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Is Hell Real by dapsycool(m): 4:53pm On Jul 09, 2008
If Hell is real, did Jesus fail in His mission? He said, "I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world" (John 12:47).


If Hell is real and eternal, how can all things be subdued unto Christ? (1 Corinthians 15:28, Philippians 3:21, Hebrews 2:cool.

If Hell is real and eternal, how can it be that the scriptures promise that every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord? (Isaiah 45:23, Romans 14:11, Philippians 2:10).

If Hell is real and eternal, how will Jesus ever see the travail of His soul and be satisfied (Isaiah 53:11)? If the traditional understanding is correct, most of those He came to save will never experience His salvation. Do we believe that this would be satisfying to Jesus?

If Hell is real, and God sent Jesus to save people from it, can we really say that the will and pleasure of God has prospered in His hand, since, according to traditional theology, only a few will ever be saved? (Isaiah 53:10, and 55:11).

If Hell is real, and the devil is the one who deceives people into going there, isn't he ultimately the winner in the war for souls? After all, traditional interpretation of the Bible says that more people will end up in Hell than in Heaven. If so, how can we really call Satan the defeated enemy and Christ the victor?

If Hell is real, if God loves His enemies now, will he not always love them? Is God a changeable being? (James 1:17)

If Hell is real, if you had sufficient power would you not deliver all men from sin? If God would save all men, but cannot , is He infinite in power?

If Hell is real, and God can save all men, but will not , is He infinite in goodness and mercy?

If Hell is real and Jesus teaches us to forgive seventy times seven and yet He Himself will never offer forgiveness to anyone after they die, does that not make Him a hypocrite?

If Hell is real and God only loves those who love Him, what better is He than the sinner? (Luke 6:32-33)

If Hell is real, does that mean that motherly love is more powerful and enduring than God's love? Do you know of normal parents who would endlessly torment most of their kids? Why do we believe our heavenly Father, Who is millions of times more loving than all of us combined, could do such an evil, wicked thing?

If Hell is real, why does the human spirit writhe under the horror of wars and prison camps, torture chambers and dictators? How can we judge these things as wrong, if Hell is real? After all, Hell far eclipses these earthly torments which came from the most sinful and beastly part of humanity. We say God is grieved by man's violence and disregard for life, and yet believe that He Himself enforces the same principles for all eternity!

source http://www.tentmaker.org/articles/ifhellisreal.htm
Re: Is Hell Real by abasifo(m): 12:18am On Jul 10, 2008
Don't be fooled!

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People don't like to hear about hell. But I'm here to tell you that if Jesus is not your Lord and Savior, you are on your way to hell. Some of you will be upset at this bad news. You think that I'm all gloom and doom. Tell me this, if your house were on fire, would you want me to let you know? Of course you would. You'd probably thank me for telling you. Well, if you go to hell, YOU will be the one on fire.

Hell may not be a politically correct topic these days, but many people enter hell everyday. Out of the 120,000 people that die everyday, most end up in hell. Hell is a real place despite the fact that people laugh and say that they want to go there. They simply don't understand how terrible hell is. Just because you've never seen hell doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We have a searing, accurate description of what hell is like in God's word. (We'll get to some scriptures in a minute) Hell is awful and if you don't believe in Jesus, you'd better get on the stick or else that's going to be your eternal destination.

Satan, the god of this world, WILL NOT always cause havoc. His doom is already foretold, "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." (Revelation 20:10)

Did you know that if you do not belong to Jesus Christ you belong to Satan? You don't have to be a card carrying Satanist to serve Satan. You don't have to be a murderer, drunkard or drug addict, either. All you have to do is ignore Jesus Christ. If you don't have Jesus today, you are deceived and hell bound--you are a child of hell, a child of the devil.

How many times have I heard someone say, "A loving God wouldn't put His creatures in hell." Well I have news for you, friend, God doesn't put anyone in hell--their sins put them there. Know ye not that hell was not created for man? Hell was created for the devil and his angels--

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS. (Matthew 25:41)

Men go to hell because they choose the devil's way and reject the Lord Jesus. God is holy and will not allow any sin in His kingdom. As a result, when people die in their sins they are forever banished from the presence of God to a place called hell--and it ain't pretty. Incidentally, Satan won't be ruling in the lake of fire. He'll be screamin' and hollerin' just like everybody else--

the devil, shall be tormented day and night
Re: Is Hell Real by Nobody: 11:00am On Jul 11, 2008
@dapsycool U quoted that Jesus said he has come to save the world not to judge the world. U 4get that the same bible says that God wil judge the world by Jesus christ, and jesus tells us in Revelation, that those not in His book wil end up in the lake of fire, and that he wil give to everyone as their work shall be. Please dont take one verse of scripture and run off wit it. Hell is as real as the sun is.
Re: Is Hell Real by rotimy(m): 11:43am On Jul 11, 2008
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Maybe, on the last day if you find yourself in hell, then the reality will dawn on you!
Re: Is Hell Real by mnwankwo(m): 1:28pm On Jul 11, 2008
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Hell is REAL but not eternal. You seem to dispute the existence of hell based on its incompatibilty with the love and justice of God. Your perception that there are clear gaps in reconcilling the existence of hell with the omnipotence, omnisciecnce, love and justice of God is correct. However your supposed inference that hell does not exist is flawed because you appear to assume that [b]God created hell.[/b] God did not create hell since the all purity of God is incapable of creating evil and hell is evil. Hell came into existence as result of the misapplication of the power of God by human beings. Thus hell is a human institution, not the work of God! All power belongs to God. This power of God is pure and neutral. With his free will, man just like a prism concentrating the rays of the sun can concentrate and channel the power of God to good or evil. Good if this neutral power of God which is formless is used to create radiant and pure forms. Evil if this neutral power of God is chanelled into producing impure forms, that is forms that contradict the intrisinc pure nature of the power of God. These evil forms produced by the misapplication of Gods power gave rise to what people generally refer to as hell. Sure, it is a place of imaginable torments and no amount of human description will give an approximate picture of the torments and evil that lives and torments their producers in these dark regions. All human beings who through misapplication of the laws of God supply hell with new energy are connected with hell even while on earth and when they depart this earthly life, they law of attraction of similar species ensures that their souls are attracted to sections of hell where they reap the same evil that they have been unleashing to their fellow men through their actions, words, thoughts, motives etc. This time though, the evil is "millions of times" more than what the produced since it has obtained greater power and strength through attraction of similar evil species. Thus there are sections for murderers, gossipers, slanderers, etc since every specie of evil have their own section. Thus for instance, in the section of hell for murderers, all the souls, the bulldings, the lanscapes even the "air" exudes and lives only in murder. Souls can be trapped here for billions of years until through their experience they recognise their evil, cry out for help and then help can be mediated leading them out of these dark regions. On and on, each of the faults we carry will be lived through in these dark regions until each one of them is completely shaken out of the soul or spirit through painful experiences. Only then will such a soul begin its ascent into lighter regions until one day, it would be without sin, then the gate of heaven will open. The danger however is that those who cannot free themselves on time will undergo destruction with hell when the purifying power of God reaches the dark regions. They and the hell housing them will be destroyed, thus neither the hell nor the human beings that generate them will be in existence anymore. Human beings who while on earth have recognised the laws of God and lived according will not pass through these terrifying evil regions, rather their souls will be attracted to more radiant regions corresponding to the purity of their spirits. The power of God will carry these blessed ones upward from radiant spheres to more radiant spheres until they finally reach heaven, the kingdom of God. Therefore if we live according to the laws of God, we will deprive the hell of fresh energy and even help to quicken the freeing of millions of human souls already entrapped in hell. 

Although this does not directly belong to this section, the various religions movements on earth have their non earthly and invincible sections which are directly connected to the material visible religious movements on earth. Followers, that is, the departed souls who populate the non earthly sections of world religions or churches influence their compatriots on earth. Most often the earthly worshiper is unaware of these influences.
Re: Is Hell Real by 702: 3:46pm On Jul 16, 2008
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Re: Is Hell Real by OLAADEGBU(m): 6:34pm On Jul 16, 2008
Jesus said[b] it is finished!![/b]  All that is needed for us to live eternally with God in heaven has been paid for on the cross.  If we miss heaven it will be because we have rejected God's offer of salvation.  God has made a choice for us, so choose His choice for yourself, the decision you make about this choice of life and death determines where you will spend your eternity.  Hell is self perpetuating, it depends on the choices we make and God will honour your wish if you decide to continue to live without Him. 

Checkout this weblink to discover if you will qualify as a candidate of hell:

http://www.wayofthemaster.com/goodperson.shtml
Re: Is Hell Real by IloveGod1: 4:19am On Jul 18, 2008
First of all, although Jesus and God are one, God is judging us and the world.
Second off, God is being just and merciful.

A lot of times we forget how lucky we are just to be able to go to Heaven.

God could just say that you know, nope, your not perfect, you can go spend eternity in Hell.

Why? Because he's God. And he created Heaven for perfect people to worship him.

We could all just be going to hell because none of us were perfect or ever will be perfect.

Only Jesus was.

Why? Because sin is passed down from men. It says so in the bible.

And God loved us so much that He sent his one and only son to die on the cross for us (John 3:16)
( For God loved the world so much that he sent his one and only begotten son to die on the cross for us)

So God is giving you ever oppurtunity you could ever have to go to Heaven,
now it's up to you to take it?

If he just forgave everyone of their sins and let us all go into Heaven can you imagine the world we would live in today?

There probably would be no law,
it would be choas,
murder and crime would not be considered bad in most people's eyes.

Maybe he wouldn't have sent his son if that would have been the case, but that's how much he loves us.

Enough to send his son to die on the cross for us, give us free will and he allows us into Heaven. A place that only people who lived perfect lives were supposed to be allowed to enter.
Re: Is Hell Real by Horus(m): 3:27pm On May 14, 2020
Hell is a fabrication. The concept of hell is something that was created in the hearts and minds of the authors of your Bible and Koran. Before you were informed of what and where hell was, it never crossed your mind to even think about it. So, within the pages of your scriptures hell was born. Just as a God could not exist without the devil, heaven could not exist if there wasn’t a hell.So where did hell come from? It didn’t exist in Adam’s, Noah’s, nor Abraham’s time. It is something that was fabricated so that they could capitalize off of your fear

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