Hell

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The Lord disciplines us when we sin—that, I believe, is hell. Or put another way, there are natural consequences to our sin, and those consequences are painful. For instance, if I rob a bank, I will probably spend a lot of time in prison.

The good news is that these consequences don’t last forever. At some point you are forgiven.

The Bible has a whole lot more to say about Hell than that.
 
I am doing a message this weekend on Hell. the more I think about it the more disturbing it is -- everlasting torture? I am a Bible believing Christian. It just seems so harsh -- everlasting punishment for temporal crimes. What am I missing?

Study these two verses and put them into the human perspective of knowing how God sees sin.
1Co 13:11-12 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (12) For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

What does this mean in terms of sin and hell? Well, a child thinks and understands as a child. A
human thinks and understands as a human. You are judging God on the issues of hell and sin and you
don't even know what they both are. You haven't seen sin, just the results of sin. And even then,
its being restrained by God. Our only concept of hell, is spoken about in "human terms" to give
some understanding, but we wont know until that day arrives. And since none of us knows what
sin looks like or how bad it truly is, the punishment in hell, as bad as it sounds in our understanding of
things, could actually be an easy sentence. Not "easy" in our understanding of the term, but from
God's point of view. Now Jesus made it very clear that no one will want to be there and that it will
be bad. But until we actually see sin and see all things on the Day of Judgement, we wont know if it
is a light sentence, got what they derserve, or very harsh.
 
I am doing a message this weekend on Hell. the more I think about it the more disturbing it is -- everlasting torture? I am a Bible believing Christian. It just seems so harsh -- everlasting punishment for temporal crimes. What am I missing?


You're missing the point. The punishment isn't everlasting. It is the result of the punishment that is everlasting.

Ezekiel 28


18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
 
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There are some people who want absolutely nothing to do with God ever, so there is a place created for them. Its called hell.
 
Flight316
Have you ever noticed those who have nothing to do with God those who cry the loudest there is no God are always the ones who say hell is not fair.
I often ask them if you hate God why does it bother you that you can't spend eternity with Him?
 
Flight316
Have you ever noticed those who have nothing to do with God those who cry the loudest there is no God are always the ones who say hell is not fair.
I often ask them if you hate God why does it bother you that you can't spend eternity with Him?

Do you ever ask why God made millions of humans who are genuinely and emotionally shocked and disturbed at the idea of Hell?

Man was made in God's image.
 
There are some people who want absolutely nothing to do with God ever, so there is a place created for them. Its called hell.

There is nobody who can see God and deny Him what He is due.

Every tongue will confess.

11 Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice,
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
and honor and glory and blessing!”
13 And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”
 
Have you ever noticed those who have nothing to do with God those who cry the loudest there is no God are always the ones who say hell is not fair.

so the believers in the existence of God have no right to ask logical questions?
then the nonbeliever were believer before Then convinced that God is not exist that their right
then not every believer in God believe in religion picture of God system
 
The punishment in Hell and reward in Heaven is endless. Annihilation is a false doctrine.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal (Matthew 25:46).
 
The punishment in Hell and reward in Heaven is endless. Annihilation is a false doctrine.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal (Matthew 25:46).


Psalms 86:13

13*For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
 
By accepting the gift of salvation while earth you will be saved from eternal punishment.

Who doesn't accept it? Do you really believe that God's work is limited by man? The world once knew Jesus according to the flesh. We know Him, even today NO LONGER. My father according to the flesh is dead and this world will never see him again as well. Flesh and blood cannot inherit eternity. It is lost and therefore CUT OFF FOR OFFENSES.
 
Who doesn't accept it? Do you really believe that God's work is limited by man? The world once knew Jesus according to the flesh. We know Him, even today NO LONGER. My father according to the flesh is dead and this world will never see him again as well. Flesh and blood cannot inherit eternity. It is lost and therefore CUT OFF FOR OFFENSES.
And I agree, the mortal body will not inherit eternity but the soul will as it is immortal.
 
By accepting the gift of salvation while earth you will be saved from eternal punishment.

do you know jeffrey dahmer who in the Prison accept the salvation gift but after he kill 17 men rape thier dead bodies and eat some of them are you tell me he will not go to hell for eternal and other serial killers and rapest but the good atheist who do not belive in God will go to hell for eternal
 
eternal punishment idea is not acceptable
million year is not enough ??
 
do you know jeffrey dahmer who in the Prison accept the salvation gift but after he kill 17 men rape thier dead bodies and eat some of them are you tell me he will not go to hell for eternal and other serial killers and rapest but the good atheist who do not belive in God will go to hell for eternal


"getting in" is a free gift from God to anyone who accepts it, so there is nothing you can or cannot do other than accepting or rejecting it to be 'in or out'.

However, once there, we will indeed by judged and rewarded/punished for what we did and did not do. It won't be pretty for those being punished.
 
"getting in" is a free gift from God to anyone who accepts it, so there is nothing you can or cannot do other than accepting or rejecting it to be 'in or out'.

However, once there, we will indeed by judged and rewarded/punished for what we did and did not do. It won't be pretty for those being punished.

That includes you, and me.

'He who says he is without sin deceives himself, and the truth is not in him'