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NASB | Revelation 20:15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 20:15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the lake of fire. |
Subject: belief in hell? |
Bible Note: I was "born again" into a Pentecostal church when I was 17, and it took me 33 years to escape that. Since then I have been "gun shy" of associating with any denomination. My beliefs are still Protestant, and I have spent many years studying the Scriptures. I find "Bullingers Figures of Speech in the Bible" to be valuable, as well as the Aramaic English New Testament, the Hebraic Roots Bible, the King James Bible, Biblica Hebraica Stuttgartensia, and the New Living Translation, amongst many others. I found "Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation", by Peter Cotterell and Max Turner useful. BDB, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, pretty much almost all of the reference books which are used by mainstream Protestant denominations. I believe that Jesus' Hebrew name is Yehoshua the Mashiyach, but the Greek "Jesus the Savior" is just as good. The Jehova witnesses did much damage to Jesus' hebrew name, few Protestants wanting to have anything to do with anything sounding Jehova Witness. I believe that Jesus is YHWH of the Old Testament also, and the one who created the Heavens and the Earth; under the authority of, and by the power of the Father. I believe that Jesus and the Father are two distinct individuals, of the same substance and spirit, so as to be One ... as it is written YHWH, YHWH, Elohim. The name "Elohim" is a uniplural noun, of which we have no equivilance in English. Nowhere did any of the Apostles pray to anyone except Jesus and the Father in the heavens. In other words, I do not believe in the Trinity, nor Monotheism. I believe that the law (Torah) is instilled into our hearts upon conversion, so while we are under grace, we are led by the spirit of God to obey the precepts of Torah. It is written, in 1 Corinthians 2:11 that "No one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit, and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own spirit. This leads me to believe that as a person's spirit is that person, living in an Earthly body, God's spirit is God, in His personal presence ... and not a separate entity. God is in all things, and all things are in God, but there is a presence of the Father by which He makes His personal "self" vulnerable to His "Children in Christ." I believe that Sunday is not the Sabbath, but if someone wants to rest on Sunday instead of the Sabbath, I find no fault, just as long as they don't call Sunday the Biblical Sabbath. |