[RnMomof7]

Biblical Truth ping

[Chainmail]

I have a theory, just mine, that Heaven is being reunited with our God in the purity of an absolute love beyond any human imagining.

Hell would be an eternity held away from that love in an unimaginable torment.

[Salvation]

Prayers for you.

Prayers for The Religion Forum (Ecumenical)

[Sans-Culotte]

Eternal damnation bump.

[MurrietaMadman]

No innocent person will ever suffer at His hand.

What is innocence?

[CynicalBear]

>>There is no escape through either repentance or annihilation.<<

There are many who try to deny that to escape the thought.

[impactplayer]

13Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented. 16As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. 17And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3)
John is baptizing with water, but Jesus is going to baptize “with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” There are only two baptisms – one of the Holy Spirit, and the other of fire. Everyone MUST have one or they get the other.

[Koracan]

....No matter how we analyze the concept of hell...

One of the best Visualizations of Hell ever made:: Constantine - Keanu Reeves

[HangnJudge]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3259724/posts

Discussion on Hell yesterday

[TalBlack]

Hell need only be Fear unleashed, Fear rampant. Dread. Horror. Unending. Period. Done.

[Bobalu]

[JoeFromSidney]

No, war is not Hell. Hell is Hell, and a lot worse than anything that ever happened in war. The worst part of Hell, though, is knowing that you're there through your own fault.

[tired&retired]

If you could hear the demons scream when they are surrounded by the Holy Spirit, it gives you a good idea how they perceive hell. They are the worst screams I have ever heard.

When they finally calm down and allow me to guide them to redemption, they find that they too have a spark of God essence at the center of their soul. This is true if the soul ever had a physical body prior to being recruited by satan’s minions.

[epow]

No innocent person will ever suffer at His hand.

The only innocents are those of us who have been declared righteous by virtue of our acceptance of and faith in Jesus Christ as our divine Lord and Savior. Man is born in sin, and the only remedy for that sin is to be born again as an innocent man or woman. That 2nd birth is the result of the believer's faith in Jesus Christ as God's divine, sinless Son who by his death on the cross paid the penalty for our all our sins past, present, and future.

Not many of today's mainline protestant pastors or Catholic priests who preach salvation by good works will agree with this, but the Holy Spirit who wrote my bible does.

Romans ch 10 v 9-10:"That if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from death you will be saved, for it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."

Romans ch 10 v 13:"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved".

[tired&retired]

Incidently, the “raised up” referred to in the rapture is merely our souls being raised up to the same operational frequency of the “Holy Spirit” or “Great Helper” that can exist within us when we are no longer full of ourselves.

This being raised up is what protects us from the tortures of hell.

[MasterGunner01]

Hell is being locked in the same room for 24 hours with Marie Harf. Eternity is being locked in a room with 100 Marie Harf clones for a year. Suicide won't save you, either.

[stonehouse01]

Very convenient to have no role for free will. Reason and free will cause choices that lead to damnation.

Matthew 25:31-46 is totally clear that the ones who don’t DO the good works listed WILL go away into eternal punishment.

Matthew 7:21

James 2:24 and Galatians 2:16 appear on the surface to contradict themselves. Scripture can never contradict itself.

SO: both verses are true - not Galatians 2:16 instead of James 2:24.

How? the works referred to by St. Paul in Galatians are the dead works of Jewish law, not the good works required for salvation as set forth in Matthew 25.

Martin Luther got this very wrong by throwing out James 2:24 and misapplying Galatians 2:16 so he could get rid of the sacrament of penance.

The bible speaks for itself- Martin Luther garbled the correct meaning of Galatians 2:16.

More works (not the dead Jewish works) scriptures:

Colossians 1:10

Matthew 7:21

Revelations 20:12-13

Romans 2:6

[ravenwolf]

I don`t know what hell is but Jesus told us how to avoid it and how to get there.  Matthew 25 31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. I do not believe Paul was denying any thing Jesus said and if I thought he was I would take another look at him. Any one who believes Paul is refuting what Jesus said should do the same. Jesus said in plain words what we were to be judged by.

[Pajamajan]

Bookmark.

[Osage Orange]

Did not read the article.

I think I experienced hell...I don't know why.

Was the deepest darkest place. Wailing, crying and screaming...Could not escape. Stuck there, forever.

Continually falling...the deepest black you will ever know.