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| 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:35pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
Today, many Christians 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. Which is strange,
because some say the evidence for eternal
punishment as an integral part of the
Christian religion is virtually nonexistent. See
what you think! |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:36pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
10The Bible Barely Mentions It: Most Christian believers in the idea of Hell will tell you that it’s a place of punishment for sinners and evildoers. But does that idea have a scriptural basis? 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.” John 3:36 strikes roughly the same note, declaring that sinners “will not see [eternal] life.” Meanwhile, Jude 1:7 does mention “eternal fire,” but only in the context of Sodom and Gomorrah, which are literally destroyed by the eternal fire of God’s wrath. That leaves brief mentions in the Book of Revelation and two of Christ’s parables as the Biblical basis for the fiery Hell of popular imagination (more on those verses later). But if a place of eternal torment was truly intended as an integral component of Christianity, surely it’s strange that the Bible never seems to pay much attention to it? |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:37pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
9Endless Punishment Doesn’t Make Biblical
Sense Anyway: From a Christian perspective, the idea of Hell is not only cruel and unusual, but totally excessive. Would a God described in the Bible as “a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right” decide that infinite punishment is just and fair? 1 John 4:8 states that God is the very concept of love. Would a loving father eternally torture his child as punishment, even if the child did something seriously wrong? Deuteronomy 19:21 famously states “an eye for an eye,” a principal of equal punishment that seems rather out of sync with the idea of literally endless torment as retribution for the sins of a short mortal life. In fact, the fiery Hell of popular imagination seems even harsher after considering God’s words in Jeremiah 7:31 : “They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.” If the idea of humans being burned in fire is so unappealing to God that it never even came into His thoughts, then what’s His deal with Hell? |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:39pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
8Many References To Hell Were
Mistranslations: 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. This obviously makes no sense. The Bible repeatedly states that Hell, whatever else it is, involves separation from God. So why is Jesus swinging by for a visit and why is David so sure that God would be with him there? In fact, if God is with David, why would he be in Hell in the first place? The answer is that the KJV lumps a whole bunch of different Greek and Hebrew words together under the English term “Hell.” The words in question are Hades, Sheol, Tartarus, and Gehenna, and they can have very different meanings in their original context. 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.” |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:40pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
7‘Gehenna’ Is Controversial, Too: So if “Hades” and “Sheol” don’t match the modern perception of Hell, that leaves “Gehenna.” (“Tartarus” is also sometimes translated as “Hell,” but the term only appears once in the Bible, and not in relation to humans, so it has limited relevance here.) “Gehenna” is certainly the Biblical term most often rendered “Hell” in English. For example, the New International Version of Matthew 5:30 states: “If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into Hell.” Scary, right? It all comes down to the controversy over the exact meaning of “Gehenna.” The word itself is a Greek rendering of the Hebrew terms ge- hinnom and ge-ben-hinnom , which mean “valley of the sons of Hinnom” and refer to an actual valley just outside ancient Jerusalem. The valley first appears in the Old Testament as the location of fiery pagan child sacrifices, which continue at least until 2 Kings 23:10 , which describes how Josiah ravaged the site so “that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Moloch.” By the time of Jesus, the term was apparently used metaphorically to refer to a place of fiery destruction, and Jesus uses it 11 times in this context. It’s interesting to note that Hebrew had no word for such a concept and Jesus apparently felt no need to introduce one, preferring to make historical allusions instead. Or maybe not. According to some scholars , the valley of Gehenna had essentially become Jerusalem’s incinerator by the time of Christ. It featured constantly burning fires, which consumed the city’s garbage and the bodies of criminals and the disgraced. This tradition is quite old, but not supported by any real evidence or ancient accounts, although it is strange that Jesus refers to bodies being destroyed in Gehenna as well as souls. In any case, none of Christ’s references to Gehenna suggest any kind of eternal torment. Certainly, the fires of Gehenna are described as eternal, but Jesus specifically warns that they will be used to “destroy both soul and body.” Removing unrighteous people from existence, as that verse suggests, doesn’t sound particularly like torturing them forever. The second meaning can only be inferred by readers who already have that concept of Hell. |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:42pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
6Jesus Didn’t Invent His Parable About Hell: So is the idea of a fiery Hell completely alien to the Bible? Not at all. It’s right there in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, as recorded in Luke 16:19-31 . In the story, a wealthy man lives it up while ignoring a beggar named Lazarus. But the pair experience a dramatic role reversal after their deaths, when Lazarus is carried off by angels to a blissful existence in the bosom of Abraham, while the rich man finds himself tormented in a blazing fire. The rich man begs Lazarus to take pity on him and bring him some water, but Abraham points out that the rich man had a great life and never took pity on Lazarus. Abraham also refuses to resurrect Lazarus to warn the rich man’s family to change their ways, arguing that they can choose to follow the prophets or not, but witnessing a miracle won’t suddenly make them good people. This is probably the closest the Bible gets to the modern conception of Hell. However, it’s important to note that the Bible doesn’t present it as a true story or a straightforward warning about the afterlife. Christ’s parables are clearly fictional stories designed to convey a message. As Warren Prestidge points out, the Rich Man and Lazarus is immediately preceded by the Parable of the Unjust Steward, where a servant defrauds his master and gets rewarded for it. If you ignored the deeper meaning of the parables, you’d conclude that Jesus thought stealing from your boss was great. 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. |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:45pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
5The Other Verses Aren’t Conclusive Either: The Bible also contains a reference to eternal fiery torture in Revelation 20:10-15 , which refers to a “lake of burning sulfur” where entities are “tormented day and night for ever and ever.” Of course, the entities involved apparently include “death” and “Hades,” which are not actual people able to experience actual suffering. In other words, this is symbolism. Just as these aren’t literal people, neither is the location they are assigned to. That leaves the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, as found in the Book of Matthew . In the story, which hovers somewhere between a parable and a straightforward sermon, Jesus appears to speak of the Last Judgment, when sinners will be banished “into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” This section of the sermon/parable is fairly direct and clearly not part of a fictional story like the Rich Man and Lazarus. The parable ends with an apparent reference to unending torment: “Then [the unrighteous] will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” For these reasons, the Sheep and the Goats is generally considered the key Bible passage behind the popular conception of Hell. However, many theologians argue that this interpretation of the Sheep and the Goats contradicts a number of other Bible verses, which explain the fate of the unrighteous at the Last Judgment as fiery destruction via “the second death.” If the unrighteous are destroyed, they can’t be tormented forever. Some Biblical scholars argue that, while the fire of punishment is described as eternal, that doesn’t mean the wicked will be punished there for all eternity. Rather, the punishment is total destruction in the holy fire, which has always existed. In other words, the eternal punishment (“aionios kolasis “) has lasted forever, but the punishment itself is simply immediate destruction . Jehovah’s Witnesses and other groups who not believe in Hell go even further, arguing that the word kolasis shouldn’t be translated as “punishment” at all. Citing its derivation from a Greek term for pruning trees , they suggest that it would better be rendered “cutting off,” “destruction,” or even “death.” The last interpretation would turn “aionios kolasis ” into “eternal death,” making a nice contrast with the “eternal life” promised the righteous. The “pruning trees” meaning also invokes John 15:6 : “If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.” Kolasis only appears twice in the New Testament, but the Old Testament in Greek uses it to refer to punishment in general and to death as a form of punishment, suggesting that “eternal punishment” and “eternal death” are both valid translations . |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:47pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
4Even 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. While the idea of eternal fiery damnation can be found as early as the apocryphal second-century Apocalypse of Peter, it doesn’t seem to have become dominant in Christian thinking until around the fifth century AD. Ironically, this view was heavily inspired by a non-Christian, the Greek philosopher and mathematician Plato, whom the French historian Georges Minois credited with “the greatest influence on traditional views of Hell” of all the early philosophers. Plato’s Story of Er features an afterlife in which sinners are punished or rewarded in proportion to their misdeeds in life. Whatever your views on Hell’s existence, Plato’s sin- specific punishments definitely have no Biblical support, but the philosopher’s ideas can still be detected in many popular versions of the Christian afterlife, most notably Dante’s Inferno. 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.” |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:47pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
4Even 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. While the idea of eternal fiery damnation can be found as early as the apocryphal second-century Apocalypse of Peter, it doesn’t seem to have become dominant in Christian thinking until around the fifth century AD. Ironically, this view was heavily inspired by a non-Christian, the Greek philosopher and mathematician Plato, whom the French historian Georges Minois credited with “the greatest influence on traditional views of Hell” of all the early philosophers. Plato’s Story of Er features an afterlife in which sinners are punished or rewarded in proportion to their misdeeds in life. Whatever your views on Hell’s existence, Plato’s sin- specific punishments definitely have no Biblical support, but the philosopher’s ideas can still be detected in many popular versions of the Christian afterlife, most notably Dante’s Inferno. 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.” |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:49pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
3Some Aspects Of Hell Seem Distinctly Non-
Christian: Plato might have had the greatest role, but non-Abrahamic influences on Hell date back a long way before the Greeks pioneered philosophy. 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 the Book 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. That sounds remarkably like the Hell of modern pop culture. And what’s just as remarkable is how many of those details have no basis in the Bible. Zoroastrian hell is staffed by demons and ruled by a devil figure, whereas the Christian Devil and his followers have no role in the afterlife and are the one group clearly stated to be destined for punishment in “Tartarus.” There’s certainly no reason to believe that a Christian hell would make the punishment fit the crime, whereas the demons of Zoroastrianism seem to delight in devising inventive tortures for each particular sin. In fact, the Book Of Arda Viraf is distinctly reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno. |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Nobody: 9:50pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
Yeah right. Hell doesn't exist so that you can justify living the way you like, in sin. Your conscience is getting the better of you  . It's a good thing. Repent, you still have the opportunity. Jesus is calling |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:50pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
2The Concept Is Alien To The Old Testament: Even the thin evidence for Hell in the New Testament looks vast in comparison to the Old Testament, which clearly has no concept of Hell at all. Rather, scriptures like Job 3:11-18 suggest that death is simply a cessation: “Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb . . . For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest . . . There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.” Pretty self- explanatory. Ecclesiastes 3:19 sounds even more skeptical about the possibility of an afterlife, sourly observing that “Man’s fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless.” Even at the very start of the Bible, in Genesis 2:16-17 and 3:19 , Adam and Eve’s punishment for breaking God’s instructions and eating the forbidden fruit was not the threat of hellfire, but rather a promise that they will eventually die, “for dust you are and to dust you will return.” If Adam and Eve were at risk of being tormented forever, wouldn’t they have been warned of that? Would God lie and tell them they were going back to the dust if his plan was really to lock them in a furnace? When Cain kills Abel, God sentences him to wander the land and even gives him a mark to stop people from killing him. If judgment awaits in the afterlife, surely that was a bit counterproductive? |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:52pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
1Hell Is Little More Than A Scare Tactic: While religions like the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists do not teach the doctrine of Hell, many churches and denominations still cling to the idea. But why? It cannot be denied that, throughout history, the idea of Hell has been used as a scare tactic to keep people in line. An 18th-century preacher named Jonathan Edwards became famous for his fire-and-brimstone sermon “ Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God ,” which warned that God could “cast wicked men into Hell at any moment.” So terrifying was his depiction of hell that other clergymen had to rush to the aid of distraught members of the congregation. Even in modern times, the theme of “believe or you will go to Hell” is common, complete with vivd descriptions of grinding teeth, the shrieks of the damned, and the odor of scorching flesh. Writing on the topic, one author describes having seen a young child scream in church, confessing that he was “ afraid of Hell .” Others, such as Queen Mary I of England, have used the doctrine as an excuse for perpetrating barbarism. Before sentencing a group of Protestants to be burned alive, she supposedly declared : “As the souls of heretics are hereafter to be eternally burning in Hell, there can be nothing more proper than for me to imitate the Divine vengeance by burning them on earth.” Like all scare tactics, the idea of hellfire can exert a powerful grip on believers. However, the Biblical evidence for the horrifying doctrine is rather lacking. In fact, the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus , often cited as Biblical proof of the doctrine of Hell, actually has the opposite message. At the end of the parable, Abraham declines to send Lazarus back to Earth to warn sinners of some terrifying fate awaiting them in the afterlife, arguing that righteousness can only come from belief, rather than fear of some supernatural punishment. |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:55pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
TheSixthSense:You DAT is living holy life, are u sure u won't go to hell |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 9:56pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
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| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Nobody: 10:10pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
No. I won't go to hell. I have eternal life (John 17:3) and by His grace I'm not going to fall away and will be faithful till the end. You can make that decision today by accepting Christ. I don't know you but if you do, it's not a cliche that it would be the best decision you will make in your life. theoneJabulani: |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 10:53pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
TheSixthSense:Wrong, There is no god BT Allah, u will burn in his hell. And if Allah is merciful, Hades won't be so he torture ur soul in the underworld |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Nobody: 11:48pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
lol. You are trying to be funny. Here is what Allah, the God of Abraham says "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent"(John 17:3) Oh and Jesus Christ said this: "Truly, truly, I tell you, Jesus declared, 'before Abraham was born, I am!'"(John 8:58) [Quran 10:94] - And if thou (Muhammad) art in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto thee, then question those who read the Scripture (that was) before thee. Even the Quran points to Jesus Christ. Check the internet people have on their own, even by the quran turned to Jesus Christ. Besides, you think the true way of God is to strip you of your free will. The is no death for apostasy in christianity. Any organisation or religion that strips one of free will is a cult especially when the penalty is death. Islam has always spread by intimidation and violence and multiplied by being born into religion. It hasn't changed it's method. Don't be deceived brother. Jesus loves you and is calling. theoneJabulani: |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 11:54pm On Sep 05, 2016 |
TheSixthSense:Any organization that says love me or I'll roast u forever is a cult, sango loves u and is calling |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Mescopaul(m): 12:12am On Sep 06, 2016 |
theoneJabulani No need to bother urself bro. When we get to the end of the road all u so called atheists and whatever on Nairaland and in the world generally will at last know the truth. |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Nobody: 12:25am On Sep 06, 2016 |
You are not seeking to know the truth. You just want to justify living the way you are that you know is sinful. I was in your shoes a while ago but now I know better. The best life to live is to live for God. Now, to your assertion, God is Just and delights in judgement and believe He is wrathful in judgement. Jesus Christ will judge everyone according to how they have lived here on earth. For us believers, even in our most righteous state, we are unworthy and would still be cast away save for His grace from the Cross. Because of Jesus Christ who died for our sins, we can be called righteous through Him (Jesus) and that is the only way we may be saved. I'll tell you what happened so you can picture this and get a clear view of judgement. If you doubt Jesus ever walked the earth, do your research. Likewise, if He was crucified. Now, do you know that it pleased God the Father to crush His only begotten Son?(Isa 53:10) The same God that stopped Abraham from sacrificing his only son. Why? Because that's how He hates sin. Jesus was the embodiment of sin of the world, including those of you and I, at the cross. I tell you this so you would imagine His wrath in judgement of the wicked. Also, if you look at how christians have been and are being slaughtered and persecuted without retaliating How the Just God who delights in judgement says 'turn the other cheek' 'pray for your enemies, forgive them' also in the bible it says 'Vengeance is of the Lord'. Maybe, you will start to understand why there needs to be justice and hell. If you still doubt watch videos of people who have died and come back to life, there are so many now. Indeed, it is wisdom to fear God. Even, Sango worshippers know of the power in the name of Jesus Christ. Anyway, it's up to you to find the truth in Jesus Christ but I'd advise you to stop blaspheming, if it's your habit, about the One you deny. Jesus loves you that why you are given free will because forced love is no love. He loves you that's why He died so you can have a relationship with God. You can choose Him or reject Him, He still loves you but you will face judgement before Him after this life. theoneJabulani: |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by theoneJabulani(m): 8:00am On Sep 06, 2016 |
TheSixthSense:Bla, Bla, Bla. Look at u, typing epistles cos of one Jewish god, funny thing is u won't even worship him if Nigeria wasn't colonized by the British |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by horlarwhalhe: 10:11am On Sep 06, 2016 |
I love the Gods of Africa and thank to Mother Earth (Nature) thanks to supreme one and my ancestors of this land for the knowledge, culture traditional, and spirituality. Am done serving a foreign God and reject my own I will embrace it.  |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by horlarwhalhe: 10:31am On Sep 06, 2016 |
I love the Gods of Africa and thank to Mother Earth (Nature) thanks to supreme one and my ancestors of the land for the knowledge, culture traditional, and spirituality. Am done serving a foreign God. Am done serving foreign God and demonize my culture, traditional and spirituality I rather embrace my own rather than rejecting them. |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Nobody: 4:07pm On Sep 06, 2016 |
From Islam to Sango to british colonials. You don't believe there is hell but you typed (or copied and pasted) 10 sermons why you think there isn't, even with bible verses to support your rebellion against this God. But it's you that don't believe, it's you that's not supposed to care lol. Continue doing the work of belzebub and preoccupy yourself with something you don't believe is. When you're ready, you'll look for answers. theoneJabulani: |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by CAPSLOCKED: 12:53am On Sep 07, 2016 |
Mescopaul: AND THIS TRUTH, YOU ALREADY KNOW? YOU'VE SUPPOSEDLY BEEN TO THE END OF THE ROAD ONCE? |
| Re: 10 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Mescopaul(m): 11:14am On Sep 07, 2016 |
CAPSLOCKED: Oh yes. I've known the truth and the truth has set me free. When I get to the end of the road, its not for me to realise if the truth I'ved believed was actually the truth, but for me to recieve the dividends of believing the truth. |
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