Pull Quote: Sooner, rather than
later, hell will disappear forever
from the English bible. Jesus says: “It is written in the
prophets, ‘and they shall all be
taught by God.’” (John 6:45).
However, new believers are not
allowed to be taught by God.
They are quickly indoctrinated in churches where the fear of God is
often taught by the
commandment of men. (Isaiah
29:13). As a result, they read the
scriptures with minds already
made up. They start their walk with Christ with assumptions and
presumptions that have nothing
to do with the word of God. A prime example is the bogus
Christian concept of hell. The idea
of God torturing sinners in a fiery
furnace for eternity is a staple diet
in Christendom. However, it is
completely without true biblical foundation. The concept was
developed long after the bible
was compiled essentially as a
manipulative devise for
populating the churches. It was
then extrapolated into the scriptures by bible translators
1600 years later. The word hell itself had nothing
to do originally with a place of
torment. It came from the anglo-
saxon words “helle” which
means “a hidden place;” and
“helan” which means “to cover or conceal.” Thus, something that
covers the head is a “helmet.”
“Helliers” “helled a building” by
roofing it. Farmers “put potatoes
in hell” by burying them in the
ground to preserve them in winter. This original meaning
was then corrupted by Roman
Catholics into a place of fiery
eternal torture controlled by
demons. Hellish distortions English bible writers
indiscriminately translated four
different Hebrew and Greek
words as “hell,” even though
they have different meanings and
refer to different things. The first is the Hebrew word “sheol,”
which simply means a place that
is unseen. Sheol is not
exclusively a place of
punishment. Faithful Jacob went
to sheol. (Genesis 37:35). Righteous Job pleaded to go to
sheol. (Job 14:13). David spoke
of going to sheol. (Psalm 49:15).
Even Jesus went to sheol. (Psalm
16:10). “Hades” is the Greek equivalent of
sheol that is also confusingly
mistranslated as hell in the English
bible. It refers primarily to what is
unseen to the natural eye in the
grave. Hades is not a place of eternal torment. “Abraham’s
bosom,” where righteous Lazarus
was carried when he died, was in
hades. (Luke 16:23). When Jesus
died on the cross, he went to
hades. (Acts 2:27-31). Hades is also used with reference to
national judgments. Jesus said
Capernaum would go down into
hades; meaning it would be
destroyed. (Matthew 11:23). The Greek word, “tartarus,” is
also confusingly mistranslated as
“hell” in the English bible. The
word is used in Greek fiction to
denote a temporary prison for
fallen angels. It is not applied to human-beings in scripture, and
says nothing about the eternal
fire and torment commonly
associated with the Christian hell.
(2 Peter 2:4). Lastly, the word “Gehenna” is also
mistranslated as hell in the English
bible. This is by far the most
idiotic mistranslation of all.
Gehenna is actually a valley on
the outskirts of Jerusalem which operated as a dump for
incinerating refuse. This means it
did not need to be translated at
all. Other areas in the vicinity of
Jerusalem, such as Gethsemane
and Calvary are not translated. So why have a different rule for
Gehenna? On eleven occasions when Jesus
referred specifically to Gehenna, it
was changed in the English bible
to hell. But there is nothing to
suggest Gehenna refers to is
anything other than the valley outside Jerusalem. Jesus warned
those living in the environs of
Jerusalem that, unless they
repented, their city would be
destroyed imminently with their
dead bodies dumped in Gehenna. That is exactly what
happened in AD 70, as the
historical record confirms. Imagine me telling people in
Lagos that if they are not careful,
they will end up in Kirikiri; a
notorious prison island. Then
translators decide to change my
“kirikiri” to “hell.” Would you consider this a faithful
translation? Of course, people
who lived far away from
Jerusalem probably would not
have known what Gehenna was,
any more than people in Jerusalem would know about
Kirikiri. But the truth is that Jesus
did not threaten any Gentile with
the prospect of Gehenna if he did
not repent. Gehenna only has
relevance for people living in Jerusalem at a certain time some
two thousand years ago. None of the mistranslated hell
passages in the bible say anyone
of our day can go to the Christian
hell. None of them says Satan’s
domain is hell, according to
popular Christian folklore. Though they speak of men being
killed and destroyed in Gehenna,
none of them speaks of men
being tormented there. In short,
Gehenna is not the Christian hell
and should never have been translated as such. Hell fiction Nobody in the bible was ever
threatened with eternal torment
as Christians are today by
pastors. God forgot to mention it
to Adam and Eve. Cain killed his
brother Abel, but was not threatened with it. (Genesis
4:11-12). Sinners were
destroyed by the flood without
any warning of endless torment.
Nothing was said about it to the
sinners of Sodom and Gomorrah and Nineveh. Nothing was said
because the Christian hell does
not exist. It is essentially the
product of the evil imagination of
men. Moses threatened the Israelites
with every conceivable
punishment if they disobeyed
God, but completely forgot to
mention hell. No disciple of Jesus
preached about it. Not once is it mentioned in Paul’s thirteen
epistles. There is nothing in the
scriptures about fiery ovens,
bowls of hot oil or torture racks.
However, such graphic details are
readily found in such Christian folklores as Milton’s “Paradise
Lost” and Dante’s “Inferno.” They
are also the subject of countless
Hollywood horror movies. If we are tempted to use Jesus’
parable of the rich man and
Lazarus as indicative of the
existence of hell, let us recall that
this took place in hades; a
temporal grave. Jesus says: “The hour is coming in which all who
are in the graves will hear His
voice and come forth- those who
have done good, to the
resurrection of life, and those
who have done evil, to the resurrection of
condemnation.” (John 5:28-29). Jesus does not indicate how long
this resurrection of condemnation
will take. But it cannot be eternal
because of scriptures indicating
there will be a restitution of all
things. (Acts 3:21). At the end of time, every knee will bow in
worship to God. (Isaiah 45:23).
God is love: he is not hate. It is his
mercy, and not his judgment, that
endures forever. (Psalm 118:1).
Today’s believers are merely the “first-fruits” of salvation. In the
ages to come, God promises to
return and rebuild the tabernacle
of David: “so that the rest of
mankind may seek the
Lord.” (Acts 15:16-17). Christians should not persist in an
illogical faith. We cannot insist the
penalty for sins is eternal
damnation, and then say Jesus
paid the penalty for our sins.
Jesus did not spend eternity in hades. He was only there for
three days. Therefore, the
growing trend in the more
modern translations including
King James indicates that sooner,
rather than later, hell will disappear forever from the
English bible. Hell will go to hell;
which is where it truly belongs.
By femi Aribisala
source-vanguard

"To hell with hell!"
this was my confession when i was anti-jesus then. I believed that God was wicked and always spoke wrong about Him. I prefered hell and wanted it quick instead of the suffering i was facing. But one day, i somehow encountered the love of God. My heart was made up for hell but here came a love and mercy i could not comprehend. So i chose heaven-i aint scared of hell but i want to be in the company of the One that loves me like that..

Good exposition....I hope all the HELL adherents can learn.........

Where them dey sef??......