Does bible....?

Question

Consign non christians to hell??

Please quote the passages too.

Answer 1

Yeah,... good thing it's all just a bunch of myths!

Answer 2

No. The Bible consigns non-Christians to wait!

1 Corinthians 15:22-24 -- For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ ALL {that is, both Christian and non-Christian} shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's {Christians} at His coming. Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power.

Picking up the thread in Revelation:
Revelation 20:7a, 11-13 -- Now when the thousand years have expired,... Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened {the Bible revealed}. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.

The popular concept of 'Hell' does NOT come from the Bible. It comes from fiction, like Dante's Inferno. The Bible reveals that those who die without God's holy spirit are NOT suffering in some inferno forever. All who die are "asleep" awaiting their time (Job 14:12-14). Christians who die will rise in the resurrection of the just -- the "better resurrection" (Luke 14:14, Hebrews 11:35) -- when Christ returns (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 1 Corinthians 15:51-52). All others will arise in the resurrection of judgment at the end of Christ's reign on the earth (Revelation 20:5). It is at THAT time that they will learn the truth of God, Christ, the Bible (Revelation 20:12), and salvation (which will be open for those who repent, change their way of life to one of doing what is right and wholesome).

After that, the few who refuse to repent will NOT suffer an eternity of burning, but will be DESTROYED (Matthew 10:28) in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:14-15). God does not want anyone to suffer for eternity. That's what this temporary life is all about -- that we may learn to live in a way that does NOT cause suffering.

There are many other Scriptures that relevant to this study, this is a good start.

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{BTW, biblethumper has some good references -- all except the last; he forgets that Jesus said that those of Sodom and Gomorrah would rise in the resurrection (Matthew 10:15).}

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Scriptures mentioned above:
Luke 14:14 -- And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

Hebrews 11:35 -- Women received their dead raised to life again. And others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

Acts 24:15 -- I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

Job 14:10-15 -- But man dies and is laid away; Indeed he breathes his last And where is he? As water disappears from the sea, And a river becomes parched and dries up, So man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, They will not awake Nor be roused from their sleep. "Oh, that You would hide me in the grave, That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, That You would appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, Till my change comes. You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall desire the work of Your hands.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 -- For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 -- Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed -- in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Revelation 20:5a-c -- But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished.

Matthew 10:28 -- And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND BODY in hell {Gehenna -- a metaphor for the Lake of Fire}.

Revelation 20:14-15 -- Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
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Answer 3

Yes, it does. See Mark 9, Matthew 25:41, Revelation 20:15, to name three references.

The Bible also gives you a way to avoid Hell. If you haven't read the New Testament, let me encourage you to do so. Here are a couple of links with verses, etc.

www.blueletterbible.org When you get to this site, type in hell and it will give you a list of every verse where the word occurs.

and

www.ccel.org

Here's another that some folks have mentioned on this forum,

www.biblegateway.com (maybe, .org? I haven't looked at it in a while)

Answer 4

Pslams 16:10---For you will not leave my soul in She′ol.
You will not allow your loyal one to see the pit

Gehenna is the 'firey pit' (Matthew 8:22)

There are no moral distinctions there, so ‘hell’ is not a suitable translation, since that suggests a contrast with ‘heaven’ as the dwelling-place of the righteous after death. In a sense, ‘the grave’ in a generic sense is a near equivalent, except that Sheol is more a mass grave in which all the dead dwell together.

Answer 5

The “Great White Throne” judgment at the end of the millennium (Revelation 20:11-15); which is the judgment of unbelievers in which they are judged according to their works and sentenced to everlasting punishment in the lake of fire.

Answer 6

good question,,, hell was not made for man but for the devil and his angles so first off ill say if a person goes to hell they will be an unwelcome guest. but according to the bible , if my opinion was money you couldn't buy a pack of gum with it,,so ill keep it bible. a person don't go to hell because they have sinned or because they are bad people , good people that live very upright and righteous lives in our eyes will be there,
it is because they refuse the only begotten son of god and the gift he has offered to us. for God so loved the world He gave his only begotten son that whosoever would believe in should not perish but have everlasting life. if we say we have no sin we make him a liar and his truth is not in us, ,for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,, our righteousness is as a filthy rag in the eyes of God.
we were sentenced to death , to burn for ever after the sin of Adam and Eve, but God not willing that we should perish sent his son in the likeness of sinful flesh to die in our place and God raised him from the dead and He sets at the right hand of God to make intersessions for us, and will one day come back to take us home....love and prayers,,,keep it up

Answer 7

not in the bible;;Why is there confusion as to what the Bible says about hell?

“Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused through the early translators of the Bible persistently 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.

Translators have allowed their personal beliefs to color their work instead of being consistent in their rendering of the original-language words. For example: (1) The King James Version rendered she’ohl′ as “hell,” “the grave,” and “the pit”; hai′des is therein rendered both “hell” and “grave”; ge′en·na is also translated “hell.” (2) Today’s English Version transliterates hai′des as “Hades” and also renders it as “hell” and “the world of the dead.” But besides rendering “hell” from hai′des it uses that same translation for ge′en·na. (3) The Jerusalem Bible transliterates hai′des six times, but in other passages it translates it as “hell” and as “the underworld.” It also translates ge′en·na as “hell,” as it does hai′des in two instances. Thus the exact meanings of the original-language words have been obscured.

Is there eternal punishment for the wicked?

Matt. 25:46, KJ: “These shall go away into everlasting punishment [“lopping off,” Int; Greek, ko′la·sin]: but the righteous into life eternal.” (The Emphatic Diaglott reads “cutting-off” instead of “punishment.” A footnote states: “Kolasin . . . is derived from kolazoo, which signifies, 1. To cut off; as lopping off branches of trees, to prune. 2. To restrain, to repress. . . . 3. To chastise, to punish. To cut off an individual from life, or society, or even to restrain, is esteemed as punishment;—hence has arisen this third metaphorical use of the word. The primary signification has been adopted, because it agrees better with the second member of the sentence, thus preserving the force and beauty of the antithesis. The righteous go to life, the wicked to the cutting off from life, or death. See 2 Thess. 1.9.”)

2 Thess. 1:9, RS: “They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction* and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.” (*“Eternal ruin,” NAB, NE; “lost eternally,” JB; “condemn them to eternal punishment,” Kx; “eternal punishment in destruction,” Dy.)

Jude 7, KJ: “Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” (The fire that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ceased burning thousands of years ago. But the effect of that fire has been lasting; the cities have not been rebuilt. God’s judgment, however, was against not merely those cities but also their wicked inhabitants. What happened to them is a warning example. At Luke 17:29, Jesus says that they were “destroyed”; Jude 7 shows that the destruction was eternal.)

Answer 8

Those who oppose or reject the Lord shall be condemned.

Psalm 34
21 Evil will slay the wicked;
the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
22 The LORD redeems his servants;
no one will be condemned who takes refuge in him.

Answer 9

Everyone who dies goes to hell.

The word commonly translated into 'hell' in english actually refers to the grave. Despite what Christendom's religions would tell you, death is a sleep-like state. Notice what Ecclesiastes 9:10 says: "All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She′ol, the place to which you are going."

Answer 10

I dont' know the passages. But as a christian, i would say nah. I mean that wouldnt be very God and Christian like would it? I would think that God, someway, would try to reveal himself to those people. I mean imagine if you, like many people say indians, grew up in the jungle. How are you supposed to know about Christianity.

Answer 11

Yes.

Luke 16:19-31

Rev 20:11-15

John 3:17-21

There are lots more where they come from.

Pastor Art