There is a lot of controversy in the Christian world over the issue of an Eternal Torment in hell.
To start off, lets think about God, God is loving, and merciful, would he create his children and then cast them to eternal torment for disobeying? or Would the merciful and loving God tell the disobeying child, you have not believed in my only Son, you will not enter heaven, but you will die, that is why God tells us..
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." - Romans 6:23
This is the most solid proof that there is no eternal torment awaiting ANY LIVING SOUL, Romans tells us the wages of sin is DEATH, but through Jesus we get eternal life... why does it not say the wages of sin is eternal torment in hell and the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord?
The myth about an eternal torment was largely propagated by the Roman Catholic Church, in the time period when they charged money in exchange to forgive sin.
For example if you had sex outside of marriage, you could pay the church a fine and be forgiven for that sin, and then according to the church you would not go to hell, not only is this not biblical its LUDICROUS, the idea that HUMAN MONEY can atone for a mans sins is just a lie.
So they tell everybody hey the bible says your gonna go to hell forever if you don't get forgiven for all your sins, fiery torment ever lasting... and the people were scared so they paid up and got forgiven for their sins.. or so they thought! Anyway that is largely how this lie came about and how it has taken over today.
on a website called Bible.org, it has a lot of mentions of the PROOF of eternal torment in hell, they only had a few solid verses maybe 4 or 5 which actually gave the depiction of hell, IF this idea that we are going to be eternally tortured forever was true, I'm sure God would have made sure to give more than a few sketchy verses, Heaven is mentioned nearly 600 hundred times!
Anyway lets go through these common misunderstandings!
"And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." - Mathew 25:46
-- Now I will admit at first look at this verse you cannot be blamed for thinking you are going on to an eternal punishment if you are not saved! but this is not the case! Look at the wording the translators used when copying the words... These shall go to everlasting punishment... but the righteous to eternal life,
Now these are to different words, lets see other references when the bible uses the word Eternal,
"That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." - John 3:15
Now this has just told us specifically The people who don't believe in Jesus will Perish (NOT BE ETERNALLY TORMENTED), and those that do believe in Jesus will have eternal life!
So the idea of there being an eternal life of conscious torment is unbiblical, ONLY THE RIGHTEOUS WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, THERE WILL BE NO ETERNAL TORMENT.
but your still wondering why it said..
"And these shall go away into everlasting punishment:"
Well lets look at other times it uses the word "everlasting"..
"The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:" - Genesis 49:26
Now it tells us unto the utmost bound of the EVERLASTING hills, but i ask, after we are in heaven, and the earth no longer exists, will those hills still be their? NO.. that tells us everlasting does not mean for all of eternity.
The term ever lasting means to last the length of the universe, when God Judges all and sends men to heaven and the men to "THE LAKE OF FIRE" the men in the lake of fire will be consumed.. and simply PERISH away, and the God of Heaven will seal all things, put an end to time space matter and those in Christ will be on their way to heaven, while the damned and wicked and those who did not believe, perish into non existence...
This is another passage often used to prove an eternal torment...
"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." - Revelations 21:8
Now people will say there you, go hell is real, but look at it carefully again, all it tells us that they will be cast into this fire at the second death, AFTER THE FINAL JUDGEMENT OF GOD, and then they will have their part in the lake of fire, it does not once advocate eternal torment even in the slightest!
Another passage often misused to show eternal torment is this...
"that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." - John 5:29
This again is easily to misinterpret, it is saying that When the Lord God All Mighty comes to judge everyone at the final judgement, ALL will be resurrected to a fate, given to them by God, That Fate will either be, You have believed in Jesus Christ, heaven is waiting, or that Resurrection will be to the fate, you never believed, you are DAMNED, NOTHING ABOUT ETERNAL TORMENT.
So some will resurrect those who believed and were saved by Jesus and those who did not believe, and will be cast into the lake of fire, and will be DAMNED, NOT ETERNALLY SUFFERING REMEMBER THAT.
One last example that was used on Bible.org to show eternal torment was..
"And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." - Mathew 13:42-43
Now this one is easy now you know the misunderstandings that are happening!
Yes God will cast all those unsaved, into the fire, and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, BUT NOT FOREVER MORE. Please understand this lie of eternal punishment from the Lord our God is not true and no Human Soul will ever suffer this.
Once Again, God will Judge all men, those in Christ are saved and going to heaven to GAIN ETERNAL LIFE
"That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." - John 3:15
And as John clearly states, those who do not believe in him will not have eternal existence, they will Perish, so the wages of sin is not eternal torment people, don't get caught up in this popular lie, The wages of sin is refusal of eternal perfect existence, and ultimately DEATH. Only one Group of people will live for eternity, and it is not the Damned.
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." - Romans 6:23
Please spread this truth and show as much people you can this blog who are convinced of an eternal Hell! it was a well propagated lie and time for people to overturn lies and bring the truth of God out not the truth of man!
Love God and Accept Jesus, Gods looking at you right now wondering why you haven't done it yet, he doesn't want you to waling and gnashing your teeth in the lake of Fire! He loves you! so get this looked into, don't be fooled by the devil, remember we are living in end times, and the devils powers of deception in the end times will be strong! so don't be the devils pawn anymore! WAKE UP QUICK!
it almost sounds like your trying to say the unsaved needn't worry about eternity what so ever
ReplyDeleteSimply dispelling a myth created by the catholic church brother, i would still worry about being consumed in the lake of fire though, i wouldnt put that down, as well as the realisation you did have a chance at heaven, and you blew it
DeleteObviously only a devil would eternally burn souls as retribution. It is the doctrine of a mad god. Even places in the Old Testament show God as a furious entity at times, whereas in other places in the same Old Testament it says his mercies are new every morning. Trying to relate to a bi-polar image of God makes people bi-polar and unstable.
ReplyDeleteThese are the age-old arguments against the Biblical doctrine of hell (with a little conspiracy theories thrown in to spice things up)...
ReplyDeleteSo, just chew on this - Revelation 14:10-11 "he also will drink the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will 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 goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name."
Revelation 20:10 "...and the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever."
This same judgment is then given at the Great White Throne Judgment in the following verses, concluding in Revelation 20:15 "And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
There is so much more to show, but here is the issue: the "eternal destruction" described is not annihilation - things will not be as they always have been on earth. The resurrection will change everything. All people who have ever lived will receive a new and eternal body - the saved, a glorified body (1 Corinthians 15), and the unsaved, a body made for eternal torment under the wrath of God.
Bottom line - this is the most horrific truth we find in Scripture. It is inconceivable to our minds, and yet, that is the unavoidable truth that Christ taught (and He spoke more about hell than anyone else in Scripture). The reason we deny this is more than just the limits of our intellect and emotion. It is delineated in Romans 1: man is corrupt and though he knows God (and that He will have His day of reckoning), he suppresses the truth in unrighteousness. This is most obviously seen by those who take the obvious revelation of Scripture and twist it to mean something else (for example, the so-called 'gay christian movement' that can twist Romans 1 to say that homosexuality is not wrong or unnatural). Or this article of course.
Moreover, we simply have no concept of God's holiness. An infinitely holy God has been infinitely sinned against - and His holiness and righteousness must be satisfied. The understanding that my sin requires an eternity of conscious torment in the horrors of hell should utterly devastate me. It should terrify me. It should terrify you.
If the doctrine of hell is true as Scripture says it is, if the reality that we can do nothing to atone for our sins as Scripture says (Romans 3:20), moreover, if all mankind is under the condemnation of God because all have sinned (Romans 3:23), then we are left with only two options: God will simply deny His righteousness and holiness, put aside His moral Law and simply accept us (which is the Islamic hope/wish) or that He has made a way for both His holy righteousness and His gracious love to save us. The first option is impossible, because God cannot deny Himself - if He sets aside His righteousness and holiness, He ceases to be God. The second option is the Gospel. Christ has extended God's love toward unworthy sinners by taking on their punishment Himself. The cross is where God's justice and mercy meet - and think of it, Christ took my eternal hell on Himself and experienced all that agony, that dread, that separation, that horror - so that I would have His Father's love, forgiveness, adoption, eternal heaven.
God will not set aside His righteousness. But He has extended His love toward man in His Son. He is your only hope. A truly Holy, and truly loving God.
eternel torment is picturing god as the cruelest being in the universe; those who teach this shows how they are cruelest beings and they darkens the name of god.
ReplyDeleteeternel torment is picturing god as the cruelest being in the universe; those who teach this shows how they are cruelest beings and they darkens the name of god.
ReplyDeleteeternel torment is picturing god as the cruelest being in the universe; those who teach this shows how they are cruelest beings and they darkens the name of god.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that Jesus taught the most about hell.
ReplyDeleteThat God counts our sin at the cost of His Son on the cross is a display of the Holiness and infinite love of God.
What about the story that Jesus told about the rich man and Lazarus. Could you explain please
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