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HELL -- YES OR NO?

I'm not into long-winded treatises, so I'm trying to be brief.  The Bible makes some specific statements that many either choose to ignore or they've never read the Bible - or they choose not to believe it.  The Book is like a jigsaw puzzle.  We need to look for the pieces and see how they fit together.

UNIVERSALISM says:
--No Heaven (or everyone will be there).
--No hell
--No satan

Comment:
If there is no Heaven, no hell, and no satan, then by extension, there must be no such thing as sin, since there will be no lasting consequence of it.  (i.e.: It's all right to steal, rape, and murder.  Mother Theresa and Hitler will both be there.)

NIHILISM says:
--Values are baseless.
--Nothing can be known or communicated.  [Seems pretty irrational to me.]

ANNIHILATIONISM says:
--"The view that unbelievers are finally annihilated and thus do not experience torment that is eternal in duration."

"A major component of the Seventh Day Adventist view of Annihilation is their view of death, which they believe to be the cessation of life." -- Dave Lowe, http://pweb.jps.net/~davejen/annihilation.htm (no longer online.)

Comment:
Well, DUH!!!  Excuse me, but that has to be one of the most asinine statements I have ever seen.  "...they believe to be ..."???  How else would it be interpreted??? except by the millions who have been brainwashed by the effete intellectual theological community for so long that they can rationalize the irrational and twist a simple straight-forward, logical statement into something that has no basis in the Bible?  After all, the Revelation DOES SAY that "death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.  This is the second death."  Of course, this is no problem to people who ignore the Bible anyway.

ANOTHER VIEW
There is a physical birth.  "Elohim breathed into Adam the breath of life and man became a living soul."

There is a spiritual birth by choice to receive eternal life.  "You must be born again."

There is a physical death.  "It is appointed unto man once to die, and after that the judgment."

There is a resurrection of all.  "Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.  For as in Adam all die, even so in Messiah shall all be made alive."

Those who have been born again will live with Elohim eternally.  "For Elohim so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes on Him should not perish [i.e., DIE, CEASE TO LIVE] but have everlasting life."  For how long have how many in Christianity been taught that "should not perish" means "will live forever in hell" in direct contradiction to the next phrase, "but have everlasting life"?
   In full: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not live forever in hell, but have everlasting life."  Sort of contratictory, isn't it?  There's only one choice for "everlasting life," and that's believing in the Father and his son (see John 5:24 again, and John 12:44).

There is a spiritual death (the second death) for those who have not been born again (born of the spirit).  "He that doesn’t believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim abides on him."  "This is the second death."  ("Shall not see life:" He's speaking to someone who is physically alive, so obviously this doesn't mean physical life, but eternal life."

Born once - live twice - die twice, or
Born twice - live twice - die once.

For a little more detail, see THIS and THIS.

BEIT HaDEREKH
(House of the Way)


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6/15/13
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