Do all those born before Jesus writhe in hell until the second coming?
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I believe in rebirth. How do scientists explain child prodigies? Mmmm probably the data was downloaded when they were in the womb ! \n\nI think every religion has its own version -> of what happens after death <-. It is something which can only be experienced and not explained. Heaven and hell are concepts to keep people in check . If you are happy today you are in heaven and if you are depressed or sad you are in hell. Neither exist.\n\nIf god really loves everyone (which includes me) why cant he forgive me later? And what is good and bad ???? Relative terms.... Without knowing what bad is you dont know what good is. If everyone is good who is bad ? Then what happens to hell ? I dont even believe in sins. Can you show me one person who has not committed any of the 7 Sins? \n\nI think the best way to find the truth is stop idiosyncrasies. Search for GOD within yourself. See GOD in everyone , everything and everywhere. Jesus is in your heart dont wait for him, experience him . NOW.
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yes, those who reject it go to hell. but just because someone doesn't reject the Gospel doesn't mean they are saved. they must accept it in order to be saved and believe in Christ. no one really knows what for sure happens to believers and nonbelievers before judgement day, but i think that they are separated, and then we'll all be judged one day and go to 'our place' eternally. some Biblical whiz probably has a better idea more based on the Bible, but either way, once you die, you'll go to heaven or hell. hopefully you'll/you believe the Gospel and live for God!
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The book of Jude. Verse 6 You can try looking in second Peter 2:4 also. This biblical Hell is Tartaroo. I don't know if Hell was actually created for Satan and his demons, but I know Tartaroo was.
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"Hell" is the common grave of mankind, so everyone who dies goes there to await resurrection on the last day. They don't need a name while they are in the grave.\n\n(Acts 24:15) there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous\n\n(John 11:24) Martha said to him [Jesus]: “I know he [my brother] will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
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Now you are free to live and full and happy unimpaired life. \n\nEnjoy it my friend.\n\nAll a person has to do is look at a child and you can blatantly see right there in front of you that the child is innocent. Right from their little toes to the tips of their hair. Seriously...Original sin?\n\nYou really think God (if he exists) would be that mean as to start us off in life with a ticket to hell that can only be reversed by baptism...So what happens to all the babies who die in childbirth, or coat death before they can be baptized...Are they burning in hell?\n\nCause if they are, then that just furthers my conviction that if there is a God, he's a megalomaniac bully with a *cough* 'God-complex'...Yes I did just pull that pun, see me I'm funny...right?
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How many lost souls are being punished in hell today? \n \n  \nThe wicked will not be punished until after the judgment.  \n"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished." 2 Peter 2:9. \n\nAnswer: There is not one single soul in hellfire today. The Bible says that God reserves, or holds back, the wicked until the day of judgment to be punished.  \n\nWhen will sinners be cast into hellfire? \n \n  \nSinners will be cast into hellfire at the end of the world -- not when they die.  \n"So shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire." Matthew 13:40-42. "The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." John 12:48. \n\nAnswer: Sinners will be cast into hellfire at the great judgment day at the end of the world--not when they die. God would not punish a person in fire until his case was tried and decided in court at the end of the world. Nor would God burn a murderer who died 5,000 years ago 5,000 years longer than one who dies and deserves punishment for the same sin today.  \n\nWhere are sinners (who have died) now? \n \n  \nAll who have died, both good and evil, are in their graves awaiting the resurrection.  \n"The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." John 5:28, 29. "The wicked is reserved to the day of destruction." "Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb." Job 21:30, 32. \n\nAnswer: The Bible is specific. Both the wicked and the righteous who have died are in their graves "sleeping" until the resurrection day.  \n\nWhat will happen to the wicked in hellfire? \n \n"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." Revelation 21:8.   \nThe wicked are not immortal. The Bible says they will "perish", "burn up" and "be destroyed".  \n\n\nAnswer: The wicked die the second death in hellfire. If the wicked lived forever being tortured in hell, they would be immortal. But this is impossible, because the Bible says God "only hath immortality." 1 Timothy 6:16. When Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden, an angel was posted to guard the tree of life so that sinners would not eat of the tree and "live for ever." Genesis 3:22-24. The teaching that sinners are immortal in hell originated with Satan and is completely untrue. God prevented this when sin entered this earth by guarding the tree of life.\n\n\nBible Clear--Wicked Obliterated\nThe Bible says the wicked suffer "death" (Romans 6:23), will suffer "destruction" (Job 21:30), "shall perish" (Psalms 37:20), will "burn" up (Malachi 4:1), "shall be destroyed together" (Psalms 37:38), will "consume away" (Psalms 37:20), "shall be cut off" (Psalms 37:9), "shall be slain" (Psalms 62:3). God will "destroy" them (Psalms 145:20), and "fire shall devour them" (Psalms 21:9). Note that all of these references make it clear that the wicked die and are destroyed. They do not live forever in misery.
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They going to go to hell!!!!
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No, they are not condemned to go to hell\nbecause you call them by all these rude and\nhurting words. It is not a sin to be who you are.\nHowever, if you do not love thy neighbor\nas the ten commandments say, then you are \ncommitting a sin. God created us all in his\nimage. Are you saying he made a mistake\nand has not fixed that yet? What is Hell?\nFor allot of these people living in to days world is hell.\nAnd all the the righteous and Strong Christians etc,\nshould not point fingers at other people and say they\nare sinners before they have checked out their own\n'LAUNDRY"
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I think I know what you are saying... it has been my thought too... but with a different final conclusion....life can be hell..we can all go through persecution and our own battles of armagedon. It feel like god has left us....\n\nthe scripture also says he who endures to the end will be saved.. it also says to the church of smyrna (church of martyrs) and the church of philadelphia (weak, suffering but faithful) that they will be kept from the hour of temptation that will come upon all the earth.  The marytyrs will already be dead, and the philadephians will be raptured. Everyone else in the church will have to go through their own tribulation, and be tested, since they avoided it earlier.\n\nSo my viewpoint is that if we are willing to go through tribulation for our faith now, we will be spared from the great tribulation that is to come in the near future. Everyone has to be tested for their faithfulness...\n\nif you are suffering now, your hope is in your heavenly reward to come, and the promise that you will be taken out before the world plunges into total wickedness.
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There is no pre-tribulation rapture, as many in Christendom teach.  Notice in Revelation 20:4 WHO are in the first resurrection which occurs simultaneously with the "catching away" of live saints...THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BEHEADED FOR REFUSING THE MARK OF THE BEAST. \n\nBelievers in Christ WILL go through the tribulation and many will be killed for bearing the testimony of Jesus Christ.  There are concentration camps all over America that will be used as internment camps.  Some are equipped with gas chambers, and many already are furnished with guillotines, for execution of all resisters and dissenters of the New World Order, which will be under UN "law".  \n\nThere is ZERO scriptural support for a "two-part" return of Christ...NONE, ZIP, NADA.\n\nThe first resurrection occurs at the same time as the "catching away" which is at Christ's return to earth which is AFTER the tribulation.  We will be changed in an instant! to glorified bodies like Christ's and receive immortality and incorruptibility.  We will meet Jesus Christ in the air, and accompany Him to earth where He will rule for 1000 years.  The saints will rule and reign with Him.\n\nMany will have been killed when God pours out His wrath upon all those that oppose Him and there will be much work to do.  Those who did not take the mark of the beast and who were also not "saved" will remain on earth to repopulate and be taught God's law.  There will be peace under this new order of things...a far cry from Satan's counterfeit New World Order that will be very short-lived.\n\nSatan will be bound during the millennium so that he cannot deceived people.\n\nAfter the millenium, the rest of the dead (unbelievers) will be raised to fleshly bodies to once again dwell on the earth.  Many who never heard the gospel or who were not able to understand it will have an opportunity to hear and believe and be saved.  This is the Great White Throne judgment period.\n\nSatan will be loosed for a season to deceive the world.  Many will follow him once again.  The final battle will ensue and Satan and his followers will be destroyed.  All enemies of God will cease to exist forevermore.\n\nThis is just a very brief sketch of all of the prophetic events yet to take place.
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Good question!!  I believe all the prophets (and many other people) from the Old Testament will be in heaven.  Like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Isaiah, Elijah, John the Baptist...etc.
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Well, I see it like this: God's will was already established both the good and the bad. But we are floating around with a choice to become either Judas Iscariot or Peter. Both were choosen to be Apostles, both sinned against God, however, only one of them chose to repent with godly sorrow and not just because he got caught like Judas did. People always say, was Judas predestined to go to hell? No, I don't think so, I believe God's will is predestined not the people that will choose themselves what part they want to play. So, predestination for those who don't want to receive Jesus because they think it will just fall on them are wrong. Proof of what I just said can be found in Deut 28, where he set before us both blessings and cursings, see the plan is set, but what part of the plan you'll be in is entirely up to you,thus, your freedom to choose! God bless you girl!
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No Christians Don't think they're going to hell. On the contrary, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was jewish. (His mother Mary was a jew).  The jews are the chosen people of God and still are to this day.  God has blinded them to the truth of who Jesus is for now until all of us non-jews are saved.  The truth is our Christian heritage stems from the jews and if we bless the jews, God will bless us.
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Yes I am ready to stand before Christ. But I think you made a very big error in your statement. You said that those who do have a relationship with him will be left behind. That is not true!\nThose who do have a relationship with him will be gathered in his loving arms and taken to heaven for eternity however those who do not have a relationship with him will live in eternal damnation.
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In the Jewish "faith" there is no hell.  Everyone has a share in the world to come.\nHeaven/hell doesn't come from Judaism.  Jesus introduced that concept.
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Yes!\n  Many say it to try and show others they are good people but they are relly not.They just act out being a christian.When the rapture of His(God's) church comes every one left behind will have been a fake.If they begin to actually believe they will have to  make it through the seven year tribulation to live forever with Jesus and His church.
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You are a better person that a lot that I have met, and definately better than some of the posters to your question.  You keep on being who you are.  Don't compromise your self or your beliefs to satisfy someone else.  You do what you feel is right.  Don't worry about the nay-sayers; It's their hell, they can burn in it.  Just tell them if heaven is full of people like them then you'll take your chances in hell.  It can't be any worse.\n\n************************************\n\nAnd Christian99, I guess everyone that ever existed before Christ and those who never got the chance to know him are going to rot in hell?  That includes Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as well as Moses, Ruth, Isaiah, David, Solomon and everyone else mentioned in your precious Bible that existed before Jesus did.