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Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by Kobojunkie: 3:36pm On Jan 19, 2022
cornelboy:
Pls where's that post you said i chose the revelation of John over Jesus words. Bible de contradict itself?
You don edit and remove am. grin grin grin grin
undecided
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by Hismasterpiece(m): 4:31pm On Jan 25, 2022
cornelboy:
Thanks for the link. I know your intention was to explain things clear to me, i sincerely appreciate it.




I won't be able to address all your points in that your post but i will just summarize my response here.

Genesis 2:7 nlv
[7]Then the lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.

You quoted this verse but i don't think you understand it.
It's very clear bro, before God breath into Adam he was a lifeless body made from dust. But he became a living being/soul/person after God breath into him.


Ecclesiastes 12:7
[7]For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Maybe you don't know that the same spirit or breath of God gives everyone both the good and bad people life.
And when this spirit or breath leaves, our life ends.

Job 33:4 NLV
4For the Spirit of God has made me,
and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.



Now concerning God's punishment for Adam. God said to them in Genesis 2:17
"except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”

First did God mention physical or spiritual death?
It's obvious that Adam was a physical body unlike God himself and the angels who are spirit beings.
What happened after they ate the forbidden fruit? What did God say will happen to them?

Genesis 3:19
[19]By the sweat of your brow
    will you have food to eat
��until you return to the ground
    from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
    and to dust you will return��.”

The time they died doesn't matter cos they still died and if they hadn't sin they would have lived eternally.
Thus the spirit or breath is a power from God that gives us life not another part of us that is independent.

Where did you see any clue that they had spirit that didn't die or lived after them?
If their spirit continues to live after they died where are they now, heaven or where?

Ecclesiastes 9:5,10
[5]The living at least know they will die, ��but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward��, nor are they remembered.
[10]Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.


John 5:28-29
[28]Don’t be so surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God’s Son,
[29]and they will rise again. Those who have done good will rise to experience eternal life, and those who have continued in evil will rise to experience judgment.

If we continue to live in heaven after we die, why is there need for resurrection?

When Lazarus Jesus' friend died, do you think Jesus would resurrect him if his spirit was already enjoying in heaven? No cos when Lazarus died the breath or spirit left him and he was in the grave decaying.
But Jesus raised him and he of course died again asleep in death also awaiting resurrection.
So you're saying that we are purely material beings and not spirits? If so, how do you explain the story of the rich man and Lazarus and 2 Corinthians 5 vs 8? How do you explain James 2 vs 26 (For as the body without the spirit is dead)?

I'd like to hear your views please.
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 5:17pm On Jan 25, 2022
cornelboy:
Not believing in hell fire doesn't stop me from doing good or not believing in the one true God YHWH and Jesus Christ whom He sent as the messiah. It's essential to know both of them for our salvation.
What of you die and discover none exist and it has always been you all along..

Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:15pm On Jan 25, 2022
sonmvayina:
What of you die and discover none exist and it has always been you all along..
I thought you often quote the Bible?
How come you don't know that at death man's memory is forgotten? Ecclesiastes 9:6, 10 smiley
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by cornelboy(op): 8:03pm On Jan 25, 2022
I believe in God and the Bible.

sonmvayina:
What of you die and discover none exist and it has always been you all along..
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 8:04pm On Jan 25, 2022
cornelboy:
I believe in God and the Bible.
But you dont understand what both means...obvious
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 8:16pm On Jan 25, 2022
MaxInDHouse:
I thought you often quote the Bible?
How come you don't know that at death man's memory is forgotten? Ecclesiastes 9:6, 10 smiley
Whose memory ? Forgotten by who?

The living forgets the dead..nobody talks about Abacha anymore..his breath has returned to God and his body has return to earth. Nobody remembers him anymore...
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:23am On Jan 26, 2022
sonmvayina:
Whose memory ? Forgotten by who?
The living forgets the dead..nobody talks about Abacha anymore..his breath has returned to God and his body has return to earth. Nobody remembers him anymore...
Because the dead knows nothing, they can't love or hate, neither can they do anything afterwards! Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 smiley

So at death there's nothing like discovery!

sonmvayina:
What of you die and discover none exist and it has always been you all along..
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by cornelboy(op): 9:38am On Jan 26, 2022
You nailed it!

MaxInDHouse:
Because the dead knows nothing, they can't love or hate, neither can they do anything afterwards! Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 smiley

So at death there's nothing like discovery!
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 10:32am On Jan 26, 2022
MaxInDHouse:
Because the dead knows nothing, they can't love or hate, neither can they do anything afterwards! Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 smiley

So at death there's nothing like discovery!
You still don't get it? Do you...

We are spirt being dwelling within a physical body made from the DUST of the earth.. when the spirt leaves the body death occurs. ..the spirt is the real us. "Send forth YOUR spirt and they are created....take it and they die ..psalm 104:29-31..

It goes back to the spirt realm..spirit have no body to feel..and they are forbidden to interfere with what is going on ...on earth. God punish one of his prophet for conjuring the spirt of Samuel I guess.


Hope it is not over you.
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by MaxInDHouse(m): 11:20am On Jan 26, 2022
sonmvayina:
You still don't get it? Do you...

We are spirt being dwelling within a physical body made from the DUST of the earth.. when the spirt leaves the body death occurs. ..the spirt is the real us. "Send forth YOUR spirt and they are created....take it and they die ..psalm 104:29-31..

It goes back to the spirt realm..spirit have no body to feel..and they are forbidden to interfere with what is going on ...on earth. God punish one of his prophet for conjuring the spirt of Samuel I guess.


Hope it is not over you.
The underlined is false!

At death nothing survives any creature!
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 11:33am On Jan 26, 2022
MaxInDHouse:
The underlined is false!

At death nothing survives any creature!
Thus is where you are lost...

I have decided to get the new world translation of psalm 104: 29-31..

Read it and explain it how you understand it...

Thanks

Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by MaxInDHouse(m): 11:47am On Jan 26, 2022
sonmvayina:
Thus is where you are lost...
I have decided to get the new world translation of psalm 104: 29-31..
Read it and explain it how you understand it...
Thanks
And Jehovah God went on to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living person. Genesis 2:7

So it's the breath of life that's taken away not the personality in any form! smiley
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 12:02pm On Jan 26, 2022
MaxInDHouse:
And Jehovah God went on to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living person. Genesis 2:7

So it's the breath of life that's taken away not the personality in any form! smiley
Breath = spirit = Nephesh

Explain the psalm
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by MaxInDHouse(m): 12:19pm On Jan 26, 2022
sonmvayina:
Breath = spirit = Nephesh
Explain the psalm
It simply means the force that keeps living organisms alive! smiley
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by cornelboy(op): 12:30pm On Jan 26, 2022
Where was Adam's spirit before God breath into him?

sonmvayina:
You still don't get it? Do you...

We are spirt being dwelling within a physical body made from the DUST of the earth.. when the spirt leaves the body death occurs. ..the spirt is the real us. "Send forth YOUR spirt and they are created....take it and they die ..psalm 104:29-31..

It goes back to the spirt realm..spirit have no body to feel..and they are forbidden to interfere with what is going on ...on earth. God punish one of his prophet for conjuring the spirt of Samuel I guess.


Hope it is not over you.
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by cornelboy(op): 12:35pm On Jan 26, 2022
Note verse 29 and 30

Psalms 104:29-30 NLV
[29]But if you turn away from them, they panic.
    When you take away their breath,
    they die and turn again to dust.
[30]When you give them your breath, life is created,
    and you renew the face of the earth.

How did their changed to your??

sonmvayina:
Thus is where you are lost...

I have decided to get the new world translation of psalm 104: 29-31..

Read it and explain it how you understand it...

Thanks
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by MaxInDHouse(m): 12:39pm On Jan 26, 2022
cornelboy:
Where was Adam's spirit before God breath into him?
In Nirvana i supposed! cheesy
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by MaxInDHouse(m): 12:45pm On Jan 26, 2022
cornelboy:
Note verse 29 and 30

Psalms 104:29-30 NLV
[29]But if you turn away from them, they panic.
    When you take away their breath,
    they die and turn again to dust.
[30]When you give them your breath, life is created,
    and you renew the face of the earth.

How did their changed to your??
Simple and straightforward!
God created Adam from the dust and breathe into him which is the force sustaining Adam's breath. Anyone or breast can stop that breath by hurting Adam's body system and the hope to regain what was lost (breath) lies in the hands of the one who gave it in the first place! Ecclesiastes 12:7
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 12:55pm On Jan 26, 2022
cornelboy:
Note verse 29 and 30

Psalms 104:29-30 NLV
[29]But if you turn away from them, they panic.
    When you take away their breath,
    they die and turn again to dust.
[30]When you give them your breath, life is created,
    and you renew the face of the earth.

How did their changed to your??
I don't understand
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 12:58pm On Jan 26, 2022
cornelboy:
Where was Adam's spirit before God breath into him?
Genesis chapter 1 vs 1

Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by cornelboy(op): 12:59pm On Jan 26, 2022
What's your answer bro?

sonmvayina:
Genesis chapter 1 vs 1
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 1:06pm On Jan 26, 2022
cornelboy:
Note verse 29 and 30

Psalms 104:29-30 NLV
[29]But if you turn away from them, they panic.
    When you take away their breath,
    they die and turn again to dust.
[30]When you give them your breath, life is created,
    and you renew the face of the earth.

How did their changed to your??
I have a direct translation from the original Hebrew..

Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 1:08pm On Jan 26, 2022
cornelboy:
What's your answer bro?
Genesis chapter 1

1.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 1:11pm On Jan 26, 2022
cornelboy:
Where was Adam's spirit before God breath into him?
Man(living soul) = God spirit(breath )+ dust of the earth.
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by MaxInDHouse(m): 1:13pm On Jan 26, 2022
sonmvayina:
Man(living soul) = God spirit(breath )+ dust of the earth.
So what is the point of emphasis gangan? cheesy
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by Kobojunkie: 2:09pm On Jan 26, 2022
sonmvayina:
Thus is where you are lost...
I have decided to get the new world translation of psalm 104: 29-31..
Read it and explain it how you understand it...
Thanks
Wait.. didn't we,not long ago, go over the fact that the breath of God, which is spirit and belongs to God, is installed in every living creature on earth? undecided

Didn't we conclude that that bread is necessary for life to exist and when taken away, life ceases, just as God decreed it so from the beginning? undecided

Why are you desperately trying to prove this lie that you, a physical being, are spirit when God revealed that the Spirit is not man but His breath? Why do you seek validation for this lie you cling to against God in scripture? undecided
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by Kobojunkie: 2:10pm On Jan 26, 2022
sonmvayina:
Man(living soul) = God spirit(breath )+ dust of the earth.
Stop playing twister with this. lipsrsealed

Man is a soul, dead or alive. He lives as long as the breath of God is in him. He ceases to exist when God’s breath leaves him. undecided

Man is not a spiritual being... he is created a physical being that is powered by God's breath. He ceases when God’s breath leaves his physical being. undecided
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by killyaselfie: 3:12pm On Jan 26, 2022
Discussion of soul and spirit evokes a merry-go-round, it just goes in circles. Add in a little “dust of the earth” and it turns into a playground of nuttiness.
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by cornelboy(op): 8:59pm On Jan 26, 2022
Are you saying the spirit of God is Adam's spirit?

sonmvayina:
Genesis chapter 1

1.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 11:10pm On Feb 05, 2022
cornelboy:
Are you saying the spirit of God is Adam's spirit?
Let me send you on a long/short journey..depends on your speed.

Re: Does "Hell" Really Exist Or It Was Invented By Religion? by sonmvayina(m): 11:17pm On Feb 05, 2022
Kobojunkie:
Wait.. didn't we,not long ago, go over the fact that the breath of God, which is spirit and belongs to God, is installed in every living creature on earth? undecided

Didn't we conclude that that bread is necessary for life to exist and when taken away, life ceases, just as God decreed it so from the beginning? undecided

Why are you desperately trying to prove this lie that you, a physical being, are spirit when God revealed that the Spirit is not man but His breath? Why do you seek validation for this lie you cling to against God in scripture? undecided
You are just been tormented by the truth.

Don't sweat the small stuff. When time is right. You will know.
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