How can the Eternal flame at JFK's grave be called eternal?
826176
It's pretty easy for it to be *called* eternal.  Someone thought of it, and then they said it.  Thus it is called eternal.  Say it with me, "Eee-turn-all."  Whether it actually is eternal or not is a completely different question.\n\nWhat would happen if you were to go over an snuff it out?  I would imagine that it would be extinguished.  A better question might be, "What would happen to me if I were to go over and snuff it out?"  Let's just say that it wouldn't be pretty.  =]
1151741
It's questionable. It seems it was hit with some sort of missile. The story is supposedly that an airplane hit it, but the resulting hole is too small and there is no evidence of plane. The government says the explosion was so hot it burned the evidence, but how come the bodies and other things around weren't burned? It's one of the many questionable topics of 9/11 (like how the twin towers free-fell to the earth??) that are explored in the video below.
747815
Most all records have been open for a long time. How reliable they are is questionable. You have to ask yourself, what could be so bad that it needs to be kept away from citizens. The answer to me is obvious. What happen after JFK was killed? What political course did we go towards? What was LBJ's agenda for Vietnam, and who was he serving?
1091841
JFK was the only person that could've known "Everything" about JFK. You could start by wanting to know "something" about JFK.\nHe was a Great Man and a Great American. More focus should be put on his life rather than his controversial death. Study his life first, "what" did he accomplished and what he was working on, that's "how" you will better understand "who" wanted him dead. Then you might question "why" the Democrats sealed the JFK docs for 75 years. "When & Where" you learn about JFK, will help keep his memory alive.
6228
Lee Harvey Oswald has been accused for assination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Instead of me writing about the conspiracy theory revolving around his assination, here a link to a well documented article, written by Carl Oglesby :\nhttp://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/Who_Killed_JFK.html\n\nHope your query has been solved
1058243
We note that “the lake of fire and sulphur” could not be a literal place of torment. (Revelation 19:20)  If Satan were to suffer excruciating torture there for all eternity, Jehovah would have to preserve him alive. Yet, life is a gift, not a punishment.  Death is the punishment for sin, and according to the Bible, dead creatures feel no pain.  (Romans 6:23; Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10.) Moreover, we read later that death itself, along with Hades, is cast into this same lake of fire and sulfur.  Surely, death and Hades cannot suffer pain!—Revelation 20:14.\n\n27 All of this reinforces the view that the lake of fire and sulfur is symbolic. Further, the mention of fire and sulfur calls to mind the fate of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah, destroyed by God because of their gross wickedness. When their time came, “Jehovah made it rain sulphur and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens, upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah.” (Genesis 19:24) What befell the two cities is called “the judicial punishment of everlasting fire.” (Jude 7)  Yet, those two cities did not suffer everlasting torment.  Rather, they were blotted out, obliterated for all time, along with their depraved inhabitants. Those cities do not exist today, and no one can say for sure where they were located.\n\nIn harmony with this, the Bible itself explains the meaning of the lake of fire and sulfur:  “This means the second death, the lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:14)  It is complete, utter destruction without hope of a resurrection.  Thus, while there are keys for death, Hades, and the abyss, there is no mention of a key for opening the lake of fire and sulfur.  (Revelation 1:18; 20:1) I t will never release its captives.—Compare Mark 9:43-47.\n\nIf you would like further information, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall.  Or visit http://www.watchtower.org
206222
The English word “hell” originally conveyed no thought of heat or torment but simply denoted a ‘covered over or concealed place.’The term was very similar in meaning to the Hebrew “Sheol” and the Greek “Hades.” Says the glossary of a French version based on the translation by Louis Segond, revision of 1910, under the expression “Abode of the dead”: “This expression translates the Greek word Hades, which corresponds to the Hebrew Sheol. It is the place where the dead are located between [the time of] their decease and their resurrection (Luke 16:23; Acts 2:27, 31; Rev. 20:13, 14). Certain translations have wrongly rendered this word as hell.”\n\nSo, then, references to Hades and Sheol in the Scriptures do not support the existence of a place of torment after death. Neither can references to “Gehenna” (rendered “hell” in various translations) be used to support the idea of conscious torment after death. The Bible does not say that God will torment those who are thrown into Gehenna but says that God “can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.” (Matt. 10:28) Fire being the most thorough means of destruction used in Bible times, the “fire” of Gehenna fittingly represents complete destruction.\n\nAs for the “lake of fire” mentioned in Revelation 20, this “lake” is explained in verse 14 as being, not literal, but a symbol of “second death.” All who experience “second death” will remain in its grip “forever and ever.” (Rev. 20:10) Notice that verse 14 says that “death and Hades” themselves are “hurled into the lake of fire.” (Rev. 20:14) Obviously, death and Hades have no consciousness, but they can be destroyed, and fire represents that.\n\nThus it can be seen that the teaching about a fiery hell is not based on the Bible. It is merely an outgrowth of man’s not wanting to accept the fact that death ends all conscious existence. This teaching has misrepresented God as being cruel and has concealed what he desires in those whom he approves. Jehovah God does not want people to serve him simply because of fearing dreadful punishment but because of their deep love for him. (Jer. 9:24; Ps. 97:10; 119:104, 128, 163; 1 John 4:8-12) Love is a far greater deterrent to wrongdoing than is fear of punishment. (Rom. 13:8-10) To those desiring to please him, God holds out the opportunity of gaining everlasting life. Millions will be enabled to seize that opportunity by means of a resurrection.—John 5:28, 29; 17:3.\n\nAccording to Catholic doctrine, the torments of hell “will afflict the sinful soul immediately after death.” (The Catholic Encyclopedia for School and Home) Is that what you were taught? Did you know that the Buddhists believe in the existence of both hot and cold hells? Those confined to one of the hot hells are depicted as being cut to pieces and then restored to life, only to receive the same punishment. Of the Mohammedan concept of those tormented in hell, we read: “They will live ‘in hot blasts and boiling water and a shade of pitchy smoke.’ They ‘shall broil upon a burning fire, shall be given to drink from a boiling spring! no food shall they have save from the foul thorn, which shall not fatten nor avail against hunger.’ They shall abide therein for ages. No cool thing shall they taste or drink.”—Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.\n\nSuch teachings about hell are based on the belief that something, a “soul,” survives the death of the body. Depending upon the kind of life a person has lived, the “soul” is thought to go to a place either of bliss or of torment.\n\nThe claim has been made that the threatened punishments of hell deter crime. Says the Cyclopædia by M’Clintock and Strong (quoting Knapp’s Christian Theology): “To threaten positive punishment has far more effect, as well upon the cultivated as the uncultivated, in deterring them from crime, than to announce, and lead men to expect, the merely natural consequences
1049097
ya know that's funny, my friend is trying to sell her house and buried a St Joseph statue head down in the yard, and I couldn't help but think this is like a magic spell, you have to do it just so and read a prayer (incantation?) bless a candle with oil, then light it, place the Holy Card (amulet?) in with the deed or mortage papers, just like from a book of magic
920752
The English word "hell" is not a biblically precise term.\n\nSome bibles use "hell" to translate the Hebrew word "Sheol", the Greek word "Hades", and the Greek word "Gehenna"; other bibles consider these three terms to be proper nouns and so leave the capitalized original-language names untranslated in their English translations. \n\nBoth "Sheol" and "Hades" clearly refer to the common grave of mankind, the condition of being dead from which resurrection is possible. "Gehenna" refers to death without the possibility of resurrection; "Gehenna" is synonymous with the bible expressions "lake of fire" and "the second death".\n\nNone of these terms, and nothing in the bible, teaches that "hell" is a fiery place of torment.\n\n(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]\n\n(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20020601/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_07.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20010901/article_02.htm
1081783
C.S. Lewis answered this when he said "we are all eternal spirits in a world that tries to hide our true identities from us."\n\nThus the Bible often speaks of death in life not in terms of our eternal existence ending or our time in this life ending...  rather the Bible defines death often as an eternity of separation from God and relationship with Him, and life as eternal life in God's presence.\n\nSo one can not destroy a spirit in the sense of making them cease to exist.  Only God might be capable of doing that, and nowhere is it even suggested in the Bible that He ever makes any of His creations cease to exist.  He is a Creator, not a destroyer.  Since we are all immortal, how can we destroy another immortal?  By telling them to believe in someone other then Jesus Christ will you destroy them, not as to their existence, but rather the type of existence they will have for eternity.\n\nThe Bible speaks of this immortal quality of ours in calling us all gods or deities, for in essence with our immortality that is what we are.  However, as it is written, we can still die in this life as men and fall like angels (princes).  Unless we repent we will all likewise perish (Luke 13:1-5).\n\nPsalms 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.\n 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.\n 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
113285
Well JFK was notified by a crying Jeane Dixon on the steps of the White House that he was cursed, and should NOT go to Dallas.  The arrogant prick died, so there ya go.  He had ample warning of his impending doom and still died.  The only way psychics can save people is if the persons believe in what is being said, and choose to alter their paths. \n\nAnd again, if a disaster is avoided by taking a different path, you will never know, because the disaster never happened.  \n\nI just found a website that says she did NOT predict JFK's death, so I guess there will be disagreement about that.  Since I was not alive in 1963, I can't really say from personal experience.\n\nAnother thing I need to mention about metaphysical advice--there are so many darn quacks out there. You must be careful.  I recommend being very clear in a relationship with the supreme being, or God, or whoever it is you think is at the core of the universe, to help you find an adviser that can truly help you.
904818
http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/astralplane/a/afterlife.htm
716968
Angel!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\nNo seriously, It's got to be Afterlife!
1010337
It is a very real and terrible place that you will go to after you die if you refuse to accept God's free gift of salvation.  The Bible describes it, among other things, as a "lake of fire," and a place with "wailing and gnashing of teeth."
623946
First of all, I am a child of God because He says so. Secondly, there is no "eternal" fight.\n\nJohn 1:12  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:\n\nRevelation 21:1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.   2   And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.   3   And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.   4   And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.   5   And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.   6   And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.   7   He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
406927
It doesn't. All go to hell at death including children and Christians.The original Hebrew word was Sheol and the Greek word was Hades, properly translated they mean: the grave or a pit.Another word also translated as hell was Gehenna(Greek),this is an actual place now known as the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem. This is a place that always had a fire and they burnt trash, animal carcasses, and live babies were sacrificed to molech the great owl god.Look at a map.In Psalm 16:10, & 49:15 David knew he was going to hell (grave) and would be resurected from it.Many of the older Bibles such as Geneva properly translated these words as grave or pit. It is impossible to have three totally different words and translate them all as hell. In the 1600's when the KJV Bible was made ,the meaning of the word hell was to put in the ground so when they changed the wording to hell they understood what it meant.If you look up Gehenna in Websters dictionary today you will see it tells you the same thing I said. Apparently its to difficult for most Christians to actually look up the meaning of a word, they prefer to listen to the lies that their preacher spews from the pulpit. My God will put you in hell when you die,the grave, and regardless of your beliefs or how you lived you will be resurected for judgement. To receive eternal life you must know Christ as saviour, if not you will be thrown into the lake of fire Rev. 20:14,this is the second death, where people are consumed instantly and permanently. No eternal suffering and torment.I am a Christian and I think its a shame that churches use these kind of scare tactics to keep people in church.
692075
Yeah, always wondered that myself. Just what could one do to warrent ETERNAL suffering? Forever and ever.\n\nEven if such a god existed, who in their right minds would follow him? Those that follow such a god without even evidence that he exists must be especially foolish...