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Does Hell last forever?

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Q: Does Hell last forever?

A: Whether they believe it or not, most people think Hell is a place of eternal punishment where sinners are thrown into a fire that never ceases to burn. Thus the wicked suffer excruciating pain for all eternity. But is this really what the Bible teaches? Would a loving God make people suffer eternally for sins they committed in their 100, 60, 40 years of life? Certainly the Bible states that hell is real, but hell is not what most believers and unbelievers have been led to believe. In this writing we are going to look at scriptures that dispel this idea of hell and show what it really is.

Is Hell eternal?

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  • April 23, 2015 at 8:39 pm#795475
    NickHassan
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    Hi T8,

    So you say there is no resurrection??

    Paul would lose heart at such a claim.

    April 23, 2015 at 8:46 pm#795477
    Proclaimer
    Participant

    Read my post again. It does not in any way deny the joy of meeting the Lord when we die whether that is through death or being alive at the end.

    It also does not in any way deny the Day of the Lord.

    What it questions is the statement, that the dead in Christ are not with Christ.

    The ‘Dead in Christ’ if it were a descriptive would mean that they are dead and in Christ right?

    In other words, sounds very similar to: ‘to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord’.

    And if the dead in Christ are in Christ, then where is Christ now?

    April 23, 2015 at 9:50 pm#795486
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi t8,

    If you are not now in fellowship with the Spirit of Christ you are none of his.

    Meeting him clad in new bodies is another level of contact.

    He is in heaven but he meets us in the air

    April 25, 2015 at 9:28 am#795621
    Proclaimer
    Participant

    And the Dead in Christ rise first, then we who are alive will meet them along with our Lord in the air.

    April 25, 2015 at 10:39 am#795629
    kerwin
    Participant

    t8,
    You are misquoting the verse.

    If you look at 1 Thessalonians 3:16-17 then you will see the dead will rise from the grave and then together with those that had not died they would meet Jesus and his saints in the air as they descended.

    Paul is speaking of the first resurrection and the gathering together of the saints at the beginning of the Messianic Age. Air travel at its best.

    April 25, 2015 at 10:56 am#795630
    kerwin
    Participant

    t8,

    The resurrection of the dead and then their ascension with those whose flesh God preserved in order to meet the Lord of both groups in person reveals the dead were not among the holy ones that descended with him. In other words they were no more with him than the living. When both groups meet him then they are with him.

    It sounds smother translating the verse this way but I do not know how the translators of this version obtained the word “this” out of the definite article. It may be something I do not know about Koine Greek but I do know it is a minority choice.

    2 Corinthians 5:8

    International Standard Version
    We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from this body and to live with the Lord.

    If he is correct then “this body” is referring to the mortal body and Paul is not teaching the Christians was to be dead in order to be with God but rather they want their new body in order to be closer to God.

    Note: The title “the Lord: may instead refer to Jesus.

    April 25, 2015 at 9:44 pm#795682
    Proclaimer
    Participant

    the dead in Christ will rise first.

    How much earlier do they rise first? By a second? A minute? A day? or what Kerwin?

    June 12, 2015 at 4:13 am#799404
    carmel
    Participant

     

    a part or portion of a larger amount which is divided among a number of people, or to which a number of people contribute.

    So what actually Christ’s spirit OBVIOUS, Jesus when he was like all his brethren on earth did, obtained, and achieved, in order to have a share of all what he DID,OBTAINED AND ACHIEVED?”

    Can you please explain what this means.

    Nick,
    I misswrote, so Read again please:

    SHARE means to have a part or portion of a larger amount which is divided among a number of people, or to which a number of people contribute.

    So what actually Christ’s spirit OBVIOUS, Jesus when he was like all his brethren on earth,

    did, obtained, and achieved,

    in order FOR US

    to have a SHARE of all what he

    DID,OBTAINED AND ACHIEVED?”

    Peace and love in Jesus

    Charles

    June 12, 2015 at 6:47 am#799408
    kerwin
    Participant

    Carmel,

    Jesus is still like his brothers as it is necessary to minister his position as High Priest.

    June 12, 2015 at 6:59 am#799409
    kerwin
    Participant

    t8,

    The change occurs with both the dead and the living at the same time. When the bodies of the dead change from mortal to immortal they can no longer remain dead. It happens in a twinkling of an eye and the both the living and the dead ascend to meet Jesus Christ and the holy ones as they descend to start the Messianic Age.

    That seems the story from some passages of Scripture but others seem to imply there is death and dying during the Messianic Age.

    Is it that second idea you are going by?

    June 12, 2015 at 11:44 am#799415
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    We are changed

    The immortal is put on the mortal.

    They are not the same old battered natural bodies we die in.

     

    June 16, 2015 at 4:11 pm#799680
    Proclaimer
    Participant

    Does God divide the living and the dead in Christ?

    The change occurs with both the dead and the living at the same time.

    …the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air…

    The dead rise first.

    March 24, 2016 at 2:37 pm#810943
    Proclaimer
    Participant

    Hell: You’ve Got it All Wrong!

    March 24, 2016 at 2:43 pm#810946
    kerwin
    Participant

    t8,

    What is the point you gleaned from the video?

    March 24, 2016 at 4:29 pm#810957
    Proclaimer
    Participant

    The notion that God burns alive sinners for all eternity is an incorrect teaching.

    March 24, 2016 at 7:15 pm#810962
    kerwin
    Participant

    t8,

    I cannot say whether it is or not since there is competing passages of Scripture. I favor the idea that for an age and age there is suffering in Gehenna but at the end of that the wicked are destroyed. Each of the age’s is an indeterminate amount of time. It is a Jewish belief that is supported by the relevant passages.

    In any case God is a just and merciful God and if he chose to have someone suffer for eternity then there is a reason for it. I cannot see such a reason but my vision is limited.

    April 8, 2016 at 5:01 pm#811578
    alex
    Participant

    If we are created in God’s image and were restored by His Spirit on Pentecost, and still do not grasp, understand, comprehend, imagine or reason, etc, how or why The Loving Lord Jesus would or could want to “torment” anything or everything, beast or man, forever, then perhaps there’s been some true meanings lost in the translations over thousands  of the years.  Him keeping Adam and us away from the “tree of Life”  in the garden by angels to disallow our soul to “… live forever”(Gen 3.22-24)  tells me that the soul will not go on forever except by being “…born again…” by The Holy Spirit that raised Emmanuel, the Lamb of God, the “Last Adam” from the grave. Ro 8.11. He did that FOR Adam and his race so that He could come and SAVE Adam’s race.

    April 8, 2016 at 5:11 pm#811579
    alex
    Participant

    Had Adam and Eve eaten from the tree of Life in the sinful state they were in, THEN that soul would have lived in that death state forever and would not have been able to die or be destroyed or perish or been even able or have or see the need or desire to repent.  God only know what the end would have been.  Thank Him for those Cherubims He saw fit for His purposes to place there.  Thanks for your comments.

    April 8, 2016 at 10:36 pm#811586
    Miia
    Participant

    Yes. It makes one wonder..

    April 9, 2016 at 1:56 am#811596
    GeneBalthrop
    Participant

    Alex…..Good insites.

    peace and love to you and yours. …….gene

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