Subject: Is Moses in Heaven or Hell |
Bible Note: "Contradict me if you can." It is not about contradicting... True, Eccl 9:5 talks about the dead not knowing anything and to interpret that that means those in hell know nothing and feel nothing is quantifiable--but when we read the Psamls we often find a prayer full of venom and hateful thoughts towards the enemy. This would suggest the Holy Spirit, who represents a Loving God, commanding His prophets and holy writers into: a)condoning violence, and b) a God who is more interested in carnage and total inahilation of people, rather then their repentence and conversion. Here are a few passages about hell: Matthew 5:22 ...if you call your brother a worthless fool you will be in danger of going to the fire of hell. Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul, rather be afraid of God, who can destroy both body and soul in hell. Matthew 16:18 And so I tell you, Peter: you are a rock, and on this rock foundation I will build by church, and not even death (hell*) will ever be able to overcome it. Matthew 18:9 And if your eye makes you lose your faith, take it out and throw it away! It is better for you to enter life with only one eye than to keep both eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. Mark 9:43-44 So if your hand makes you lose your faith, cut it off! It is better for you to enter life without a hand than to keep both hands and go off to hell, to the fire that never goes out. James 3:6 ...It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself. 2 Peter 2:4 God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, where they are kept chained in darkeness, waiting for the Day of Judgment. Revealtion 1:18 I am the living one! I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I have authority** over death and (hell*) the world of the dead. Revelation 20:13-14 Then the sea gave up its dead. Death and the world of the dead(hell*) also gave up the dead they held... Then death and the world of the dead were thrown into the lake of fire. (This lake of fire is the second death.) If these passages were to be taken individually... what a preposterous conundrum!: Matthew 5:22 talks about the fire of hell; Matthew 10:28 tells us that both the body and soul can be destroyed in hell; Matthew 16:18 says that death (*hell) has power to over come some things--certain vesions talk about the gates of hell, which then give hell some type of gated entrance; Matthew 18:9, Jesus talks about the fire of hell; Mark 9:43-44 depicts hell's fire as never extinguishing; James 3:6--now this must really be confused, he talks about hell as though there's a direct spiritual connect with our temporal lives! 2 Peter 2:4, Peter must obiously be as confused as James, have you heard of a non-quenchable fire that burns black? [No, no, not the smoking flesh...] Revealtion 1:18 tells us that there is not just one place for the dead but two places: death and the world of the dead or hell; Revelation 20:13-14 now comes the final word, there are not one, not two but three places where the dead hang around: the sea, death, and the world of the dead (hell)! * Some Bible versions have the hell instead of death or the world of the dead, respectively. ** Some Bible versions have keys instead of authority. I know that people with poetic license and super creative writing skills can presume to weave a nice: "this is what that really mean!" It is clear from these passages that there are Bible passages pertain to both a corporal and spiritual realm converging in God's reality (one day is like a thousand years...) If we only seek to outshine the next believer we are just as confused as the Jews and Greeks who kept waiting for signs and worldly wisdom... So if we simply define hell by one passage which passage would it be: a place of darkness?, a place of nothingness?, a place of torment?, a place of unquenchable fire?, a place where both the body and soul can be obliterated?, a gated place?, a futuristic place?, a temporal place?, a spiritual place?... Could it be that it is not one or another, but all! God Bless! Angel Could it be that it is not one o |