"GOD WOULDN’T SEND ANYONE TO HELL"
THERE
IS A
POPULAR BELIEF AROUND TODAY SUMMARISED IN THE PHRASE "HEAVEN BY
DEATH". THIS MEANS ALL ANYONE HAS TO DO TO GET TO HEAVEN IS TO DIE.
THIS
IS FURTHER SUPPORTED BY
FUNERALS WE SEE ON T.V. OF FAMOUS CELEBRITIES AND STARS OF STAGE
AND
SCREEN.
WE
SEE THE CATHOLIC PRIEST
(indeed Uniting, Anglican) ASSURING ALL AND SUNDRY OF THE DEAR
DEPARTED'S FINAL
RESTING PLACE.
"Heaven
won't be the same now Bill's up there keeping
everyone entertained with his jokes and just being the larrikin we all
knew and
loved."
JUST
ASK
ANYONE AND THEY'LL TELL YOU: "GOD IS A GOD OF LOVE AND AS LONG AS
YOU'VE
BEEN A GOOD PERSON AND DONE YOUR BEST YOU'LL GO TO HEAVEN"
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"He
that
believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth
not
the Son
shall not see life;
BUT
THE
WRATH OF GOD
ABIDETH
ON HIM.”
(John
3:36)
GOD WON'T SEND
ANYONE TO HELL?
OH YES HE
WILL.... PEOPLE JUST WON'T BELIEVE THE BIBLE
"And
the earth opened her
mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that
appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that
appertained to
them, WENT DOWN ALIVE INTO THE PIT, and the earth closed upon
them: and
they perished from among the congregation. " (Numbers 16:32-33)
Korah
and his mates were
getting jealous of Moses and thought he was wielding too much power.
God dealt
with them very swiftly - AND THEY WENT TO HELL!
JESUS
TALKS ABOUT HELL
"And fear
not them which
kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him
which is
able to destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28)
Was
Jesus a liar? Was Jesus
trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes and just scaring people
into being
goody-goodies? (like how you scare little kids and tell them that the
"boogey - man" will get them if they're not good). Can we accuse
Jesus of stooping this low? The Bible says that Jesus was sinless and
refrained
from every appearance of sin.
My
friend, Jesus was telling the truth and time and time again He talks
about hell
and about the awful reality of eternal flames and torment.
CUT
OFF YOUR HAND?
People
who don't believe in
hell can be heard to say "Here's Jesus being `Mr. Johnny-One-Note'
again.
Harping on the same old subject of hell again. Here He goes again being
`Mr
Negativity' and bringing gloom and doom to the message of ‘love and
light’.”
This
“love and light” message
is the one proclaimed by unconverted do-gooders who want to be God's
little
helpers who want to sanitize the Bible and say, "Well, God didn't
really
mean that" or "The Bible was only written by men who didn't have the
comprehensive world view that we have today" or "Jesus was only
referring to the rubbish dump outside of the city where they burned up
the
refuse from time to time."
"And
if thy RIGHT EYE
OFFEND THEE, PLUCK IT OUT, and cast it from thee: for it is
profitable for
thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body
should
be cast into hell.
And
if thy RIGHT HAND
OFFEND THEE, CUT IT OFF, and cast it from thee: for it is
profitable for
thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body
should
be cast into hell. " (Matthew 5:29-30)
Now why
would Jesus be warning people to dismember their bodies if hell was a
figment
of people's imagination.
Was
Jesus just into the "scaring business" and didn't really
mean it? If so, we can accuse Him of lying!
WORMS
NOT DYING?
Jesus
warns
of hell again:
"And
whosoever shall
offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for
him that a
millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
And if thy
hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life
maimed,
than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall
be
quenched: WHERE THEIR WORM DlETH NOT, AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.
And
if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter
halt into
life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that
never shall
be quenched: WHERE THEIR WORM DlETH NOT, AND THE FIRE IS NOT
QUENCHED.
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee
to
enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be
cast
into hell fire. WHERE THEIR WORM DlETH NOT. AND THE FIRE IS NOT
QUENCHED.
"
(Mark
9:42-48)
For
those who read and believe
the Bible, they start to see that Jesus is serious about hell and that
it is a
place of terrible and unremitting torment and everlasting pain that
goes
forever.
Why
would Jesus say that it's
better to have only one eye, hand or foot in this life? ANSWER: Those
in hell
wish that parts of their body weren't there and so get rid of some of
the pain.
Those in hell wish they could kill themselves altogether, but God won't
allow
it.
PEOPLE
DON'T BELIEVE IN HELL
Funny
isn't
it, how we just want to read the parts of the Bible that appeal to us
and we
ignore the rest or the parts we don't believe in.
Take
for instance Matthew
25:46 where Jesus is talking about everlasting punishment and
eternal life.
Now if you ask the man on the street if he believes in eternal
life
in heaven - he'll say "YES". Ask him about everlasting punishment and
he'll say "NO".
YET
WE HAVE IT IN BLACK AND
WHITE!
"And
these shall go away
into EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT: but the righteous into LIFE
ETERNAL."
(Matthew 25:46)
The
word "everlasting"
and the word "eternal" in this verse have the same meaning -
both mean forever, ad infinitum, going on without end, never stopping.
Isn't
it strange how people
want to believe part of a sentence but won't believe the other part.
What
makes it even more
peculiar – Jesus is the speaker and people will tell you that He's
telling the
truth in one part of the sentence and then lying in the other.
PEOPLE
JUST WON'T BELIEVE THE BIBLE!
*
A lake of fire - Revelation
20:15
* A
bottomless pit - Revelation 20:1
*
A horrible tempest - Psalm
11:6
*
A devouring fire - Isaiah 33:14
*
A place
of sorrows - Psalm 18:5
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A place
of weeping - Matthew 8:12
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A
furnace of fire - Matthew 13:41-42
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A place
of torments - Luke 16:23
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Where they wail - Matthew 13:42
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Where God is cursed -
Revelation 16:11
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Where there's no rest –
Revelation 14:11
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A place of outer darkness -
Matthew 25:30
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Where they scream for mercy -
Lk16:24
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Where they can never repent – Matthew 12:32
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A place of everlasting punishment -
Matthew 25:46
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Where they gnaw their tongues - Revelation 16:10
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Where they feel the wrath of God - Revelation 14:10
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A place of everlasting destruction - 2 Thessalonians 1:9
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A place for the devil and his angels - Matthew 25:41
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Where the fire never goes out - Mark 9:48
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A place of everlasting burnings- Isaiah 33:14
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Where they don't want their loved ones .to
come - Luke 16:28
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A
man once
told a Mormon that he was headed for hell and this upset the Mormon who
replied
that it wasn’t a very Christian thing to say.
The
man said
“What do you care – you don’t even believe it exists!”
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MY
DEAR
FRIEND, there's a million books out there that contradict the Bible and
all
written by clever men and indeed theologians - and they all deny the
reality of
hell and the Lake of Fire.
WHAT
WILL YOU
BELIEVE - JESUS OR MAN'S OPINION? Two seconds after you die you'll wish
you'd
believed Jesus and trusted Him alone for your salvation. As you scream
your
lungs out for eternity, you'll cry, moan and weep because you'll
finally know
the reality of hell.
DEAR
FRIEND,
DON'T DIE
TILL
YOU GET
SAVED.
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