Is my soul going to hell because I don't get the special hidden meaning of the Holy Bible?
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You mean you didn't get the special Jesus decoder ring?  If you set it to B-5, this is what it says:\n\nBe nice to each other.
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well if you go to heaven, according to the bible your soul will be free from problems that is for me  if you want to know more about that questions welll...........................    ask some members of yahoo besides me i am just answering and i am a beginner
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Once again:\n\n The idea of an eternity spent in the flaming fires of an eternal lake of burning sulfer is NOT of the Bible. That is a Catholic discription of hell. \n\nHell is an anglo-saxon word that means "hole" or "to hide". Hel is also the name of the Norse god, not very liked, of the underworld.Where did we get our modern day version of Hell? Return to the 13th century, to the Roman Catholic Church right before the Reformation, to the period of time called the Romantics or Middle Ages where if you were to be anyone in the vicinty of Europe you must be occupied by music, art, poetics, politics, religion or science or some such other endeavor. Dante Alighieri wrote Inferno, published in the year 1300 and as depicted by many artists is the source for our main visual concept of a place that contains all of the souls of the damned that burn for eternity. However, scripture will prove that this is a man made concept.\n\nEncarta: \n\n1. place of punishment after death: according to many religions, the place where the souls of people who are damned suffer eternal punishment after death\n2. devilish power: according to some religions, Satan or the powers of evil that live in hell\n3. underworld: according to some religions, the place where the spirits of all people go after death\n4. suffering: a state or place of extreme pain or misery, or something or somebody that causes extreme pain or misery\n\nHell as translated from the Hebrew word for Sheol: It is used about 65 times yet even the King James Version of the Bible translates this word 31 of these times to mean grave or pit. Sheol literally means to "go down" or be "brought down" as in to be laid low and then covered over and has been used to describe darkness, depths, in the waves of a flood, the deep, the abyss and is used to describe the furtherest place from heaven. In effect it is death. It is also a place of permenance. That is until, of course, Christ concured the grave and rose for us.The three Greek words that are often translated from Sheol are Hades (Hades was a greek god of the underworld and completely pagan), Gehenna (means place of burning and was a literal place, a garbage dump in the Hinnom Valley, a ravine right outside of Jerusalem where at one time pagan gods had been worshipped) and Tartaroo (this is the origin of the Latin term for torture or torment, yet used one time in scripture in 2 Peter 2:4 to describe a subterrainian (sp?) place, dark and deep, but this one time in scripture specifically as a place to put rebellious angels or demons ie...the pit which is where demons fear to go as was stated at the confrontation of Christ with the "legion" of demons Matt 8:29-32 KJV cuz I would imagine that once you go there you don't get to come back out). It might be difficult to fathom but...we as Christians must go back to Christs time and transend the falacies handed to us by our forefathers in the early church...why? Because these lies detract from the Glory of Christ Jesus and blind us to the truth of the Scriptures so that we form scales on our eyelids so as not to see that our God is not a God that would torture and punish for eternity for crimes of selfishness, waste and wickedness in finite world. It is not just. However, the single punishment will be for those that are lost...those that have been ensnared to be resurrected to live again on Judgement day and recieve the wages of sin...death. The absense of life. They will cease to exist. "Be gone from me.."He will say.."I never knew you." To those that have been called and answered...they will hear "Well done, my good and faithful servant." I hope and pray that I'm worthy to hear these words on that day. Yet my Hope is in Him.Love in Christ, Jana ;0) <>< \n\nP.S. to continue real quick lets define death according to the Bible...\n\nof sin and death.\n\nFaith,\n\nper•ish [ pérrish ] \n\nintransitive verb
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It's interesting, The Bible doesn't talk about 'hell'. The Hebrew she’ohl´ and its Greek equivalent hai´des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of dead mankind; also the Greek ge´en·na, which is used as a symbol of eternal destruction.\nThe Bible is plain....the wages sin pays is death...it says nothing about 'eternal suffering' in some hell.  God told Adam and Eve they would die should they disobey, that's all.  Die.\n\nEccl. 9:5, 10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol,* the place to which you are going.” (If they are conscious of nothing, they obviously feel no pain.) (*“Sheol,” AS, RS, NE, JB; “the grave,” KJ, Kx; “hell,” Dy; “the world of the dead,” TEV\n\n“Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused through the early translators of the Bible persistently rendering the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades and Gehenna by the word hell. The simple transliteration of these words by the translators of the revised editions of the Bible has not sufficed to appreciably clear up this confusion and misconception.”—The Encyclopedia Americana (1942), Vol. XIV, p. 81.\n\nHere is where it came from...\n\nIn ancient Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs the “nether world . . . is pictured as a place full of horrors, and is presided over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness.” (The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Boston, 1898, Morris Jastrow, Jr., p. 581) Early evidence of the fiery aspect of Christendom’s hell is found in the religion of ancient Egypt. (The Book of the Dead, New Hyde Park, N.Y., 1960, with introduction by E. A. Wallis Budge, pp. 144, 149, 151, 153, 161) Buddhism, which dates back to the 6th century B.C.E., in time came to feature both hot and cold hells. (The Encyclopedia Americana, 1977, Vol. 14, p. 68) Depictions of hell portrayed in Catholic churches in Italy have been traced to Etruscan roots.—La civiltà etrusca (Milan, 1979), Werner Keller, p. 389.\n\nBut the real roots of this God-dishonoring doctrine go much deeper. The fiendish concepts associated with a hell of torment slander God and originate with the chief slanderer of God (the Devil, which name means “Slanderer”), the one whom Jesus Christ called “the father of the lie.”—John 8:44.\n\nI hope that's not too much information.  But, I also hope it helps someone who takes the time to read, and investigate on their own....
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i believe that you are still yourself with out your human body.  your body either gets burned or buried in the ground.  Your soul on the other hand is either taking to Heaven or Hell.  If you go to heaven the Lord is going to give you a new heavnly body, if you go to hell, i don't know what satan will do to ya.  I hope i neaver find out.  anyway, this is just what i believe, you have to decide for youself.
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It is written, judge not lest you be judged. I will never say a person is condemned to hell, for we never know what God is doing in another persons life to bring them to savlation. I will on the other hand try to point out through  scripture that the direction, one is taking will lead them to hell, they always have opportunity to change their life.
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Hi,\nYou are misinterpreting the text.\n\nAfter we die, we go to 1 of 2 places:\n\n1. Those who accept Jesus as Lord and Savior go to be with God. To be absent from the body is to be in the presence of the Lord\n\n2. For the unsaved, yes even those who seem to be really 'good' people go to hell.\n\nWhat God is referring to in Revelations is the Lake of Fire-\nEternal Damnation, even Satan himself will be in there. \n\nGod's word is infallible, its us that misinterpret his word, distort his word, or just pervert His Word.\n\nGOD BLESS YOU\nJESUS SAVES
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SINCE “HELL” MEANS THE “GRAVE” \n\nWebster’s Dictionary says that the English word “hell” is equal to the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek word Hades.\n\nEnglish translators of the Authorized Version, or King James Version, translated Sheol 31 times as “hell,” 31 times as “grave,” and 3 times as “pit.” The Catholic Douay Version translated Sheol 64 times as “hell.” In the Christian Greek Scriptures  “New Testament”, the King James Version translated Hades as “hell” each of the 10 times it occurs..\n\nThe question is: What kind of place is Sheol, or Hades? The fact that the King James Version translates the one Hebrew word Sheol three different ways shows that hell, grave and pit mean one and the same thing. And if hell means the common grave of mankind, it could not at the same time mean a place of fiery torture. Well, then, do Sheol and Hades mean the grave, or do they mean a place of torture?\n\nActs 2:31 uses Hades. Notice, too, that Jesus Christ was in Hades, or hell. Are we to believe that God tormented Christ in a hell of fire? Of course not! Jesus was simply in his grave.\n\nGood people go to the Bible hell. For example, the good man Job, who was suffering a great deal, prayed to God: “O that in Sheol [grave, King James Version; hell, Douay Version] you would conceal me, . . . that you would set a time limit for me and remember me!” (Job 14:13) Now think: If Sheol means a place of fire and torment, would Job wish to go and spend his time there until God remembered him? Clearly, Job wanted to die and go to the grave that his sufferings might end.\n\nIn all the places where Sheol occurs in the Bible it is never associated with life, activity or torment. Rather, it is often linked with death and inactivity. For example, think about Ecclesiastes 9:10, which reads: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [grave, King James Version; hell, Douay Version], the place to which you are going.” So the answer becomes very clear. Sheol and Hades refer not to a place of torment but to the common grave of mankind. (Psalm 139:8) Good people as well as bad people go to the Bible hell.\n\nCan people get out of hell? What did Jonah mean by “out of the belly of hell”? Well, that fish’s belly was surely not a place of fiery torment. But it could have become Jonah’s grave.
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No, I don't.\n\nI am not God, the searcher of human hearts and the ultimate judge of all people. So I refrain from even pretending to know where anyone--including myself--will spend eternity. I am familiar with God's main requirement for entry into heaven--but it is in the other points of Christian theology that I am uncertain...and rightfully so.\n\nIf other Christians are saying literally, "You are [or someone else is] going to Hell," they are self-righteous and prideful, and God will bring them to account as well. How, only he knows--but rest assured that such an offense, the one of imagining oneself sitting on God's throne, will not be overlooked by the almighty.
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There isn't a hell. The bible speaks of going to hades or sheol, which are both terms for mankinds natural grave without any afterlife. Belief in God can come by reading bible books like Job and Psalms and taking a look at our surroundings. Someone must have made all this. Next, turn to Matthew chapters 5-7 and read Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and use his "outline" of how to pray to do that; to pray to God. Ask for support and forgiveness in an honest and true way. This is where faith then comes in. Works without faith is dead, so have faith in your creator to guide you. May God be with you.
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First what is a Holy book and what makes it Holy? Can mankind just say a book is holy and that is it? Is that national law, international, universal law, or is it some greater law of a greater area greater than the universe? \n\nDon't mind me I am always confused for I at times don't have any idea what is really being considered but I don't want to offend anyone. Maybe I should just stand by so others will think I am wise but us stupid people do like to show it and ask questions to affirm it.\n\nI may be wrong but I think that a Holy book is holy cause one says or thinks its Holy. I have two books that I want to use as a comparison. One is a Holy bible cause the word Holy is printed on the cover and the other is not cause the word holy is not printed there. As far as contents both have almost identical words and do cause the same thoughts to come to mind when I read them one at a time or compare them side by side. Of course it ain't over till its orer so I will just wait. Maybe that Holy book will eat up that other book or make that other book just disappear - who knows. It seems all things do in their time occur and Mr Murphy says if it can it will. So I will be patient.\n\nI do respect another who wants to have a Holy Book - that is his choice and I only ask him to respect my position of not doing so and I will respect his position of his choice. Please no war and let us do reason together rather than fight insisting one or the other is wrong or right. Does it really matter anyway?\n\nReally is it the fact the book is considered Holy or is it in the fact of how one does radiate the effect of the book to others? Is it not in the glow of a lamp that does provide the light so one can know the lamp is turned on and of value or not of value for those who want to stay in the dark.  Again I am just making comments and might be wrong again. so just take it as a value if such is to you. If not just ignore it like most other things that do exist all around to be used or atleast observed.\n\nI personally do see a light far away if I am in the dark but in the light some times I have a hard time seeing for sure if the light is on or not. Yes I do wear glasses so maybe that is the reason.\n\nAll of this is to say in my opinion that the word Holy is not the issue or fact. It is how others relate relative to one another whether considered brothers.\n, created, evolved, christian, muslim, or from another named or unnamed division or classification. Why not learn to reason together and let each follow his own Holy Book or not holy book and try to understnd it takes all the unique snow flakes to make a snowman. Ha Ha but a little heat from the sun will make him a puddle of water so the grass can grow after the cold if such was or is on schedule by the One in control if in fact one does accept there is one in control.\n\nIn conclusion In my opinion its not the book that is hard to understand and religion will never be understood. Its in the words the books put on display and the ways they are used that seems to present this hard to understand factor. A baby is very self-centered at birth and that is what the book called the bible says. Likewise all things will pass away and that is what the bible says as I read it. See its simple without those big big words like religion, spiritual, belief, position, Holy, and all that complicated stuff. Learn to be in a manner like a baby knowing if it does seek and seek it will in one way or another get a return. [note I did not say be self-cantered or exactly like a baby] So keep it simple and one will find the simple stuff in understanding. Don't take the simple and twist it all up in a complicated never to be understood package and for a new religion. Seems there is enough of that and enough Holy Books.
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If one looks at the original texts of the Bible (in Greek), the word "Hell" NEVER appears. In some places it says "Gehenna" or "the valley of the son of Hinnom" which is an actual place ON Earth; a place where people of Israel were actually burned. Jesus only spoke of this place metaphorically,in parables. The other way "hell" was translated was from the word "tartaros," which is Greek, or "Sheol", which is Hebrew. Both meaning "the grave."  The souls of everyone go to Sheol where they rest until the day of Judgment.  No reference to fire and eternal punishment after death in either of this translations.\n\nWhen the Bible talks about the Lake of Fire (which is NOT Hell), everyone thinks pain and suffering. But the in Semitic Middle East, fire is a symbol of GOD. Jesus said "He came to send fire on the earth and He yearned for it to be kindled." (Luke 12:49)\nObviously he is talking about fire in the sense of God, not suffering. Moreover, when the Bible talks about the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, the word "Brimstone" is translated from the word "Theion" which means "Divine." So in other words the "Lake of fire and Brimstone" should really translate into "Lake of Divine Purification"  This is not where man is destroyed, but his sin is destroyed.
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First, we postulate that you cannot get very far in this life (let alone get Best Answer) simply by copying and pasting someone else's work.  Then, we can plunge into our own whack-azz theory.\n\nIn Yahoo Answers, you have the non-believers saying (to use th term politely) that Hell does not exist.  Which causes the believers to say that yes it does and you better believe it bless your sorry soul, cause it was scribbled down in a book a few thousand years ago. Which causes the non-believers to say what planet did you come from, which causes another flood of bible quotes and blessings.\n\nSo a lot of heat energy goes into the battle over Hell, but at the end, nothing comes out of it, especially when the Yahoo god deletes the arguments.  So in YA, hell is Endothermic.
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By faith. Trust Jesus Christ. He's the only One who can save your soul from damnation. He loves you and wants to save you from hell. Please consider His most wondrous offer, it's free! You can't earn it.
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What's with you and the obsessive coprophagia? Is it representative of some underlying psychological unbalance?\n\nBut to address the question, while the Bible may be the divinely inspired holy book, that does not mean that you can pluck phrases out of context in a childish attempt to discredit the entire Bible. Nothing is found in a vacuum. Regarding that specific passage, they are the words of the Assyrian embassy to Jerusalem who came to threaten King Hezekiah. The officials of Jerusalem asked Rabshakeh not to speak in a language comprehensible to the soldiers (the men which sit on the wall), lest they become disheartened. The Rabshekah responds as you cite, essentially saying "I have not come only to threaten you, but to humiliate you and all your people even to the point of being forced to consume their own waste."\n\nAnd if we keep going, (NRSV translation):\n18:28-32  "Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! Thus says the king: 'Do not let Hezekiah make you rely on the Lord by saying, the Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat from your own vine and your own tree, and drink water from your own cistern, until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and honey, that you may live and not die. Do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, The Lord will deliver us."\n\nAnd so on, and so on.\n\nIf you're going to argue from the Bible, at least know a little about it. Otherwise you just parade your ignorance and incompetence for all to see.
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The word "Hell" NEVER appears in the original Scriptures, neither in the Hebrew nor in the Greek. It is a mistranslation of FOUR different words, made by translators of the Bible who consciously or subconsciously were influenced by their preconceived theological beliefs.\n\nThree words in the New Testament Greek are (incorrectly) translated "Hell."\n\nThey are 1) Hades, 2) Tartarus, and 3) Gehenna\n\nThe word "hades" in the Greek has the same definition as the Hebrew word "Sheol" (the Unseen), and all of the above explanation applies.\n\nThe word "Tartarus" is used ONLY ONCE in the Bible, and refers to the "deepest abyss of Hades." So the definition of "Tartarus" is essentially the same as "hades" or "Sheol."\n\nNotice that the words "Sheol", "Hades", and "Tartarus" HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH BURNING! They ALL refer to what happens to a person's "soul" when he dies - - - the person's ability to use the five senses just ceases to exist - - it is in the "Unseen."\n\n----\n\n1Cor.15:22; As in Adam all die, even so in Christ Shall all be made alive. - This proves my point ...  ALL humans will die but the same ALL shall be made alive in christ.\n\nIt doesn't say, in Adam ALL die and that maybe some will be saved in christ ... it says ALL will be made alive. It's the same word in the original scriptures in both parts of the original text ...  ALL !!\n\nFire doesn't mean hell ... if it did, then why did john the baptist talk about being baptised in fire and why does it talk about God's firey laws ?? It's obvious that fire is spoken about in the bible as a purifying agent and in most cases, not literal fire.
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Yes. There is a literally burning hell. It was prepared for the devil and his angels. Anyone that has never been saved that has rejected Jesus as their savior, will go to hell.You must believed that jesus died for you and was burried, and rose again on the third day. Ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins, and come into your heart and save your soul. It is by grace thru faith, that you are saved. By doing this, You then have a home awaiting in heaven for you.