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Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Kxngstein(m): 4:49pm On Aug 08, 2016
dolphinheart:
so you are not living your life anyhow cus you believe it exists right?
Yh. I try not to
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by dorox(m): 7:33pm On Aug 08, 2016
Kxngstein:
I rather believe in it and finally find out that it doesn't exist than to deny it's existence so I can live my life anyhow and find out that it exits

If you were certain that hellfire does not exist how would life choices have been different?
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by fridayj(m): 11:12pm On Aug 08, 2016
this only prove that you are serious in lack... if you don't know what to write... please here is one write on how people can survive the economy crisis......jus say am an atheist...really everybody will understand..
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by thecuteone(m): 9:09am On Aug 09, 2016
themosthigh:
[b] I Know that hell exists but i have chosen to give my life to.lucifer the infernal lord of darkness. I have chosen my side on the apocalyptic battle that will take place at meggido....i choose to fight in the armies of lucifer against the troops of jehovah..i plan to capture christ on that day and throw him into the bottomless pit of hell,that same pit where with smilling and pitiful face he created and fuel for human whom he said he loves....i will return back the love after we defeat and capture him. Then we will mount an assualt on heaven, defeat his father and take over the throne of the almighty. We almost did it before and went away with lots of his power and the fallen angels lead by the holy lucifer have been planning ever since to take back the throne of heaven and thks time around we will and then we will show no mercy. I hope to be given the territory of africa to manage after this and i will turn it to look as great as europe and america.....africa will never be great untill we submit ourselves to lucifer and forget about the damned jehovah just like they have done in europe and america.
Lucifer be praised...christ be cursed


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oga ur own don finish oo...
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Kxngstein(m): 10:47am On Aug 09, 2016
dorox:


If you were certain that hellfire does not exist how would life choices have been different?

Obviously it would have been totally different from the kind of choices people make knowing hell does exist.
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by whitestar01(m): 11:04am On Aug 09, 2016
rummeh:
Many Christians today believe in a place of eternal torment where sinners are sent after death, commonly referred to as Hell in English. This belief is extremely mainstream and forms part of the basic perception of the religion in popular culture.
Am not a Jehova Witness tho but i want you to enjoy reading this.

1.It was Barely Mentioned in the bible
According to Romans 6:7, “he that is dead is freed from sin.” So if a person’s sins are cleared with his or her death, then what’s with the additional punishment of Hell? Well, Romans 6:23 goes on to state that “the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Note that there is no mention of sinners being condemned to everlasting torture, they simply don’t get the reward for living a righteous life. Similarly, 2 Thessalonians 1:9 says that the punishment for those deemed wicked is not fiery torture, but destruction, “shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.”

2.Many References To Hell Were Mistranslated

When it comes to misconceptions about Hell, the popular 17th-century King James Version (KJV) of the Bible has a lot to answer for. For example, in the KJV, the prophet Jonah was in the “belly of Hell,” while David bafflingly insists that God would be with him even in Hell. Even Jesus pops down to Hell after his death on the cross.

That’s particularly important to Hades and Sheol, which are roughly equivalent words in Greek and Hebrew. Neither can reasonably be translated as “place of torment,” which is what the word “Hell” now generally implies. A better translation might be “the grave” or “the afterlife.” Neither term carries a value judgment in the way that “Hell” does—only the wicked go to Hell, but all souls are in Sheol after death. So David’s weird KJV claim that God would be with him in “Hell” is better translated as “the afterlife” or even “the depths.” While the KJV references Jesus being in Hell after his death on the cross, the New International Version makes a much less dramatic reference to him being in his “grave.” In fact, the New International Version only refers to Hell 15 times, compared to a whopping 54 mentions in the KJV.
Other modern Bibles try to avoid such problems altogether by simply leaving “Sheol” and “Hades” untranslated, although this hasn’t quite undone the influence of the KJV. As the Encyclopedia Americana of 1942 put it: “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.”
3.Jesus Didn’t Invent His Parable About Hell

It’s right there in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, as recorded in Luke 16:19-31.

In fact, Jesus didn’t even come up with the story in the first place. Scholars have long identified the general outline (a beggar is rewarded after death, while a rich man is punished) as an Egyptian folktale that became popular with Jewish religious teachers like the Pharisees, to the point that early Jewish literature contains at least seven versions of it. In Luke’s account, Jesus only brings the story up after the Pharisees mock his original Parable of the Unjust Steward, thus using one of their own favorite stories to demonstrate their hypocrisy. With this context, it’s hard to see the parable as a serious account of the Christian afterlife.


4. Even The Church Fathers Couldn’t Agree On Hell

Since many hold the early church fathers as the authority on matters of faith and doctrine, many would find it surprising that even they couldn’t agree if Hell existed and, if so, what it actually was. Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, and Cyprian were among those that held that Hell was a literal place of fiery torment. Origen and Gregory of Nyssa disagreed, countering that Hell was simply separation from God.
In modern times, many Christian denominations have moved away from Saint Augustine’s conception of Hell as a physical place beneath the Earth. Even the venerable Catholic Church has apparently decided to go with the flow, with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, approved by Pope John Paul II in 1992, declaring that Hell is simply a state of “definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed.”

5.Some Aspects Of Hell Seem Distinctly Non-Christian

The Ancient Egyptian religion, for example, featured a cavern containing a “lake of fire” where the souls of the wicked were punished for their transgressions. The early Mesopotamians also believed that the underworld lay underground, although it was more dim and miserable than a place of eternal punishment.
A particularly interesting comparison can be made between the popular idea of Hell and Zoroastrianism, an ancient religion originating in what is now Iran. In the earliest Zoroastrian texts, the souls of the sinful are judged after death and condemned to eternal punishment in the underworld, which theBook Of Arda Viraf describes as a pit full of fire, “smoke, stench and demons.” The souls are tortured according to the severity of their sins in life and the whole thing is presided over by Angra Mainyu, the great evil spirit, “who ever ridiculed and mocked the wicked in hell” for following him instead of their creator god.



http://www.newsdoggen.org/2016/08/7-biblical-reasons-why-hell-might-not.html
keep deceiving yourself , just turning the scripture upside down with your foolishness .
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by dolphinheart(m): 11:58am On Aug 09, 2016
Kxngstein:

Yh. I try not to
so if there is no hell fire, you would not have tried to serve God.
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by EkeneElectrons(m): 1:20pm On Aug 11, 2016
fghanni:


After death is judgement. Let's wait till then.

so you don't believe in the words of God? are you also a pastor worshipper?

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