance at life and acceptance of truth or whether they should be condemned to death (the second death).

Individuals who have died have been acquitted from sin. So, many, many people will be given a chance to come to an accurate knowledge of truth after Armageddon when the Earth is being restored to Paradise.

Answer 5

If the judgement day many people that believe that are saved will be rejected by Jesus Christ according to Matthew 7:21-23.

I don´t know you , Jesus is the Judge but all the rejected are going to die and their death is forever,but Jeus won´t torture them in hell, as you said he will do with all JWs our Jesus is not a Sadic that torture people.

Answer 6

"JOHN 5:28-30"

During Jesus 1,000 year reign.

What Jesus said here must be understood in the light of the later revelation that he gave to John. (Revelation 20:12, 13.) Both those who formerly did good things and those who formerly practiced bad things will be “judged individually according to their deeds.

It would be unreasonable to resurrect people simply for them to be destroyed. So, at John 5:28, 29a, Jesus was pointing ahead to the resurrection; then, in the remainder of verse 29, he was expressing the outcome after they had been uplifted to human perfection and been put on judgment.

The resurrected dead are judged on the basis of what they do during Judgment Day. So when Jesus mentioned “those who did good things” and “those who practiced vile things,” he was referring to the good things and bad things that they would do during Judgment Day. Because of the good things they do, many of those resurrected will progress to human perfection by the end of the 1,000-year Judgment Day. Thus their return from the dead will prove to be a “resurrection of life,” for they will attain to perfect life without sin.

On the other hand, for those ‘who practiced vile or bad things’ during Judgment Day, their return from the dead will prove to be a “resurrection of judgment.” It means a judgment or condemnation to death. So these persons will be destroyed either during or by the close of Judgment Day. The reason is that they do bad things; they stubbornly refuse to learn and practice righteousness.

Answer 7

Why do you care what a JW thinks especially since you are "convinced" that you have found what you're looking for?
There is always so much confrontation going on here.....why can't practicers of Christendom live and let live.?

Remember, we ALL have free will.

Answer 8

There is no burning fiery furnace hell. Anyone that falls into a hell of torment are those still living. Conscious of wrongdoing that gnaws at you constantly is hell in itself. People that practice in the occult and gets demonized is hell in itself. Suffering in your normal life is hell in itself. Disease like Bipolar is hell in itself. After death, there's no hell.

Answer 9

If you don't make the 144,000 in Heaven or the paradise earth.You just stay dead, as far as I understand it. Its the separation from Jehovah that will be your eternal Hell, not literal, if I understand correctly.

Answer 10

Hell of course your Hell not ours.