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People don't go to hell for their sins..
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 52621665:MV8yNDUyMTQ1XzQyMjQ5MTk2XzcxRDg3MENB] [quote:Brightstarz:MV8yNDUyMTQ1XzQyMjM5NzY5X0QwNTJEMTM2] [quote:Anonymous Coward 50188980] Hell does not exist, Grow Up! [/quote] According to scripture and the bible it does, so unless you can refute the accuracy of the bible (and believe me many have tried and failed) then you have no basis for understanding. Jesus Christ spoke in his own words of it. [/quote] Actually, "hell" is an English word which didn't even exist until centuries later. The gospels were issued in Greek, and the word which "Jesus" (not even His real name) used was Gehenna, the name of the local landfill. It was a burning, maggot-infested garbage dump. He was warning the people standing right in front of Him about the coming destruction of Jerusalem. When the Romans sacked the city just 40 years later, they dumped the deceased carcasses in Gehenna. Jesus was warning the Pharisees about a specific national judgment that has since come and gone. Same basics on the topic can be found here. . . http://what-the-hell-is-hell.com/HellPhotos/ If in fact the classic Hell is real, can you show where in scripture God first announced that sinners go to an afterlife of fire? If it's as serious as Christianity Inc. asserts, God would hopefully have mentioned it to Adam & Eve as soon as possible, right? Yet there's no record of any such discussion. If we follow the history, God also neglected to mention Hell to Cain (world's first murderer), Noah, Abraham, or Moses. The info He gave Moe amounted to volumes of detailed directives, including specifics on how to handle menstruation, yet in all of it, there's no mention of Eternal Damnation - all the punishments for disobedience involved this earthly life: defeat, dishonor, disease, captivity, crop failure, etc. The concept of Hell has no basis in scripture - it's a pagan fairy tale that was smuggled into God's house and has snowballed into one of the biggest idols we have. The early christians of the first couple of centuries widely believed in the eventual redemption of everyone. But when Rome took control and tainted everything, this view suddenly became "heresy", and ambitious clergy reveled in the idea of endless destruction, by which they could scare commoners into submission. This essentially birthed the dark ages, as understanding of God's saving Grace & Victory was locked away in a dungeon. Church officials became exactly like their warped "god" and had no conscience about burning peasants at the stake for such offenses as asking questions or reading scripture for themselves. [/quote]
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Those who fail to accept the free payment of their sins, paid by Jesus's death, go to hell because they are still in the prison(place) of sin.
Once you accept Christ you are moved into the place of righteousness.
All the bad deeds are not what send you to hell. The punishment for those sins were judged and punished in the body of Jesus Christ at the cross.
It's what you choose to do with Christ that determines your ultimate fate.
May God's grace find you
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