During the church age(ended in 21 May 1981), we were taught that Hell that would be a place were the unsaved would spend their eternity.
Hell means total destruction. Jude 1:7:
"Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves ove to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."
Remember that passage that teach that don´t fear those who can kill the body, but fear Him that can destroy both body and soul.
May God have mercy on us.
2007-12-26 21:24:30 · 20 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am sorry is 21 MAY 1988 AD, the end of the church age.
2007-12-26 21:48:42 · update #1
More information about: The End of the Church Age ... and After by Harold Camping from Family Radio:
http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/church/church_contents.html
2007-12-27 02:20:03 · answer #1 · answered by JESUS means: JAHWEH is Salvation 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry Miro, but Hell does not mean total destruction. Jude is speaking of eternal destruction but not Hell.
Sheol, Hades, and Hell are different language versions of the same thing--the grave.
Let us suppose you are correct. Hell is a place for torture. Would one not have to be able to feel something for it to be any good? That is not what the Bible says. Eccles. 9:5,10 shows the dead cannot feel, think, reason, hear anything at all. Some torture. If the dead cannot know they are being tortured, what is the point?
To be total destruction, there can be no coming back. Acts 24:15 shows there will be a resurrection from the dead in Hell. Also Revelations 20:13-14 shows Hell gives up the dead in it by resurrection for judgment. Finally Hell is cast into the lake of fire, the second death, where there is no coming back.
God has shown mercy on us by not even thinking of such torture. Note God's thoughts at Jeremiah 7:31. Some people were burning their babies in sacrifice to false idols. The very thought was repulsive to God.
2007-12-27 10:14:05 · answer #2 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am so glad that you took the time to outline that for us. Now I am convinced that atheism is the perfect choice - as if I wasn't convinced before.
If only you had as much mastery of the English language as you do over biblical interpretation.
Before you sleep tonight, reflect upon the fact that all gods and goddesses throughout the history of thinking mankind, including all that are currently favoured around the world, and there are many, have been invented by mankind. Nothing more than that.
Or
there is an invisible wizard in the sky
Choose wisely?
There is a follow-up question, which no religious person can give an acceptable answer to.
Why is your god not smiting all those who do not believe in it? Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, Wiccans, etc, etc.
Why is your god not destroying those responsible for the outrage on Darfur and Chad, as it allegedly did to Sodom and Gomorrah?
Has your god just given up or maybe has it died without telling anyone?
2007-12-27 05:32:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where does this church age ending 21 May 1981 come from?
2007-12-27 05:29:13 · answer #4 · answered by Seeno†es™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where did this "church age" come from? I've never heard of it.
Where does Jude 1:7 say "hell"?
Why do you think that God should show Mercy to you? What have you done? What do you think "we" have done?
2007-12-27 05:37:47 · answer #5 · answered by craig b 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally believe in the Bible and I am a Christian. Thank you for putting this out there. As for the ones who are saying Hell doesn't exist, that these are a lot of words who mean nothing--
I hate to say it, but you're probably going to end up in the eternal fire. Just remember... We warned you. Jesus warned you. Sorry if I sound a little condemning, but this stuff is serious. We're talking about ETERNITY here!
2007-12-27 05:35:14 · answer #6 · answered by mayaissocoollike 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Um, Hell comes from Hel, the Norse underworld goddess who resides in Hel.
2007-12-27 05:35:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think hell is eternal isolation from god and everyone else. the worst thing u can do to a person is seperate them from the rest of society.
EX: cast-off; shunned; even in prisons there is solitary confinement which turns people nuts quickly.
2007-12-27 05:37:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Did you know Hell is a real place?
21st May 1981-is that your birthday or something?
2007-12-27 05:35:01 · answer #9 · answered by Wonderwall 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes! And it's changed my life COMPLETELY. Someone sent me the URL's I have in my source and I FINALLY found God again.
Most Christians will disagree with you. Of course they also agree with the following historical quotes:
-A European preacher: "Husbands shall see their wives, parents shall see their children tormented before their eyes... the bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell like grapes in a wine-press, which press on another till they burst..."
-Scottish preacher Thomas Boston in 1732: "God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's judgement, and shall sing while the smoke rises up forever".
2007-12-27 05:32:48 · answer #10 · answered by grassfell 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋