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I agree with you there Phil. Scripture is clear that the old earth is consumed with flames (lake of fire), and the LORD will make a new earth which will be the eternal abode of the saints.

God Bless
Is God and the angels going to burn up when Heaven is destroyed?
 
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Prove with scripture those statements. Completely and utterly false. What exactly do you think the following passage means? How are you going to twist it? It is clear language. It means what it says.

2 Peter 3:10-13 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Righteousness does not, and never will dwell on earth. Not as long as man inhabits it. Only on that day, when we are transformed in the twinkling of an eye, into a new body that is not carnal, not fleshly(because a carnal body is a sinful body) will we dwell in righteousness, on a new earth.
Rev_5:10

And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.






Isa_2:2




And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.





Isa_2:3




And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.






Mic_4:2




And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.





Zec_8:3




Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.

Jerusalem ain't in Heaven last time I heard. It's on the earth.




 

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As promised when I returned from the weekend trip to Epcot - This is my understanding of Hell.

Many times when hell is talked about in the Bible it is referring to the grave where the dead rest. Questions about Hell would also go with a study I did on the thread titled Question About Death Post #5.

Personally I think that we are living in Hell here on earth, everyday one temptation after another. The smoker wants his cigarettes, the obese person such as myself constantly tempted by food. You name your sin you got your poison to fill it...Then add all the chaos and terrible things we humans do to each other. The way Hell is taught and misrepresented is another lie by the way, just scare tactic to try and get people to follow God...what a joke.

No one in their right mind would want to follow or love a vindictive God who is just out to punish someone because they messed up. Where is the justice in the first person born that told one lie and has been burning since the worlds been turning and then you have the mass murderers in our day and age and they burn for a shorter period of time just because of when they were born? This is not fair or just and it is not how our God works. Ezekiel 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies, says the Lord God. Therefore turn and live.

God's character has been misrepresented as every act God performs is an act of love. Other wise why would He even have bothered to send Jesus to die on the cross for us if He just wanted to punish and torment us for eternity. He could have saved a lot of time by just zapping us out of existence with the first sin committed and Satan would not be here to tempt anyone as sin started in heaven with Lucifer = (Satan, Devil).

The earth will be purified by fire in the end as Satan and the wicked angels and humans who decided to not accept Jesus as their personal Savior will be burned up in the lake of fire that God will kindle. But as any fire when the fuel is burned up the fire will go out.

Both the wicked and the righteous are resting in their graves and at the second coming of Jesus the righteous will rise to eternal life (1 Thessalonians 4:16 &17) and at the end of the 1000 years that Satan has been bound on this earth the wicked dead will be raised from the death of sleep to eternal damnation (Revelation 20:9). They will be destroyed by fire and will be eternally wiped out of existence. Malachi 4:3 You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet On the day that I do this, Says the Lord of hosts. Obadiah 16 last part... And they shall be as though they had never been.

My Bible says GOD IS LOVE in the book of John.

Hell is not burning right at this moment tormenting people and people don't go to heaven at the moment they die I would suggest going to read the thread title above first as understanding of Hell kind of goes hand in hand with understanding of death. Hell will be real at the end of this sinful earth's history as God will purify this earth with fire and burn up the wicked at that time. Death will also be done away with at that time.

My JesusLives, where did you get all of those Misunderstandings and False Teachings?

YES, GOD is LOVE, BUT HE IS ALSO PERFECTLY JUST.
There is only one SIN that anyone will end up in Hell for.

That sin is rejecting the Holy Spirit's efforts to bring the unbeliever to believing in GOD the SON as Creator, and receiving Jesus as LORD. That sin or REJECTION is known as blaspheming the Holy Spirit.

1 John 2:2 (NIV)
[SUP]2 [/SUP] He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

Mark 3:28-29 (HCSB)
[SUP]28 [/SUP] I assure you: People will be forgiven for all sins and whatever blasphemies they may blaspheme.
[SUP]29 [/SUP] But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

What about those who NEVER heard of JESUS the CREATOR (Eph. 1:15-20), or refuse to believe He is GOD the SON the Creator? HOW do we know the Holy Spirit tried to get them to BELIEVE IN HIM as CREATOR.

Romans 1:20-22 (HCSB)
[SUP]20 [/SUP] For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse.
[SUP]21 [/SUP] For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.
[SUP]22 [/SUP] Claiming to be wise, they became fools

Exodus 34:7 (GW)
[SUP]7 [/SUP] He continues to show his love to thousands of generations, forgiving wrongdoing, disobedience, and sin. He never lets the guilty go unpunished, punishing children and grandchildren for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation.”

HIS JUSTICE IS PERFECT. There are no big sinners and little sinners ALL SINNERS ARE EQUALLY AS BAD AS THE WORST MASS MURDERER ON DEATH ROW.

James 2:10 (NIV)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

Matthew 25:41 (HCSB)
[SUP]41 [/SUP] Then He will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!

Revelation 14:9-11 (HCSB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] And a third angel followed them and spoke with a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
[SUP]10 [/SUP] he will also drink the wine of God’s wrath, which is mixed full strength in the cup of His anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb,
[SUP]11 [/SUP] and the smoke of their torment will go up forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or anyone who receives the mark of his name.

Revelation 20:15 (HCSB)
[SUP]15 [/SUP] And anyone not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Adolf Hitler did not go to Hades and eventually to HELL for killing six million Jews, he went there because he rejected the Holy Spirit's efforts to get him to believe in Jesus Christ for all that HE IS, including The CREATOR, The MESSIAH, and as OUR LORD, which means MASTER. By that REJECTION he sealed his own fate forever, by blaspheming the Holy Spirit's efforts to work on his heart.

Matthew 13:41-42 (ISV)
[SUP]41 [/SUP] The Son of Man will send his angels, and they'll gather from his kingdom everything that causes others to sin and those who practice lawlessness,
[SUP]42 [/SUP] and they'll throw them into a blazing furnace. In that place there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

That wailing and gnashing of teeth, is an expression that means "continuous bitterness towards GOD". NONE will repent, even in HELL.

Deuteronomy 32:39-41 (NASB)
[SUP]39 [/SUP] 'See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
[SUP]40 [/SUP] 'Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven, And say, as I live forever,
[SUP]41 [/SUP] If I sharpen My flashing sword, And My hand takes hold on justice, I will render vengeance on My adversaries, And I will repay those who hate Me.

YES, GOD IS LOVE, but HE ALSO IS THE ONE WHO CARRIES OUT PERFECT JUSTICE.

You ask the wrong question, it is not "Why does GOD send some people to Hades and HELL?"

The QUESTION IS: "WHY DOES HE NOT SEND ME TO HADES AND HELL?"
 
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As promised when I returned from the weekend trip to Epcot - This is my understanding of Hell.

Many times when hell is talked about in the Bible it is referring to the grave where the dead rest. Questions about Hell would also go with a study I did on the thread titled Question About Death Post #5.

Personally I think that we are living in Hell here on earth, everyday one temptation after another. The smoker wants his cigarettes, the obese person such as myself constantly tempted by food. You name your sin you got your poison to fill it...Then add all the chaos and terrible things we humans do to each other. The way Hell is taught and misrepresented is another lie by the way, just scare tactic to try and get people to follow God...what a joke.

No one in their right mind would want to follow or love a vindictive God who is just out to punish someone because they messed up. Where is the justice in the first person born that told one lie and has been burning since the worlds been turning and then you have the mass murderers in our day and age and they burn for a shorter period of time just because of when they were born? This is not fair or just and it is not how our God works. Ezekiel 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies, says the Lord God. Therefore turn and live.

God's character has been misrepresented as every act God performs is an act of love. Other wise why would He even have bothered to send Jesus to die on the cross for us if He just wanted to punish and torment us for eternity. He could have saved a lot of time by just zapping us out of existence with the first sin committed and Satan would not be here to tempt anyone as sin started in heaven with Lucifer = (Satan, Devil).

The earth will be purified by fire in the end as Satan and the wicked angels and humans who decided to not accept Jesus as their personal Savior will be burned up in the lake of fire that God will kindle. But as any fire when the fuel is burned up the fire will go out.

Both the wicked and the righteous are resting in their graves and at the second coming of Jesus the righteous will rise to eternal life (1 Thessalonians 4:16 &17) and at the end of the 1000 years that Satan has been bound on this earth the wicked dead will be raised from the death of sleep to eternal damnation (Revelation 20:9). They will be destroyed by fire and will be eternally wiped out of existence. Malachi 4:3 You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet On the day that I do this, Says the Lord of hosts. Obadiah 16 last part... And they shall be as though they had never been.

My Bible says GOD IS LOVE in the book of John.

Hell is not burning right at this moment tormenting people and people don't go to heaven at the moment they die I would suggest going to read the thread title above first as understanding of Hell kind of goes hand in hand with understanding of death. Hell will be real at the end of this sinful earth's history as God will purify this earth with fire and burn up the wicked at that time. Death will also be done away with at that time.
These few will not be taught anything at all. The only thing they know and totally misunderstand is the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man. It is apparently the only thing in their Bibles and they totally misunderstand it. It is sad indeed the false doctrines these few hold onto so hard while totally ignoring and disavowing the plain and simple scriptures of the Bible.
 
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Does this mean that you don't have the evidence to make your case? I mean, if i'm as far off base as it seems you think I am then you should only need one or two passages of Scripture to prove me wrong.

You still haven't addressed the contradiction I've pointed out. If you believe the rich man is suffering ECT in Hades, why did Jesus say the wicked would suffer in Gehenna?
Death and hell will be cast into the LAKE of FIRE at the GREAT WHITE throne judgment....so....if the rich man is not suffering in hell then Jesus misrepresented the truth and spoke lies in a so-called parable that has no real meaning....I will believe the word....God telling the truth at ALL times and Jesus told no lies and or misrepresentation of the truth!
 
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These few will not be taught anything at all. The only thing they know and totally misunderstand is the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man. It is apparently the only thing in their Bibles and they totally misunderstand it. It is sad indeed the false doctrines these few hold onto so hard while totally ignoring and disavowing the plain and simple scriptures of the Bible.
Well...according to the apostle John...eternal life is just as sure as eternal damnation
is this one of those JW threads or just "My God is too nice to throw all those ppl in hell for eternity" threads?
 
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" cannot mean eternal. "Aionios" is the adjective form of the word "aion" which in English is eon. The word eon means an age. Now, I know someone's going to post a dictionary definition of "aionios" with the word eternal as a definition, however, dictionaries are not inspired, the Scriptures are. A word can have more than one meaning, but, a word cannot have opposing meanings. In other words, the same word cannot mean, yes, and no. The same word cannot mean black and white. Therefore, the same word cannot mean. eternal and not eternal.

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So where do you get the definitions of the words that you use? The bible was inspired in the KOINE GREEK/HEBREW and not English so again how do you come to conclusions on the words that you use to state your position seeing how (dictionaries) are not inspired....Can you read. write and translate Greek and Hebrew and where did you learn to do this and how did you learn what the words mean? Seems like your logic contradicts the very things bolded above...just saying!
 
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Well...according to the apostle John...eternal life is just as sure as eternal damnation
is this one of those JW threads or just "My God is too nice to throw all those ppl in hell for eternity" threads?
Not at all. It's one of those "My God is too just to sentence anyone to centuries of torture upon his/her death without the due process of a trial. It is only after having received a sentence of death in the Great White Throne Judgment that he/she may be sent to the Lake of Fire.

It is the position of the few on here that a just God would sentence a man who committed a murder a thousand years ago to a place of fiery punishment called Hell while another many might commit murder and have to only serve two days in that fiery Hell should Christ return in two days. Meanwhile, neither of the two men had been served the due process of a fair and impartial trial.
 
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Death and hell will be cast into the LAKE of FIRE at the GREAT WHITE throne judgment....so....if the rich man is not suffering in hell then Jesus misrepresented the truth and spoke lies in a so-called parable that has no real meaning....I will believe the word....God telling the truth at ALL times and Jesus told no lies and or misrepresentation of the truth!
That's the whole point. The parable has meaning. It is you who lack understanding.
 

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WARNING!!!!

Seventh Day Adventist is a cult.

They reject the basic tenets of the Christian faith.

You have been warned!

They make Sabbath keeping a requirement and claim Sunday worship is the Mark of the Beast instead of the actual mark.

It is of the Devil so don't get duped.
 
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A study on the 1000 Years is in-depth and would be too much text to post here. Hence, I post the following link. Please go through all of the Scriptures. Strictly Biblical.

The Biblical truth about the 1000 years

God Bless
This is from that study:

Jer 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. Jer 4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. Jer 4:25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. Jer 4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. Jer 4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
The earth is left desolate. There is no man nor bird, the earth and its cities are broken down. But Jehovah does not make a full end. This has yet to be fulfilled. This will happen during the 1000 years.

There is a school that claim this happened in the old world when the angels, led by Satan, ruled the earth. The terms "form and void" really means chaos and confusion according to them. This school claims that there was a war of the worlds and Satan and 1/3 of all the angels lost that war and Michael and his angels almost totally destroyed the earth. The King of Tyre was Satan and he was over the cities. They claim this is why so many ancient civilizations have been uncovered.
Just an opposing view.
 
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WARNING!!!!

Seventh Day Adventist is a cult.

They reject the basic tenets of the Christian faith.

You have been warned!

They make Sabbath keeping a requirement and claim Sunday worship is the Mark of the Beast instead of the actual mark.

It is of the Devil so don't get duped.
Actually, Sola has studied his Bible a whole lot more than most others have on this forum. Get the log out of your own eye.
 

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Actually, any real Christian would not promote the Seventh Day Adventist cult.

I beg to differ on your other comment.

We don't live under the law since we are under grace. There is no Sabbath Day keeping since Christ is the Sabbath.

Having logs in your eye is concerning hypocritical judgment and has absolutely nothing to do with warning people against a false religious cult.

Again, a WARNING to everyone to stay away from the Seventh Day Adventist cult. Cults often try sneaky ways to get you deceived like posting that link above. Don't fall for it.
 
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Actually, any real Christian would not promote the Seventh Day Adventist cult.

I beg to differ on your other comment.

We don't live under the law since we are under grace. There is no Sabbath Day keeping since Christ is the Sabbath.

Having logs in your eye is concerning hypocritical judgment and has absolutely nothing to do with warning people against a false religious cult.

Again, a WARNING to everyone to stay away from the Seventh Day Adventist cult. Cults often try sneaky ways to get you deceived like posting that link above. Don't fall for it.
OK. I'll take your cue then.
 
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WARNING!!!

Many of the tenants of the Christian faith are based upon false doctrines.
 
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WARNING!!!!

Seventh Day Adventist is a cult.

They reject the basic tenets of the Christian faith.

You have been warned!

They make Sabbath keeping a requirement and claim Sunday worship is the Mark of the Beast instead of the actual mark.

It is of the Devil so don't get duped.
Noone is advertising any particular denomination. The seventh-day Christian Sabbath was created by the LORD, not the Seventh-Day Adventists. Most people on this forum don't appear to believe what the Bible teaches, yet they will automatically believe 1-sided articles about E.G. White. I guess the mass rejection of Scripture by most on this forum is a microcosm of the mass confusion amongst Christianity throughout the world. It is easy to see how so many will receive the Mark and be rejected by the Lord when He returns.

God Bless
 

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What I am telling you is that you are speaking of the Lake of Fire - not the false Hell of punishing you speak of where one goes when one dies. You're the one who doesn't know of what he preaches. If you accomplish nothing else, at least get those two straight for once and for all.

Do I believe what you say, . . . . . . . . . OR do I want to believe what Jesus and the Word of GOD actually SAYS?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hmmmmmm, let me think about this. Hmmmmmmmm!

YOU LOSE! I believe Jesus and what the Word of GOD actually Says!


Matthew 25:46 (HCSB)
[SUP]46 [/SUP] “And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”