hell and mercy

[Guest Southern_Cop_SC]

Read Your Bible, God Has made It clear that without His Son, You Will not enter the gates of Heaven. Those who choose to deny God will be denied by God. Hell is real, The Bible Is clear on this.

[cjrose]

Onmyway

How can a loving God send people to hell? That is a very legitimate question. A more powerful question I think would be- how can a loving God send His son to die on the cross? The only answer I can come up with is to save man from hell.

Wisdom-Hunter

Wisdom, that is truly profound thought and I think that is the ultimate sacrifice God made to show His love for us.

Amen!

[cjrose]

Read Your Bible, God Has made It clear that without His Son, You Will not enter the gates of Heaven. Those who choose to deny God will be denied by God. Hell is real, The Bible Is clear on this.

Quite clear!! Amen Cop! And Welcome to Worthy!!

[Candi770]

The wages of sin is death. Jesus paid that for those who call him savior. All others have not been reconciled to the Father. Everyone has a choice to make. God doesn't lie, we have his word to rely on. If we don't accept the Lord there is consequence that's why he told us. Jesus came that we can have life!!!

God is Good; he is merciful, just and true to his word.

candi

[Abigailwc]

I was also thinking that those who go to Hell are those who did not want God in their life. If they did not want God in their life, they do not want to live with God for eternity and Hell is the only place in eternity where God won't be.

[jgredline]

Lets start with Matthew 5:27

If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

Jesus refers here to the bodybeing cast into hell,and the psalmist speaks of bonesbeing scattered at the mouth of hell [sheol](Ps. 141:7). Jacob talked about his gray hairsbeing brought down to hell (Gen. 42:38; cf. 44:29, 31). However, Jesus referred to hell as a place where the soul goes after one dies and is in conscious torment (Luke 16:2223). Is hell just the grave, as the Jehovahs Witnesses and some other cults claim ?

The Hebrew word translated hell(sheol) is also translated graveor pit.It simply means unseen world,and can refer either to the grave, where the body is unseen after burial, or to the spirit world, which is invisible to mortal eyes.

Further, in the Old Testament, sheol often means grave, as indicated by the fact that it is a place where bones(Ps. 141:7), gray hairs(Gen. 42:38), and even weapons (Ps. 76:35) go at death. Even the resurrection of Jesusbody is said to be from hell(i.e., the grave), where it did not see corruption (Acts 2:3031).

There may be allusions to hellas a spirit world in the Old Testament (cf. Prov. 9:18; Isa. 14:9); hell(Greek: hades) is clearly described as a place of departed spirits (souls) in the New Testament. Fallen angels are there and they have no bodies (2 Peter 2:4). Unrepentant human beings are in conscious torment there after they die and their bodies are buried (Luke 16:2223). In the end those in hell will be cast into the lake of fire with the devil where they will be tormented day and night forever(Rev. 20:10, 1415). Jesus spoke many times of hell as a place of conscious and eternal suffering (cf. Matt. 10:28; 18:9; Mark 9:43, 45, 47; Luke 12:5; 16:23).

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[botticelli]

God is love. why do we believe in a hell-hole where most of Gods created humans will be tortured FOREVER for chosing to be wicked, or for unbelief in his son, Jesus? I think that this teaching is false, as in the days of Jesus, the religious leaders taught falsehoods, the Greek word Hades and the Hebrew word Sheol, mean the GRAVE, Hell is the word the translators used. and check out this scripture, umm, the thought of burning people alive 'never entered Gods mind', jer.32:35 and never entered his heart either jer.7:31 as a matter of fact, God calls this idea of burning childen alive in fire an ABOMINATION, probably because HE IS LOVE, so why are people taught that God will do to his earthly children what is horrible in Gods mind? well, good ole satan is still misleading the religious leaders, he told Eve she would'nt really die, gen.3;4 but she did die, now he's telling us we don't really die, were tortured forever, were not really dead, and to top it all off, GOD is the one sending us there, umm ,whats wrong with this picture ? The bible is telling the truth when it tells us what happens at death. ecc.9:5,10 and ps. 146:3,4 and the soul does die-eze.18:4 and the spirit goes back to God, who gave it.ecc.12:7 thats why we need the ressurection. john 5:25, 6:40 agape love-onmyway

whats the greek word for lake of fire?

[Gerioke]

I don't know......

Then you question if God is a God of justice.

Who's to say Hitler didn't repent in his final hour. God is a Gos of justice and grace amongst other things.

[apothanein kerdos]

I don't know......

Then you question if God is a God of justice.

Who's to say Hitler didn't repent in his final hour. God is a Gos of justice and grace amongst other things.

Since when was salvation, "I'll kill as many people as I want to until my time has come"? If there is no evidence, then we must assume he did not accept Christ and is in fact in hell.

The point I was making is that if there is no hell, then God is not a God of justice in any way, shape, or form. Too often Christians attempt to spiritualize things and say, "We can't know if a person is in hell or not" when the simple truth is we can have a pretty good idea.

[thepreacher]

God is love. why do we believe in a hell-hole where most of Gods created humans will be tortured FOREVER for chosing to be wicked, or for unbelief in his son, Jesus? I think that this teaching is false, as in the days of Jesus, the religious leaders taught falsehoods, the Greek word Hades and the Hebrew word Sheol, mean the GRAVE, Hell is the word the translators used. and check out this scripture, umm, the thought of burning people alive 'never entered Gods mind', jer.32:35 and never entered his heart either jer.7:31 as a matter of fact, God calls this idea of burning childen alive in fire an ABOMINATION, probably because HE IS LOVE, so why are people taught that God will do to his earthly children what is horrible in Gods mind? well, good ole satan is still misleading the religious leaders, he told Eve she would'nt really die, gen.3;4 but she did die, now he's telling us we don't really die, were tortured forever, were not really dead, and to top it all off, GOD is the one sending us there, umm ,whats wrong with this picture ? The bible is telling the truth when it tells us what happens at death. ecc.9:5,10 and ps. 146:3,4 and the soul does die-eze.18:4 and the spirit goes back to God, who gave it.ecc.12:7 thats why we need the ressurection. john 5:25, 6:40 agape love-onmyway

whats the greek word for lake of fire?

botticelli,

Lake of fire is a term to describe a place.

Lake=limnē λίμνη and fire=pur πῦρ

I don't know how well the Greek letters will show.