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Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by JerryQ: 6:39pm On Aug 07, 2016
K
goody1shoe73:
The scripture u quoted made the point clear: " this means the second death, the lake of fire". Yes, it is a symbol of the second death, everlasting destruction. Anyone who falls victim to the second death has no hope for life. Notice also it said that.. "then death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.. ". Ofcuz, u and I know that death and Hades aren't living things. They can't feel torment. It simply means death and Hades (which is the common grave of mankind ) will be no more. (Isaiah 25: 8 ). The wages sin pays is death!
So why did Jesus pray the cup of death should pass over him? He never sinned and should have no wages. Death here means eternal seperation from God. Jesus did not want to experience death/seperation from God on the cross but He had to for Him to take the sins of the whole world. The wages of sin is seperation from God (death) not physical death.

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Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by EmekaBlue(m): 6:57pm On Aug 07, 2016
Una sabi Bible o...Bible school students I salute
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by BLAYZEE: 6:59pm On Aug 07, 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
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Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by EmmyMaestro(m): 7:03pm On Aug 07, 2016
When you get there, then you will know
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by bunlizlaw(f): 7:21pm On Aug 07, 2016
Heresy
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

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Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by eazisky(m): 7:25pm On Aug 07, 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


[/b]


really?
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by flokii: 7:25pm On Aug 07, 2016
Hmmmn..

Well, according to a friend of someone I knew.. Hell faya is real and Liars & dishonest pple like them will end up there.
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Noblewhiz(m): 7:39pm On Aug 07, 2016
Hmm..who e epp? .(heaven&hell r real/heaven&hell r nt real)
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Tripletimmy(m): 7:55pm On Aug 07, 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.


oga u have something better doing I believe....

http://www.newsdoggen.org/2016/08/7-biblical-reasons-why-hell-might-not.html
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by femmysin(m): 8:12pm On Aug 07, 2016
Sunnycliff:
Hell Fire is Real! Enough of these deceptions!
Its better I believe there is hell and die to discover there is none than disagree that there in none and die to discover that there is!

Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Matthew 18:9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

Mark 9:43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Mark 9:45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Mark 9:47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.



Your post has answered all the questions raised by OP
Hell is very very real this same civilisations that has made the human race change the message in the bible does not change what God has said in the verses of the bible raised by this post.
Please don't believe all these people saying heal is a myths eben backing it up with the bible... HELL IS REAL
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Nobody: 8:13pm On Aug 07, 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


[/b]

when last did you take malaria treatment?
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Nobody: 8:16pm On Aug 07, 2016
Jesus talked not once not twice about a place where there is WEEPING and GNASHING OF TEETH.where the fire quencheth not and their worm dieth not.That place is definitely not on earth neither is it in heaven.it is Hell.

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Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by tunary(m): 8:19pm On Aug 07, 2016
Uyi168:
Why would God send me to hell for any slightest sin?..cnt remember asking GOD to create me in the first place..
what are u sayin? God is nt a man u talk to like that
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by bukolaoluwaloba: 8:20pm On Aug 07, 2016
My people in christ don't let us argue and also mislead by his words believe whom you believe, but mind you hell is real and Jesus is the only way to heaven, don't leave your life in a sinful way, hell is real and heaven is also real for those who believe in God. thank you.

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Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by kaakaa1(m): 8:33pm On Aug 07, 2016
Believe your own lemme Believe My Own! The end will tell....
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Uyi168: 8:36pm On Aug 07, 2016
tunary:
what are u sayin? God is nt a man u talk to like that
..Well,i just did..so?
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Nobody: 8:40pm On Aug 07, 2016
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Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Stapes8: 8:42pm On Aug 07, 2016
What Is Hell? Is It a Place of Eternal Torment? The Bible’s answer Some Bible translations use the word “hell” for the Hebrew word “Sheol” and the matching Greek word “Hades,” both of which refer to the common grave of mankind. ( Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27 ) Many people believe in a fiery hell, as shown in the religious artwork accompanying this article. However, the Bible teaches otherwise. 1. Those in hell are unconscious and so cannot feel pain. “There is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol.”— Ecclesiastes 9:10 . 2. Good people go to hell. The faithful men Jacob and Job expected to go there.— Genesis 37:35; Job 14:13 . 3. Death, not torment in a fiery hell, is the penalty for sin. “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin.”— Romans 6:7 . 4. Eternal torment would violate God’s justice. ( Deuteronomy 32:4 ) When the first man, Adam, sinned, God told him that his punishment would simply be to pass out of existence: “Dust you are and to dust you will return.” ( Genesis 3:19 ) God would have been lying if he were actually sending Adam to a fiery hell. 5. God does not even contemplate eternal torment. The idea that he would punish people in hellfire is contrary to the Bible’s teaching that “God is love.”— 1 John 4:8; Jeremiah 7:31 .

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Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by haibe(m): 8:51pm On Aug 07, 2016
Sure hell exists, its the grave.

Lake of fire exists too but its a place of destruction, not eternal torment.
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by chysam: 8:54pm On Aug 07, 2016
hemartins:
Really

It is very interesting to discover that there are more Bible verses about Hell than there are about Heaven. Here are a few verses in the Old Testament about Hell. Daniel 12:2 proclaims, "Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt." Hell is described here as everlasting. Isaiah 66:24 declares, "And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind." In this Scripture, hell is described as a place where the fire is not quenched. Deuteronomy 32:22 portrays hell as a place where God pours out His wrath, "For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains." Psalm 55:15 illustrates hell as a realm of the wicked, "Let death seize them; Let them go down alive into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them."

Hell Is Real

So has the fire described in Deutronomy burnt forever?. How would the living go to watch bodies being burnt in hellfire. That verse you quoted is absolutely incongruous!!!
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by dorox(m): 9:01pm On Aug 07, 2016
JerryQ:
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So why did Jesus pray the cup of death should pass over him? He never sinned and should have no wages. Death here means eternal seperation from God. Jesus did not want to experience death/seperation from God on the cross but He had to for Him to take the sins of the whole world. The wages of sin is seperation from God (death) not physical death.

That is why his death is called a ransome. He paid for our sin with his perfect life.
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by emmythecleric: 9:03pm On Aug 07, 2016
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hemartins:
What does the New Testament say?
Does Hell Exist? If the clear teaching of the Old Testament is not enough, the New Testament has much to say as well. 2 Thessalonians 1:9 tells us, "These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power." Revelation 14:10-11, speaking of the antichrist, teaches us, "He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name." Hell is a lake of burning fire, as described in Revelation 20:14-15, "Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire."
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by femarse: 9:08pm On Aug 07, 2016
well to summarise it all every one on this thread should think well think deeply how little your mind is think of it yourself which of your generational fore father's have done what Jesus did ? which one had said something and two thousand years after it was said billions of people around the world are still following it if you think it's that easy you can start your own ministry and let's see who will follow it , this is just to let you know that if it's by word of mouth from ordinary man then it would have been eroded with time but two thousand years later it's still waxing stronger think of it is this ordinary
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Nobody: 9:22pm On Aug 07, 2016
khaymillers:
Op next time you read the bible, ask the holy spirit for proper understanding. Don't read thebible carnally
Even if he reads it carnally, is he blind that he can't see straight forward texts? OP: Isa 14:9 "Hell from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations." smiley
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by nacozee: 9:32pm On Aug 07, 2016
Its funny how people read d bible and act like they dont see all the crap in it.

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Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by parksland: 9:50pm On Aug 07, 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


[/b]
Really, before now i was about believing that there is God but He doesnt have control in our lives.i was about to believe dat christianity is a fraud, but with your disclosure , it made me to firmly believe in christ jesus once again. your disclosure renewed my faith in christ jesus once again and his holy mother blessed virgin mary. am strongly fallen back to my christian faith. thank you for disclosing this to those who are about to loose their in christ jesus.

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Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by sweetbae(f): 10:01pm On Aug 07, 2016
*sigh*...All is well
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by hamzeeto01(m): 10:08pm On Aug 07, 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 on deceiving your self.
Re: 5 Biblical Reasons Why Hell Might Not Exist by Akinz0126(m): 10:22pm On Aug 07, 2016
Phranex:


Two sets of people who know the truth about the mystery of life are the Christians and the satanists... Others wallow in ignorance... Atheist are the dumbest set, they think they are smart but they are foolish...

Bro, I may not be a christian but I know one thing to be true... Jesus is the only way to eternity in bliss... He defeated Satan before, he would again.






Life is spiritual.. Atheist be on your guard



As for me i'll go with the quotes of a scholar that says"Live your life like you wana make heaven and even if at the end of the world there's no such as Heaven or hell,you'll have nothing to lose".

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