Well...what did you THINK was going to happen?

[carolinajazz]

srs question: do Christians really think hell is firey?

"Apostate" Christians do, (Definition: Apostasy is abandoning or deserting the worship and service of God as outlined in the Bible, thus "apostates" profess to know and serve God but reject teachings or requirements set out in his Word.) but true Christians do not!

Prime examples of "apostate" teachings or doctrines:

1) God burns people forever in a fiery place of torment!
Origin of this doctrine?

In 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.

What the Bible ACTUALLY says/teaches about "hell"?

Webster’s Dictionary says that the English word “hell” is equal to the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek word Hades. In German Bibles Hoelle is the word used instead of “hell”; in Portuguese the word used is inferno, in Spanish infierno, and in French Enfer. The English 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 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.
The Catholic Douay Version translated Sheol 64 times as “hell.” In the Christian Greek Scriptures (commonly called the “New Testament”), the King James Version translated Hades as “hell” each of the 10 times it occurs.—Matthew 11:23; 16:18; Luke 10:15; 16:23; Acts 2:27,*31; Revelation 1:18; 6:8; 20:13,*14.

Clearly, the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek word Hades do mean the grave....not a fiery place of torment!

 

[Harold Ballz]

I'm from a small town called Willsonville and there is wild marijuana growing ALL OVER. Sides of the roads, in our fields, in our gardens. I have never smoked it, so I don't know if it's "any good" but my friends say it isn't very good. In my opinion weed is for losers and I say that knowing that most of my family and ALL of my friends smoke. Yes they are all losers. Just my two cents.