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A lot of us have either read or heard of that classic book The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. But not many people know that John Bunyan wrote dozens of other books apart from the one mentioned above. What made John such a powerful preacher and writer? Actually, John Bunyan as a young Christian was once driven to the point of committing suicide after listening to the famous atheist and philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who of course declared there was no God.

God in His mercy saved John from eternal ruin and sent an angel to show him the reality of heavenly things. John was taken to heaven and hell. What follows is part of the things he saw and heard while in the regions of the lost. I feel like sharing this with you, you in particular. I know it won't make front page but I don't care about that. God bless you.
– RadiantGlow

John Bunyan speaking...

We had not gone much farther, before we saw a wretched soul lying on a bed of burning steel, almost choked with brimstone. He cried out with such dreadful anguish and desperation, and I heard him speak as follows:

Lost soul's lamentation...

"Ah, miserable wretch! Undone forever, forever! Oh, this killing word, 'forever!' Will not a million years be long enough to bear that pain, which if I could avoid it, I would not endure for even one moment for the sake of being offered one million worlds? No, no! My misery never will have an end; after millions of years it will still be forever! Oh, what a helpless and hopeless condition I am in! It is this 'forever' that is the hell of hell! O cursed wretch! Cursed to all eternity! How willfully have I undone myself! Oh, what stupendous folly am I guilty of—to choose sin’s short and momentary pleasure—at the dear price of everlasting pain! How often I was told that it would be so! How often I was encouraged to leave those paths of sin—which brought me to the chambers of eternal death! But I, like a dumb animal, would not listen to those pleadings. Now it is too late to change it, for my eternal state is fixed forever! Why was I made a person, that I would choose this fate? Why was I made with an immortal soul—and yet should take so little care of it? Oh how my own neglect stings me to death—and yet I cannot die! I live a dying life, worse than ten thousand deaths; and yet I once could have changed all this—but did not! Oh, that is the gnawing worm that never dies!

I might once have been happy, salvation was offered to me and I refused it. Had salvation been offered to me only once, it would have been an unforgivable folly to refuse it! But salvation was offered me a thousand times, and yet (wretch that I was!) I still as often refused it. O cursed sin, that with deluding pleasures, leads mankind to eternal ruin! God often called—but I as often refused; He stretched His hand out—but I would not mind it. How often have I ignored His counsel! How often have I refused His reproof! But now the scene is changed—the case is altered! Now He laughs at my calamity, and mocks at the destruction which is come upon me. He would have helped me once—but I would not accept His help. Therefore those eternal miseries I am condemned to undergo—are but the just reward of my own doing!"

John praises God...

I could not hear this sorrowful lamentation without thinking about the wonderful grace that God had shown to me. Eternal praises to His holy name! For my heart told me that I had deserved eternal judgment as much as that sad wretch—but that God's grace alone had made us different. O how unsearchable are His counsels! Who can fathom His divine decree?

John Bunyan addresses lost soul...

After these thoughts I spoke to the sorrowful complainer, and told him that I had heard his woeful complaints. I saw that his misery was great, and his loss irreparable, and told him I would willingly hear more about it—if this might possibly help lessen his sufferings."

Lost soul speaks...

"No, not at all; my pains cannot be relieved even for one small moment! But by your question I understand that you are a stranger here; and may you ever be a stranger! Ah, had I but the least hope still remaining, how I would kneel and cry and pray forever to be redeemed from this hell! But it is all in vain—I am lost forever! But so that you will be warned about ending up here—I will tell you what the damned suffer.

Our miseries in this infernal dungeon are of two kinds: what we have lost, and what we suffer. I will first speak about what we have LOST.

1. In this sad dark place of misery and sorrow, we have lost the wondrous presence of the ever blessed God. This is what makes this dungeon—hell. Though we had lost a thousand worlds, it would not be as important as this one greatest loss. Could we but see the least glimpse of His favor here—we might be happy; but have lost it to our everlasting woe.

2. Here we have also lost the company of saints and angels, and instead have nothing but tormenting devils!

3. Here we have lost heaven, too—the center of blessedness. There is a deep gulf between us and heaven, so that we are shut out from it forever! Those everlasting gates that let the redeemed into heaven—are now forever shut against us.

4. To make our wretchedness far worse, we have lost the hope of ever obtaining a better condition.

This makes us truly hopeless. Well may our hearts now break, since we are both without hope and without help. This is what we have lost; and if we think of these things, it is enough to tear and gnaw upon our miserable souls forever. Yet, oh, that this were all that our torments were!

But we are also tormented by suffering and pain, as I will try to explain to you now.

1. First, we undergo a variety of torments. We are tormented here a thousand, no, ten thousand different ways! Those who suffer upon the earth seldom have more than one affliction at a time. But if they had ulcers, gallstones, headaches, and fever all at the same time—would they not be very miserable? Yet all those together are but like the biting of a flea—compared to those intolerable, sharp pains which we endure. Here we have all the sufferings of hell. Here is an unquenchable fire which burns us; a lake of burning brimstone which ever chokes us; and eternal chains which bind us. Here there is utter darkness to frighten us, and a worm of conscience which gnaws upon us everlastingly. Any one of these is worse to bear—than all the torments that mankind ever felt on earth!

2. But our torments here are not only various—but are also universal. They afflict every part of the body, and torment all the powers of the soul. This makes what we suffer—the worst of tortures. On earth, some members of the body may suffer while others feel no pain. Here it is different; every member of soul and body suffers at the same time!

“Our eyes are tormented here with the sight of devils who appear in all the horrible shapes and black appearances which sin can give them. Our ears are continually tormented with the loud continual yellings of the damned. Our nostrils are smothered with sulfurous flames; our tongues with burning blisters; and the whole body is rolled in flames of liquid fire! All the powers and faculties of our souls are also tormented here. The imagination suffers with the thoughts of our present pain, and the memory of the heaven we have lost. Our minds are tormented as we remember how foolishly we spent our precious time on earth. Our understanding is tormented with the thoughts of our past pleasures, present pains, and future sorrows, which are to last forever. And our consciences are tormented with a continual gnawing worm!

3. Another thing that makes our misery so dreadful—is the sharpness of our torments. The fire which burns us is so violent that all the water in the sea can never quench it. The pains we suffer here are so extreme, that it is impossible for anyone to know them except the damned.

4. Another part of our misery is the ceaselessness of our torments. As various, as universal, and as extremely violent as they are, they are also continual. We have no rest from them. If there were any relaxation, it might be some relief. But there is no easing of our torments, and what we suffer now—we must suffer forever!

5. The company we have here is another part of our misery. Tormenting devils and tormented souls—are all our company. Dreadful shrieks, howlings, and fearful cursings—are our continual conversation because of the fierceness of our pain.

6. The place we are in also increases our sufferings. It is the epitome of all misery—a prison, a dungeon, a bottomless pit, a lake of brimstone, a furnace of fire which burns to eternity, the blackness of darkness forever; and lastly, hell itself. Such a wretched place as this can only increase our wretchedness.

7. The cruelty of our tormentors is another thing which adds to our sufferings. Our tormentors are devils in whom there is no pity. While they are tormented themselves, they still take pleasure in tormenting us!

8. All those sufferings that I have recounted are very grievous. But that which makes them the most grievous—is that they shall all be forever! All of our intolerable sufferings shall last to all eternity! "Depart from Me, you who are cursed—into everlasting fire!" is continually sounding in my ears. Oh, that I could reverse that fatal sentence! Oh, if there was but a bare possibility of salvation!

This is the miserable situation we are in—and shall be in forever!

Discourse between the lost and a tormenting devil...

This wretched soul had scarcely finished what he was saying when he was tormented again by a hellish demon, who told him to stop complaining. The demon said, "Don’t you know you have deserved it all? How often were you told of this before—but would not believe it? You laughed at those who warned you about hell. You were even so presumptuous as to dare Almighty justice to destroy you! How often you called on God to damn you. Do you complain that you are answered according to your wishes? What an unreasonable thing! You know that you had salvation offered you, and you refused it. How can you now complain of being damned? I have more reason to complain, for you had a long time in which repentance was offered you; but I was cast into hell as soon as I had sinned. If I had been offered salvation, I would never have rejected it as you did. Who do you think should pity you now, with all that heaven had offered to you?"

This made the wretch cry out, "Oh, do not continue to torment me; I know that I chose destruction. Oh, that I could forget it! These thoughts are my greatest torture. I chose to be damned—and therefore justly am so."

Then turning to the demon that tortured him he said, "But I also came here through your temptations, you cursed devil! You were the one who had tempted me to do all of my sins; and now you would reproach me? You say you never had a Saviour offered to you; but you should also remember that you never had a tempter such as you have always been to me!"

To this the devil scornfully replied, "It was my business to lead you here! You had often been warned of this by your preacher. You were plainly told that we sought your ruin, and go about continually like roaring lions, seeking whom we could devour. I was often afraid that you would believe them, as several other souls did, to our great disappointment.

But you were willing to do what we wanted; and since you have done our work—it is but reasonable that we should pay you wages." Then the fiend tormented him again and caused him to roar out so horribly that I could no longer stay to hear him, so I passed on.

Culled from Visions of Heaven and Hell by John Bunyan
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“Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?” (Ezek 33:11).

“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:17-18).

Lamentations of someone hallucinating 🥱 No video, audio or even material evidence. Even time travelers still try to deceive us by bringing something and claiming they brought it from the future. Meanwhile In Christianity, all we have is washed down narratives.

Does hell have segmentation? Where are others?

How can one be in anguish and still hold conversation.

All these false stories about people that are dead crying and wailing in their graves!😟

For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the wholesome teaching, but according to their own desires, they will surround themselves with teachers to have their ears tickled. They will turn away from listening to the truth and give attention to false stories. 2Timothy 4:3-4

The Antichrist has taken over everything since the death of Christ's Apostles they have turned God's word upside down and now they are speaking against God and His holy writings.

God created man from dust {Genesis 2:7} and said he will return to dust if he disobey God's word {Genesis 2:17} Satan said God lied and man can't die no matter what happens! Genesis 3:4

So from that day Satan keeps promoting the lies with his demons and agents but the irony of the matter now is how they are claiming worshiper of God yet speaking against God.

According to God's word at death man returns to non-existent {Ecclesiastes 9:5-10} that's why we have a lot of stories to defend Satan's lies regarding the living dead whereas the dead knows nothing neither can they remember anything because both humans and animals are from the dust and it's the same spirit they have {Ecclesiastes 3:19-20} the only difference between man and animals is the hope of resurrection God promised man {Job 14:13-15} apart from that there is nothing after death because at death man has fully paid for all his errors! Romans 6:7

SpencerForbes:
Lamentations of someone hallucinating 🥱 No video, audio or even material evidence. Even time travelers still try to deceive us by bringing something and claiming they brought it from the future. Meanwhile In Christianity, all we have is washed down narratives.

Jesus loves you.

https://www.divinerevelations.info/documents/rawlings/dr_rawlings_near_death_experiences.htm

RadiantGlow:
Jesus loves you.

https://www.divinerevelations.info/documents/rawlings/dr_rawlings_near_death_experiences.htm

I love him too. I wish we would still have the original church, I’d have been one of his loyal disciples. But what we have now has been watered down badly.

Hell is grave and nothing more than that

paxonel:
Hell is grave and nothing more than that

Which church teaches what you are saying today?🙂

MaxInDHouse:
Which church teaches what you are saying today?🙂

You Jehovah witnesses know it is grave.
But at the same time you deny the Lordship of of Jesus Christ.
Hence you are not a church!

You are deceiving people at the spiritual level which is even worst than what conventional churches are doing today

paxonel:
You Jehovah witnesses know it is grave.
But at the same time you deny the Lordship of of Jesus Christ.
Hence you are not a church!

You are deceiving people at the spiritual level which is even worst than what conventional churches are doing today

What do you mean by the highlighted?🤔

@paxonel
What do you mean by saying Jehovah's Witnesses don't acknowledge Jesus as lord?🤔

paxonel:
You Jehovah witnesses know it is grave.
But at the same time you deny the Lordship of of Jesus Christ.
Hence you are not a church!

You are deceiving people at the spiritual level which is even worst than what conventional churches are doing today

MaxInDHouse:
What do you mean by the highlighted?🤔

MaxInDHouse:
@paxonel
What do you mean by saying Jehovah's Witnesses don't acknowledge Jesus as lord?🤔

Meaning, you people don't believe that Jesus is God.

Muslims also have the same believe about Jesus Christ, so what's the difference?

paxonel:
Meaning, you people don't believe that Jesus is God. Muslims also have the same believe about Jesus Christ, so what's the difference?

Can you quote a verse in the Bible that says "Jesus is God"

They have blindfolded you people for so long threatening you with Hellfire now you have found the truth is it Jesus is God that is your problem again?

Who taught you that Jesus is God?
Is it not the same people threatening you with Hellfire?🤔

Well we acknowledge Jesus as Lord in our hearts {Romans 10:9} that's why we are doing everything he COMMANDED {Matthew 28:19} us to do as his slaves! Colossians 3:24

We don't go about shouting Jesus is Lord without doing the will of his father! Matthew 7:21-23

MaxInDHouse:
Can you quote a verse in the Bible that says "Jesus is God"

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God
And all things were made by him

Well we acknowledge Jesus as Lord in our hearts

is the single reason why you are not Christians

{Romans 10:9}

do Jehovah witnesses believe in resurrection?

The answer is no

paxonel:
In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God
And all things were made by him
is the single reason why you are not Christians
do Jehovah witnesses believe in resurrection?
The answer is no

You are really funny walahi talahi!

What exactly are we preaching if not the resurrection of the dead?🙂

So it's John 1:1 that many scholars have been disputing you are presenting!

Well my own copy of the Bible and lots of other say "the word was god"

So if that's your problem then continue with your pastors who has been there for deceiving you at least there is no version of the Bible you will see that isn't promoting Hellfire but says the word was God.

MaxInDHouse:
You are really funny walahi talahi!

What exactly are we preaching if not the resurrection of the dead?🙂

Yet you believe that the Jesus Christ who resurrects people is not God, but Lord?

May be it is occultic resurrection you Jehovah witnesses preach since you don't understand that it takes God to give life

paxonel:
Yet you believe that the Jesus Christ who resurrects people is not God, but Lord?
May be it is occultic resurrection you Jehovah witnesses preach since you don't understand that it takes God to give life

So Elijah {1King 17:22} Elisha {2Kings 4:32-35} and Peter {Act 9:36-40} are also God?
Remember each of them was empowered by God to raise the dead.

The angel that will be given the power to raise the dead is Archangel Michael {Daniel 12:2} that's why some Bible scholars believe Jesus is the same as Archangel Michael. 1Thessalonians 4:16🤔

MaxInDHouse:
So Elijah {1King 17:22} Elisha {2Kings 4:32-35} and Peter {Act 9:36-40} are also God?
Remember each of them was empowered by God to raise the dead.

The angel that will be given the power to raise the dead is Archangel Michael {Daniel 12:2} that's why some Bible scholars believe Jesus is the same as Archangel Michael. 1Thessalonians 4:16🤔

This. your statement is proof that you Jehovah witnesses are not Christians since you believe that Jesus was empowered just like Peter and Paul.

You are equally saying that , since Peter and Paul were empowered to raise the dead, they can give eternal life through their ability to raise the dead.
Therefore we don't need Jesus

You can't put words into people's mouth and claim they are wrong.
We believe Jesus is Lord and that God empowered him.
During his life on earth, Christ offered up supplications and also petitions, with strong outcries and tears, to the One who was able to save him out of death, and he was favorably heard for his godly fear. Hebrews 5:7
Did God empower Jesus?
YES or NO!🙂

paxonel:
This. your statement is proof that you Jehovah witnesses are not Christians since you believe that Jesus was empowered just like Peter and Paul.
You are equally saying that , since Peter and Paul were empowered to raise the dead, they can give eternal life through their ability to raise the dead.
Therefore we don't need Jesus

MaxInDHouse:
You can't put words into people's mouth and claim they are wrong.
We believe Jesus is Lord and that God empowered him.
During his life on earth, Christ offered up supplications and also petitions, with strong outcries and tears, to the One who was able to save him out of death, and he was favorably heard for his godly fear. Hebrews 5:7
Did God empower Jesus?
YES or NO!🙂

So, what exactly did God empower hm to do?

paxonel:
So, what exactly did God empower hm to do?

According to Jesus himself:

"I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative" John 5:30

So everything he does Jesus believes his father empowers him even the tiniest that people may undermine. Matthew 4:4

MaxInDHouse:
According to Jesus himself:

"I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative" John 5:30

So everything he does Jesus believes his father empowers him even the tiniest that people may undermine. Matthew 4:4

your answer to the question is vague.
This is a problem about religion in general.

Simple question : What exactly did God empower him to do?
You are beating about the Bush

Or, are you afraid to say it?
That he was empowered to bring everlasting life to the world? John 3:16

Until you Jehovah witnesses come in terms with this fact, you are not yet Christians

paxonel:
your answer to the question is vague.
This is a problem about religion in general.
Simple question : What exactly did God empower him to do?
You are beating about the Bush
Or, are you afraid to say it?
That he was empowered to bring everlasting life to the world? John 3:16
Until you Jehovah witnesses come in terms with this fact, you are not yet Christians

Who gave Jesus life?🙂

paxonel:
Meaning, you people don't believe that Jesus is God.

Muslims also have the same believe about Jesus Christ, so what's the difference?

Is Jesus the Almighty God? If yes, where does the scripture say so?

paxonel:
In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God
And all things were made by him
is the single reason why you are not Christians
do Jehovah witnesses believe in resurrection?

The answer is no

Explain John 14:28 If John 1:1 proves that Jesus is the Almighty God.

Truthseeker10:
Explain John 14:28 If John 1:1 proves that Jesus is the Almighty God.

The father is greater than the son do not annul the fact that the son is still God as mentioned in John 1:1

Jehovah witnesses worshipping the father and honoring the son shows that they are not Christians.
Muslims do the same.
They worship the father and recognize and honor the son as a prophet.

But meanwhile, scriptures says no man cometh to the father except through the son.

If you are Jehovah witness, you better denounce the religion. It is not Christianity

paxonel:
The father is greater than the son do not annul the fact that the son is still God as mentioned in John 1:1

Jehovah witnesses worshipping the father and honoring the son shows that they are not Christians.
Muslims do the same.
They worship the father and recognize and honor the son as a prophet.

But meanwhile, scriptures says no man cometh to the father except through the son

So are you saying that Jesus is God but not the Almighty God according to John 1:1 and John 14:28?

So you are saying that is ok to worship a God that is not the Almighty God?

Truthseeker10:
So are you saying that Jesus is God but not the Almighty God according to John 1:1 and John 14:28?

I did not say so!
I cannot tell the level of unity between the Almighty God and Jesus. All i know is that they are one

It is not in anyone one's place to determine whether God is separated from Jesus or not.
The least any believer will do is accept Jesus as the giver of eternal life which God gave to Adam and Eve from the beginning.

If God gives eternal life and Jesus do the same, what's the difference?

paxonel:
I did not say so!
I cannot tell the level of unity between the Almighty God and Jesus. All i know is that they are one

It is not in anyone one's place to determine whether God is separated from Jesus or not.
The least any believer will do is accept Jesus as the giver of eternal life which God gave to Adam and Eve from the beginning.

If God gives eternal life and Jesus do the same, what's the difference?

I never asked you about unity.

I simply asked if you now Agree that Jesus is God but not the Almighty God, or are you insinuating that Jesus and the Father are the same person because they are united?

So you are saying that it is ok to worship a God that is not the Almighty God?

Truthseeker10:
I never asked you about unity.

you can't exclude unity between the person of Jesus Christ and the almighty God.
Or like the Jews, do you want to pick up stones to stone Jesus for saying this?

John 10:30 I and my Father are one.

You see, that's why I'm saying that you Jehovah witnesses are not Christians.
You are another religion in disguise

I simply asked if you now Agree that Jesus is God but not the Almighty God,

how will i possibly know?
I'm not a spirit.
I'm just a human who follows what the bible says

If the bible says The father is greater the son and both of them are God. That is what i believe.

But clearly, Jehovah witnesses says the son is not God because The Father is greater.
That son that you rejected to be God and you refuse to worship him has disqualified you from being part of the people that worship the father.

Because no man cometh to the Father except through him.