QUESTION: "What is the Origin of Hell fire?
Was Hell created before the fall of man or after?"
A careful study of Genesis 1 and 2 creation story; shows us, something else must have happened to what God created.
1. God didn't create continents - Genesis 1:9 tells us:
"Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so." (NKJV).
2. God didn't create any carnivores(flesh eaters); all the animals were created to be herbivores(plant eaters) - Genesis 1:30 tells us
"Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so." (NKJV).
3. God didn't create the rain - Genesis 2:5 tells us rain had never fallen on the Earth; rather verse 6 informs us; mist from the Earth, used to water the ground.
4. God didn't create death: just like God didn't create ashes; but, when we burn things, they turn to ashes. God didn't create death but, Adam's sin resulted to death. Romans 5:12 says "Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned." (WEB)
5. God definitely didn't create Hell, since He didn't create death.
After listing all of these things which God didn't create, the question is; "who created them?"
Romans 5:14 answers that question.
"Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come." WEB.
Death means "separation from God". Death caused all those negative changes in nature and has dealt with all of creation; Romans 8:22 tells us;
"For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now."
Notice, Romans 5:14 says the period of the reign of death lasted from "Adam till Moses"
Remember, Moses brought the law; which made God to step into the affairs of men again(because Israel came under God); therefore stopping the reign of death on the Earth. Obviously, God didn't undo what death had done.
Thank God, we(sons of God) will be the ones to undo the works of death.
Romans 8:19-21 "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." (KJV)
Are you a child of God? If you are not sure of your stand; here's how to become a child of God; by reading and acting Romans 10:9
Here's an example:
"I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead and I confess; 'Jesus is my Lord' Amen."
God Bless You!
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