I don't believe so and I believe the scriptures disagree with this also.
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And why would a loving Allah send people to Hellfire?
just read it ,you understand the khuran with another sens,just read it
What might those be?
There is only one reason people go to Hell and that is to not see themselves as being a lost sinner and coming to God's only way through Jesus to heaven.God does not want any to go there but they end up there by rejecting God's great salvation through Jesus.The scriptures on it are many but here is a start.Ask God to reveal the meaning as you read, St John Chapter 3,esp 3:3 & 16ff. Romans Chapters 1,3 & 10.Read carefully & it's self explained and tells you why you need salvation and how to receive it.I pray God will open your spiritual eyes and save you.
I've read the Bible through and the scriptures that people use to support the Bible don't They are symbolic of eternal destruction. I will pray for you.
Jennifer, I saw your first question and your response to Foster.
First of all, the God of all the universe is a loving and compassionate God. He would have it that all men and women come to Him and come to the knowledge of the truth. The Bible says that Jesus ever lives to intercede for us. He would have it that no people be lost. Jesus gave His life for us on the cross. We have to come to Him to believe what He already did for all of humanity. We must trust and believe in what He did. The Bible says that there is no other name (Jesus) under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. That is saved now and in the life to come. Saved is healed, prosperous and delivered from the forces of darkness.
I am sorry to inform you Jennifer, but the forces of darkness are real. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places,"(Ephesians 6:12). Lucifer's final destination is hell. Hell was created for Lucifer (Satan) and for the angles that went with him. Hell was not created for humanity. However, when man (Adam) chose the way of trying to exalt himself above God (eating of the fruit in the garden thereby desiring to be a god) we brought the penalty of that rebellion on us.
Jesus came as God's plan to save a lost world from everlasting punishment in hell. Jesus as the spotless lamb took the sins, anguish of our sorrow, as well as our sicknesses on the cross and paid the sin debt in full. By doing so, Jesus won us back for all of eternity. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father (Isaiah 45:22-24, Romans 14:10-12). We will all bow before Jesus one day even if our knees have to be broken. The blessing is to choose to bow before Jesus now and continue to bend our lives toward Him. That is the way for us to escape the fires of hell.
Yes, hell is real. We will all live forever either in heaven or hell. There is no middle ground. Either you are for God and follow Him or you are not. Again, no middle ground.
If we are followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, we do not have to fear the attacks of the enemy. "Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world."
One final note, the true gospel is that God comes down. That is the blessing. Over and over through the Bible God says, "I will be your God and you shall be my people and I will come down and dwell with you." The blessing is to hunger and thirst for Almighty God (El Shaddi) Jehovah God to have that conscious awareness of Him throughout our day. He is a jealous God. He wants to commune and fellowship with the people He created.
Interestingly, you called God Jehovah. Do you always call him Jehovah or just occasionally? His name was found around 7,000 times in the Bible originally and the Lord's prayer says "hallowed be thy name." As for Hellfire I stand by what I said. Only a very cruel God would do that and the scriptures don't support it. The scriptures don't support being "saved" either. The race isn't over yet. And where did you get the impression that Lucifer is Satan. Here is some homework for you. Find the scripture where it says Lucifer and tell me if it calls him Satan or not. Okay?
Dan,You are 100% correct.God Himself has to open her eyes & hope He does.
Sorry, if you feel that way my friend. But Hellfire would make God, more like Satan.
Jennifer,
I hear your quest for knowledge about this topic, but are you open to receive an answer or are you just looking to debate?
I am not responding to you to show that I know about this question. I do not have to respond, because I already know about this. I am responding to help you. I don't want you to be deceived.
God is a God of love, mercy, and compassion. If you look at some of the most notoriously evil people in the Bible, God was slow to judge them. Nebuchadnezer was standing proudly over his kindgom in Babylon and proclaiming how great he made his kingdom. God struck him in that instant and he was insane for 7 years. After that time, God restored Nebuchadnezer's kingdom to him. Nebuchadnezer then sent out a proclaimation throughout his kingdom saying that God is almighty and the only true God. He also proclaimed everyone should follow after God. I believe that after all the evil that Nebuchadnezer did (golden statue of himself earlier) that he will be in heaven because he turned from his evil ways and then sought God. Ahab is another evil character in the Bible, who did not end well. God told Ahab that he his descendants would suffer untimely and horrific deaths. Ahab repented, put on sackcloth and ashes (sign of extreme sorrow and humility) for many days. After that God told the prophet that He would not do what He said He would do. Later though, Ahab returned to his evil ways.
I think that the aspect that you are missing is that God is Holy. Holy means set apart or separated from common. God does not have any impurity in him (no sin). God is so innocent and pure. God cannot tolerate any impurity in His presence. Surely no one is pure enough. No one can earn back purity. Even our so called righteous deeds are like filthy rags to God. Jesus came down (see my first response) and did not sin on this earth. Jesus was fully God and fully man. Jesus was that perfect spotless sacrifice for our sins. By accepting what Jesus did and following after God with everything inside us, we can receive justification, purification and wholeness only through wearing Jesus blood as a cloak. This blood as a cloak is a picture of how God will see us, if we trust in Jesus. God will see us through Jesus blood, which makes us clean.
God cannot receive impurities into His kingdom now or in His kingdom to come. The apostle Paul said that we are to live blameless lives for Christ. That statement should send us all into a crisis. The Bible says in proverbs, "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." Yes, we should fear the Almighty and All Powerful God of the universe (Jehovah God). If we live devoted lives to Christ, obey God's commands, and trust in what Jesus has done on the cross, we shall live eternally with God.
It sounds, Jennifer, that you are also getting caught up in names. God reveals Himself in limited bits, so to speak. At first God described Himself as, I AM. Down through the ages He revealed more about Himself. God is far beyond us in everything except sin and defilement (He has none). That is why God is described in so many ways. Jehovah, El Shadi, Master, Savior, Redeemer, the Alpha and Omega, Rose of Sharon, Bright and Morning star, Lilly of the Valley, Our shield, Our Buckler, and Adoni are just some of the ways that the Bible describes God.
Jennifer, I want you to get this. God loves you. However, that is not where our faith in Him should start. It should start with you loving God first. Then He will come down and dwell with you. He will be your God and you shall be His. Make God a part of your every moment. Take him with you as you go to work, as you sit on your couch and relax, as you get ready in the morning. God want you to be His very own servant. There is life abundant in serving God. You cannot imagine the life that He has for us (even here on this earth now). Will you heed the call of God today?
Jennifer you were right. There's no hell in the Bible. God is love and just like a father, He will not burn his son's hands because of sin. Romans 6:23 says "For the wages* sin pays is death (AND DEFINITELY DEATH IS DIFFERENT FROM HELLFIRE),+ but the gift*+ God gives is everlasting life.."
When a person dies, his impersonal spirit does not go on existing in another realm as a spirit creature. It “returns to the true God who gave it.” (Ecclesiastes 12:7) This means that any hope of future life for that person now rests entirely with God.
What is the ‘fiery Gehenna’ to which Jesus referred?
Reference to Gehenna appears 12 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures. Five times it is directly associated with fire. Translators have rendered the Greek expression ge′en·nan tou py·ros′ as “hell fire” (KJ, Dy), “fires of hell” (NE), “fiery pit” (AT), and “fires of Gehenna” (NAB).
Historical background: The Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) was outside the walls of Jerusalem. For a time it was the site of idolatrous worship, including child sacrifice. In the first century Gehenna was being used as the incinerator for the filth of Jerusalem. Bodies of dead animals were thrown into the valley to be consumed in the fires, to which sulfur, or brimstone, was added to assist the burning. Also bodies of executed criminals, who were considered undeserving of burial in a memorial tomb, were thrown into Gehenna. Thus, at Matthew 5:29, 30, Jesus spoke of the casting of one’s “whole body” into Gehenna. If the body fell into the constantly burning fire it was consumed, but if it landed on a ledge of the deep ravine its putrefying flesh became infested with the ever-present worms, or maggots. (Mark 9:47, 48) Living humans were not pitched into Gehenna; so it was not a place of conscious torment.
At Matthew 10:28, Jesus warned his hearers to “be in fear of him that can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.” What does it mean? Notice that there is no mention here of torment in the fires of Gehenna; rather, he says to ‘fear him that can destroy in Gehenna.’ By referring to the “soul” separately, Jesus here emphasizes that God can destroy all of a person’s life prospects; thus there is no hope of resurrection for him. So, the references to the ‘fiery Gehenna’ have the same meaning as ‘the lake of fire’ of Revelation 21:8, namely, destruction, “second death.”
If God created the Hellfire and placed Satan there to rule it and to torture people then, GOD and SATAN has CONNIVANCE from each other. And I don't want my God to be like that. But to those people who believe of hellfire is more likely part of this connivance.
The Bible tells us to turn the other cheek. If someone is bad to us the Bible says not to "return evil for evil." When Jeffrey Dahmer committed all of his crimes he was locked up and put away. In other states with the death penalty we would have been executed. He was not tortured and we didn't throw acid in his face. Some other countries do torture criminals, but America and most Western countries condemn this and claim to be better than that. If we have that sense of justice all the more so should God. Are we better than God?
Now the Bible does say about God: "Vengeance is mine" but the word vengeance is not used in the way that we as humans typically use it. It is not used in the sense of going out of one's way to cause intense payback for the crimes done. It is used more in the sense of ending misjustice.
Lies. There's no such thing. >:I
Sorry but there is,
No, it's bullshit so people would behave. You're "loving" god is a tyrant. Well I mean if he existed he would be.
I believe God exists. His name is Jehovah. The Lord's prayer says "Hallowed be thy name." Hallowed means sanctified or put on high. Most religions don't even use it, although it occurred close to 7,000 times in the Bible. In most translations it has been removed. It definitely doesn't sanctify God's name to teach the God-dishonoring doctrine of Hellfire. Man only lives for 70 or 80 years. Even if there was such a thing as Hell, wouldn't it be more fair to send him or her there for the equivalent of time, then for eternity? The Hebrew law even taught "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life." We are not under the Law but it showed God's thinking.
Yet God wouldn't even torture people at all. He would take back the gift of life from unrepentent sinners but not cause them agonizing, eternal suffering.
You say you do not believe although an awareness of God is in you since birth. Better believe that seconds after you die and end up in hell you will believe in a hurry.Look around you and current events and you will see the Bible unfolding in front of our eyes,not the koran or any other so called book claiming to be of God but THE BIBLE. The more you reject,the harder it will be but the more from God you accept, the more He will show you. Sorry but it is not up for debate: God said it & what He said will come to pass.
Some have made an excellent case through scriptures that there is no Hellfire. But common sense shows that a loving, merciful God would not do such a thing. If we misuse his gift of life, all he does is takes it back. Hell is a central doctrine to many pagan religions just like the Trinity and holidays are. These pagan observances and doctrines were mixed in with Christianity to appeal to pagan worshippers and Hell also served a purpose of scaring people into obedience to the Church. Even Catholicism is backing away from a literal Hell now I'm told. And they were the ones who originated it and gave it to other religions.
Anyone who believes in hell fire have abviously never suffer a great deal of being burn, for example, imagine being burn every second ALL DAY LONG for eternity! Looking at your skin melt off your bones, smelling your hair burning, your eyeballs burned and running down your face like milk, being thirsty with no water to drink. Imagine that, is that love? in the bible book of 1John 4 : 7 - 9 it says " love is from god ... and anyone who does not love have not come to know god because god is love" if we as imperfect humans don't put wicked prisoners in an oven and burn them alive, why why would a loving God who is perfect in love and justice do that? I'M with you jennifer no way would a loving God do that. " The wages of sin is DEATH" NOT HELL says romans 6 : 23, at the time when jesus was talking about Gehenna the word for hell , it was a real place in Jerusalem where children were being torture and scarifice to false gods, and where prinsoners whould be tortured, those living at that time would understand that jesus was'nt talking about being punish by god in eternal fire, do some research about where gehenna is just outside Jerusalem and you'll understand its a literal place on earth, not underneath it.
Jehovah, our loving God would not send people to such a place if there was one, but the Bible only speaks of hell as mankinds common grave. No, There is no hell. When we die we don't know it. Read, Eccl.9; 5,10 "The living are concscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all" There's more, so please read it for yourself. So don't worry, in many Bible translations the word 'hell' translate as 'grave'. If anything Jehovah promises us life on earth FOREVER. He's giving us all a chance to live, if we do his will.
It is good that you do not believe in hell fire. A kind loving God who has created us would never send anybody to hell fire. That is why in some of the religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, we believe in karma. The law of Karma is not punitive, it is reformative. We come back and experience heaven or hell right here on earth. That's why a child is born blind, but still that child has got an opportunity to realize the truth, to be enlightened and to attain salvation or liberation. Therefore, we must go in quest to realize the truth.
If the khuran teaches Hellfire, I don't want to read it.